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In today’s edition:

• I’m excited for this drop tomorrow

• Top 25

• 4 new drops

Links for the Top 25 drops are HERE.

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And for those curatooors out there, you can get free NFTs just by finding drops that end up on the Mint or Watch list.

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I’m excited for this drop tomorrow

Here’s a fun game you can play right now, assuming you’re reading this from a screen and not laminated, decorated parchment by candlelight (typically my recommended format).  

Head over to Art Blocks and click through to Trichro-matic, the new AB Curated collection by Mount Vitruvious (Anthony Hiley-Mann) that mints tomorrow. 

Then scroll down until you see the listed “algorithmic possibilities”, pick your favorite, and make it full screen. 

Spend a few minutes here. 

As you move from one shape to another, start thinking about the layered depth. Decide for yourself if each new shape you encounter is in the foreground or the background, if it’s facing in or out, where the peaks and valleys are, etc. 

Double the fun if you can have someone else do it with you and compare. 

At times you might notice your perspective shifting back and forth, almost as if dealing with one of those classic duck/rabbit optical illusions.

This challenging game of depth perception is exactly what MV is looking to create with Trichro-matic:

Congratulations, you have now been promoted to blue belt in Advanced Looking. 

Not our first rodeo 

We highlighted an MV collection once before – Renders Game.  

It was back in February, during our very first week writing Mint or Skip. 

I was a young lad, full of energy, not realizing we were about to hit one of the slowest periods of jpeg connoisseurship in years (but I digress). 

Renders Game, MV’s first Art Blocks drop, ended up being a hit just like his prior Ethereum collection Mind the Gap. 

Now with two successful drops on Ethereum in the last couple of years, MV is releasing Trichro-matic as a heavy hitter, and the collector buzz we’re seeing reflects that. 

Bottom line 

This might be my favorite MV drop to date – it was truly difficult to find an output I didn’t like. 

Mint Details: 

• Date: 1 PM ET on 11/7 (tomorrow)

• Price: Dutch Auction starting at 3 ETH → 0.12 ETH 

• Supply: 600 NFTs 

• Bonus: prints are available for NFT holders

✨ Top 25 & Favorite 🔥

NOTE: These drops are lightly curated. Our only requirement is that they have recognizable founders. As usual, DYOR. To learn more go here.

Watcher's Ring

It’s been over a year since the initial playtest and almost 2 years since the first announcement of the Forgotten Runes Wizard’s Cult’s game, the Runiverse. But we’re now on the brink of a new playtest with an added NFT drop.

While I won’t delve into the game (49-page whitepaper here), tomorrow’s drop of 700 in-game rings does sound appealing. They’ll grant benefits like an increased chance to earn land during this limited 1-week playtest and others when the full game releases in Q2 2024.

✨ Added to Top 25 ✨

ClickCreate November Drops: At Night

An all-woman cast graces the ClickCreate mint halls this month as the platform recruits popular artist Cath Simard to curate At Night.

Twilight and teamwork are the themes this month, as every release is a collaboration between two artists. This makes it the biggest ClickCreate roster yet, including names you might already know, like Ayla El-Moussa and postwook.

As usual, SubPass holders get first dibs on everything.

Nitto ATP Finals Poster by Honor Titus

The ATP Tour (pro tennis’s top echelon) joins the ranks of Casio, 7-Eleven, Mastercard, etc as the latest legacy brand to drop an NFT collection on Polygon.

This digital + physical poster collaboration from Honor Titus and art platform Artchild will commemorate the season-end finals.

One for fans of the sport or the artist.

Data Drifts by ChainVirus

Pseudonymous artist ChainVirus looks to carry the momentum of last month’s Broken Algorithms sellout into another generative glitch art creation, Data Drifts.

This 269-supply drop features evolved algorithms and serves as an access pass for future on-chain releases from the artist (similar to Broken Algorithms, which grants its holders a free claim for this mint).

If you liked the first one, you’ll probably like this one too.