Sky Mavix is preparing to revive one of the oldest mechanics in its ecosystem, allowing holders of Atia Original Crystals (AOC) to mint new Origin Axies.
AOC traces its history back to Axie Infinity’s original 2018 presale. Participants who referred other buyers received referral tokens, which subsequently became known as Axie Origin Coins. Five of these tokens could be exchanged for a new Origin Axie.
The redemption mechanism eventually disappeared, leaving some AOC unused. In January 2024, 1,375 unrolled AOC were migrated from Ethereum to Ronin, where they were renamed Atia Original Crystals. With five required for each redemption, the remaining supply is sufficient to create another 275 Origin Axies.
Sky Mavis has now announced that AOC redemption will return “soon” through App.Axie, finally allowing those remaining crystals to be used.
The attraction isn’t merely minting an Origin. Every new Origin created through AOC is in with the chance to drop as a much rarer Mystic Axie.
Each Axie consists of six body parts — eyes, ears, mouth, horn, back and tail — and during an AOC roll each part independently has a 7% chance of becoming Mystic.
That makes the probability of an Origin receiving at least one Mystic part approximately 35.3%. The chance of receiving exactly one Mystic part is around 29%, while there’s roughly a 5.5% chance of rolling two. Triple Mystics are much rarer at around 0.6%, with four or more extremely unlikely.
Mystic parts are particularly valuable because they cannot be inherited through normal Axie breeding. They can only originate from the limited Origin creation process. Axie’s marketplace describes Mystics as its rarest Axie subset, with fewer than 1,500 currently existing.
That scarcity is reflected in prices. The Mystic floor has recently risen to around 3.34 ETH, following the sale of a Mystic for 2.9 ETH around $5,500 at current prices, according to a post from Axie co-founder Jeff “Jihoz” Zirlin on 16th August.
Origins themselves are among Axie Infinity’s oldest collectibles. Their total supply was capped at 4,088, with the original Axies sold between February and April 2018.
The return of AOC therefore represents the completion of an unusually long-running piece of Axie history. If all 1,375 remaining crystals are eventually redeemed, another 275 Origins can enter circulation — and statistically, around 97 of those rolls would be expected to produce an Axie with at least one Mystic part.
So, for the 37 wallets currently holding AOC NFTs, five eight-year-old crystals are effectively about to become a lottery ticket for one of Axie Infinity’s most valuable collectible classes.
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