Sorare Divination Set: how to get started, and what changed

Sorare's new free Set launched on 30 October 2026. It's called Divination and runs until 6 January 2027, with a top prize of £1000 again! There are 60+ days left at the time of writing so plenty of time to climb and get lots of attempts in at the big prize.

Last Set I managed to win the £1000 on HyperGlitch with 503 points on the 480 step! So this is everything I'd want to know starting Divination, plus an honest look at what's changed. Some of it makes the game a lot harder and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

Divination fixture plannerEvery game to 6 January rated for how good each side is to stack, with expected Sorare points. Filter by club, dates and rating.

What Sorare Set is

Sorare has two main modes. Pro is the paid, collectible card game. Set is free.

If you're new to Sorare, Set is the place to start. You open packs of digital cards, build five-card lineups for real matches and climb a ladder of rewards. No wallet, no crypto, no purchase needed to play.

The ladder has six steps. Each step is a points target for one lineup, hit it and you take the reward and move up. The top two steps pay real money, £100 at step 5 and £1000 at step 6, and you can win them more than once.

Sign up and claim the new-player bonus

Sign up through an invite code and you start with a 25 Gems and 1500 Essence bonus. That's enough for a Silver pack and a Bronze pack on day one.

Sign up to Sorare Set with my invite code. Referral link, you get the 25 Gems and 1500 Essence and I earn Essence and Gems as you complete steps.

Your starter pack

Every new account gets a Divination Starter Pack. That's 10 cards with one guaranteed 4-star player, two Shiny cards, one Holo card and three players from your favourite team, so a full lineup before you've opened anything else.

You pick a league first (Premier League players, LaLiga, Bundesliga or Ligue 1) and then a club. Same advice as last Set, pick a team stacked with stars. That means Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern or PSG! Those three favourite-team cards are the start of a stack, and stacks help you get up the ladder quickly in this game.

What changed from HyperGlitch

This is the big one. Divination is a proper rebalance and the headline changes all make the top of the ladder harder.

The hard bits

• Fewer Icons from Gold packs. A Gold pack is now a 41% chance of an Icon. Last Set it was roughly 50/50.
• More Icons in the pool. LaLiga had 8 Icons last Set and has 15 now, so that 41% gets split more ways. Any one LaLiga Icon is about a 2.7% chance per Gold pack, so building a full Barcelona stack is a much harder job.
• No collection bonus. In HyperGlitch, collecting a club's players gave those cards up to 5% extra on every score. That's gone. Every card in every lineup now scores up to 5% less than it did last Set.

Do not underestimate that last one. Here are my two HyperGlitch winners with the collection bonus taken off.

My £1000 team goes from 23 points clear to scraping in by about 3. My £100 team misses by about 15. Same players, same matches, and I'd have never made it to the last step for the big win!

This stacks up lower down too, those 'easy' fixtures to get through steps 3 and 4 are now much more difficult too so expect fewer attempts at the money this time around!

The new bits

• The 100 Club. This time it's permanent and there's a tweak. Instead of 10 Gems, every player in your lineup who scores 100 earns you a free Silver pack.
• Platinum packs. A new pack mixing every league, with special draws that guarantee a Shiny or a Holo card. 60 Gems, with better Icon odds too.
• Special packs. We've seen Shiny+ Silver packs where every card is Shiny or better (so at least +5%) for 15 Gems instead of 10. Also day-specific Platinum packs for 75 Gems. These are probably going to be much more frequent this set.

What carried over

Your unspent Gems came with you. Your HyperGlitch Essence and cards didn't, the old cards stay in your collection but you can't use them in Divination lineups. If you played last Set you'll have had a welcome gift too, 1,000 Essence for every 10% of your old collection, 10 Gems on top at 70% or more, and some extra Gems depending on how many you spent.

My take

It's a big rebalance, and some of it was probably needed. But it looks like it could be too much. Spend matters more than it did and free to play is harder, if not impossible. You have to be a lot more specific about which teams you collect and when you play them.

