Detailed information about my Card Wall Projects! Click on the individual card images for more information about why its on the wall! Use the buttons or their respective images below to jump between each project!
A lot of the scans for specifically the yugioh cards were hard to find in a readable quality, so I found a lot of high quality versions people made on Deviantart. Here is the link of every one of those listed.
Firegrass
I was doing a bunch of bids for PSA Gem Mint 10 cards on Ebay. In the process I found a Gem Mint 10 Firegrass from Legend of Blue Eyes (the first Yugioh set printed) in First Edition (so the first print run of the first Yugioh set printed). However Firegrass is just in general a really bad card. I was showing off my bids to some friends when my friend Kyle said "yo is that FIREGRASS", which was so funny I decided to go hard on winning that bid so I could frame both the PSA 10 Firegrass, as well as the quote below it. I'm considering framing the quote itself.Doctor Who x Magic the Gathering
There was a huge crossover with Doctor Who where MTG got 4 EDH decks as well as 3 Secret Lairs. I had the amazing idea of displaying them in an infinity mirror box that looks like the TARDIS. My friend who has worked in woodworking, fabrication, etc is going to be paid to help design the actual box. I have already purchased the 4 decks and 3 Secret Lairs, and I'm just waiting for him to get the infinity mirror box. Here are is the back of what we're working with so far.The front side of the TARDIS has a door which will contain a Dr Who Collector Booster. These designs are WIP and not 100% to scale yet.Orichalchos
I plan on framing the Seal of Orichalchos with The Eye of Timaeus, The Fang of Critias, and The Claw of Hermos. With the three latter cards surrounding the Orichalchos in a triangle pattern.Digital Stuff
I plan to have a big-ish wall project that includes all of the digital card games I have yet to show off on my wall. Currently that includes: Inscryption, Hearthstone, Genius Invokation TCG, possibly Duelyst, and Legends of RuneterraAstral Rare Number 39
I purchased a copy of Number 39: Utopia in Astral Rare, which is just in the in-universe language of Astral. I just haven't mounted it on the wall yet.Digimon
I plan to mount some cards from each iteration of the Digimon card game, but I have to finish watching the series first.Shadowverse
I plan to buy Bellringer Angel from the physical Shadowverse game, as well as a proxy of the Digital version of Shadowverse. I had already planned to get digital Shadowverse cards proxied, but when they announced the Physical card game the wall project wrote itself.Greed
I have a copy of Greed (magic the gathering) signed by The Professor (Tolarian Community College on youtube). I just haven't mounted it on the wall yet.Fuwamoco
Whenever Fuwawa and Mococo get added into Weiß Schwarz, I might try to get a signed version of Mococo. Or both if they have a twin signed card for Fuwamoco.Other
I plan to, when I have more free time, watch the full series' for Bakugan, Chaotic, and Battle Spirits. Battle Spirits will be first. Then I'll do projects for those if I like them. I know I'll be doing Battle Spirits because of their neat crossovers. I also need to try out Force of Will.Flesh and Blood
I have the TCC x FAB decks, and I plan to mount them somehow. Just unsure how I plan to do that quite yet. I think I'll just mount The Professor's deck.
Duelist Kingdom cards
It would be neat to have all three of the Duelist Kingdom cards in PSA 10 on my wall.Memory v2
Second memory project with more signatures?
This was my 8th project.
