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Guides & How-To · Aug 19, 2026

College Football Starts August 29. The Card Products Built Around It Do Not Arrive Until Halloween.

Week 0 kicks off August 29 with Belichick in Dublin and USC on NBC. Bowman University Chrome Football does not release until October 31. That two-month gap is the most useful thing…

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Collecting Tips · Aug 19, 2026

Star Wars Unlimited Maps Its Fall: Homeworlds in October, Icons in November, and a Grayscale Convention Set

Two Star Wars Unlimited releases land in consecutive months, the tightest window the game has run. Here is what Homeworlds and Icons mean for singles prices, shop allocations, and …

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Events & Recaps · Aug 19, 2026

Card Show Weekend August 21-23: Collect-A-Con Charlotte, Anaheim, and a Friday Flagship Football Drop

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…

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Hobby News · Aug 19, 2026

Reality Fracture Is Magic's Next Standard Set: Prerelease September 25, Jace's Echoverse, and Six Commander Decks

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…

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Guides & How-To · Aug 19, 2026

A $21.99 Pokemon Tin With $55 of Packs Inside: The Ascended Heroes Math

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 …

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Hobby News · Aug 19, 2026

Digimon BT-26 Timeless Bonds Lands September 4, and Its Prerelease Picked the Worst Possible Weekend

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 …

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Collecting Tips · Aug 19, 2026

Topps Chrome Logofractor Goes Wide August 19 After Two Weeks in One New York Store

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…

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Events & Recaps · Aug 19, 2026

You Can Get the Worlds 2026 Pikachu at Your Local Shop. The Window Opens August 21.

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…

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Hobby News · Aug 19, 2026

A Macklin Celebrini 1-of-1 Sold for $1.281 Million. It Is Now the Biggest Non-Gretzky Hockey Card Ever.

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,…

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Collecting Tips · Aug 15, 2026

The 9 Biggest Scandals in Trading Card History

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…

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Events & Recaps · Aug 14, 2026

One Piece Turns Four: A Free Mall Tour Today, a Month-Long Anniversary Event, and Regionals on Three Continents

Bandai has stacked the next four weeks with One Piece organized play. A free demo-deck mall tour runs August 14 to 16, the 4th Anniversary Event runs August 21 through September 13…

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Hobby News · Aug 14, 2026

Topps Museum Collection Baseball Arrives August 17 With Atelier Booklets and the 3000 Hit Club

Museum Collection returns August 17 with a 100-card base set that exists mainly to deliver framed autographs, booklet cards, and game-used memorabilia. The checklist is not out yet…

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