Every new trading card set needs one card that defines the chase, and for the Esports World Cup x Kolex Trading Card Collection, that card belongs to League of Legends legend Faker.
Faker is one of ten athletes featured in the set's Chronicles insert, a one-of-one tier sitting at the very top of the collection's six rarity tiers.
It's worth being precise about what that actually means, and just as worth separating it clearly from a completely different Faker card that made real collectible-market headlines in an unrelated set.
Here is what's confirmed about Faker's Chronicles card, and how it fits into the much bigger esports trading-card conversation.
Chronicles is a ten-player one-of-one insert, meaning exactly ten individually unique cards exist across the entire 237-card EWC x Kolex set. Each of the ten features a different athlete, with Faker named specifically as one of those ten in coverage of the set's launch.
Being one of only ten one-of-one cards in the whole release puts Faker's Chronicles card at the very top of this set's chase hierarchy, regardless of how the broader top tier itself is named.
The official Esports World Cup press release describes the top one-of-one tier as the Elite and Chronicles cards, while other coverage of the same collection refers to the equivalent cards as Mythic one-of-ones. Chronicles specifically is the name used consistently for the ten-player insert itself, even where the surrounding tier-level name varies.
That's worth stating honestly rather than picking a single label and presenting it as settled, since it genuinely isn't across every source covering this launch.
Faker is widely regarded as the most decorated player in League of Legends history, competing for T1 across multiple world championship runs. Placing him among just ten names in the set's rarest insert reflects that stature rather than any random selection process.
For collectors specifically chasing League of Legends representation in this set, Faker's Chronicles card is the single highest-profile target in the entire 237-card checklist.
Separately from this EWC x Kolex set entirely, a different Faker card, a one-of-one autograph and jersey-relic card from a licensed T1 championship trading card product, reportedly sold for around $50,000. That sale is widely described as the highest public sale on record for any esports trading card.
That $50,000 figure belongs to a completely different card from a completely different set, and it should not be read as any kind of value claim about Faker's Chronicles card in this EWC x Kolex collection. It's useful purely as market context showing real collector demand exists for Faker cards generally.
A $50,000 sale for an unrelated Faker card confirms that serious money moves through esports trading cards when the right player, rarity, and format line up. It does not predict what this specific Chronicles card might eventually sell for, since the two cards differ in set, insert type, and whatever additional features like autographs or relics the T1 card carried.
Collectors should treat any current price talk around the Chronicles card itself as speculative until real sales data for this specific set actually exists.
With only ten copies of the Chronicles insert in existence, most collectors who open this set will never personally pull one, which makes the secondary market the realistic path to owning it. Anyone who does land one, whether straight from a pack or through a purchase, should treat it the same way any serious grading candidate gets treated before it ever changes hands again.
That means getting it into a rigid holder immediately, and once graded, a magnetic acrylic case built for a single graded slab is a reasonable long-term home before it accumulates any handling wear that could affect a future grade.
One, as part of a ten-player one-of-one insert.
No, the $50,000 sale belongs to a separate, unrelated T1 championship set autograph card.
A ten-player one-of-one insert sitting at the top of the set's six rarity tiers.
The official EWC release calls it Elite and Chronicles, while other outlets call the same concept Mythic.
A one-of-ten pull deserves a real display plan before it ever reaches your hands, not a scramble afterward. Set aside a graded card display case now so you're ready the moment a Chronicles card actually changes hands.
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