The Founding Campaign

Perth, Western Australia → 2026

Perthborn.Communitybuilt.

BLACK CAT is a new Australian TCG accessories brand being built from the ground up with players, collectors, sellers and local game stores — and the community is invited to help fund the first production run.

Premium TCG gear without the premium priceSleevesDeck boxesBindersPlaymatsCard protectionIn developmentPremium TCG gear without the premium priceSleevesDeck boxesBindersPlaymatsCard protectionIn development

Australiadoesn'tneedanothergiantTCGbrand.Sowe'rebuildingasmallone.

BLACK CAT is independent, bootstrapped and being built out in the open. No investor deck, no warehouse full of stock, no pretending we're bigger than we are. Just good gear, sensible prices, and the people who use it helping decide what we make.

Read our story
The four pillars
01

Perth born

BLACK CAT starts in Perth, Western Australia. Not a generic 'Australian owned' sticker — an actual home town, an actual local scene, and a plan that grows outward: Perth → WA → Australia.

  • Perth
  • WA
  • Australia
02

Community built

Players, collectors, sellers, creators and local game stores get a real say in what we make: prototype feedback, colour votes, product votes, limited release votes and the BLACK CAT Test Crew.

  • Test Crew
  • Voting
  • Feedback
03

Fairly priced

Premium where it matters — materials, protection, finish. No premium tax, no fake sale cycle, no pretending a discount is a personality.

  • Fair pricing
  • No fake sales
  • Premium where it counts
04

Challenger mentality

We're new, small, independent and bootstrapped. We think those are strengths. You're finding us early — that's the good bit.

  • Independent
  • Bootstrapped
  • Early
Who BLACK CAT is for

Whichcatareyou?

Player / Collector

Sleeves that shuffle properly, deck boxes that survive a backpack, binders that don't chew your cards. Fair prices, no gimmicks, and a direct line to tell us what's wrong with something before it ships.

  • /Everyday essentials first
  • /Fair, stable pricing
  • /Product + colour voting
Products preview

Thefirstlitter

Okay, maybe we're still workshopping that name.

IN DEVELOPMENT
01

Sleeves

Placeholder silhouette

PROTOTYPING
02

Deck Boxes

Placeholder silhouette

PROTOTYPING
03

Binders

Placeholder silhouette

RESEARCHING
04

Playmats

Placeholder silhouette

RESEARCHING
05

Card Protection

Placeholder silhouette

RESEARCHING

We're deliberately starting with the essentials rather than launching 100 products nobody asked for.

Explore the product plan

Wedon'twantyoutotrustourproducts.Wewantyoutotestthem.

The BLACK CAT Test Crew is a group of Australian players, collectors, sellers and stores who receive prototypes and give us honest feedback before anything goes into major production. If something shuffles badly or a hinge feels cheap, we want to hear it before 5,000 units exist.

  • Shuffle feel
  • Durability
  • Protection
  • Fit
  • Materials
  • Packaging
  • Value
The campaignThe BLACK CAT Founding Campaign

WecouldbuildBLACKCATbehindcloseddoors.We'dratherbuilditwithyou.

Your support helps put the first production run into motion. Your feedback helps decide what comes next. And if you're one of the people who helps BLACK CAT get started, we want that to mean something long after the Founding Campaign ends.

COMING SOONOpening soon

$0

raised of $100,000 founding goal

0

founders

TBC

days remaining

Become a Founder

Preview figures only — the campaign has not opened for payments, so nothing here is a real fundraising result.

From $50

Founding Supporter

VIP from $500

Silver VIP included

Gold from $2,500

Gold VIP included

Tier 01PROPOSED

The Supporter

$50 AUD

Placeholder pledge level

Founding Supporter — no VIP card

Pledge $500+ to unlock Silver VIP for life

For people who want to help BLACK CAT get started.

Designed forEveryday TCG players and collectors

Retail value — TBC

Estimated delivery — TBC

Availability — open under the current plan

Every cat
starts somewhere.

Tier 04PROPOSED

The Silver Founder

$500 AUD

Placeholder pledge level

Silver VIP included

Pledge $2,500+ to unlock Gold VIP

The first BLACK CAT VIP tier.

Designed forSerious collectors, high-volume players, card sellers, breakers, small resellers

Retail value — TBC

Estimated delivery — TBC

Availability — open under the current plan

You helped us get started.
We'll remember that.

Tier 06PROPOSED

The Gold Founding Stockist

$2,500 AUD

Placeholder pledge level

Gold VIP included

The first GOLD VIP tier — built for stores.

Designed forLocal game stores, TCG retailers, larger sellers, approved resellers

Retail value — TBC

Estimated delivery — TBC

Availability — open under the current plan

Founding Campaign exclusivePLANNED

Backearly.Getlookedafterlongafterlaunch.

Founding tiers from $500 include a physical BLACK CAT VIP card — Silver or Gold — with a lifetime retail discount and early access to future drops. Founding member. Forever.

BLACK CAT

Silver VIP

10% retail benefit

Founding member

Lifetime member

BC-0000

Placeholder card artwork — member number assigned at fulfilment

BLACK CAT

Gold VIP

15% retail benefit

Founding member

Lifetime member

BC-0000

Placeholder card artwork — member number assigned at fulfilment

Growth

Start local.
Earn trust.
Grow from there.

  1. PerthLocal stores, local events, local feedback.
  2. WARegional stores and the wider WA scene.
  3. AustraliaNational stockists and online, once we've earned it.
Community, so far

0 / TBC

Founding members

0 / TBC

Testers

0 / TBC

Founding stores

0 / 8

States represented

These numbers start at zero on purpose. They'll become live figures once the Founding Crew opens properly.

You'reearly.

That's kind of the point.

BLACK CAT is still being built. Join now and you'll be part of the group helping shape what comes next.