Guide
The Project Hail Mary Trading Card Mini Set is a licensed Cardsmiths release built around the film adaptation, following teacher-turned-astronaut Ryland Grace on a mission to save Earth. It is a small, tightly built set, and it works differently from most: a single pack holds the complete ten-card base set, so the collecting starts above the base list rather than with it. This guide covers what is in the set, what sits above the base cards, and how to track the whole thing.
10 cards in this set, catalogued and ready to track.
The base set is ten Collector Cards spotlighting characters, moments and iconography from the film, from the Hail Mary itself to the mission patch and 40 Eridani. Every pack contains twelve cards: the full set of ten, plus one Rainbow Holofoil and one serial-numbered Gemstone Refractor. That guarantee is the unusual part. Completing the base checklist is a given, so the interesting question is which two extras you drew on top.
Two things, and one of each comes in every pack. The Rainbow Holofoil is a full parallel of the base list. The Gemstone Refractor is the serial-numbered chase, running the same gemstone naming Cardsmiths uses across its other lines, from Beryl at the accessible end down to the one-of-one Onyx at the top. With ten designs across each tier, a complete gemstone run is a defined target rather than an open-ended hunt.
| Type | How you get it |
|---|---|
| Collector Cards | All ten in every pack |
| Rainbow Holofoil | One per pack |
| Gemstone Refractor | One per pack, serial numbered |
The set carries twelve gemstone tiers on top of the base and Rainbow Holofoil layers, each covering all ten designs, and the print runs match the ladder Cardsmiths uses across its other lines. Blue Topaz at 199 copies is the accessible end and Onyx is the one-of-one, so ten people will ever hold an Onyx from this set. With fixed runs and ten designs per tier, a complete tier is a countable target.
| Tier | Print run | Designs |
|---|---|---|
 Blue Topaz | /199 | 10 |
 Beryl | /149 | 10 |
 Emerald | /99 | 10 |
 Garnet | /75 | 10 |
 Silver | /50 | 10 |
 Amethyst | /49 | 10 |
 Jade | /45 | 10 |
 Ruby | /25 | 10 |
 Aquamarine | /15 | 10 |
 Gold | /10 | 10 |
 Sapphire | /5 | 10 |
 Onyx | /1 | 10 |
Ten designs makes some real goals achievable here. The base set comes in a single pack, and a full Rainbow Holofoil run is a genuine target since it is not serialised. Among the gemstones the larger runs are worth chasing, where a Blue Topaz or Beryl set is a matter of patience. Higher up the ladder it stops being a completion question: a full run of Sapphire means owning ten cards that exist in five copies each, and a full Onyx run means owning every one-of-one in the set, which realistically will never sit in one collection. Those tiers are single-card chases, not sets. Mark what you pull and completion fills in per tier, record the serial numbers on your Gemstone Refractors, and keep a want list for the tiers you are actually working on. Browse the card list.
HoloHoard estimates a daily value for cards with enough market activity behind them and totals your collection from those, holding each tier separately so a Ruby and its base card are never blended. On a licensed set this size the market is thinner than for a mainline release, so every sale counts, and cards pick up their estimates as they trade.
The base set is ten Collector Cards. On top of those sit a Rainbow Holofoil parallel and twelve serial-numbered Gemstone Refractor tiers, each covering all ten designs, so the full checklist runs to well over a hundred distinct cards.
Twelve cards: the complete set of ten Collector Cards, plus one Rainbow Holofoil and one serial-numbered Gemstone Refractor. Because the base set is guaranteed, the collecting is really about which parallel and which gemstone tier you draw.
Parts of it. The ten-card base set comes in a single pack, and the Rainbow Holofoil run is completable since it is not serialised. The larger gemstone tiers like Blue Topaz and Beryl are realistic with patience. The scarce tiers are not: a full Sapphire run would mean ten cards that exist in five copies each, and a full Onyx run would mean owning every one-of-one in the set. Treat the top of the ladder as individual chases rather than a set to finish.
On HoloHoard you record the exact serial on the copy you hold, so a 3/5 Sapphire and a 4/5 Sapphire are two different objects in your collection rather than one line with a quantity of two. The full checklist is already built, every gemstone tier included, so tracking a pull means marking it and typing the number off the card. Completion then reads per tier, which is the only honest way to read it when the top of the ladder is single-card chases rather than sets.
Onyx is the top of the Gemstone Refractor ladder at /1, so there is a single copy of each of the ten designs at that tier. Above it the ladder runs Sapphire /5, Gold /10 and Aquamarine /15, with Blue Topaz /199 at the accessible end.
The complete set is catalogued on HoloHoard with artwork and every tier, and you can browse it for free without an account. A free account lets you mark what you own and track completion tier by tier.
Yes, and that is where it earns its keep. The HoloHoard app is a free download on Google Play for Android. Standing in front of a display at a shop or an event, you can check what a Project Hail Mary card is worth and add it before you have put it back down, all on the account you already use on the desktop. The current store links are on the HoloHoard app page.
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