Live long and profit… we had to. But for real the Magic: The Gathering’s Star Trek set drops on the 13th of November this year (2026), which puts us 59 days out as we write this. So we felt like now is the ideal time to have an honest conversation about whether or not there
Pretty much every single person planning to sell a card has been here… A card in your collection has been climbing in price, now all of a sudden, you are sitting on a decent bit of profit if you sell, and internally you’re having that classic conversation with yourself. Half of you says SELL and
When to Sell Your TCG Cards and When to Hold – The Honest Investor’s Guide Read More »
Thinking about buying into the One Piece TCG? There’s one single number that you need to know about OP-01 Romance Dawn as an investment. At launch (December 2022) a sealed booster box from this set retailed at around $100 USD. Now jump to today (2026) that exact same sealed box currently sits between $2,700 and
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If you’re reading this, we already know you probably have sealed product taunting you, like it’s the Green Goblin mask telling you to open it. The part of you is telling yourself that if you just open it and sell the pulls, you will probably make your money back anyway, but do you want to
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The XY era, we know you remember it, ran from early 2014 through late 2016. It produced one of the most impressive sealed investment stories we have ever seen in all of the Pokémon TCG, and it is a story that usually goes unnoticed. Yes, Evolutions exist, and overall it was and still is insane.
XY Era Pokémon Cards: Which Sets Are Still Worth Investing In? Read More »
Before we dig into this, let’s do a quick exercise, imagine it’s 2002. You’re ripping open a Legend of Blue-Eyes White Dragon pack in a newsagent/game store/where ever you bought cards as a kid, and you pull a Blue-Eyes White Dragon from the pack. The only thing that comes to mind is “sick, I can
The Original Yu-Gi-Oh Era: Are the First-Generation Sets Worth Investing In? Read More »
Let’s begin with a number that still hurts to look at if you missed the Hidden Fates boat. Once upon a time, the Hidden Fates Elite Trainer Box retailed for $50 USD when it dropped on September 20, 2019. Today, that exact same ETB sealed sells between $280 and $548 USD depending on where you
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For a long time in the TCG hobby, the idea of calling trading cards an “asset class” would have been met with jokes and laughter, especially in most finance bro circles (spoiler: they are crying now that they didn’t invest). Cards were seen as a nerdy hobby or something you brought for your kids on
Are TCG Cards a Legitimate Alternative Asset Class? The Honest Answer Read More »
Here at The TCG Times we really try to approach every new TCG or collectible release with the same unbiased, factual, and researched framework. We look deep into it all from the Four Pillars, the weight of the IP, the publisher’s track record (good or bad), the community reception, and the honest question of whether
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Oh yeah, we are doing it, trading cards vs. sneakers, cardboard gang vs the sneakerheads, TCG market vs. shoe market… okay, we’ll stop. If you ran a poll asking people to name the two collectible markets that most resemble each other, sneakers and trading cards would win comfortably in our opinion. Both share a lot
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