The Founder’s Mystery Fashion Crate is MapleStory Classic’s debut gacha cosmetic. It costs 3,500 NX per crate (or 35,000 NX for 11 - a straight buy-10-get-1-free), pulls one of fifty cosmetic items, and every pulled piece expires after seven days. Nexon has published the exact per-item drop rates on a dedicated rate-disclosure page, which means for once you can actually plan this instead of guessing.
Everything numeric below comes from Nexon’s own rate tables (general-post/45538 for Founder’s, general-post/45659 for Aurora) and the Oct 5 cash-shop sale announcement (news/sale/45819). Equip slots and current cash-shop status come from NiaDB’s crate simulator - a 1:1 mirror of Nexon’s table with the game-side metadata filled in. Live resale prices cross-link to meso.watch.
At a glance
| Field | Founder’s Mystery Fashion Crate |
|---|---|
| Datamine item ID | 5222001 |
| Price (single) | 3,500 NX |
| Price (11-pack) | 35,000 NX (= 3,181 NX / crate, buy-10-get-1-free) |
| Reward pool | 50 items, flat weighted list |
| Rate histogram | 16 x 1.00% + 4 x 2.00% + 28 x 2.50% + 2 x 3.00% = 100.00% |
| Item duration | 7 days per pulled equip |
| Dupe mechanic | Right-click BEFORE equipping -> 1 Aurora Stamp |
| Pity system | None beyond the dupe-to-stamp conversion |
| Region block | Cannot purchase: Belgium, Slovakia, Brazil |
| Account-bound in | Netherlands (purchase works, trade does not) |
| Gifting | Allowed, recipient must be Lv. 12+ |
The full rate table (50 items)
Grouped by rate tier, high to low. Nexon does not label items with
common / rare / epic bands - the pool is a flat weighted list and the tier
grouping below is editorial, not official. The one hint of a built-in rarity
flag is on NiaDB’s simulator: the 1% items alone carry a tileRare CSS
class; the 2%, 2.5%, and 3% items have no visual grouping.
3.00% tier - “common” (2 items)
| Item | Rate | Equip slot |
|---|---|---|
| Patissier Hat | 3.00% | Cash Hat |
| Patissier Uniform | 3.00% | Cash Overall |
2.50% tier - 28 items
Twenty-eight pieces share this rate - the bulk of the pool. Hitting any item in this tier is 70% likely within a single 11-pack.
| Item | Rate | Equip slot |
|---|---|---|
| Beetle Long Sleeve | 2.50% | Cash Top |
| Beret | 2.50% | Cash Hat |
| Black Enamel Shoes | 2.50% | Cash Shoes |
| Blue Bucket Hat | 2.50% | Cash Hat |
| Blue Watch | 2.50% | Cash Gloves |
| Butterfly Skirt | 2.50% | Cash Bottom |
| Cat Hat | 2.50% | Cash Hat |
| Cat Suit | 2.50% | Cash Overall |
| Gold Kitty Slippers | 2.50% | Cash Shoes |
| Jean Shorts | 2.50% | Cash Bottom |
| Kitty Chat Ring | 2.50% | Cash Ring |
| Lined Hip-Hop Pants | 2.50% | Cash Bottom |
| Meshcap | 2.50% | Cash Hat |
| Orange Baseball Jacket | 2.50% | Cash Top |
| Orange Hooded Shirt | 2.50% | Cash Top |
| Pink Allstar | 2.50% | Cash Top |
| Purple Dorothy Dress | 2.50% | Cash Overall |
| Rainbow Knit | 2.50% | Cash Top |
| Red Sailor Shirt | 2.50% | Cash Top |
| Red Sailor Skirt | 2.50% | Cash Bottom |
| Red Trainer Jacket | 2.50% | Cash Top |
| Red Trainer Pants | 2.50% | Cash Bottom |
| Reggae Hat | 2.50% | Cash Hat |
| Ripped Jeans | 2.50% | Cash Bottom |
| Tourist T | 2.50% | Cash Top |
| White Hooded Vest | 2.50% | Cash Top |
| White Jeans | 2.50% | Cash Bottom |
| Yellow Rainbow Sneaks | 2.50% | Cash Shoes |
2.00% tier - 4 items
| Item | Rate | Equip slot |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Cap | 2.00% | Cash Hat |
| Sailor Hat | 2.00% | Cash Hat |
| Sailor Outfit | 2.00% | (missing from NiaDB index as of Oct 11) |
| White Ribboned Sailor Dress | 2.00% | Cash Overall |
1.00% tier - “rare” (16 items)
These are what most buyers are actually chasing. Angel Halo, the Baby Angel Wings cape, and the paired Angel Wand are the headline hits - they combine into the complete Angel outfit meta that dominates player-shop pricing (see Live resale prices). Rings and weapon-covers also cluster here.