When I was a kid watching Yugioh Zexal, I always thought it would be really neat to have all of the Number monsters. At the time, some of them were only released as prize cards, and most of them hadn't actually been released as physical cards. So I sat on that idea for years. Then, after making my Memory wall project, and then my Eldrazi wall project, I wondered if it would even be feasible.I did some research and I came across the "Number Complete File -Piece of Memories-". It, for the price of at the time I believe $500, contained every Number monster in Japanese, but all of them had the same Rarity/Foiling. That was super tempting. It would have been at least twice that to get the singles of each card, I thought. So I decided I would watch the Number Complete File on ebay. Occasionally over the next few years I would watch to see if its price would drop. It did drop to around $350 at one point, and I was heavily tempted to get it so I did one more batch of research to make sure it was perfect for me.That's when I found out it doesn't actually come with every Number monster. Actually it was missing quite a few that had released after the "Complete File" had released. Since those wouldn't be the same rarity anyway, I decided to just go for buying english singles of each card.For a grand total of $508 for the cards and $253.35 for the frames, this is my most expensive project I've completed. It will be outshined soon.Framing the cards was actually pretty tricky. I eventually decided that just having Numbers 1 through 100 in their own frame is the best start. I had to future proof these frames after-all. What if they release more Numbers after the fact? That would be crazy why would they ever do that? But hey lets just prepare for the worst right? So one big frame in the center with Numbers 1 through 100, done. Now for the rest!It felt correct to put the "Chaos" Numbers in their own frame. That's easy 23* cards framed, and I'll even make it look fancy by having a small gap at the bottom row. That totally won't come back to bite me in the ass later!Then what I had left I could split up pretty easily. I put the "Over-Hundred Numbers" and their Chaos Variants in the same frame. Lore stuff, too much to explain. I then was left with three piles: Number S, Number F, and the Extra Numbers.Since there were only 3 of each Number S and Number F, I shoved them into a frame together, and then just made a frame for the extras. I spent a day or so organizing the frames in photoshop, to work around my tv I also had on that side of the room, and I think this is the best solution I could have came up with. I got everything and put it all on my wall.
NOT EVEN ONE DAY LATER THEY ANNOUNCED NUMBER C79.THE ONE FRAME I DID NOT PROPERLY FUTURE PROOFAAAAAAAAAAAA
Anyway, it looks great, and both kid me and adult me are very excited.
Included in the Chaos Numbers are two monsters that don't have "Number" in their name. Ultimate Leo Utopia Ray and Ultimate Draconic Utopia Ray. In their text, they state: "This card's name is always treated as Number C39: Utopia Ray". So it felt appropriate to slot them in
The main original Number monsters are in the big 1-100 frame. But for some, they made multiples of the same number. In the case of Numbers 1-4, the top row, they are the in-universe Fake Numbers 1-4. Then a row of Number 39 since that was the main character's Number, and then this is the only good place to put Number XX.
This was my 9th project.
Back in June of 2023, I was trying to find some of my favourite songs that I could share with someone. I remembered that I used to listen to specifically the 4th variant of the Hunter x Hunter (2011) opening a ton. After rewatching that opening, I remembered that there was a card-based power system in one arc, Greed Island. I thought that I could pay someone on Etsy to make an "Accompany" card and frame that on my wall. Accompany is, at least in my mind, the most iconic Greed Island card. I thought I would buy a custom of that one, and leave it at that.So I searched for "Accompany HxH greed island card", which led me to this image of AccompanyI thought that was strange. How do we have such a high quality scan of a card only really shown in the manga/anime? I have to add that much later after the fact I found out this actually was an anime scan. Regardless, at the time I thought it was something else. Which led me down the rabbit hole of learning that Bandai Namco actually made the Greed Island cards! However! It's not as simple as "buy this one product". There are two!It took me hours to find the correct information because most of it was either in Japanese, or so sparsely in English that there was even some incorrect information due to translation issues.In 2018 Bandai released the Greed Island Perfect Set. It comes with:
- 100 Pocket Cards
- 40 Spell Cards
- A Binder to keep the cards in designed to look like the Book they use in that arc
- All in a "Joystation" box, which I have also mounted on the wall because it's just a cool box honestly.
