Trading cards
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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. However, the promotion never went ahead, and Valve began to produce and sell the trading cards through the Valve Store. As an added bonus, each of the class cards provides a revealing biography about that class. There are nine class cards (one for each class), 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 class 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.
Class cards
Scout trading card Front
Scout trading card Back
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Soldier trading card Front
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Soldier trading card Back
Pyro trading card Front
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
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Heavy trading card Back
Engineer trading card Front
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
cp_Granary trading card Front
cp_Well trading card Front
cp_Dustbowl trading card Front
cp_Gravel Pit trading card Front
tc_Hydro trading card Front
ctf_2Fort trading card Front
Common backside for many cards
Weapon cards
Sentry Gun Ttrading card Front
Sentry Gun trading card Back
Flamethrower trading card
BLU Flamethrower
RED Flamethrower
Minigun trading card Front
Minigun trading card Back
Team Fortress 2 card
- Team Fortress 2 card
Team Fortress 2 trading card Front
Common backside for many cards
Trivia
- 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
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