Official blog
The official blog of OSRS Card Exchange — starter guides, deep-dives on credits, rarities and foils, the game modes the community is inventing (CardMan Mode and beyond), and the best skilling and combat routes for the Old School RuneScape TCG. Written by the team; discussion lives on the player forums.
The card system's biggest gripes right now: gilded-spade taunts, dog foils, the endless Guard argument, cheated highscores, trap cards you can't use, and prestige pulls you can't touch for 1,000 hours.
· 7 min read
We've found accounts attempting to abuse the Card Exchange's services, so we're introducing security guardrails. Honest players won't notice a thing — here's what's changing and why.
· 3 min read
The foil question has matured from a debate into a rulebook: tier-down unlocks, boss clogs, sideways rulings and self-nerfs. Every major foil ruling the community has argued out — and how to run foils on your own account.
· 4 min read
We mined a week of clan chat for the cards the community can't stop arguing about: the Coins obsession, the Guard controversy, Brutus worship, the cup of tea that carries two skills, and the traps like Mystery box.
· 5 min read
Foil talk was 7% of everything said in the community chat last night. The new Foil Rules forum gives every ruling, house rule and hall-of-shame pull a permanent home — here's the state of play going in.
· 7 min read
Cardcore hardcores, UIM 'sadism', chunk-locked cards, Coinman Mode and the lamp-hoarding lose condition — the game modes players are inventing on top of CardMan Mode, and the rule debates shaping them.
· 4 min read
CardMan Mode is our new, partially hand-gated card-collection leaderboard for players running Cardcore rules — inspired by Faux's ruleset. Here's how it works and why we built it.
· 4 min read
Foil 3rd age, Godly packs, back-to-back bosses and the great Coins drought — a roundup of the most jaw-dropping (and most cursed) booster pack pulls from OSRS TCG's launch weekend.
· 3 min read
How trading works in OSRS TCG, the 'dupes only' honour code, sharing your collection, the cardcore clan on world 356 — and the safety warnings every player should know before they get PK'd.
· 4 min read
Foils are the shiniest, most-chased pulls in OSRS TCG — but in a challenge-account mode, what does a foil actually unlock? The community debate, the emerging consensus, and how to treat them.
· 4 min read
