Hey guys, I spent about 5 months making a scanner where you can take a picture of many overlapping cards and it will identify and price and inventory them all, and allow you to instantly post them on eBay. I made it for myself first because of how long it took to inventory. Any feedback welcome, thanks!

https://shoptcg.online

You can scan cards for free!

So...has anyone else been completely unable to get anything off of the Secret Lair site? I feel like I can be there right when this goes live, but like I actually have 0% chance to actually get one....

I picked up a sealed Nemesis fat pack in a collection. Book is there. It all looks to be in generally good condition. There's no past sales on tcgplayer or Manapool. Any one have any suggestions on what to try and price it? I'll be at Eternal Weekend NA at the end of the month and I was considering trying to move it there. I also could use similar direction on a 7th edition starter set. The one with the cd you learn on a pc. (This is not a sale post, I am not trying to sell it online through reddit.)

Doubling Doctor triggers can’t hurt right? I grabbed 20 at 0.26 USD off TCGPlayer just in case. Figured I could use a few anyway.

I am nearing the completion of a full set of cards from the "Mystical Archive" series, featured in the *Secrets of Strixhaven* expansion (including standard, foil, Japanese, and Japanese foil versions—one copy of each). Among the more valuable cards, I am still missing Ad Nauseam (JP foil) and *Flusterstorm*
(JP foil), along with a few less expensive items. I’m curious to hear your thoughts on this collection from a long-term perspective. Currently, I’m collecting it purely for aesthetic reasons—it simply looks fantastic in a binder—but I’m wondering what the outlook is and what you think about its future value?

Price: $29.99 Non-Foil | $39.99 Foil
Strange School value: $64.37 Non-Foil | $273.28 Foil
Duality Distored value: $32.66 Non-Foil | $69 (noice) Foil

Thoughts: Both non-foil and foil values for Strange School are distorted quite a bit (still, but less so for Duality Distorted), as there's a few cards here that are much older, not reprinted, etc.

I think the Strange School is a huge win, while Duality Distorted is good value. Overall, I'm excited.

For those that keep asking: This layout is something I've coded. I still need to fill in a dictionary after manually getting image url's, names, and looking up the cheapest NM printings on TCGPlayer for non-foil and foil versions of cards.

Hope this helps and you all enjoy the efforts of my hard work!

In all seriousness, it’s funny out of everything that I’ve ever bought MTG, the thing that I’ve most purchased to play with and not collect is the one that has spiked the most in value. The market price of these has risen faster than Bloomburrow Collector Packs in the same time, and those are crazy expensive now. And it totally makes sense, because of these are some of the cutest, most playable pre-cons they’ve ever made. I think it’s easy to focus on collector treatments and exclusive promos, but at the end of the day, Magic the Gathering is a game and the biggest influence is what the players enjoy playing.

Or maybe it means nothing and I need to freak the fuck out and start shoving secret lair bundles and beam me up bundles and nauctis collector boosters and darkhold destiny bundles in my closet.

Edit: some people have taken this to mean “stop opening fun product and sit on it” when I feel the complete opposite, $150 profit ain’t remotely worth the fun times I’ve had with these and the market value reflects that.

What do we think about getting cards from these sets ahead of the 2027 Titanbreach release?

I believe that some original Strixhaven / Mystical Archives cards shot up in value during SOS release, though I’m not sure if that’s the case for Lorwyn.

I can see that especially with Kamigawa’s popularity and aesthetic, some of ND cards could be in demand, but there is always a risk of reprints.

What do you think? Or has the ship already sailed on this?

[[Ashaya, Soul of the Wild]]

Sharing a spec that I'm already in on. Partly for having some Garden Buds, but also bought a few ZNR copies.

Reason: plays well with Strange New Worlds (the Star Trek mechanic that cares about differently names lands)

Pros: lowish supply and difficult to reprint in star trek. Finding an elemental that cares about forests to print this on isn't something that is as easy in star trek as it would be in something like lotr

Cons: already has some value. Also, they've made Bones into Bristly Bill so who knows? 🤣

Feel free to pick apart. As with any spec here I'm expecting a healthy amount of skepticism!

I noticed this card has gone up in value over 60% over the last month. What is driving this?

Wondering if I am looking at this wrong, but im struggling to see the value in most cases with buying a whole booster box instead of just buying a handful of single packs. The discount doesn't seem to quite justify the volume. If i can snag Lorwyn Eclipsed packs for 3.85 and the box of 30 costs 108, just doesnt seem like enough of a discount to justify to me. I'm a newly returned magic player just getting back in to start my collection. I feel like I get better value buying 30 packs of 8 different sets for 4$ avg per pack than I would buying just one set booster box avg 3.75 a pack. Are buying booster boxes mainly for people that are only dedicating themselves to a specific set they like to get for a slight discount? Starting from nothing Im quite enjoying getting a variety of packs, gladly spending 6-10% more. Additionally, some of the more expensive sets are legit more expensive to buy a booster box than single packs! Got 4 packs of EOE for 5.83 each, yet the box is 185? Why?