| Item | Rate | Equip slot |
|---|---|---|
| Angel Halo | 1.00% | Cash Hat |
| Angel Wand | 1.00% | Cash Weapon (any weapon) |
| Baby Angel Wings | 1.00% | Cash Cape |
| Black Sunglasses | 1.00% | Cash Eye Accessory |
| Bunny Earmuffs | 1.00% | Cash Hat |
| Bunny Ears | 1.00% | Cash Hat |
| Cherub’s Bow | 1.00% | Cash Weapon (bow only) |
| Dollish Pink | 1.00% | Cash Face Accessory |
| Orange Mushroom Balloon | 1.00% | Cash Cape |
| Orange Toy Hammer | 1.00% | Cash Weapon (any weapon) |
| Slime Earrings | 1.00% | Cash Earring |
| Slime Slippers | 1.00% | Cash Shoes |
| Slime T-Shirt | 1.00% | Cash Top |
| Toga | 1.00% | Cash Overall |
| White Label Ring | 1.00% | Cash Ring |
| Yellow Spatula | 1.00% | Cash Weapon (any weapon) |
Rate math
Nexon’s rounding disclaimer applies: “the displayed percentages are rounded, and the total sum of all rates may not add up to exactly 100%.” Our math below treats the nominal values as true probabilities; actual odds may diverge by small amounts in either direction.
Single-crate chances
| Rate tier | Items in tier | Chance per crate (any item from tier) |
|---|---|---|
| 1.00% | 16 | 16.00% |
| 2.00% | 4 | 8.00% |
| 2.50% | 28 | 70.00% |
| 3.00% | 2 | 6.00% |
| Any 1%-tier item | 16 | 16.0% per crate |
| Specific 1% target | 1 | 1.0% per crate |
Expected pulls to see one specific target
For a target with probability p, median pulls to first success is
ceil(ln(0.5) / ln(1 - p)) and 99%-confidence is
ceil(ln(0.01) / ln(1 - p)).
| Target rate | Median (50% confident) | 90% confident | 99% confident |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.00% (Angel Halo etc) | 69 crates | 230 crates | 459 crates |
| 2.00% (Blue Cap, Sailor set) | 35 crates | 114 crates | 228 crates |
| 2.50% (any of the 28 common pieces) | 28 crates | 91 crates | 182 crates |
| 3.00% (Patissier Hat/Uniform) | 23 crates | 76 crates | 152 crates |
In dollars (3,500 NX per crate, no bulk discount): 69 crates = 241,500 NX to be 50/50 you’ve seen one specific 1% item. 459 crates = 1,606,500 NX to be 99% certain. The 11-pack lowers the per-crate price to 3,182 NX but doesn’t change the per-pull odds (no bonus guarantees).
Full-collection odds
The expected pulls to collect all 50 pieces via a straight gacha is a classic coupon-collector problem with weighted probabilities. For a weight-normalized pool like this one, the dominant term is driven by the rarest items. In practice: expect several hundred crates minimum to see every piece at least once, and the final 1% items are what you’ll be chasing longest. NiaDB’s simulator exposes a “pieces collected 0 of 50” counter if you want to run your own simulation before spending.
