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Economy & Market

Economy & Market

Stellarch has a player economy built around three currencies and a player-run card market. You can buy and sell cards, place standing bids, rent cards to play them without owning them, and open packs for fresh cards. This page walks each piece, and why a modest budget can still field a full team.

The three currencies

SGC (Stellarch Galactic Credit) is the tradeable in-game token, used for the card market, bids, and rentals. It is product-backed: Stellarch always accepts SGC toward its own products at a fixed floor of $0.001 per 1 SGC (that is 1,000 SGC per dollar), and that guaranteed store-redemption floor is what gives SGC its value. STEL (Stellarch) is the long-term stake in the game (governance and staking); rewards are phased, so SGC is the ranked reward at launch and ranked rewards move to STEL in a later phase, with a path to convert STEL to SGC. KRED (Stellarch Kredit) is the non-tradeable internal store credit and the fiat onramp (you buy KRED with real money); it spends like SGC everywhere it is accepted, including the card market, but it is account-bound and can never be traded or transferred out.

The card market

The card market is player-run. Anyone can list a card they own for sale at a price in SGC, and anyone can buy a listed card. A small market fee applies to a sale. The market is the main way to acquire the cards you want beyond what packs give you: rarer cards, higher levels, and tradeable copies all change hands here.

Bids (standing buy orders)

Instead of waiting for a listing at your price, you can place a standing bid on a card: the price you are willing to pay, with an expiry. When a matching listing appears at or below your bid, it fills automatically, and it fills at the listing price, not your bid, so your bid is a ceiling and you never overpay. Bids settle in SGC only.

Rentals and delegations

You do not have to own a card to play it. You can rent a card from another player for a lump-sum SGC payment for a set number of days, or a player can delegate a card to you, lending it without payment. Either way you can field the borrowed card in battle as if it were yours for the duration.

Packs

Genesis card packs can be bought with SGC or KRED and opened to mint fresh cards. Each pack contains five cards, including a guaranteed rare or better. Opening packs is how new cards enter the economy, and a freshly opened card is yours to play, combine, list, or rent out.

Fair to compete

No card is ever sold as a guaranteed win. Because every player drafts from a free card pool, a modest budget can field a full, competitive team, and what you buy on the market deepens your options rather than buying the match.