Winter Sale Mysterious Badge Cards

Keep an eye on Steam card exchange too, a lot of trades going on there right now so the inventory changes from time to time. I'm only going to craft 2-3 badges, but using both SCE & STM have helped a lot to complete the sets.

I think the very very hugry crafters(top level guys) will only buy at any price when the sale starts. Cause i can't see them buying the cards but plebs don't know economy and will sell the cards for very cheap today and next week :/

Usually the best is sell at the start, then buy at the end. Get the most for your buck.
Works worse each new sale though.

Had a quick look in your inventory and it looks like you did get a card. It's mysterious card 1, which doesn't show up in the crafting window for whatever reason.

Card 1 drops but does not show up.

1.5 year old bug Valve can't be arsed to fix. Why? Not a clue, they probably just don't give a fuck, just give them your money.

Probably because literally everyone is crafting and a lot of people are selling at this exact moment. :3

plebs are destroying the price, probably next week will be something like that.

I don't think so.

If you want to craft them, then you're forced to do that.
If you want to sell them, price is only going to drop so sell asap before the sale starts. Though it can't really get much lower.

lucky you, i crafted all my badges as soon as these cards appeared.

Well, majority of users are waiting for summer/winter sales to craft their badge sets - nothing unusual since you get mysterious card instead coupon. So you can expect it will be pretty similar during next event when valve don't do anything new.

Was your Level on Steam lower than 5 back then because that would explain why you didn't get cards.

Pretty much. When the sale starts the mysterious cards turn into Holiday Sale cards and you can use them to craft a special badge that's only available for the duration of the sale.

prices will only go one way if there going to move and thats down*, you might get little fluctuations buts thats about as much as you can hope for

• unless trading cards are used in a christmas sale event which is unlikely

Sale isn't on yet. It starts on the 23rd.
But, as usual, the event special cards (Mystery cards until the sale is started) are already dropping when you craft any other badge.
You can't yet craft the event special badge, but you can go ahead of time by earning those special cards. That's specially useful considering you sometimes need to wait a few days before selling or trading...

This is what I do:

1. Farm for cards with ASF.
2. Sell every Foil I get.
3. Trade my duplicates with STM.
4. Eventually get booster packs that allow me to complete some sets.
5. Buy the remaining cards with the money made in (2).
6. Wait for the next special sale to craft the badges.

Actually, this is the first time I've done this. :P

Cuz they will probs lower in price later on. But with steam you never know offc.

You must wait until the sale starts (and the cards are revealed) to craft the badge(s).

This is a bug, you got the card in your inventory, this has been happening ever since I was involved in sales, way back to the Monster summer sale.

I have 571 of them in my inventory, so no, no limit on them. :)

No way, leveling up a badge still give you cards drop. Tested it myself.