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Lionel Messi announced his retirement from international soccer on August 31 after 20 years, 207 caps and a World Cup title. His Argentina card market was already the strongest in …
Read More →Mega Evolution: Delta Reign lands November 6 as the final main expansion of the Mega Evolution block, headlined by Mega Rayquaza ex. Block-closing sets are always the most heavily …
Read More →Preorders for Pokemon 30th Celebration are running above MSRP, and the markups are not coming from scalpers. They are on the big-box shelf tag. Here is the full price gap by SKU an…
Read More →The League of Legends card game just posted the strongest weekly gain of any tracked TCG, capping a 90-day run of roughly 267 percent. Here is why brand-new card markets move like …
Read More →The World Championship 2026 final is being played at Tokyo Garden Theater today. Spectators walked out with special-illustration Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and Fusion cards, and tho…
Read More →2026 Topps Flagship Football landed August 21 with a 400-card base set, four box configurations from $24.99 to $269.99, and a new 1957 Rookie Variations insert built on a design Pa…
Read More →Two surprise moves this summer gave the hobby a clean look at how roster changes reprice card markets. The star's cards spike on volume. The teammates' cards move further in percen…
Read More →Secret Lair: A Perfectly Normal Superdrop goes on sale August 31 at 9 a.m. PT with eight drops, four of them Marvel. Foil is $39.99, non-foil is $29.99, and there is a foil Command…
Read More →Million-dollar card sales are tracking toward the all-time record, six-figure sales are on pace to nearly double the old high, and the summer's headline auctions kept the streak al…
Read More →Fan Week runs August 23 to 29 and the main draw begins August 30. Tennis spent thirty years as an empty shelf in the hobby, and that has changed. Here is the current product landsc…
Read More →The championship games are August 29 and 30 in South Williamsport, in front of a national television audience. No manufacturer makes cards of the players, and the hobby is better f…
Read More →The 2026 Pokemon World Championships come with four promo cards distributed four completely different ways, and that distribution is the only thing that sets their value. Here is w…
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