Compare card ripping sites
Pick any two to four platforms and put their odds disclosure, buyback terms, valuation source and decision windows side by side. Every figure comes from the platform's own published material.
Choose platforms to compare (2–4)
| Clutch Packs | Courtyard | Packz | Arena Club | Poke-Collect | Fanatics Instant Rips | Crown Rips | Tilt Rips | Pickem | Packed | Chalkboard Pulls | Fast Rips | MintPull | Rips by Triumph | SwishX | Rare Candy | LETSGO | |
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| Packs measured | 25 measured | 92 | 14 | 9 tiers × 9 categories | 4 | 5 categories | 10 reported | ~60 | Not published | 21 | Not published | 7 | Not published | Not published | 20 listed, 5 collected | 8 collected | Not published |
| Price range | $25–$2,500 | $10–$5,000 | $5–$1,000 | $25–$5,000 | $9.99–$38.99 | $10–$2,500 | $1–$2,500 | $0.10–$3,000 | $1–$250 | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | $25–$500 | $4.99–$499.99 | Not published |
| Odds published | Observed results, on-chain | Dollar-range odds, every pack | Dollar-range odds, every pack | Per-card hit rates, no values | Per-tier chances, on the web | Checklist only, no pull rates | Min and max value only | Top prizes only, no rates | Per-card rates, in-app only | Required by its own terms; in-app only | Shown in-app before purchase | None published anywhere | None published; terms warn distribution is unequal | None published; terms warn distribution is unequal | Per-tier rates with target FMVs, on the web | Value-band rates, every pack, on the web | In-app only, nothing on the web |
| Expected value | Observed, not posted | Yes, exact, every pack | No, but calculable | No, not calculable | Not yet collected | No, not calculable | No, not calculable | No, not calculable | No, not calculable | No, not calculable | No, not calculable | No, not calculable | No, not calculable | No, not calculable | Yes, posted per pack, and it checks out | No, but calculable | No, not calculable |
| Return | 1.01× over 158,556 pulls | 95–96% posted | ~100% on $25+, our estimate | Not calculable | Not yet calculated | Not calculable | Not calculable | Not calculable | Not calculable | Not calculable | Not calculable | Not calculable | Not calculable | Not calculable | 101% posted; 88% sold back in 24h | ~98–123%, our estimate | Not calculable |
| Buyback rate | Not disclosed | 90% advertised, ~85% measured | 90% | 90% | None on the pack | 90% advertised, 84.6% after fees | 100% claimed, unverified | 90% | 90%, 100% on first pack | 100% | 100% | 100% advertised | 100% advertised, paid as pack credit | 100% of FMV claimed in the FAQ | 85–90%, then 75–80% | Up to 90%, plus a 50% floor | 90%, or “up to” 90% |
| Can the money leave | Not disclosed | USDC, path unverified | No — site credit, packs only | Yes — bank or debit via Stripe | Buylist only — credit or PayPal | No — Fanatics Live credit | Unconfirmed | Yes — US dollars or crypto | Yes — bank card, $2,500 cap | Yes — card, bank, PayPal, Venmo | Yes — ACH via Aeropay | No per its terms — Platform Credit | Sale proceeds only, $250 per 7 days | Yes — debit, bank, PayPal or Venmo | Yes — withdrawn via Stripe | No — Candy has no cash value (§8.1) | Yes — PayPal, Venmo, card, bank |
| Who sets the card's value | Market value at the pull, source not named | Courtyard | Packz | Arena Club, which grades some cards itself | Buylist, reviewed card by card | Card Ladder, a third party | Crown Rips | “Live market data,” unnamed; cannot be disputed | Pickem's displayed FMV | Packed, semi-automated, locked at the pull | Chalkboard, sole discretion, non-appealable | Internal platform valuation | “Proprietary system,” may not match market | Triumph, “proprietary”; “may not match published market values” | SwishX, but target FMVs are published per tier | Rare Candy, sole discretion; calls it “inherently subjective” | Not stated anywhere we could reach |
| How long you can hold a card | Not stated | Indefinite, vaulted and insured | Not stated | Indefinite, vaulted | 1 year, then shipped to you free | Indefinite, free vaulting | 7 days, reportedly, then auto-sold | Indefinite, free vaulting | 3 hours, then auto-sold | 1 day, then returned to Packed | 24 hours, then auto-buyback | Not stated | 7 days, then auto-returned | 7 days, then auto-returned at the locked FMV | 24 hours at the top rate, then a lower one | 48 hours, then you keep the card | No limit stated |
| Operator | Not established in our research | Courtyard | Packz | Arena Club | Poke-Collect, Madison, Alabama | Fanatics | Crown Rips | Tilt Rips | Pickem | Packed | Taild Sports, Inc. | Fast Rips | Arcane Answers Studio Limited | Triumph TCG, LLC; Google Play lists Triumph Labs, Inc., Claymont, DE | Not named; “Powered by Swish Breaks” | Rare Candy Auctions, Inc., a Delaware corporation | LETSGO INTERACTIVE LTD, not named on its own site |
| Jurisdiction | United States | United States | United States | United States | United States | United States | United States | United States | United States | United States | United States | United States | Hong Kong | United States — Delaware law | United States | United States — Texas law | Israel |
| Age requirement | Not stated | 18+ | 18+ | 18+ | None stated | 18+ | 18+ | 18+ | 18+ | 18+ | 18+ | 18+ | 18+ | 18+ in the terms; store rating 17+ | 18+, one account each | 18+ | 18+ |
| State restrictions | None published | None published | US only | None published | US shipping only | None published | None published | None published | Excludes MI, MN, MT, NV, WA | None published | Not published | None published | Excludes Nevada | Excludes Nevada; 50/50 pack limited in IL, UT, NC | None published | Excludes Washington | None; warns it “may be illegal” where you are |
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What these columns actually mean
Four rows carry most of the decision, and they are not the ones the marketing emphasises.