The Aurora loop: how dupes become pity
The one Nexon-sanctioned way to make gacha losses feel less punishing is the Aurora Stamp conversion. Here’s how it works:
- You pull from a Founder’s Mystery Fashion Crate.
- If the piece is a dupe you don’t want, right-click it BEFORE equipping it. Equipping consumes the stamp conversion option.
- The dupe converts into 1 Aurora Stamp.
- 20 Aurora Stamps buy you one Aurora Mystery Fashion Crate (a different, smaller 26-item pool - see below).
So a Founder’s crate you’ve “lost” on isn’t fully lost: it’s converted into 1/20th of an Aurora pull.
The hidden cost per Aurora crate (via dupes):
| Scenario | Founder’s crates burned | NX cost | Per-crate NX equivalent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 dupes -> 1 Aurora crate | 20 | 70,000 NX | 70,000 NX / Aurora crate |
| 200 dupes -> 10 Aurora crates | 200 | 700,000 NX (via 11-packs: 636,364 NX) | ~63,636 NX / Aurora crate |
That’s 18x the raw NX cost of an Aurora crate - because Aurora crates are not sold directly for NX. The Aurora pool is effectively a sink for your losing Founder’s streaks, not an independent purchase path. If you’re pulling Founder’s and not dupe-converting, you’re leaving stamps on the table.
Aurora Mystery Fashion Crate (26 items)
Price: 20 Aurora Stamps per crate, 200 Aurora Stamps per 10-pack (straight bulk; no bonus crate). Sale window: Oct 6, 2026 through Jan 13, 2027 at 7:59 AM UTC - the full Aurora Stamp Shop Season 1 window.
The Aurora pool is flatter than Founder’s: 1.50% is the floor, 5.75% is the ceiling. Only 26 items vs. Founder’s 50. If you’re chasing a specific piece, Aurora is easier to collect from piece-by-piece - but you’re paying for it in NX via the Founder’s dupe pipeline, so the “cheap” framing is misleading unless you were already going to roll Founder’s heavily.
5.75% tier (4 items, the “common” ring/chat series)
| Item | Rate |
|---|---|
| Chocolate Chat Ring | 5.75% |
| Chocolate Label Ring | 5.75% |
| Ink-and-Wash Painting Name Tag Ring | 5.75% |
| Ink-and-Wash Thought Bubble Ring | 5.75% |
5.00% tier (9 items)
| Item | Rate |
|---|---|
| Black Cat Beanie | 5.00% |
| Hearts Tights | 5.00% |
| Heart Sunglasses | 5.00% |
| Orange Cat Beanie | 5.00% |
| Pink Bunny Sweater | 5.00% |
| Pink Elephant Slippers | 5.00% |
| Red Check Rider | 5.00% |
| Sky Blue Cat Beanie | 5.00% |
| Violet Dot Jeans | 5.00% |
4.50% tier (2 items)
| Item | Rate |
|---|---|
| Loose Fit Sweater | 4.50% |
| Stocking Shorts | 4.50% |
2.50% tier (4 items)
| Item | Rate |
|---|---|
| Cacao Bear Shoes | 2.50% |
| Chocolate Ribbon | 2.50% |
| Splash Choco Boy | 2.50% |
| Splash Choco Girl | 2.50% |
2.00% tier (5 items)
| Item | Rate |
|---|---|
| Blank Eye Patch | 2.00% |
| Choco Candy Cookie | 2.00% |
| Detective Glass | 2.00% |
| Heartbreaker Lips | 2.00% |
| Starlight Heart Scepter | 2.00% |
1.50% tier - rarest (2 items)
| Item | Rate |
|---|---|
| Soft Chocolate Fondue Scepter | 1.50% |
| White Choco Bunny | 1.50% |
Aurora rate math reality check: a target at 1.50% is median 46 crates to first success. 46 Aurora crates = 920 stamps = ~920 Founder’s dupes = at best 920 x 3,182 NX = ~2.93M NX. That’s the practical cost of chasing one specific Aurora rare if you fund the stamps entirely from Founder’s. The cheaper path, obviously, is to accept dupes along the way: your 920 Founder’s pulls will give you ~147 crate hits in Founder’s 1% tier along the way, so you’re not getting nothing from the burn.
