Match Factory! Tales Collection: How to Complete Card Sets

To complete the Tales Collection in Match Factory!, you must collect every unique card across all themed album sets before the seasonal timer expires. Finishing individual set pages awards coins and consumable boosters, while completing every set in the album clears round one, unlocks the grand jackpot prize, and resets the album for a higher-yield second prestige round.

How the Tales Collection Event Works

The Tales Collection is a recurring, limited-time album event. The album contains multiple thematic chapters, each requiring a specific assortment of cards rated from one to five stars.

Card Rarities: One-star and two-star cards drop frequently from basic reward packs. Four-star and five-star cards appear predominantly in specialized reward chests, milestone prizes, and high-placement tournament rewards.
Page Rewards: Completing an individual chapter page immediately grants a payout consisting of coins and helpful in-game items.
Album Completion: Assembling every card across all pages completes the active round. This grants the grand jackpot and resets your album pages to empty, enabling you to play through a second round with larger reward pools.

Because card packs award cards at random, you will encounter frequent duplicates as your album fills up. Efficient progression relies on stacking pack-earning opportunities and redirecting duplicate cards toward guaranteed missing slots.

How to Farm Tales Card Packs Efficiently

Packs come from standard level clears and concurrent side events. Stacking these reward tracks minimizes the number of levels you must clear to assemble your album:

Clear Milestone Stages: Standard levels award basic card envelopes, but Hard, Super Hard, and Ultra Hard levels provide higher-tier packs upon completion.
Maintain Win Streaks: Streak mini-games escalate your clear rewards for beating levels on the first attempt. Keeping an active streak awards supplemental bonus chests containing event packs.
Compete in Leaderboard Tournaments: Placing in the top brackets of solo races and team competitions is the most reliable way to secure packs containing guaranteed four-star and five-star cards.
Open Star Chests: Earning stars through regular board clears fills your recurring star chest meter, supplying steady bonus packs alongside standard item drops.

Whenever possible, clear levels when a streak event and a tournament overlap. A single victory will simultaneously advance your stage progress, maintain your streak multiplier, and register points on the event leaderboard.

Card Types and Vault Strategy

Duplicate cards do not go to waste; they convert into stars based on their rarity tier and accumulate in the duplicate vault.

Card Resource	Primary Function	Recommended Usage
Common Packs (1–2 Stars)	Provide base cards and build initial sets	Farm during early stages to generate duplicate vault stars
Rare Packs (3–5 Stars)	Drop high-rarity, hard-to-find cards	Target via tournament top ranks and streak milestones
Wild / Joker Cards	Instantly fills any chosen missing slot	Save exclusively for missing 5-star cards on near-finished sets
Duplicate Vault	Converts duplicate stars into reward chests	Hoard stars for the highest chest tier to guarantee missing cards

Managing Duplicate Vault Stars

Resist the urge to open the lowest-tier duplicate chests. Low-tier chests cost fewer stars but yield common packs with high duplicate probabilities, prolonging late-stage bottlenecks. Save your duplicate stars until you can afford the highest vault threshold, which guarantees unowned cards or top-rarity packs.

Use Wild cards strictly as finishers. If an event awards a Wild card, hold it until a high-tier set is missing only a single five-star card to claim the chapter reward immediately.

Preparing for Round Two

Clearing round one resets your card collection so you can complete the album a second time for enhanced rewards.

Card Wipe: All collected cards disappear upon clearing round one, requiring you to collect every set again. Unlocked boosters, coins, and cosmetic rewards remain in your inventory.
Pre-Reset Check: Before slotting the final card to complete round one, review your duplicate bank. If your stars are close to the maximum vault threshold, earn the remaining points and open the chest first to collect its resources before triggering the album reset.
Pacing: Check the remaining event duration before committing heavy boosters to round two. If time is short, conserve your power-ups—such as Springs, Fans, and Vacuums—for the start of the next seasonal cycle rather than depleting resources on an incomplete second run.