- Odds published. Four platforms publish something on the open web. The rest show odds only inside an app, or not at all. If you cannot see the odds before you pay, you cannot calculate anything.
- Can the money leave. An advertised buyback rate tells you nothing until you know this. Four platforms pay credit that can only buy more packs, which is not money at any rate.
- Who sets the card's value. On most platforms the company paying the buyback also decides what the card is worth. Fanatics is the only one that outsources the number to a third party. Chalkboard's terms call its own figure “final and non-appealable.”
- How long you can hold a card. Windows run from three hours to indefinite, and on one platform the clock ends by shipping the card to you rather than selling it. The platforms paying the highest buyback rates have the shortest windows, which is not a coincidence.
Every platform in one line
- Clutch Packs — The only platform publishing observed pull results rather than its own valuations.
- Courtyard — Publishes an exact expected value on every pack — the strongest disclosure we have found.
- Packz — Full published odds on every pack, built from a single template — but the buyback is credit.
- Arena Club — Every pull is a graded slab, with per-card odds but no card values attached.
- Poke-Collect — A real card shop selling digital packs. The only vault that ships you the card instead of selling it.
- Fanatics Instant Rips — The largest brand here, and the only one using third-party card valuations.
- Crown Rips — A rip feature inside a sweepstakes casino, in closed beta. Lowest disclosed floor we have seen.
- Tilt Rips — The largest catalogue and the least odds disclosure, with a good cash route attached.
- Pickem — A rip product inside a social casino, with the shortest decision window in the category.
- Packed — The only platform whose terms contractually oblige it to publish Value Band odds.
- Chalkboard Pulls — The best-documented cash route here, on a valuation its terms call final and non-appealable.
- Fast Rips — Advertises a 100% cash buyback its own Terms of Use do not describe.
- MintPull — A 100% FMV guarantee credited as pack credit, with withdrawals capped at $250 a week.
- Rips by Triumph — The largest platform we track. Headlines a 100% buyback guarantee its own §5.5 says it is under no obligation to offer.
- SwishX — Posts an expected value, the odds behind it and the card pool. The pack is worth what you paid; the exit costs 12–22%.
- Rare Candy — Publishes value-band odds and a guaranteed 50% floor on every pack — and pays in a currency with no cash value.
- LETSGO — The buyback is described as 90% on the website and “up to 90%” on the App Store.
Want to run the numbers yourself?
The pack EV calculator takes whatever odds a platform publishes and returns the average card value, the expected loss per pack and the chance of beating the pack price. For a worked head-to-head on the two platforms that publish enough to compare directly, see Courtyard vs Packz.
Frequently asked
How do I compare card ripping sites?
Compare four things, in this order. First, whether the platform publishes odds at all — only Clutch Packs, SwishX, Courtyard, Packz, Poke-Collect and Rare Candy publish anything on the open web, and six publish nothing anywhere public. Second, whether the buyback money can leave the platform: eight of the seventeen pay into something withdrawable, five pay credit that cannot, and the rest do not say. Third, who sets the card's value, because a 100% buyback on a number the platform alone decides is worth less than 90% on a checkable one. Fourth, how long you can hold a card before the platform acts — windows run from three hours to indefinite.
Which card ripping site is best?
We do not publish a single answer, because the right platform depends on what you are doing. If you want to calculate before you buy, Courtyard posts an exact expected value on every pack. If you intend to sell every card straight back, Packed and Chalkboard Pulls pay 100% into withdrawable balances. If you intend to keep what you pull, Poke-Collect ships the card to you by default and Arena Club, Fanatics and Tilt Rips vault indefinitely. We leave platforms unrated where the data to rate them is not published.
Why are so many cells on this table blank or unknown?
Because the platforms do not publish the figures. Six of the seventeen publish no pack prices on the open web at all, and only six publish odds there, so no expected value can be calculated for most of them. We leave those cells as “not calculable” rather than estimating. Our methodology explains why an empty cell is more useful than a guessed one.
Can I share a comparison?
Yes. The web address updates as you change the selection, so copying it from the address bar shares exactly the platforms you picked. The full table for all seventeen platforms is in the page itself, so it also works with JavaScript turned off.