Mechanics and gotchas
7-day item duration
Every piece pulled from either crate expires 7 days after it hits your inventory. These are not permanent cosmetics. If you pull Angel Halo and leave it in storage for a week to admire later, it’s gone. Equip and enjoy it, screenshot it, then let it expire. Or dupe-convert it before equipping if you don’t want it at all.
(Our best reading of Nexon’s “Duration: 7 days” phrasing is per-item expiry on the pulled equip, not an expiry on the unopened crate. If you have an in-game screenshot confirming the opposite interpretation, let us know.)
Weapon-cover rules (Founder’s)
Three weapons in the Founder’s pool are “cash weapons” that cosmetically replace whatever you have equipped, with permissive rules:
| Item | Can be worn with |
|---|---|
| Angel Wand | Any weapon |
| Orange Toy Hammer | Any weapon |
| Yellow Spatula | Any weapon |
| Cherub’s Bow | Bows only - will not display over crossbows or melee weapons |
Weapon-cover rules (Aurora)
| Item | Can be worn with |
|---|---|
| Soft Chocolate Fondue Scepter | Any weapon |
| Starlight Heart Scepter | Any weapon |
| Detective Glass | (face accessory, not a weapon cover) |
Dyeable items
Every piece in both crates is dyeable with Nexon’s Palette items except the two Founder’s ring pieces: Kitty Chat Ring and White Label Ring are not dyeable. See Nexon’s full dyeable-items list.
Region restrictions
| Region | Can purchase crates? | Can trade pulled items? |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium | No - Mystery items blocked | n/a |
| Slovakia | No - Mystery items blocked | n/a |
| Brazil | No - Mystery items blocked | n/a |
| Netherlands | Yes | No - pulled items are account-bound |
| Everywhere else | Yes | Yes (tradeable once) |
If you’re in a block region and want the cosmetics, your only path is the free market after someone else pulls them - see live resale prices.
Gifting
Both crates can be gifted via the Cash Shop’s gift flow, but the recipient must be Lv. 12+. The intent is to prevent new/throwaway accounts from being used as gifting intermediaries for region-blocked buyers; practical impact for players is that gifting a crate to a fresh character requires them to clear Maple Island first.
Live resale prices on the Free Market
Nexon’s rates tell you what you’ll pull. The free market tells you what other players are selling the pulled dupes for in meso. For live-world resale pricing we recommend meso.watch - a specialized price tracker that OCRs player shops out of public Twitch VOD footage and surfaces typical sale price, last-3-sales average, and per-shop sightings per item.
Browse these directly:
- Ink-and-Wash Painting Name Tag Ring on meso.watch - a frequent high-ticket Aurora pull on live Windia
- Starlight Heart Scepter - Aurora 2.00% rate, limited supply by definition
- Soft Chocolate Fondue Scepter - Aurora’s rarest tier at 1.50%, the headline chase
- Black Cat Beanie, Sky Blue Cat Beanie, Orange Cat Beanie - Aurora 5.00% tier, bulky supply so prices stay reasonable
Is it worth it?
This is a strictly cosmetic 7-day-duration gacha. Nothing in either crate gives stats, nothing is permanent, and nothing crosses into gameplay power. With that said, here’s an honest framing by player profile:
You just want to look cute for a week Casual
One 11-pack (35,000 NX, ~ $35) buys you a 70% chance to see any given 2.5%-tier item and gives you 11 full outfit pieces to mix-and-match for a week. If the look matters more than the collection, this is the cheapest honest answer and you should stop reading.
