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 […]
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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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Gold has been a store of value for roughly five thousand years, a little while before TCGs came onto the market. Trading cards have been around for about thirty. On paper, this should be the most lopsided comparison in our entire Cards vs Capital series. And yet H1 2026 threw up a genuinely interesting result,
The final instalment in our Cardboard vs Crypto series, and in some ways the most fitting comparison of the four, because Magic: The Gathering is the oldest major TCG on the planet, and Bitcoin is one of the newest major alternative assets (the classic old vs new). Between them sits a genuinely interesting question: does
Magic: The Gathering vs Bitcoin: How Did Cardboard Stack Up in the First Half of 2026? Read More »
Get ready for something that would have sounded completely ridiculous three years ago… in the first half of 2026, One Piece trading cards significantly outperformed Bitcoin. Not marginally, not in a few niche categories, across the whole damn board. And given that Bitcoin dropped approximately 40% in the same period, from roughly $97,000 USD at
One Piece TCG vs Bitcoin: How Did Cardboard Stack Up in the First Half of 2026? Read More »
Bitcoin investors had a rough first half of 2026 (Calm down, bitcoin boys, it’s not a shot, just a rough H1). We are going to say that upfront, because it is the context that makes every TCG comparison in this series genuinely interesting rather than just a fun exercise. Bitcoin opened 2026 at around $97,000,
Yu-Gi-Oh TCG vs Bitcoin: How Did Cardboard Stack Up in the First Half of 2026? Read More »
That’s right, it’s time for the most anticipated crossover of the year! The finance bros (and bro-ettes) meet the Pokémon “Investors”…. (it’s a joke, chill out homie) Let’s get into it. Every now and then, the world of traditional investing throws up a result that makes even the most emotionless financial brain do a double
Pokémon TCG vs Bitcoin: How Did Cardboard Stack Up in the First Half of 2026? Read More »
The fourth and final instalment of our H1 2026, Cards vs Capital series, and appropriately the most layered. Magic: The Gathering is the oldest major TCG in the hobby, we are talking a game that has been running since 1993, (yes, before Pokémon Younglings), and its investment market reflects that complexity. Unlike Pokémon’s broadly shared
We are going to get straight to the number that matters in this one, because it deserves to lead. The NASDAQ 100 returned +17.92% in H1 2026 (the first half of the year, January through June). The Card Ladder index for One Piece TCG returned +119% in the same six months. Yes, you read that
One Piece TCG vs The NASDAQ: How Did Cardboard Stack Up in the First Half of 2026? Read More »
Welcome to the second instalment in our H1 2026 (the first half of the year for the new peeps) TCG franchisee vs the NASDAQ 100 series, this one’s for the Yu-Gi-Oh gang, where we put each major TCG head-to-head against the NASDAQ 100 for the first six months of the year. This one is the
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