Mudwater is the trading card game of the Bored Ape Yacht Club. Yuga Labs launched it on 17 October 2026 at ApeFest in Charleston. Two players compete on a board with nine squares, each brings 14 cards, and before every match each player puts up one card as an ante, which the winner keeps. Each of the 120 cards in the first set, “Swamp Origins”, exists in print and as an NFT on Solana, and the two forms are meant to be exchangeable for each other. Holders get packs for free: at ApeFest every Ape guest received a box, additional boxes cost 99 US dollars according to attendees, and on eBay boxes are now listed from 1,684 US dollars. Here you will find everything on the rules, cards, costs and roadmap, and why many collectors take a critical view of the model.
Key takeaways
- Launched on 17 October 2026; the first set, “Swamp Origins”, has 120 cards in five levels from Common to Legendary.
- A match takes around ten minutes: 3 × 3 squares, 14 cards per player, and whoever holds more squares wins and takes the opponent's ante card.
- 10,000 boxes of 24 packs with 10 cards each; 71.34 percent of them go to Bored Apes and Mutant Apes as a community airdrop: as packs to the wallet and as...
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