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Memeland Captainz floor dropped 15% after the townhall. People selling and worried about reroll mechanics.
I went the other direction. Pulled the actual USPTO trademark documents, checked MemeStrategy's board changes, read every filing I could find.
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1/ The trademark.
@9GAG filed "THE CAPTAINZ" with the USPTO in January 2023. Serial number 97748679. Five international classes. The goods description in Class 9 reads, word for word: "digital collectibles in the nature of downloadable multimedia files in the fields of trading cards, authenticated by NFTs."
Trading cards. In the trademark filing. January 2023. The community only found out about the TCG mechanic last week. Planned from day one.
The trademark was approved September 2024. They've been filing extensions since. No Statement of Use yet. Deadline: September 2027. Memeday is June 9.
Connect those two dates.
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2/ The board.
@MemeStrategy Inc. is the publicly listed vehicle @9gagceo set up by acquiring a Hong Kong shell company in April 2025. Same core team runs 9GAG, Memeland, and MemeStrategy.
In April 2026, one month before the Captainz Reborn reveal, the board made a swap.
Out: Wesley Ng, CEO of CASETiFY. Phone cases. Physical accessories.
In: Kun Gao. Co-founder of Crunchyroll. The anime streaming platform Sony acquired for $1.175 billion. He also runs Forge, a gaming rewards platform, and co-founded GGWP, a gaming community safety company.
Merch person out. Anime and gaming person in. One month before revealing anime-quality art and a 60,000-card TCG system.
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3/ The rest of the board tells the same story.
Sandy Peng. Co-founder of Scroll, the zkEVM Layer 2. Former Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. On-chain card trading infrastructure and regulatory compliance in one seat.
Alex Lee, CIO, came from founding teams of licensed virtual asset trading platforms in Hong Kong. Kevin Kwong, CBO, ran marketing at OSL Group, a licensed exchange.
A financial infrastructure and entertainment IP board. Sitting behind what most people still call a PFP project.
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4/ 60,000 cards.
The townhall revealed 60,000 hand-drawn cards across 6 races, 9 rarity tiers, 7 character variants each. Every card is anime quality.
That's a character library. The kind of asset base you build before licensing to anime studios, game developers, or physical card manufacturers.
The reroll mechanic is a valid short-term concern. I've written about it separately.
But the floor price is pricing a PFP. The trademark, the board, and the art are pricing a franchise.
Kun Gao, Sandy Peng, Alex Lee.. I don't think 9GAG put these people on a public company board to watch a floor chart.
I think there is something so much bigger happening and @Memeland Captainz will take the grand stage very soon.
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Memeland Captainz floor dropped from 0.25 to 0.22 ETH right after the townhall. And the reason is interesting.
People are selling because of one question: if you can reroll from a single pack, why hold more than one?
It's a fair question. And the team didn't answer it clearly.
What we know so far: every Captainz NFT is now a pack. You rip the pack, you get 1 card from a pool of 60,000. You can reroll. The first rip is free.
If rerolling is unlimited and free, then yes, 1 NFT is all you need. You keep rolling until you hit something good. Multiple NFTs add zero value. Floor goes down. Simple math.
Four things could break that logic.
1/ Reroll may replace, not stack.
If each reroll replaces your current card (like re-rolling a dice, not collecting), then 1 NFT = 1 final card. Want 5 cards? Buy 5 packs. The townhall phrasing was "roll and reroll," which sounds like replacement, not accumulation.
2/ Packs are race-locked.
Human pack only gives human cards. Kong pack only gives Kong cards. Want cards across multiple races? You need packs from different races. One NFT locks you into one pool.
3/ Potions burn per draw.
Each draw lets you use up to 3 potions. Reroll? You burn another set. With only 3,700 potions across 120 wallets in the entire ecosystem, every draw attempt costs real resources. More packs = more first-draw chances without wasting potions on repeated rerolls from the same pack.
4/ "60,000 cards in the pool" may mean the pool depletes.
If cards get removed when drawn (like real booster boxes), early draws have better odds. More packs = more early draws = better shot at rares before the pool thins out. If it's probability-based and infinite, this doesn't apply. But "pool" language sounds finite.
The honest answer: we don't know yet.
The team said rerolling exists. They said ripping is free. They did not say rerolling is infinite. They did not say rerolling is free. They did not explain whether cards accumulate or replace.
Until those answers come, nobody can say if 1 pack or 10 packs is the right play. The market is pricing in the worst case.
That's usually when the opportunity is.
Memeland Captainz just showed their new art. I sat through the full townhall so you don't have to.
Short version: they're turning 9,999 pirate PFPs into a 60,000-card TCG collection. Every single card is hand-drawn, anime quality. And they're launching on Memeday, June 9.
1/ Six races. Each race gets its own characters.
- Humans have 6 base characters, 3 male and 3 female.
- Kraken, Shark, Kaiju, Alien get 2 each.
- Kong gets 1 male (Sun Wukong inspired, staff and all).
- Every character has 7 variants.
- The total pool is 60,000 unique cards.
2/ Now the mechanism.
Your NFT is now a pack. Today the metadata swapped. If you already revealed your race, you see a race-specific pack. Humans get human cards, Kongs get Kong cards. If you never revealed, you get a mystery pack (black, question mark).
Ripping is free. You pull 1 card from the 60,000 pool. 9 rarity tiers from base (white border, no effects) up to SSR.
3/ SSR is where potions come in.
300 SSRs exist in the entire 60,000 pool. 3 of those are absolute one-of-ones. SSRs are only accessible through potions. No potion, no chance at SSR.
There are 3,700 potions spread across about 120 wallets. You can mix up to 3 potions per draw. Different combos (red+blue, red+blue+clear) give different boost profiles. And starting now, potions become transferable.
A secondary potion market is about to form. If you hold potions, you're holding the only key to the rarest 0.5% of the collection.
4/ Card design
Border-based rarity like sports TCGs. Base cards have white borders with glare effects. Higher tiers get foils, special borders, character art that pops out of the card frame. Pokémon holographics meets anime illustration.
The 1/1s are poster-style pieces. Every character in the Captainz universe on one card. Pokémon-inspired layout. 3 exist in 60,000.
5/ Launch date is almost certainly June 9. Memeday. The team said "we like the number 9" and "busy June." They've updated the website, added a new Story tab with full lore, and the metadata is already live.
I've been holding through the ugly art era. This is the pivot. The art is the best I've seen from any NFT project in 2026. And the TCG layer gives collectors something to actually do with their NFTs beyond hold and hope.
The product is ready. Now it needs the market to pay attention.
.@Memeland Captainz is having a complete overhaul. 👀
New logo
New OS cover photo featuring the new art direction
New art placeholder
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