Steam Trading Cards are virtual cards earned by playing games on Steam that can be combined into game badges.

Collect cards

Play any of the participating Trading Cards games to get trading cards. Up to half the card set is dropped through game play, the other half is earned through your collecting prowess.

Craft game badges

Once you've collected a set of cards you can craft them into a game badge. Like the current badges, they are tied to your account and are shown on your profile. Unlike the current badges, crafting games badges earns you tradable items like emoticons, profile backgrounds, and coupons. Level up your badge by collecting the set again and earning more items.

Level up

All badges now have XP which contributes to your Steam Level, a summary of your badge collection. You can view someone's Steam Level by hovering over their avatar. Leveling up earns you non-tradable items like profile showcases, extra friends list slots, and more.

Visit the update page for more details. You can discuss trading cards in this group's General Discussions Forum, or look for other collectors to trade with in the Trading Forum.

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RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Summer Sale 2019 Event

June 18, 2019 - al | 839 Comments

The Steam Summer sale is just around the corner! We're going to try something different with the event this year. While there will still be an event and rewards, we won't be featuring special trading cards, or any mysterious cards in the lead-up to the sale. Keep your eye out for more details when the sale launches, it should be a fun event.

Badge crafting and inventory performance changes

February 28, 2019 - al | 214 Comments

We've made some changes to badge crafting and improvements to inventory page performance. Here's what's changed:

Sale badges remain craftable after cards expire, provided you had enough cards in your inventory when the cards expired. If you forgot to craft at the end of a past sale, now's your chance!
When crafting a badge, you can now craft multiple levels at once.
The mobile view of the inventory page should load much faster.
The find-as-you-type filter for inventory should perform better.

There are some more changes for viewing very large inventories (more than one thousand items):

In general large inventories should load much faster when first visiting the inventory page.
Results for the find-as-you-type filter should appear immediately with more results appearing as inventory items load in the background.
When turning items into gems or selling items on the market, instead of automatically reloading, the used items will be grayed out. When you're done, there's a button to refresh the inventory with the results. This makes it a bit faster when turning multiple items in to gems.

Some other nitty-gritty details:

Crafting badges from past sales won't drop coupons, sale cards for other sales, or any of the sale-specific items they dropped during the sale (like Salien items).
Crafting multiple levels at a time is limited to 100 at a time. When crafting more than 5 levels at a time, the animation will only show 5 sets of cards. The results screen will still show all the items obtained.