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On 13 October, 20 of the 144 sets we follow have far more cards going down than up.
Starting one of them costs less than it did a month ago. Their prices are clearly down, and yet their copies leave at least as fast as the rest of the market’s.
Over 7 days, 648 cards are down and 250 are up, out of 2,086 compared. Over the week, their combined value fell: -2.2%.
On 12 October, 9 cards cost more than on any day of the month before, and 57 cost less.
For sets, a card’s price is the price of its cheapest copy. “Clearly” means too many of a set’s cards move the same way for it to be luck, and their total follows.
Under each set, the percentage compares what its cards that already had a price a month ago, or a week ago, cost today with what they cost back then. When the move isn’t clear, we don’t write a percentage. A card counts as priced when an observation that is still current contains at least one Near Mint copy for sale in this market.
Every day we re-read the prices of thousands of cards. Each one is compared with itself: its price at the last check against its price 7 or 30 days earlier. These are the prices sellers ask in their listings.
We compare cards from 5 € up, each at the middle price of its listings.
A move only counts between two days that each had at least 10 listings for sale. With fewer, one listing coming or going is enough to shift the price, and the move would mean nothing.
We add up the prices of everything we compare, at the last check and on the day we compare against. We say this total is going up or down only when the gap is bigger than what listings coming and going would move on their own.
Further down are the small series that live alongside the main sets. That's where you'll find the cards handed out at McDonald's, for example, or the kits made to teach you how to play.
The little symbol next to a card's name is its rarity, the one printed along the bottom edge: a circle for a common, a diamond for an uncommon, a star for a rare. Two or three stars, and the card gets hard to pull out of a pack. When there is no symbol at all, it means we have not read its rarity — not that the card is ordinary.
“Still in tournaments” means at least one card from that set can be put on a Standard table today. Everything else has rotated out. You keep those cards and they are still worth something — often far more than a new one, look at Aquapolis — but you do not bring them to a tournament any more.
Some sets carry an “English name” note: the publisher never published a name for them in your language, so we keep the one printed on the box. Plenty of others simply have the same name everywhere — “Neo Destiny” was never translated, and that is its name here too.
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