lol i thought everyone started with a random one, ......so that means people actually paid for them?
Yeah, you get registration codes with collectible cards and plushies. I was thinking of buying a plushie for my little niece for Christmas and keeping the code, but they look absolutely horrid. And they're retiring them too, I think. They've announced that in the future you'll be able to get tokens on the site (there was a chance to get an AAA one a while ago) but until then, anyone who hasn't coughed up has to make do with a Meerca, Poogle, penguin-thing and the other one, I forget. So, if you see 'special' tokens, that means people paid actual can-pay-rent-with-it dollahs to have them.
Interestingly, these people with special tokens aren't usually the best players, but that's just my experience