Are you Creyzie?
CREYZIES
On 20.04.2022 all mfers holders received an airdrop and received 1 creyzie for each mfer they were holding. Creyzies were made by the artist “RΞY”, who has the twitter handle @reylarsdam. Creyzies are a companion collection of mfers and are in the public domain as stated on opensea. Why might this airdrop be special? Well, usually NFT collection creators airdrop a second wave with slightly different art, like the mutants that were airdropped by BAYC. Usually those airdrops reach a certain % of the original collections floor price and stay at a specific price range. Why? Well, they are not the og collection and often do not benefit from additional airdrops or don’t benefit as much from additional airdrops as the og collection and the same artists made them. Sometimes the airdrops have a bigger size than the og collection and therefore the sky for an airdrop is usually a healthy % of the floor price of the og collection, but nothing higher.
Why might Creyzies be different in comparison to airdrops of other collections? Sartoshi did not make them, but collaborated with RΞY, who has its own fanbase and is a known artist in the NFT space. Therefore Creyzies are not a sub creation of the og collection, but as the text of opensea states a companion collection.
Creyzies rarity guide by @PhariseesHouse
Okay, sit tight fellow and future mfers, this will be a wild ride. “Why?” Well on the surface both collections (mfers and creyzies) look kinda equal, when you look at the properties and traits, because the naming is identical, but they are not. “What is similar?” The dev team and the creation and randomizing process. It is like Rey created one design for every attribute that mfers have and the same combination of layers were used for Creyzies, which were also used for mfers. “What does that mean?” Creyzies with pilot helmets have no headphones, that means that the layer configurations of the randomizing process were identical. These layer configurations determine that aliens always have an alien background and that no creyzie with a top hat exists that also has a mohawk.
As far as I understand the mfers collection and the creyzies collection used some kind of randomizer to create the different images during the mint and the probabilities determined a likely range of the population of a trait. Therefore different numbers for traits can exist for both collections. There might be less red mohawks in the creyzie collection or more than in the mfer collection, depending on the outcome of the randomizing process, but both collections will have in common that “red” is the rarest color way for mohawks. (relative rarities were identical premint, absolute rarities were different post mint)
What is different?
The color ways. What is a color way? It usually is a coloring of a frame that was created. When you look at the different knits of creyzies, which are supposed to be different color ways for the same frame, than you will see, that they have different frames! “Why is that so special?” Think about it. Why are knits not as appreciated as many other traits of the mfers collection even though each knit color way has around 1% rarity? It is because they look pretty alike, it is hard to say that the black and grey knit looks fire, while the blue and white knit looks equal, just with different colors. This is one part of the truth, the second part is that no color way of the knits is substantially rarer than the others (a good example for a super rare color way is the red mohawk). My argument is, that knits and other color ways could be a different story for creyzies, because color ways of the mfers collection often have a creyzie counterpart with a unique frame. Unique frames with unique coloring might attract hype traits like “Hoodies”. Therefore relative rarities become absolute rarities and everything gets super wild, when one tries to understand the rarity concept. As I described in the mfers rarity guide hoodies are very appreciated by the community and have a much higher floor price than cowboy hats even though their rarities are almost equal.
The main focus is clearly set on the differences! I will try to especially point out, when color ways received more unique frames and where hype potential might be hidden.
Creyzies 1/1
Creyzies 1o1s are similiar to their mfers counterparts. Except the “glyph” one, all feature a chair and are unique drawings with a specific theme. Unlike in the mfers collection there are no monitors / computers / dads / speech bubbles to be seen.
1/1 Creyzie - Theme: punk
Random Creyzie
Creyzies types
Like stated before, creyzies follow the same rarity structure as mfers and have the same types, they just look different.
Alien Creyzie
Ape Creyzie
Zombie Creyzie
Charcoal Creyzie
Plain Creyzie
Properties - Hat over headphones
The same layer structure was used for both collections, therefore creyzies also have mandatory and not mandatory traits with the exception of pilot helmet creyzies, who have no headphones.
Creyzie Hoodie
Creyzie Cowboy hat
Creyzie Pilot helmet
Creyzie Top hat
Short hair
And it already starts to get crazy. The frame for the mohawks color ways is bigger than for the messy color ways but every color way of these two attribute categories has its own frames and unique color ways.
