Trading cards

“

Yo, I oughta' be on a baseball card! Click to listen — The Scout

”

The Team Fortress 2 Trading Cards were designed by the TF2 art team, and were originally intended to be distributed at cyber cafès as part of a promotion. The promotion never went ahead however, and therefore Valve began to produce and sell the Trading Cards through the Valve Store. As an added bonus, each of the character cards provides a revealing biography about that character. There are nine character cards (one for each character), six level cards, three weapon cards, and one Team Fortress 2 card. Some cards were released by Valve directly on the official TF2 Blog, while other cards were not officially released and were instead scanned manually by the community.

The character cards were also Merchandise available with the RED and BLU fan kits which were available directly from the Valve store. Along with other assorted items, the fan kits came with two packs of TF2 Trading Cards, each containing five random cards. Trading cards are now available separately (1 pack for US$1) from the Valve store.

Character Cards

• Scout1.jpg

  Scout Trading Card Front

• Scout2.jpg

  Scout Trading Card Back

• Soldier1.jpg

  Soldier Trading Card Front

• Soldier2.jpg

  Soldier Trading Card Back

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  Pyro Trading Card Front

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  Pyro Trading Card Back

• Demo back.jpg

  Demoman Trading Card Front

• Demo front.jpg

  Demoman Trading Card Back

• Heavy back.jpg

  Heavy Trading Card Front

• Heavy2.jpg

  Heavy Trading Card Back

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  Engineer Trading Card Front

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  Engineer Trading Card Back

• Medic back.jpg

  Medic Trading Card Front

• Medic2.jpg

  Medic Trading Card Back

• Sniper1.jpg

  Sniper Trading Card Front

• Sniper2.jpg

  Sniper Trading Card Back

• Spy Card1.jpg

  Spy Trading Card Front

• Spy2.jpg

  Spy Trading Card Back

Map Cards

• Granary.jpg

  cp_Granary Trading Card Front

• Well.jpg

  cp_Well Trading Card Front

• Dustbowl.jpg

  cp_Dustbowl Trading Card Front

• Gravel Pit.jpg

  cp_Gravel Pit Trading Card Front

• Hydro.jpg

  tc_Hydro Trading Card Front

• 2Fort.jpg

  ctf_2Fort Trading Card Front

• TF2Back.jpg

  Common backside for many cards

Weapon Cards

• Sentry1.jpg

  Sentry Gun Trading Card Front

• Sentry2.jpg

  Sentry Gun Trading Card Back

• Flamethrower.jpg

  Flamethrower Trading Card

• Flamethrower blue.jpg

  BLU Flamethrower

• Flamethrower red.jpg

  RED Flamethrower

• Minigun1.jpg

  Minigun Trading Card Front

• Minigun2.jpg

  Minigun Trading Card Back

Team Fortress 2 Card

• Team Fortress 2 Card

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  Team Fortress 2 Trading Card Front

• TF2Back.jpg

  Common Backside for many cards

Trivia

Trading card packaging

• Despite the fact that these cards list a prospective biography for each class, some of the biographies have been altered by Valve in order to more effectively complement the new content that they have released during updates, as well as other forms of published information.
  • The most notable example of this would be the Demoman's biography, which originally said that his parents both died when he was six and that he lived in an orphanage after their deaths. However in the amended version released after the WAR! Update, his real parents took him in and taught him to be a proper Demoman, hence the existence of Mrs. Degroot, his mother.
  • Other such liberties were taken with the Spy's biography released with Meet the Spy, which is far different from the original trading card version. This is mostly because the trading cards were created much earlier in TF2's life, prior to any of the class updates.

External links

• TF2 Official Blog- TF2 Trading Cards Part 1
• TF2 Official Blog- TF2 Trading Cards Part 2
• TF2 Official Blog- TF2 Trading Cards Part 3