The Fantasy Football Card Game

A fantasy football card game is fantasy football where your roster is a collection. Instead of drafting players once, you own digital player cards, and each week you build lineups from the cards you hold. The cards score on real NFL stats, exactly like fantasy points. The difference is that your cards stay yours all season: you can open more, trade them, and use them to reach bigger contests.

ThrownZone is a fantasy football card game, and it's free: no real money goes in and none comes out.

How it compares to the formats you know

The short version: season-long gives you ownership, DFS gives you flexibility, a card game gives you both.

What makes the cards matter

1. Production. Every card is a claim on a real player's fantasy points, every week. 2. Rarity. Five tiers (Core, Rare, Elite, Legend, Hall of Fame) with fixed print runs. A starter prints 600 Core, 120 Rare, 30 Elite, 10 Legend and just 2 Hall of Fame cards per season, plus a single 1-of-1 Gold. 3. The serial number. Each card carries its own number, like 127 / 600. In ThrownZone the lowest serial in a lineup breaks ties, so a low number is worth something on Sunday as well as to collectors.

Rarity opens doors, it doesn't add points

The key rule in any fair card game: a rare card must not score more than a common one. In ThrownZone, rarity decides which contest tier you can enter. It never multiplies your points. That keeps every contest a pure test of fantasy skill: everyone in the room is playing with the same scoring. See the five contest tiers →

Why "no money" matters

Card-based fantasy has been tried with real money before. DraftKings' Reignmakers, the best-known version, sold player cards for cash and closed in July 2024 amid a lawsuit over whether those cards were securities. ThrownZone takes the opposite approach: credits can't be bought and can't be cashed out, and cards are earned by playing, not bought with a credit card. A new player and a veteran are separated by how well they play, not by how much they spend.

Try it

Every new account gets 5,000 credits, a playable Starter lineup and four Kickoff Packs with a Rare-or-better card in each. That's 25 cards and a free contest to enter this week. Start playing →

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