how do you get foils?

[1dew1]

do they drop rarely?

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A Valve employee answered that question a little more than 4 years ago:

Originally posted by the gish:

the chance is 1 in 100 and foils can come from any drop

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/tradingcards/discussions/1/864969482042344380/#c864969482044786566

So, yes, foils are rare drops. Each card you get as a drop has a 1% chance of being a foil card.

You can get cards dropped when playing a non-f2p game if you haven't yet received half of the cards as drops, and you can get 3 cards from opening booster packs.

During the big sales when there is a sale badge to craft, you can get sale cards from crafting game badges, from doing the task that gives free sales cards (lately that has been from exploring your discovery queue in the Steam Store), and from buying games from Steam during the sale (about 1 sale card per $10 USD spent in the store).

If there is a particular foil badge you want to craft, you can buy the foil cards in the Community Market. Just search for the game name + foil to find the foil cards for that game.

[Gagarin-ace]

foils is sh-t, u cant sell them for equel price or fair trade
i hate foils
i had first foil drop after 300 cards, but few times was 2 foils from 2 games i idle in same time

[Al1enzB3h]

Originally posted by Gagarin-ace:

foils is sh-t, u cant sell them for equel price or fair trade
i hate foils
i had first foil drop after 300 cards, but few times was 2 foils from 2 games i idle in same time

i would like to have some