Every grading decision is a gamble but what are you wagering? The answer… the submission fee, the shipping cost, and the time value of your capital being locked up in a queue, against the expected increase in value when the slab comes back. Sometimes that gamble pays off handsomely and you make some big bucks. […]
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Here at The TCG Times, we spend a lot of time talking about which cards or sets are worth investing in. But today we are mixing it up and asking the more fundamental question underneath: which characters carry the deepest, most durable investment weight across the first four generations of the Pokémon TCG? Because understanding
Pokémon Gen 1 to 4: Which Characters Actually Have the Strongest Investment Case? Read More »
Magic: The Gathering is thirty-three years old (chances are, if you’re reading this, you probably are too). In that time it has built one of the most complex and deep universes in the entire tabletop gaming world, a literal multiverse of planes before Marvel was doing it in movies. Bringing characters, ancient wars, and civilisational
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Well, well, well, another TCG enter the fight. Bandai just made a move that every TCG investor should be paying attention to, we certainly are. At the BANDAI CARD GAMES Next Plan Presentation on June 18, 2026, they officially announced the NARUTO CARD GAME (HUGE NEWS) a brand new, strategy-focused trading card game based on
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Yu-Gi-Oh investing is complicated, more so than Pokémon or Magic in some ways. But why? Because the market is so heavily split between competitive and collector demand that the same character can perform completely differently depending on which type of card you hold. A competitive staple gets reprinted. A prestige collector’s piece does not. Understanding
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Pick up any BGS slab and you will see four numbers staring back at you alongside the overall grade. Most collectors glance at the big number in the middle and move on. The investors who actually understand what they are looking at examine all five. Why? Because those four sub-grades tell a story that the
Somewhere out there right now, someone has 80% of their TCG portfolio in a single card. They bought it during a hype cycle, it felt like a sure thing, and the idea of splitting that capital across several “lesser” opportunities felt like thinning out a winning bet. We are not judging, we have seen versions
Position Sizing in TCG Investing: How Much of Your Portfolio Should One Card Ever Be? Read More »
We are sure most people with a decent portfolio have been asked some version of this question more than almost any other: “I want to start investing in TCG cards, how do I actually make money?” It is a board question, and we think the most useful answer we can give is not a theoretical
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There is a format in Magic: The Gathering that Wizards of the Coast did not design, did not plan for, and for years barely acknowledged existed. A format invented by players, spread through community word of mouth, and eventually adopted so widely that it became the most-played format in the entire game. A format that,
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Most One Piece TCG investment content focuses on the cards that already exist, and in all honesty, that makes sense, the Gol D. Roger Gold Super Parallel at $4,982 USD, the Manga Rare Luffy cards commanding four-figure prices, the OP-01 boxes that have gone from $100 USD to $4,000 USD, One Piece TCG beating the
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