Wax Wars
Real records · real rarity · real lore

Your crate
is your deck

Photograph the vinyl you actually own. It becomes a card whose power is set by how few people on Earth hold that exact pressing. Then you battle on genre, where the type chart is written by real music history.

The moat

A type chart written by history

Every edge cites the real event or lineage behind it. Live from the database.

GrungeHair MetalSuper ×2.0
Nevermind (1991) ended the Sunset Strip hair-metal era almost overnight.
PunkDiscoSuper ×2.0
Disco Demolition Night — Comiskey Park, July 12, 1979. Crates of disco were detonated between games; the backlash gutted disco's mainstream inside a year.
Hip-HopSoulDrain ×1.5
Soul and funk breaks are the sampled DNA of hip-hop — it drains what it was built from.
Hip-HopDiscoDrain ×1.5
Hip-hop was born in the Bronx from DJs breaking and looping disco and funk records — it absorbs their power.
New WaveDiscoSuper ×1.5
Synth-driven new wave filled the airtime disco left behind as it collapsed in the early '80s.
PunkProg RockSuper ×1.5
Punk was a direct revolt against prog's side-long, over-produced excess.
Teen-PopGrungeSuper ×1.5
The late-'90s TRL pop wave buried the grunge sound commercially.
RockProg RockSuper ×1.3
Straight-ahead rock always pulled listeners back from prog's excess.
SoulHip-HopResist ×0.8
Hip-hop reveres its soul roots; soul takes reduced damage from its own descendants.
ReggaePunkAlly — resists
The Clash and the 2-Tone movement — cross-pollination, not conflict. These two shield each other.