Futera Unique 2011

This will be FUTERA Month. Futera is a trading card company that produces one of the nicest cards. They have been producing Football cards for some years now and the Futera World Football Online game was created to interface with the cards. It started a couple of years ago when the Futera Series 1 was released and I did get a few packs when it was first released but they were expensive I think $15 a pack each or something like that. I signed up for the game as well but never really got round to playing it. However last year when I was in Hong Kong, I came across the Futera Unique 2011 series. They are premium quality cards with autographs and match worn jersey memorabilia on them.

Each case has 12 boxes, each box has 6 packs and in each pack you get about 20 to 24 cards (depends on the chase cards as some are thicker) plus a pack of Futera Series 2. In each box you are guaranteed of 1 Auto, 2 Gold and 3 Memo cards (one in each of the 6 packs).

Boxes
Packs

There are 200 base cards to collect and there is what is called Ruby Parallel cards which are basically the same base cards except that they have red foil lettering. There are about 3 to 4 ruby cards in each pack. These cards don't have any online game codes.

Base Cards

I really like the Memorabilia cards and it was here that my collecting interest started. I started to collect all the Memo cards there were 32 in total. Split between 16 Gold Memo (limited to 450) and 16 Silver Memo (limited to 299) Some of the memo's have not just single colour swatches but multi-colour ones and these go for a lot of money especially those that are very rare like with the BPL logo on them. It took me about 6 months to collect the entire set. When I was in Hong Kong I bought a few packs and managed to get David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo Memo's which made it a little easier as these 2 together with Lionel Messi are the 3 most expensive cards. Each card has an online game code which you can use in the game. I’ll try to post up the Memo pics later as I don’t have once around at the moment.

The Gold cards are just gold coloured cards and they come with game codes. There are 25 to collect and in the beginning I did not really like it but in recent months it has grown on me and since I got quite a few of it already I decided to get the set of 25 as well. Just got the last card I need a few days ago on ebay - Steven Gerrard. These are each limited to 295.

GOLD cards

The autographs are the most expensive of the lot and they come in various designs and numbers there are the 1of1, of5, of15, of35, of50 and of75 versions and a player can have 2 different sets. Each has a piece of the players autograph and comes with a game code. I collected just 1 each of any Liverpool player (past or present) I could find. The 2 most expensive ones in my collection were Steven Gerrad and Fernando Torres which I got for over $100+ each. I have the following autographs in my collection.
Maxi Rodriguez - of 30
Javier Mascherano - of 35
Jamie Carragher - of 35
Martin Skrtel - of 50
Ryan Babel - of 50
Steven Gerrard - of 50
Lucas Leiva - of 50
Raul Meireles - of 50
Dirk Kuyt - of 50
Fernando Torres - of 50
Peter Crouch - of 50
Jose Reina - of 50

If anyone has other Autographs and want to sell them do let me know. All my other spare Gold, Auto, Memo, Ruby and Base cards I am currently selling them or trading them away.

Presently I am looking to get some Base cards and Ruby cards for my Collection. Anyone has them for trade drop me a line. Have spare Base and Ruby to trade.