The catch card has a proper back now, and coins look like coins
Ten days ago the catch turned into a card that flips over. The animation was finished, but the parts you look at were placeholders: a CSS gradient for the back, round dots for sparks, and the 🪶 and 🔱 emoji for the currencies. We said the real art would replace them without changing how the reveal works. It has arrived, and this post covers what changed.
The back of the card
Every card now starts face down on the same engraved metal back with the Skydex mark. The frame around it is in the tier colour: silver for common, green, blue, violet, gold for legendary and a pearl frame for mythical. That frame is visible for the fraction of a second before the flip, so you can tell what is coming before you can read a single word.
Legendary and mythical cards get one more beat: light cracks across the back just before it turns.
What happens behind it
The sparks are now four shapes drawn for this moment: a spark, a star, a shard and a soft puff of dust. Rare cards get sparks and dust, and epic adds stars and shards. From legendary up the burst is denser, because the old eight shards looked sparse around the best catches.
A mythical card now has a moving curtain of aurora above it instead of soft blobs of colour, and both legendary and mythical faces carry a holo foil that shifts as the card settles.
The NEW, WORLD FIRST and LEGEND stamps sit on a ribbon now. A world first gets a seal at the end of the ribbon and a legend gets a star. The text is ours and set in your language, which is why it sits on the ribbon and not inside the seal: "Primero del mundo" does not fit in a small disc.
Feathers and Tridents
The currencies have their own marks. A Trident is a gold coin; when you earn one it drops, bounces, spins edge-on and flashes where it lands in your wallet. Feathers come in three slightly different shapes, so a handful of them fluttering to the wallet does not look like the same sprite repeated.
The flat versions of both replace the emoji across the site: the wallet in your profile menu, the Trident Exchange, the missions board, the invites page, the leaderboard and the notification bell. XP got a small crystal mark next to the number after a catch.
What stayed the same
How long each tier plays, the order of the queue, skipping with a tap, the short version for a repeat catch and the reduced-motion mode all work as before. Only the pictures changed.