How Tempo works

What counts as a hit

A pack hits when one of its cards is worth at least the pack's price. Worth means the card's market price at the moment you open the pack. Say you open a 700-gem pack: if any card in it is worth 700 gems or more, that pack is a hit.

The meter

Every pack that misses adds to your meter. What it adds is that pack's own chance of a hit, so a pack that hits often fills the meter in small steps, and a pack that rarely hits fills it fast. When a pack hits, the meter comes back down. One meter covers your whole account, whatever packs you open.

Past the tick, your odds climb

Once the meter passes the tick, the rarities that can hit become more likely in the last three slots of every pack, and the filler rarities become less likely by exactly the same amount. The boost grows with the meter, up to 1.5× the normal odds at Ready.

At Ready, the next pack carries a Tempo Card

When the meter reaches Ready, your next pack is a Tempo Card pack. One slot skips the rarity roll and draws from a list of cards worth at least a set value. That slot is the eighth card. The ninth and tenth still roll, at your Tempo odds, so the Tempo Card never takes the place of a chase pull. If no single card in the set can cover the value, the ninth card is guaranteed too. That value is the promise:

at least 12.5% of the streak

the streak is everything you spent on paid packs since your last hit, with the Tempo Card pack itself included. A longer streak pays a bigger card.

never under twice the pack price

twice what you paid per pack on the streak. Opening a pricier pack at Ready does not raise it: the floor follows what the streak actually paid, up to the price of the pack you open.

The card is drawn from those closest to that value. When a set has nothing close, the next cards up are used, so the card can be worth more, up to twice the target. Once the Tempo Card pack is open, the meter clears and the count starts again.

Rules you can count on

• Tempo only ever raises your odds. Below the tick your packs roll at the odds printed on the pack page. It never lowers them.
• Daily packs stay outside the meter. Gifted packs and drop vouchers count like any other pack: they fill the meter and can carry a Tempo Card, but they add nothing to the streak's spend, because you paid nothing for them.
• Hiding the meter changes nothing. Turn it off in your settings and Tempo keeps working exactly the same.
• Card values are market prices at the moment you open the pack, the same prices the marketplace shows.

Tempo and Provably Fair

Tempo never touches the random numbers. Every slot still gets its rolls from the committed server seed, your client seed, your salt and the nonce. What can change is the table a roll lands on, and every rip records the exact odds table each slot rolled with, and for a Tempo Card pack the exact list of cards that slot drew from. The verifier uses those, not the pack page, and tells you when a pack rolled at Tempo odds or was a Tempo Card pack. Verify any rip.