# 🔄 Collecting Cards

There are many ways to acquire, earn and unlock cards when playing Checkmate. Cards can be acquired by:

* **Completing Daily Quests** 📆🎯
* **Unlocking Arcade and Pro Pass tiers** 🎮🏆
* **Fusing cards to create new cards** 🔁🃏
* **Card drops** 🎁🎴
* **Trading cards with other players** 💼🔄
* **Battling another player for their cards** ⚔️🎴
* **Purchasing card packs** 🛒🃏

Cards can be unlocked by:

* **Collecting card shards to craft cards** 🧩🔓

Cards can be traded on the marketplace:

* **Trade on the marketplace** 💼🔄

Once a card has been earned, you can:

* **Fuse it to increase its rank** 🔥🃏
* **Sell it on the marketplace** 💰💼
* **Mint it** 🏛️"

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