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 […]
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Two sets, two very different launches, two very different relationships but both have a sh*t ton of nostalgia. Like we have said before, nostalgia in TCG usual mean money. Celebrations arrived in October 2021 as Pokémon’s official 25th anniversary released a limited, special-distribution set built specifically to mark the occasion. On paper, Celebrations should have
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A Rayquaza VMAX alternate art from 2021 is sitting at $1000+ today, and the price is climbing higher than the sky pillar, comfortably the second most valuable card in its entire set, despite sharing identical pull rates with three other Eeveelution chase cards currently trading at a third of that price. That is not a
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Here is a number that should terrify any chase card investor: Evolving Skies, released in August 2021, contains over 30 different alternate art secret rares, with each one appearing at a rate of roughly 1 in every 400 to 500 booster packs (if it doesn’t scare you keep reading…). That set has been opened, by
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If you have Pokémon cards sitting in binders, boxes, or tucked away in a drawer from your childhood, we need to talk. Not because the hobby is dying, it absolutely is not (scared ya there didn’t we), but because a very specific, data-backed window is fast approaching where the market conditions for selling older cards
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Tracking the biggest moves in the Pokémon TCG for the week of June 11th – June 18th. We’ve identified the top 3 cards gaining value and the top 3 losing ground based on their total dollar impact. To give you the most accurate global snapshot, we have included pricing in AUD, USD, and EUR. Please note
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Tracking the biggest moves in the Pokémon TCG for the week of June 4th – June 11th. We’ve identified the top 3 cards gaining value and the top 3 losing ground based on their total dollar impact. To give you the most accurate global snapshot, we have included pricing in AUD, USD, and EUR. Please note
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There are two types of people in the TCG world. Those who saw a First Edition stamp as a kid, thought nothing of it, and then traded the card away for a holographic they liked better (yes, we did it and yes, we regret it). And those who held on (we envy you). The financial
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Tracking the biggest moves in the Pokémon TCG for the week of May 28th – June 4th. We’ve identified the top 3 cards gaining value and the top 3 losing ground based on their total dollar impact. To give you the most accurate global snapshot, we have included pricing in AUD, USD, and EUR. Please note
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In the TCG market history, few stories resonate with such a unique blend of dedication and sheer audacity as that of “The Kabuto King.” For those unfamiliar with the legend, we’re talking about a collector who, years ago, embarked on an almost impossible quest… The Goal? To acquire every single First Edition Kabuto card from the Pokémon Fossil set. This wasn’t a chase vard by any means, it was a humble common card, largely ignored by collectors (us included). Yet, through relentless effort, he gained over 5,000 copies, effectively cornering the market on a specific, seemingly insignificant card. Here at The TCG Times, we’ve watched his story unfold, culminating in a once-dollar-bin card achieving unprecedented value.
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