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What is HOLO and how does it work?

Last updated on Aug 11, 2026

An overview of packs, the Vault, shipping, and selling on HOLO.

HOLO is a platform for collecting real, physical trading cards. Every card you pull from a pack is an actual card that exists in our vault — not a digital image or an NFT.

The short version

  1. Buy a pack from the Store.

  2. Open it and see which card you pulled.

  3. Keep it in your Vault, where HOLO stores it safely for you.

  4. Decide what to do with it — ship it to your door, sell it back to HOLO instantly, or list it on the Marketplace for other collectors.

Why cards stay in the Vault

When you pull a card, it's yours immediately. But it stays physically at HOLO until you ask us to ship it. This is deliberate — it means you can pull ten cards over a month and have them all shipped together in one package instead of paying shipping ten times.It also means you can sell a card without ever touching it. If you list a card on the Marketplace and someone buys it, ownership transfers instantly and the card never has to move.

What's actually in a pack

Every pack has a published card pool — the complete list of cards that pack canproduce. You can see the whole pool, and every card's rarity, before you buy. Nothing is hidden.