Card collection Rulebook / International Artwork

[Croatian empaths]

Dear experts,

could you please teach us how to combine right cards into right collection to maximize International Artwork prestige? Please be generous with description, but straight with words.

Thank you.

[Destructive Government Economic System]

There is no "prestige" behind it. International Artwork is simply the NS stat badge for your deck value.

To increase your deck value, you must obtain more cards for your deck, particularly ones with a high market value (you'll be able to tell if cards have a high market value if players frequently purchase said card). You should be able to find valuable cards by answering issues and opening the packs that generate from those issues.

If you possess additional nations (i.e. alts/puppet accounts), answer issues on those nations, open the packs that result from answering said issues, and gift the valuable cards you obtain from those packs to your main.

Final thing to note: if you have enough bank, use it to purchase cards with a high market value. Selling cards without a high market value, but with a high bid will be your best bet to gain bank without affecting your deck value.

Doing any of these things will boost your deck value, thereby increasing your ranking for "most valuable international artwork".

[Croatian empaths]

Could you also describe what rises value of some nation card? From common to legendary? Also if today card is common in my deck, does it changes to higher value after certain amount of time and thus changes that status in the card itself?

[Katana and Chrysanthemum]

Could you also describe what rises value of some nation card? From common to legendary? Also if today card is common in my deck, does it changes to higher value after certain amount of time and thus changes that status in the card itself?

The value of a card changes as people trade the card. If they trade higher than the current value, it goes up.

The rarity (common, uncommon, rare, etc) of the card will never change. However, in subsequent seasons, the rarity for that nation's card can change. But the one in your deck will never change.

[Croatian empaths]

So if I understand well for example if we have COMMON card and that card is traded by 10 people for certain value in this session, next session that card became let say UNCOMMON or RARE?

[Valentine Z]

So if I understand well for example if we have COMMON card and that card is traded by 10 people for certain value in this session, next session that card became let say UNCOMMON or RARE?

AFAIK, not like that. The rarity of a card is not influenced by the market value, or how popular it is, or how much/many it was traded.

A common that is sold many, many times, or have a crazy MV value, will still be a common if there is not a lot of improvements to the stats, or doesn't have a lot of badges.

More on this is explained a little bit more in this thread right here: https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=476344&p=36532047#p36532047

[Croatian empaths]

So stats will eventually for example rise session 2 common card to higher level, no matter if there is ongoing session 3 or session 10 in a future?

[Christ Triumphant]

So stats will eventually for example rise session 2 common card to higher level, no matter if there is ongoing session 3 or session 10 in a future?

The season two card (the ones that can be pulled now during this season) will never change. How it looks in your deck is how it will remain.

However, as a nation's stats change and badges are added or subtracted, it is possible that, in subsequent seasons, the rarity of their new cards will change. This is because, for each new season, new cards are developed that reflect the changes up until that point.

The previous seasons' cards will remain unchanged.

[Croatian empaths]

Ok. Can you tell me does sessions reset in one moment to session 1 or from now on there will be session 3,4,5 etc. I am asking that since people who joined later in a game are in obvious disadvantage.

[Christ Triumphant]

Ok. Can you tell me does sessions reset in one moment to session 1 or from now on there will be session 3,4,5 etc. I am asking that since people who joined later in a game are in obvious disadvantage.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

After this season (Season 2), there will be seasons 3, 4, 5 etc. It will "reset" insofar as new cards will be issued for all of the nations that exist at the time, while nations that have ceased-to-exist will no longer have a card generated.

If the "disadvantage" you refer to is that those who join later don't have cards for the earlier seasons, this is true but they will be issued cards for new seasons they are active at the start of.

If the "disadvantage" you refer to, however, is accumulated bank...this was not reset. Everyone retained their accumulated bank and decks when Season 1 rolled over into Season 2. And presumably this will continue in the future into Season 3, unless the admins make changes to address this.

[Croatian empaths]

If the "disadvantage" you refer to is that those who join later don't have cards for the earlier seasons, this is true but they will be issued cards for new seasons they are active at the start of.

Yes. That's the one I meant. Tnx.