so how do you get better triple triad cards?

[Kukajoo]

im having a really hard time against the harder npcs with what i have
does anyone know which dungeons drop them or if packs can be bought with MGP?

[Garlyle]

Packs can be bought in the card room of the gold saucer for MGP. There's three 'levels' with differing sets of cards in them. You can also win them from NPCs all over Eorzea, and several have been confirmed as drops from various locations (eg the HM and EX Primals can drop their cards at random)

[Nyalia]

One "Trick" to getting started is to buy your 500 MGP for 5,000 gil, earn another 20, buy the "Bronze" card pack for 520 MGP clearing out all your MGP, then buy another 500 MGP for 5,000 gil and earn another 20... But that only gets you up to 6 new cards for super cheap. After that, there are two more cheap cards (Chocobo and Moogle), and then you can go for the Silver card pack, which is nearly half off if you use the above trick (getting just enough for one, going down to 0 MGP, then buying your MGP back up to 500).

I kinda wish this wasn't so P2W, but it is, so you might as well use that to your advantage. The way they could have stopped this tactic is to prevent you from being able to buy anything if it would put your MGP below 500. So, you can go below 500 for like, entrance fees and challenge fees and so on, but you can't buy items with that 500 point gil-buyable reserve.

The cards in the 520 MGP Bronze pack are:

• Behemoth Card ***
• Scarface Bugaal Ja Card **
• Coblyn Card *
• Goobbue Card *
• Pudding Card *
• Spriggan Card *

I'm assuming that you can get unlucky and get a card you already have.

However, the cards in those packs, and the cards that can be bought individually from the card trader, can be obtained in other ways. I won a Chocobo card from one of the Gold Saucer NPCs while trying to earn enough to buy it, and I've won a Scarface Bugaal Ja card from the same guy. It seems that when you win, there's a random chance of winning a card, but it's not a very high chance. If you already have the card, you can't do anything with it except sell it back in for a few MGP (10 MGP for a 2* card).

Has anyone been able to determine:
1. What cards are in each of the other packs
2. If specific NPCs can only drop specific cards (maybe only the ones in their deck?)
3. If the rank of an NPC (ie: the cost to challenge them) determines the cards they can drop (mutually exclusive with the above)
4. If specific NPCs have unique cards that can only be obtained from playing them and no one else

So far, I've won a Sylph card from... crud, I forget if it was Mother Miounne or Maisenta (I think Maisenta), and a Scarface Bugaal Ja card and Chocobo card from .... the first guy on the right as you enter the card area (forget his name).

[Kiara]

Yah. Confirmed that Garuda Hard Mode can drop Garuda's Card (LS mate got one).

[Yutsimaki]

I lol'ed at 1-star tataru card, Warrior of Light was recently obtained from a dungeon or raid I think, in Cactuar.

[Sadana]

Sylph, 1 star from silver pack

[Cabalabob]

Wonder if you can get ultima's card from praetorium or ultima HM.

[Welsper59]

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Thank you for this. I was just playing the NPCs in the area and trying to get cards that way lol. Didn't realize the packs were there. I have to admit though, beating the king repeatedly with your starter deck has some charm to it. Plus rule OP.

[Quesse]

Finally got Mother Miounne from playing her then Behemoth from spamming bronze pack.

Put both in one deck (3 one star, 1 two star, 1 three star) and it says TOO MANY RARES.

X_X

[Kenji1134]

mmhmm
You need 30 unique cards to freely use 2 stars.
60 to freely use 3 stars.
Luckily you always have 1 any rarity card... But it wont save you against an opponent who has a deck of 4 stars.

I have spent the better part of today on Triple Triad.
There are many NPCs who drop weak cards but have very strong decks.
There are many NPCs who when under the effect of the Random rule, magically always have the same 3 cards.
And even obtaining the 30 unique cards required to unlock free use of 2 stars requires you to beat opponents who's cards are not just "a little" strong then your's... Their cards are SO MUCH STRONGER that your card's highest side can ONLY do anything against their card's LOWEST side... so 75% of the time, their cards blatantly win.