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A darkened event hall seen from among silhouetted spectators, facing a large LED wall that shows a glowing cyan trading-card battlefield grid with one coral marker at its centre
Founding pilotfounder-operated

Turn one card night into a week of content

A marker-assisted camera and operator turn your physical matches into a live digital battlefield with shareable, verifiable replay links

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How it stays honest
  • Operator-confirmed

    A human commits every action — nothing is auto-decided.

  • On-device camera

    Marker reading stays local. No frame leaves the room.

  • Hash-verified replays

    Rebuilt from an append-only, tamper-evident event log.

  • Challenge loop

    Any replay can spawn a fresh private room to rematch.

Market context · 2026
$7.6B+

Global trading-card game market, growing 5–10% a year, with independent publishers sustaining the niche through organized play. That is the room CardStage runs in — context, not a claim about it.

Why it matters

The match ends.The moment shouldn't.

A great night at the table is invisible the second the cards are packed away. CardStage is built to keep it — live while it happens, and shareable long after.

  • Filming and editing one event night costs more than the event itself

  • Your best matches vanish the moment the table is packed up

  • Fans who missed the event have nothing to watch, click, or share

The pipeline

One night on the table, three ways to keep it.

Capture assists, the operator confirms, and the log makes it verifiable. Nothing about your physical game has to change.

Line-art of a trading card inside a four-corner registration frame with a cyan scan reticle and a single coral operator-confirmed check
01Capture · Confirm

Capture assists. The operator decides.

A fixed phone camera reads the markers on your sleeves and printed playmat. Every proposed play, attack, and knockout waits for the operator to confirm before it commits — the physical cards and rules stay the source of truth.

MARKER-ASSISTED · MANUAL FALLBACK ALWAYS ON
Line-art of a tidy two-row 2D card battlefield with one coral live card and tally pulse inside a cyan reticle frame, the synchronized spectator display
02Broadcast

A battlefield spectators can actually follow.

Confirmed actions animate the instant they commit onto a synchronized 2D arena — turn order, zones, damage, knockouts — joined from a short display code and rendered read-only. The room three feet from the table finally sees the game.

DISPLAY CODE · READ-ONLY · REDUCED-MOTION READY
Line-art of a horizontal hash-chain of three data blocks linked in cyan with one coral verified seal and a branch to a new block, verifiable replay and challenge
03Verify · Replay · Challenge

Every replay is rebuilt from the log.

Each match is an append-only, hash-chained event log. Replays are reconstructed from that log behind an expiring, revocable link — so what fans watch is exactly what was confirmed. Any viewer can spin up a fresh private room and challenge.

HASH-CHAINED · EXPIRING LINK · CHALLENGE LOOP
The founding pilot

Book it for your next event.

One founder-operated showcase produces a live spectator display, a shareable replay link for every completed match, and an engagement report within 72 hours

  • One founder-operated showcase at your event — set-up, calibration, and live operation handled for you.
  • A synchronized spectator display, plus a replay link for every completed match.
  • An aggregate engagement report within 72 hours — matches, replay opens, challenge starts, CTA clicks — honestly counted, test traffic excluded.
  • $1,500 total. A $750 deposit reserves your slot; the balance is due before the event. Invoiced off-platform — never collected here.

Founding-pilot pricing covers one publisher slot in the next 90-day window; your next scheduled event is the cheapest time to test it

See what one night produces$1,500 · one-time · $750 deposit
A calm empty perspective playmat grid with cyan corner brackets and one dim dormant coral tally dot at center, awaiting the first committed action
Awaiting your first committed action
CardStage Zero

A marker-assisted presentation companion for independent trading-card publishers. Captured, operator-confirmed, and broadcast live — verifiably.

One slot at a time

The founder runs your event end to end. $1,500 total, $750 reserves the date.

See what one night produces
Pre-pilot · direct outreach to independent TCG publishers · no payment collected in-product© 2026 CardStage Zero