The Esports World Cup x Kolex Trading Card Collection splits its 237-card checklist across six distinct rarity tiers, and understanding what each tier actually represents matters more than just knowing a number on the back of a pack.
Some tiers are built around everyday roster coverage, others are built around specific achievements like championship wins, and one sits at the very top as a one-of-one chase category with inconsistent naming across different sources.
Layered on top of all six tiers is a numbering mechanic tied to the first 100 copies of every base card, which pairs a physical pull with a digital twin inside the Kolex app.
Here is what each tier actually means, in the order collectors will realistically pull them.
The official Esports World Cup announcement names the tiers as Legends, MVPs, Rookies, Centurions, Prestige, and what it calls the one-of-one Elite and Chronicles cards. That six-tier structure spans everyday roster cards up through genuinely unique chase pieces.
Every tier pulls from the same shared pool of ten competitive disciplines rather than being siloed by game, meaning a single pack can realistically contain a League of Legends Rookie next to a chess Legend.
Legends covers the most established, recognizable names across the ten disciplines, while Rookies covers newer competitors making their first real mark on the EWC stage. MVPs sits between the two, built around standout performances from specific matches or series rather than career-long reputation.
These three tiers form the bulk of what a Starter or Hobby Box actually delivers, and they're the tiers worth building out first before chasing anything rarer.
Centurions is a dedicated insert honoring players and clubs with multiple EWC championship wins, which makes it a meaningfully smaller pool than Legends simply because fewer competitors qualify. A Centurions pull effectively certifies that the featured player or club has already won more than once on the EWC stage.
That built-in scarcity is worth protecting properly the moment it hits your hands, since a multi-championship insert like this is exactly the kind of card worth keeping in a protective sleeve sized for thicker insert cards rather than loose in a box.
Prestige functions as a performance-recognition tier, similar in spirit to MVPs but aimed at a different slice of standout tournament moments rather than match-by-match results. Reporting on the set's inserts also describes a separate Spotlight-style insert focused on individual achievements, which overlaps conceptually with Prestige.
Exact print runs for Prestige haven't been independently confirmed in available coverage, so treat its relative rarity as meaningfully above Legends/MVPs/Rookies but below Centurions until clearer numbers surface.
This is worth stating plainly rather than picking one name and running with it: the official EWC press release calls the top one-of-one tier the Elite and Chronicles cards, while other coverage of the same set describes the equivalent one-of-one cards as Mythic. Both descriptions point at the same concept, a genuinely unique, single-copy card, but the naming itself varies by source.
Rather than asserting one name as definitive, the honest summary is that a 1-of-1 ultra-rare tier unambiguously exists in this set, and collectors should expect to see it referred to differently depending on which outlet or storefront they're reading.
Within that top tier sits Chronicles specifically, a ten-player one-of-one insert, meaning exactly ten individual one-of-one cards exist across the entire print run. League of Legends legend Faker is one of those ten featured athletes, making his Chronicles card the single hardest pull in the entire 237-card set.
We cover Faker's card specifically, including separate market context from a different, unrelated $50,000 Faker card sale, in a dedicated spotlight post.
Independent of rarity tier, the first 100 individually numbered copies of every base card include a digital twin, a companion version inside the Kolex app unlocked by scanning the card's QR code. That numbering layer means a numbered Legends or MVPs card carries its own collectible value on top of whatever tier it belongs to.
Display a numbered pull properly in a magnetic acrylic display case rather than filing it loose, since the printed number itself is part of what makes that specific copy worth keeping intact.
Legends, MVPs, Rookies, Centurions, Prestige, and a top one-of-one tier.
Players and clubs with multiple EWC championship wins.
The official EWC release calls it Elite and Chronicles, while other coverage calls it Mythic, describing the same one-of-one concept.
Ten individual one-of-one cards, one of which features Faker.
A digital twin inside the Kolex app, unlocked by scanning the card's QR code.
Whether you're chasing a Centurions insert or just stacking Legends and Rookies, every tier in this set deserves the same baseline protection. Grab a sleeve sized for thicker insert cards before your pulls start piling up loose.
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