Mohawk Black
Mohawk Yellow
Mohawk Blue
Mohawk Green
Mohawk Pink
Mohawk Purple
Mohawk Red
Messy Black
Messy Red
Messy Yellow
Messy Purple
Color ways of traits of the property short hair are a good example of frame variety, but not the best. I believe it becomes clearer for you where I am coming from. If you want to have a creyzie that has a cat like thing on his head, your only option is the short hair trait “messy red”. Having a creyzie that’s hair is literally fire is not bad either, but for both options you have to pick exact one and only one color way to get what you want. A unique frame and a unique color way – relative rarities suddenly become absolute.
To say it in numbers: When you want a mfer with a red mohawk, you want 1 of 17 mfers that has a red mohawk, but there exist 1232 in total, that have the frame of the exact same mohawk. When you want a creyzie with a red mohwak, only 17 creyzies of the complete collection have a trait with that exact frame and that exact coloring. 17 < 1232
Hat under headphones
First of all, forget everything you know about the monochrome color ways. Creyzies only know one coloring and that is full color mode on.
Creyzie bandana
Creyzie Headband
Creyzie Knit
Creyzie Cap "monochrome"
Creyzie Cap "purple"
Creyzie Beanie "monochrome"
Creyzie Beanie
Shirt | Hoodie down
Two main trait categories: “Shirts” and “Hoodie down” with many color ways.
Creyzie shirt
Creyzie Hoodie down
4:20 watch
Even the color ways of the watches have all their own designs and you probably won’t be able to differentiate between the categories of sub / oyster / argo without knowing which color way belongs to which category.
Argo white
Sub cola
Sub bat
Sub rose
Argo black
Sub turquoise
Sub lantern green
Sub red
Sub black
Oyster silver
Oyster gold
Sub bllue
Beard and mouth
Two main trait categories: “Shirts” and “Hoodie down” with many color ways.
Creyzie mouth smile
Creyzie mouth flat
Both of these creyzies have a beard and just like mfers, creyzies know only two different traits for their mouth: “Flat” and “Smile”.
Chain and smokes
The different color ways of the cig might be the closest thing to the color ways we know of from the mfers collection, because the frames really look alike and still their appearances are quite different, but the chains do no share the same frames.
Creyzie gold chain and cig white
Creyzie silver chain cig black
Creyzie gold chain with pipe
Long hair
Like stated before, creyzies follow the same rarity structure as mfers and have the same types, they just look different.
Alien Creyzie
Ape Creyzie
Eyes
Like in the mfers collection, all kinds of glasses count as trait of the property “Eye” and therefore 5 traits combinations with glasses are possible. Additionally aliens and zombies have their very own variants of eyes.
Creyzie 3D glasses
Creyzie eye mask
Creyzie VR
Creyzie shades
Creyzie purple shades
Creyzie nerd glasses
Headphones
Except the 1o1 and the creyzies with pilot helmets all creyzies wear headphones even though they are sometimes hard to spot, this holds very true for creyzies with hoodies for example.
Creyzie headphones
Conclusion
The creyzies rarity concept is mainly different, because color ways are mostly not simply recoloring the same main frame but actually have their own frames and themes. Therefore it is possible that relative rarities for the mfers collection have creyzies counterparts with absolute rarities. Absolute rarities usually support the development of a hype.
Many people on twitter already talked about an interesting headband variant (bus) and knit variants (crown + stadium). I never saw a group of mfers actually hype up a certain color way of a knit for mfers before… We are talking probabilities here, but I would say that Rey made the rarity game for creyzies quite interesting, because this creyzie mfer just did what he liked. Suddenly monochrome traits were super colorful and this is only one of many examples. Complexity usually offers opportunities and I believe it would be worthwhile to observe the appreciation of many different traits in weekly intervals.
I made a little layout how a weekly creyzie rarity guide could look like and how people could display the rarities of trait categories like headbands and knits, that might be interesting to watch regarding the unique frames of the color ways.
First part of my weekly creyzies rarity sheets “13.06.2022”
Second part of my weekly creyzies rarity sheets “13.06.2022”
Third part of my weekly creyzies rarity sheets “13.06.2022”
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