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
Yu-Gi-Oh TCG vs The NASDAQ: How Did Cardboard Stack Up in the First Half of 2026? Read More »
Every six months here at The TCG Times, we are going to do something that most card publications do not bother with: put our hobby’s investment performance directly next to the traditional financial benchmark that most of our readers money is sitting in when it is not buying cardboard, as we have said before, we
Pokémon TCG vs The NASDAQ: How Did Cardboard Stack Up in the First Half of 2026? Read More »
