How to read a Mr. Deeds deed page
Every one of the 100,000 Otherdeeds has its own page on this site — same layout, same information, whether it's an empty tier-1 or a Chaos grail. The goal isn't just artwork and an estimate; it's to let you answer four questions quickly: what exactly is on this land, how scarce are the individual traits, how unusual is the overall configuration, and what has the market actually paid for comparable assets. Here's the walkthrough, using #86 as the example — open it in another tab and follow along.
1. Start with the identity
Top of the page: the artwork, the deed number, the environment and its family, the Environment Tier with the full five-bar distribution for that environment, and the collection — original or Expanded. The artwork is a sanity check, not decoration: it's generated from the traits, so if the page says four deposits, you should be able to count four deposits in the picture. Worth doing on any deed, every time.
2. Read each trait in context
Each trait gets a card, and the number that matters is always the supply context — not "has Psychosilk" but "one of 3,565 tier-2 Psychosilk deposits in the world." You'll see: resources with their compass slot, tier shown three ways (dots, label, count), and the population of that exact deposit — rare resources are marked distinctly (gold means rare class, and tier 3 gets a star); sediment with type, tier, and the exact type/tier population, the ring tinted from the sediment's actual artwork; the artifact — if present — with its exact supply and its band (common / medium / rare / ultra — our own supply-based grouping; Yuga publishes no official artifact tiers); and history — obelisk pieces, Goliath kills, Club Island, and the Koda if — and only if — one is verifiably still attached.
3. Read the deed as a bundle
This is the step most rarity sites skip. Don't stop at the rarest single trait — ask how many slots are filled, what the total tier density is, how many rare deposits are present, whether any rare is duplicated, whether there's an artifact, whether the terrain or tier is scarce, whether a Koda is fused, and which of those conditions intersect on this one deed. That's the deed's rarity profile, and the rarity article shows why the intersections — not the individual counts — are the real scarcity number.
4. Separate rarity from the estimate
The model estimate is not a rarity score. It asks a different question: what have comparable configurations been clearing for in actual transactions? Depending on the deed, that can involve fitted structural effects, direct market evidence for a specific trait, pooled evidence, supply-curve inference for thin scarce traits, or segment-specific anchors — and the expandable factor breakdown shows exactly which path was used for each component. It's built from what the market paid, never from what we think traits "should" be worth, and the full methodology is public.
5. Pay attention to evidence labels
A component supported by many qualifying sales is a different kind of number from one inferred from a thin supply curve, and the breakdown says which is which — look for wording like "measured from recent sales," "pooled evidence," "priced from the supply curve," or "capped by a live ask." The estimate gets much less mysterious once you know which evidence produced it — and a trait with no direct qualifying sales says so plainly.
6. Read the range, then the receipts
Thin NFT markets don't produce one precise clearing price, which is why every estimate ships with a range — rare resources and other collector-heavy segments can have much wider realized dispersion than plain land, and a wider range is an honest description of a noisy segment, not a failure. Below that, the receipts: past sales with dates and currency (ETH vs. WETH matters — they clear differently, and our sales data keeps them separate), so weigh a four-year-old print differently from last week's. And where a live listing exists you'll see the ask next to the estimate with the gap stated plainly — a negative gap is arithmetic, not advice. Comparable listings are seller opinions, not transactions: use them to understand current supply and competition, and note that we drop extreme asks from the default comparable set when they're too far from their own model estimate to be useful peers.
7. Follow the links outward
Every deed page is a doorway into the data — the environment name goes to that environment's page with all its plots, each resource to the page listing every deed carrying it, the artifact to its full carrier list, the sediment to its population. That's the fastest way to answer "how does this deed compare to its actual peers?" — click through to the trait and look at the whole carrier population, not just the one listing in front of you.
The two-minute routine
When I open an unfamiliar deed, the reading order is: identity → traits → density → rare-resource count → artifact/Koda → compound rarity → estimate → evidence → range → sale history → comparables. That sequence keeps rarity and price from getting mixed together — which is the whole discipline of this site in one sentence.
If you want a second opinion
The static pages are free and cover every deed. If you want to go deeper on a specific plot, Ask Mr. Deeds is the paid AI walkthrough — it reads the same data and talks through the reasoning conversationally. (Like everything here, it's analysis, not an appraisal.) The facts never sit behind the paywall; only the conversation does.
Last stop in the series: Buying your first Otherdeed — the practical mechanics, and the checks that save people from expensive mistakes.