Rawket Lawnchair
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Correct, though there are a couple gotchas to be aware of:
For DOTA2 to get your initial card drops you had to already "own" the game before the Trading Card beta started.
For TF2 to get your initial card drops you had to have owned the game or spent money in the Mann Co store.
And here are a couple of tips:
You can idle in games to get your initial card drops, they seem to drop around one every 20-25 minutes.
For Source Engine games you can use these options to idle in textmode: -textmode -nosound -window -nopreload -novid -dxlevel 81 +map "itemtest". I have tested this with TF2, HL2, Portal 2, L4D2 and DOTA2 and it works for all of them. You may see error messages, as long as the game is still running you can just ignore them.
For Borderlands 2 you can just idle at the splash screen.
Thanks for the info man. Got two Faerie Solitaire cards already, but no foil. :-(