You're chasing one specific 1% rare Risky
Median 69 crates (241,500 NX, ~ $241). 99% confidence takes 459 crates (1,606,500 NX, ~ $1,606). That's the actual math. Dupe-convert everything along the way so you're at least funnelling the losses into Aurora stamps - you'll net ~16 Founder's rare hits and ~137 non-rare items along the way, which is... a lot of cosmetics you have 7 days to enjoy.
You want the "complete" Angel outfit Spender
Angel Halo + Baby Angel Wings + Toga + Angel Wand = four separate 1% rolls you need to hit. If you treat each as independent coupon-collector, median total is ~200 crates (700,000 NX, ~ $700) just for the Angel set alone. There is no bundle. There is no pity on specific items. Expect to burn Aurora stamps on dupes you'll never equip.
You're region-blocked (BE/SK/BR) Market only
You cannot buy crates. Your path to any crate item is the free market after someone else pulls and trades. Check meso.watch for current pricing; the 1% items will cost millions of mesos but you'll get a permanent piece through the trade system rather than a 7-day timer.
You're on a budget and this is "the only cash thing I'll buy" Honest
Buy the 11-pack once. 35,000 NX, buy-10-get-1-free. You get 11 pulls, a 70% shot at the 2.5% commons, and a 16.8% chance (over 11 pulls) to hit at least one 1% rare. Dupe the leftovers into stamps for the chance at one Aurora crate. Done. Walk away.
What the guide can’t tell you: whether you’ll enjoy the cosmetics enough to justify the spend. That’s an individual-value call. What the guide can tell you is that the math is above and the pity floor is only 20 dupes per Aurora pull. There’s no “guaranteed epic in N crates” mechanism - you can be unlucky indefinitely.
FAQ
Is the Founder’s Mystery Fashion Crate bundled with a Founder’s Pack?
No. The crate is a separate cash-shop item, a direct NX purchase that is not bundled with any Founder’s Pack tier.
Can I trade crate items to another player?
Yes, except in Netherlands (account-bound) or if you’re already past the one-time trade limit (crate items are tradeable once). The free-market resale economy on meso.watch exists precisely because of this.
What happens to my Aurora Stamps when Season 1 ends on Jan 13, 2027?
Nexon’s post states Season 1 stamps expire at end of season. We’re double-checking the exact wording before promising burn-or-lose semantics; assume your stamps need to be spent before Jan 13 and plan accordingly.
Is there a different “Mystery Fashion Crate” I’m seeing in the datamine?
Yes. The datamine ships four crate variants:
5222000- Mystery Fashion Crate (base, unreleased)5222001- Founder’s Mystery Fashion Crate (this guide)5222002- Halloween Mystery Fashion Crate (unreleased, no Nexon disclosure)5222100- Aurora Mystery Fashion Crate (live, Oct 6 2026 - Jan 13 2027)
The base and Halloween crates have no Nexon rate disclosure and no NiaDB simulator pages as of Oct 11, 2026 - they’re pure datamine. We’ll update this guide (or ship siblings) when Nexon publishes their rates.
Can I use NX from Nexon’s main MapleStory account for Classic World?
Yes. The FAQ confirms NX balance is shared between MapleStory and MapleStory Classic. Maple Points are not. (Leaf Points are Classic World’s in-game cash equivalent, earned in-game, usable in the Cash Shop.)
Where did meso.watch’s data come from if everything in the crate is 7-day duration?
Players equip or trade pieces during the 7 days. Trades show up in player shops. OCR picks them up. The one-time-trade restriction limits how many hands a piece passes through, but the first-trade market is active - and some pieces (Aurora rings, scepters) trade for enough that whole secondary economies form around them.
What’s the single most-asked rate chase in the pool?
By observable free-market demand on live Windia (per meso.watch), the Ink-and-Wash Painting Name Tag Ring (Aurora, 5.75%) and Soft Chocolate Fondue Scepter (Aurora, 1.50%) are the headline chases. On the Founder’s side, Angel Halo (1.00%) and the paired Baby Angel Wings (1.00%) are the recurring sought-after pieces - combined with Toga + Angel Wand they build the full “Angel” look that defines a lot of the cosmetic meta.