A Crypto Card Game Is Testing Magic's Records

In the world of nerdy trading card games, the Black Lotus is still on top.

Still, according to those behind the platform, such figures are due to the excitement for both the game itself, and for unique crypto assets broadly.

Ferguson compared Gods Unchained to Magic and Hearthstone, a digital trading card game with similar gameplay and fantasy aesthetics to Magic.

Hearthstone's cards are digital, but the game is centralized.

The slow processing times and high costs involved in playing a game based on ethereum smart contracts are constant sources of frustration in the decentralized gaming community.

Fuel Game's first title, Etherbots, is played entirely on ethereum, and the company is developing a scaling solution called "Ansible channels" to help improve user experience in that game.

Several crypto investment firms have taken equity stakes in Fuel Games, most notably Coinbase Ventures, the investment arm of the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange.

Explaining his fund's rationale for investing in Fuel Games, Continue Capital founding partner Xiahong Lin told CoinDesk, "Gods Unchained is one of the very first blockchain games that combines high quality game experience with true ownership of game assets."

While the Hyperion card's $60,000 price tag is impressive in the context of trading card games, it's a far cry from CryptoKitties' record: one cat traded hands for $111,000 in December.

"The benefits of having a hip game are obvious. It just makes a lot of money."