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Make trading cards for your stream

A sub badge is 28 pixels. A holo card for your top sub is a moment chat screenshots and reposts.

Design a sub card →
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Phase through firewalls once per turn.

Streaming already runs on tiers, milestones, and loyalty — sub months, bit walls, hype trains — but the visual reward for all of it usually maxes out at a tiny chat badge. A trading card gives the same loyalty ladder an actual canvas: full art, a foil finish for the top tier, stats that track something real.

It doubles as goal content: design one 'boss' card for the stream's current donation or sub goal, reveal it foil-and-all the moment the goal hits, and drop the link in chat — the card's shimmer survives the share link, so it's a genuine reveal moment, not a static graphic.

How to do it

01

Build a tier ladder from your actual sub tiers

1-month common, 3-month uncommon, 1-year rare, day-one subs and mods as legendary. The Neon template's dark, glowing frame reads well over any stream overlay.

02

Design one 'boss' card for the current goal

Give it full holo foil and keep it hidden until the goal is hit — the reveal is the content, and the share link is the clip.

03

Give raiders their own card

A quick thank-you card for whoever raids you, with a link they can drop in their own chat — it travels to an audience you didn't have yet.

04

Put real numbers on the stat slots

Months subbed, raids sent, hype-train contributions — the Badge template's counter stat makes these feel like an artifact, not a compliment.

05

Drop the link, not a screenshot

A screenshot is dead; the share link keeps the foil interactive for whoever clicks it, and the card's own preview is free advertising before they even open it.

Small things that make it great

  • Neon and Holo templates read best against a dark stream overlay
  • Save the finished set as your own template so every new sub card matches
  • The reveal moment is worth clipping — foil catching a cursor move plays well on stream

Templates and guides for this

Neon templateBadge templateHolo templateGuide: Holographic foil cards, explainedGuide: How to design a balanced TCG setGuide: Pack odds and pull rates, explained

Or make something else

Wedding & event cardsA wedding favor gets left on the table. A trading card of the couple goes in someone's wallet.Birthday trading cardA birthday card gets read once. A legendary card of the birthday person gets sleeved, framed, and brought up at every party.