I will explain what the differences in card type are later. What's important is that the Perfect set is actually missing the cards from the Free Slot category, as well as the Ruler cards.In 2022 they released the Greed Island Highest Set. This is where I had the most struggle. I had found a few unboxing videos that labeled the sets incorrectly, and a few unboxing videos that didn't even really showcase the differences in both. It took me awhile to find a video properly showcasing everything. Highest comes with:
- A booklet showcasing each individual card with some text beside it, as well as some snippets from the 2011 anime. If you're reading this, then I haven't updated the website to include scanned images of the booklet yet, but I plan on doing so eventually.- A sticker to be put in the back of your binder, to make it even more look like the Book from the anime- The 4 Ruler cards
- The 43 Free Slot cards
- The 28 S-Rank cards included in the Perfect set, but with a fancy unique foiling for each card.
What made finding all of that out so difficult is that in japanese, the first set was called the "Standard" set, and the second set was called...the Perfect set. So in English we got Perfect then Highest, and in Japanese they got Standard then Perfect. ANYWAY.
After fully understanding what came in each set, I purchased both off of Ebay.The button below will lead you to the Index I have made of each page in the binder. Each "page" is as if you were viewing the opened binder. So each half of the rows is one 3-pocket page. In the page numbers I will explain more about how these cards "work".
Preface! A lot of the information I'm using is either verbatim or paraphrased from the wonderful Greed Island Card Project the HxH Wiki has. I will be contributing scans of cards they are missing once I get a scanner, and hopefully I'll be able to get someone that is better at translating than me.
I'll be going into more detail about how the cards "work" in the Card Anatomy section if you are interested.
Before I break down the card anatomy, I have to explain a few things first.
Greed Island isn't a card game, its an in-universe game with a card-based power system. Each player has can say "Book!" to make their binder of cards appear so they can activate the various effects, or "Gain!" to turn an item from card form back into item form, but this cannot be reversed.
- The first section (Pages 1-6 with one card overflowing into Page 7) are the Specified Slot Cards.- The second section (Pages 7-8 with overflow into Page 9) are the Spell Cards
- The third section (Pages 9-11) are the Free Slot cards.So that means we have 3 main card types!
First the two important things the cards have in common:
- The top left has the Card Number
- The top right has the Rank and "Card Conversion Limit"
The Rank just determines how hard that card is to get. From as low as H, and as high as SS.
The "Card Conversion Limit" is the limit to how many times an item can be transformed into its card form.So using Mystery Pond as an example, its very difficult to obtain being Rank S, and there can only be 10 of it in card form in the entire game, which is important since to win Greed Island, the players need every Specified Slot Cards.While the Stone is the lowest Rank at H, and can be converted an unlimited amount of times.For the Specified Slot Cards and the Free Slot Cards, their effect or otherwise is pretty self explanatory, and to a degree so are the Spell Cards. But they have a bonus difference. The Classes!Each of the Spell Cards has at a minimum 2 Classes. The first Class is pretty straightforward:SR: Short Range
LR: Long Range. Specifically anything more than a one-meter radius.The second batch of classes are as such:RS: Regular Spell (Has an immediate effect
AS: Attack Spell (Affects another player
DS: Defensive Spell (Applied to the user)
AA: Anti-Attack Spell (Prevents Attack Spells)
C: Continuous Spell (The effect stays active until destroyed)
VS: Versus Spell (A counter spell)And then for the four Ruler cards, they get the Special Class, which just indicates they have special attributes.To quote from the wiki: "Attack spells will wait 15 seconds before hitting the target if they have their binder open and own at least one defensive spell. Close-ranged spells cannot be outrun after they are cast, meaning that even if the target moves more than 20 meters away from the user after the spell has been activated, they will still be hit."To win Greed Island a player has to collect each of the Specified Slot Cards, after which a quiz will be active for every player. The player with the highest score wins the game and the reward. Which is to bring any three cards with you outside of the game, which due to in-world power systems still have their effects!
This first section (Pages 1-6 with one card overflowing into Page 7) are the "Specified Slot Cards".
