About

A pack-opening business that tells you what's inside before you pay.

We record every booster the day it lands in the vault. The video is the listing. When you buy, the cards in the recording are the cards we ship. No edits, no swaps, no second draws.

Why

The pack you bought wasn't always the pack you opened.

For decades, buying a sealed booster has been a coin flip wrapped in foil. The card you really wanted lived in the next pack over, or three boxes back, or somewhere in a warehouse that re-shrinks weighed product and resells it as fresh.

We started cartapacks because the format that exists works for sellers — and only for sellers. The buyer carries every risk: weighed packs, swapped cards, opened-and-resealed inventory, the long tail of returns nobody resolves. The "thrill of the unknown" is real, but it's a different thrill if you know the unknown was honest in the first place.

Our answer: open the pack on camera, the day it lands here, before anyone buys it. The video becomes the listing. You're not gambling on what we might pull — you're choosing a specific opening that already happened, with the cards laid out for you to see.

Principles

Three commitments. Same three, every pack.

Each maps to a thing the format we replaced was bad at. We're not solving every problem in the hobby. We're solving these.

Source

Sealed boxes only.

We buy whole booster boxes from authorised distributors and direct from local game stores. Every pack inside the box gets opened in one sitting, on camera. We never source loose packs.

Cuts off resealed and weighed-pack supply at the door.
Record

One take, no edits.

The video starts on the sealed pack and ends with every card laid out. 1080p, single shot, no cuts. We can't quietly skip a flat pack or re-record a hot one — the camera catches the whole sitting or none of it.

Removes "the algorithm decides what gets posted" from the equation.
Ship

No swaps, ever.

Each pack and its pulls share a code from the recording desk to your mailbox. Codes get scanned in and out of the vault. The cards on screen are the cards in the envelope. If they aren't, the system flags it.

Closes the gap between "what you watched" and "what arrives".
How we operate

From the loading dock to your mailbox.

Four stages. Same four, every box that comes through.

  1. 01 · Source Verify the seal Box arrives, weight and shrink-wrap are checked against the distributor manifest. Anything off-spec gets returned, not opened.
  2. 02 · Record Camera, one take, code stamped Every pack in the box gets opened in one sitting at the recording desk. Each pack and its cards share a code that gets stamped before either leaves the table.
  3. 03 · Vault Code-scanned, climate-stable Cards go into a sleeved binder under their pack code. Scans in and out so the system can refuse to ship a mismatched pull.
  4. 04 · Ship Stamp checked twice When you trigger shipping, the cards leave the vault under the same code. The packing slip prints the code; the courier label is generated last.
Where

Hong Kong, with a mailbox in every market.

The recording desk and the vault both sit in Wan Chai. Hong Kong's logistics network ships globally inside two business days, which is why we build the vault here rather than next to the customer.

Customs paperwork lists the real declared value. EU and UK buyers usually see VAT applied at delivery; the courier collects it. We don't add invisible duties at checkout.

Office & vault
Carta International Limited Unit B, 11/F, 23 Thomson Road Wan Chai, Hong Kong SAR
See it run

Pick a pack and watch.

The shortest version of an explanation is the recording itself. Browse the catalog — every pack listed already has its video.

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