Primer

Name: Primer
Genre: Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Released: 2004-10-08
Cast: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden

Super rare card

A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

ATK · Fame: 6,989; in the top 1% of best-known films
DEF · Rating: 9,712; in the top 4% of highest-rated films

ATK comes from the number of votes the film has received on TMDb. It’s what sets the rarity. DEF comes from the audience rating, weighted so that a film with three votes can’t jump ahead. It doesn’t depend on rarity: a Common can excel at it.

Rank: 2,230^th most famous film in the catalogue
TMDb rating: 6.8 / 10 from 2,551 votes
In the game: 10,752 Super rare cards among films
Release: 8 October 2004

Your odds of drawing Primer

Standard pack1 in 190,000packs, roughly · 5 cards, free
Premium booster1 in 27,000boosters, roughly · 10 cards, 150 tickets

In a standard pack, each card has a 2.5% chance of being Super rare; there are 10,752 Super rare cards among films, and each one is equally likely to come up.

At the forge: give three Super rare cards and get another one of at least the same rarity, drawn at random.
On the market: players put their cards up for auction, for tickets.
Through trades: offer a player one of your cards for theirs.

Its market value

Never sold on the market.

As a benchmark, 66 cards of the same rarity and type have sold in 90 days, at around 70 tickets, from 1 to 481 depending on the card.

Figures as of 20 October 2026.

The film’s cards

The people and characters of Primer have their own cards in the game too.

Shane CarruthDirecting, Acting, Writing · AaronRare
David SullivanActing · AbeUncommon
Casey GoodenActing · RobertUncommon
Anand UpadhyayaActing · PhilipCommon

Also released in 2004

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