Shiny vs Phygitals
Phygitals and Shiny both run Solana pack openings backed by vaulted cards. Phygitals' standard buyback is 85% of market value; Shiny's zero-fee packs buy back at 100% of market value with no fee.
| Shiny | Phygitals |
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| 100% EV packs (100% instant buyback · Zero fees) | Yes | No |
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| Every card shown (With its value and odds) | Yes | No |
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| Published expected value | Yes | Yes |
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| PSA-graded cards only | Yes | No |
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| Verifiable randomness | Yes | Partial |
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| Randomness from an independent public beacon | Yes | No |
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| Full Pack Fairness Replay (Every card, its odds, your roll and where it landed) | Yes | No |
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The details
| Shiny | Phygitals |
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| Buy $10,000 of packs, sell every card back | About $10,000 back on average (100% expected value × 100% buyback, zero fees) | About $8,840 back on Rookie packs (104% EV × 85% buyback) |
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| Instant buyback | 100% of market value with zero fees on zero-fee packs | 85% of market value |
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| Full Pack Fairness Replay | Yes: your Roll History shows every card in the pool with its exact roll range, where your roll landed, and the cards just above and below it (kept 30 days) | Replays seeds to your result; we found no view of the pool, per-card odds or where your roll landed |
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| Who controls the randomness | drand, a public randomness beacon run by ~15 independent organizations (League of Entropy). Shiny doesn't run it and can't know or change your roll | A server seed Phygitals generates, combined with a client seed (per its docs) |
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Sell back everything from $10,000 of Phygitals Rookie packs and you get about $8,840 back at its 85% standard buyback; Shiny's zero-fee packs return about $10,000 on average with zero fees. Phygitals replays seeds to confirm your result, but Shiny's Full Pack Fairness Replay shows the whole picture: every card in the pool, its odds, your roll and where it landed. Shiny's randomness comes from drand, a public beacon Shiny doesn't run, rather than a seed the platform generates. And every Shiny pack contains a PSA-graded card, while Phygitals' low tiers can pull raw cards.
Competitor details come from their public pages and docs as checked on 2026-10-01. Sell-back figures are averages from each site's published expected value and standard buyback rate; individual results vary, and each site values cards its own way. Live values (prices, odds, EV) change often. If something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.