How a step works

• A full lineup is five cards. One goalkeeper, one defender, one midfielder, one forward and one extra outfield player. One of them is your captain and gets a 50% score bonus.
• Each player scores from 0 to 100 from their real match, and the total plus bonuses is your score. If you don't know how that score is built, read how Sorare scoring works first.
• Each step has four hearts and you can have up to four teams in a step at once. A team that misses costs a heart.
• The first team over the target wins the step. Any of your other teams still open are voided and their cards free up, so extra teams are free insurance. Fill all four slots when you can!
• A card can only be in one team. Teams stay editable until kick-off and each card locks at its own game's kick-off.
• A step closes about two hours after kick-off, once the final whistle and the 5 minute score check are done. If you want to go straight into the next step the same day, pick games that kick off at least two and a quarter hours after the ones you're relying on.

To find the games worth a team I built a Divination fixture planner. It's every fixture to 6 January with an SSP Rating and expected points for both sides, searchable by club.

The ladder and where the money is

Cash steps pay in your account currency (£100 for GBP accounts, 100 euros or dollars elsewhere). You'll need a Cash Wallet on your account, otherwise they pay in ETH or SOL.

Essence, Gems and packs

Essence is the free currency. You earn it from daily missions, collection missions, the first two steps of the ladder and inviting friends.

Gems are the paid currency, but you can earn them too. Steps 3 and 4 pay them every time you pass, and so do the harder missions and referrals.

The four daily missions are back too. Open the Daily Pack, buy a pack, play the Decisive Player Picker and collect a 3-star player. Between them they pay 1,500 Essence and a pack. The daily routine covers the order I do them in.

Card editions

Editions are not just cosmetic. Each one adds a scoring bonus to the card, and with the collection bonus gone they're the only boost you get besides the captain.

Standard 0%, Shiny 5%, Holo 10%, Shiny Four Suits 15%, Holo Eclipse 20%, Legendary 30%. For instance a Legendary copy of a 60-point score gets an 18-point bonus and scores 78.

How I won the £1000, and what still works

My £1000 team was three Bayern players from a 6-1 win (Kim, Olise as captain and Kimmich, who scored 100), plus Rodri on 90 and Radu in goal. A few things in that team are still the whole game in Divination.

1. A stack in a game you expect to be a rout. Three Bayern players in a 6-1 is where most of the points came from. Every big Set win you see posted on X is a Barcelona, Bayern, Real Madrid or PSG stack. They're still the main smashers this Set.
2. Captain the player most likely to be decisive. Olise as captain on 94 was worth 47 points on his own. Goals and assists are where the big scores come from. This time you pretty much need a 100 captain to have a chance.
3. Edition bonuses on top. Around 46 of my 503 came from editions and the old collection bonus. In Divination the editions have to do all of that work. You will need some editions in your lineup.
4. Only enter when the lineups are out. One player not starting ends the attempt. Do your best to minimise starting risk, players get random DNPs all the time.
5. Patience. Lives are going to be more precious this time around, with the changes, getting up the ladder is harder, so your shots at the money will decrease too. Treat lives at step 3/4 with more value and be more patient than you were in the last set.

Where to put your effort

If you're spending

My top tip, buy Live Today Silver packs on Champions League nights, or any day when only a few teams are playing. The Live Today pool is only that day's fixtures, so on a Champions League night it's a handful of elite clubs. A random league Silver can hand you a relegation-battle defender as its best card, whereas a Live Today Silver on the right night is far more likely to give you someone you can actually use.

The Shiny+ Silver packs are worth a look as well. Five extra Gems for a guaranteed +5% on every card is the closest thing to getting the collection bonus back. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw more of these as the set progresses, especially with the backlash.

If you're free to play

It's harder now but not impossible. Pick one or two big clubs and collect them rather than spreading your Essence thin. Use Live Today Bronze on small match days for the same reason as above. Farm the Gems from steps 3 and 4 every time you pass them, and save them for Gold or Shiny+ packs once you know exactly which club you're building.

60 days left, and the Prem at Christmas

There's still 60+ days to play so plenty of time to win big. Keep an eye on the end of the Set though. The Premier League plays through Boxing Day and New Year while the Bundesliga stops completely for its winter break, so English players will be some of the only cards with games in that last fortnight. Build an English stack before Christmas and you'll be able to play through to the new year.

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