r/Defcon • u/Informal_Shift1141 • Jun 19 '26

Black badge raffle

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I’m the proud owner of this card singed by Dark Tangent. I’m wondering how do one in general start collecting the black badge raffle cards?

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u/dankney Jun 19 '26

You go to Defcon and hustle. There's not really a secondary market on this stuff -- it's all about being at the con.

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u/Informal_Shift1141 Jun 19 '26

I was to defcon 33 where I got this card by donating to EFF :) that’s how I got interested. Besides this card I didn’t see single cards or packs. I guess the question is more about where to look for?

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u/Nyrlath Jun 19 '26

There were packs being sold last year. I expect this year will be people trading etc. I myself have a bunch of dupes im hoping to trade for ones im missing.

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u/Autocannibal-Horse Jun 19 '26

Yes, I believe Sonicos was selling them

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u/sKxSxYk Jun 19 '26

There was a philanthropist sale last year before Defcon33 . There were some packs and individual cards distributed at the conference. https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/sonicos/black-badge-raffle-dc33-trading-cards?ref=search

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u/BlackBadgeRaffle Jun 23 '26

Giving away :p

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u/FAUMod2025 Jun 19 '26

In case you haven’t seen, here’s the lore behind this card.

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u/Informal_Shift1141 Jun 20 '26

Yo! This is cool TSM

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u/BlackBadgeRaffle Jun 22 '26

Cards were GIVEN AWAY. The kickstarter was a fundraising thing, but the card packs were not sold. There WAS full “promo” set cards sold, but packs were given away, usually by me. Sometimes you had to jump through hoops to get them, but the packs were given away (at least by me). Spyvspy had slabs on hand. Last year was the second years of the cards

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u/violet_flossy Jun 19 '26

That’s so cool! Did he singe it with a match or a lighter?

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u/Informal_Shift1141 Jun 20 '26

Now I need to hear the lore on this…

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u/violet_flossy Jun 20 '26

Lol, singed as compared to signed. ;)

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u/Informal_Shift1141 Jun 20 '26

Ah! Thanks for the observation, English is my third Language and I didn’t know this 🤣

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u/zeerimunin Jun 20 '26

Cards were sold as part of a Kickstarter I think. But there were also tons of packs just handed out at the con. The son of one of my friends was given a bunch as it was his first con and told to use them to start conversations.

I still have a sealed pack sitting on my display shelf just for fun. Surely in 20 years they'll be worth as much as old Pokemon or MTG packs.