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Collect-A-Con brings 900-plus dealer tables to Charlotte, Collectors Expo takes Anaheim, and four regional shows fill out the weekend. Topps Flagship Football releases the day befo…
Read More →Three days after The Hobbit hit shelves, the next Magic set already has a date. Reality Fracture releases October 2 with prerelease events September 25 to October 1, a return to th…
Read More →The Ascended Heroes Tins arrive August 28 with four packs and a Mega starter promo, and nothing else. No sleeves, no dice, no lenticular. Ascended Heroes packs trade at $13 to $15 …
Read More →108 cards, 24 packs for $119.76, and the finale of Digimon Story Time Stranger rendered as a playable set. Prerelease events start August 28, the same day Pokemon Worlds opens and …
Read More →The 300-card Chrome checklist gets a tiled MLB logo treatment, six packs at $120, and an autograph list made up entirely of rookies. It has been sold in Manhattan since August 5, w…
Read More →Worlds Celebration Tournaments run at participating Play! Pokemon stores from August 21 through August 30, and playing in one earns the Golden Gate Pikachu promo. Here is how the s…
Read More →A 2024-25 Upper Deck Young Guns Outburst Gold Celebrini rookie, numbered one-of-one, closed at $1,281,000 at Goldin on August 15. It cleared the previous highs for McDavid, Crosby,…
Read More →Forged Mantles, a trimmed T206 Wagner, a $200 million counterfeit pipeline, and the grading story dominating 2026. Nine scandals that explain why authentication and provenance rule…
Read More →The 2026 preseason opened Thursday and rookie card prices are already moving on backup-versus-backup football. Here is why the spike fades in ten days, and why the August 21 flagsh…
Read More →Pokemon's 30th anniversary set makes every card in the expansion a foil, with 30 unique Pikachu illustrations as the chase. Here is the full pack breakdown, both Elite Trainer Box …
Read More →Goldin's Summer TCG Elite Auction closed August 10 with more than $18 million in sales and three category records. A One Piece World Championship trophy card became the most expens…
Read More →The card hobby produces an enormous amount of content, and most of it is someone opening boxes at you. Here are the podcasts, channels, and newsletters still publishing in 2026 tha…
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