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Back in 2015, an Australian Yugioh player named Jason Hutchinson created this incredibly long combo. With the right amount of luck, skill, and memorization, you can win turn one! I was still playing Yugioh pretty actively at that time, and have always been so interested in the combo. I wanted to show it off somehow on my wall, but I had no proper idea how.I bounced around between just showing a few of the main combo pieces in a frame, to buying the whole deck as a decoration piece.Then it hit me.My first, and realistically only INTERACTIVE WALL PROJECT!As you can see in the pictures below, we have a duel puzzle! The only thing that sets this apart from a regular attempt at the combo, is your opening hand is pre-set. Because this opening hand can win 100% of the time!Above are two different style of guides for the Combo, as well as an Explanation of the deck. Click whichever fits your needs best!ALSO! I have to give a big thank you/shout-out to Dan Parker of YGOOrganization.com. He made this phenomenal write up on the entire combo step-by-step back in June of 2015. It took me ages to fully memorize it, but I would have never been able to make this project without that guide.I've included a few extra guides of my own in case someone wanted to watch the combo in action rather than read about it. Click any of the buttons below to jump to their respective video!Also, in the off-chance that YGOOrganization's website ever goes down, here is a waybackmachine backup of that initial write-up!
I went on a binge of looking at PSA 10 Yugioh and Pokemon cards on Ebay. I posted a bunch of the bids I made in the Underworld Academy Facebook Chat. Kyle responded in the funniest way, and I knew I had to frame it on the wall with that text conversation.
This was my 6th project.It just simply displays the four Dimension Dragons from Yugioh Arc-V, which is in my top 10
This was my 4th project.
I assumed it would be my last frame at the time, so I made it to represent my major and minor memories of the card games I was playing at the time. Each row has a purpose:
• The 1st Row: These are cards that represent me and my friend group that played together. Each person signed the card that represented themselves.• The 2nd & 3rd Rows: These represent the main decks at the time, as well as a few major memories on the side.• The 4th & 5th Rows: These represent minor memories, mostly decks I used at the time that I enjoyed.• The 6th Row: Since I thought this would be my last project, are just representations of their various games themselves. Honestly I just wanted an excuse to get the 3 Egyptian God Cards, but also an excuse to frame T.G. Hyper Librarian, the bottom left card.
This was the 1st project.At the time, I just wanted to represent the card games I played at the time that had physical cards. I didn't expect to continue making card frames after this
This was my 2nd project.It was to represent my at-the-time favourite Pokémon evolution line
This was my 3rd project.I commissioned an orica of Kanna Kamui as Blue-Eyes White Dragon, since she is indeed a white dragon with blue eyes.
This was my 11th project.After acquiring a job, I knew I wanted to get some PSA Graded cards to put on my wall, and I could think of nothing better than Tour Guide from the Underworld at Gem Mint 10.It was surprisingly difficult to find one in English with the Original Art. But along the way I found a few others too.
This was my 10th project.I've always wanted to put a Digivice on my wall, and after rewatching Digimon Tamers I looked into and found this officially licensed 2022 Takato & Guilmon Digivice. The cards below it all function by "Card Slashing". Click each card below to show what they do! The face-down cards below are bonus features plus what it looks like in the anime
This was my 5th project.This entire frame was made to explain the incredibly fascinating lore behind the Eldrazi.The top 3 cards in the first row are the Eldrazi Titans, who live in a void between planes known as The Blind Eternities. They do not "want", they do not "need", they just are, and they are hungry.The most intriguing thing, and the main reason I put them on my wall is the fact that each creature below their respective Eldrazi Titan, are their respective Eldrazi Titan, or rather a smaller part of the bigger whole.It's commonly described as: Take the perspective of a fish looking up through a pond. If you stick two fingers into the pond, the fish only sees two unconnected beings, and not two parts of a greater whole.That is the same case for the Eldrazi. Artisan of Kozilek doesn't work for Kozilek, its a part of the being known as Kozilek, and that is simply super cool.You can tell each of the Titan's "Brood" apart using their key identifiers. Each identifier is described by clicking on each individual card.