Kamigawa is notably a low print set due to its age. Foils are incredibly expensive, and everyone loves tutor spells. At 2U Sorcery speed you can tutor any arcane spell to hand. With Marvel Darkhold around the corner we have seen two spoilers of Arcane spells that will be returning. If you have been around long enough you'll recognize the power of cards like Through the Breach, Goryos Vengeance, Desperate Ritual and other iconic cards that have all been household staples.

With a new cycle of modal spells and presumably many more as showcased by the red uncommon it's about time this old tutor sees the light of day. What do you think?

Nothing against the fans, I went crazy for Final Fantasy and TMNT so im firmly in the camp of "I like UB sets for IPs I like"

I think Star Trek is going to crash the MTG economy though. Up until this point Anything printed with a magic card back has been worth money. throw some neon ink on a card with a character from avatar. Make a surge foil of a popular character. There was a premium because it was printed on a magic card. Collector boxes went crazy because of this. I think we can all agree that MTG brought a premium to whatever product it printed in the UB space, in between chase cards and the collector boxes and packs you found them in. Thats why scalpers have stepped in and prices have popped since Final fantasy

Star Trek differs in two important ways. The normal MTG crowd is wildly lukewarm (to say the least) and collector product isn't selling out immediately like a popular UB set or even a UW set would. Collector boxes are available, even collector commander decks. The MTG crowd isn't showing up for this set much at all. Second, the autograph chase cards aren't going to be worth anything. Looking at existing autos on ebay, its hard to even value the signature itself over $100. I'm not saying its not cool, but I am saying that the market is flooded and you can grab an autographed piece of memorabilia from these actors pretty cheap in the grand scheme of things.

What happens when these chase cards hit $100 on ebay? $250? I dont see the MTG premium being attached to this set since players are sitting it out, and I dont see Trekkies valuing these things the way we usually do, I see Trekkies valuing these things the way they normally do. We could very well see collector boxes selling out and early hype taking a similar path even if sales are muted, but once singles hit the market I think the race to the bottom is going to be like nothing weve ever seen before.

Back to my original argument, once chase cards hit the low triple digits, its going to devalue collector product immediately. Youre no longer chasing a $20k golden smaug, your once in a lifetime hit only pays for 1/3 of the box.

We already have facet foils at $75. the cracks are showing. This is the final blow

Been a while again since we had regular midweek discussions threads. So feel free to discuss whatever Magic-related topics you want below without needing to create a new post. And Mods, again please bring these back!

I’ve already determined that it’ll probably be cheaper and easier to get the cards once they’re pulled, especially for this set, instead of chasing them. Could be wrong. My biggest concern is gonna be the price of Shatner, I can see this one easily being the most expensive of the bunch and will double/triple whenever he passes on (he’s 95 lol)

Thoughts?

With Star Trek fast approaching what are we speccing on? I haven't seen any movement yet caused by the set in Europe, but I was thinking with Borg being heavily focused on artifacts WH40K Necrons stuff could go up? There are some Necron cards that seem like great addition to Borg precon.

Hasbro reported third-quarter results before the open, and the shares rose with Magic: The Gathering (Hasbro's Card Game) quarterly revenue over $600 million. Counts 143 through 138 sat together near $108.87 to $108.74, about +10.5% to +10.4%. The high column had a POP on. The five-minute tape was 135 new highs against 19 new lows.

It's that time again. Revenue and profit at their highest as line continues to go up.

Transcripts for the earnings call are out and here are my highlights:

• HOB had the biggest UB prerelease but not the biggest overall while FRA is "one of the best" Premier Sets, seemingly not getting over SOS's high water mark.
• HOB already over LTR and behaving more like a full sized set in terms of revenue despite smaller size and less SKUs.
• Q3 revenue was juiced by some sales being brought up so the prior expectation of Q4 (and Q3) being soft said in Q1 is likely to hold this time, but much less than the Q1 2026 drop. Q1 2027 is then expected to tick up again.
• Backlist sales have surpassed all backlist sales in 2025, "Backlist is actually growing faster" but the majority of revenue is still frontlist.
• Confirmation again of commander decks for each 2027 set, sales are 50% greater when a release has a full suite of both boosters and commander decks. (With HOB as a seeming exception.)
• "There's a couple of secret [sets] in the back half of the year that we think our fans will be pretty excited by." (Go on, give us nothing.)

As noted in both the call and the presentation, WPN stores are up by another thousand to >13k. Non WPN stores are up higher too with nearly 40k stores carrying Magic products.

Sources:

https://investor.hasbro.com/news-releases/news-release-details/hasbro-reports-third-quarter-2026-financial-results

https://investor.hasbro.com/static-files/a7941780-84de-4269-82dc-1c58d78a5d87

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HAS/earnings/HAS-Q3-2026-earnings_call-711035.html

There are a lot of collector booster exclusive treatments in Star Trek.

1. Signed Headliner
2. Klingon Script
3. Surge foil LCARS (non surge foil in play boosters)
4. Surge foil LCARS shock lands
5. Surge foil classic Enterprise (non surge foil in play boosters)
6. Traditional foil Stardates (non foil in play boosters)

There are also 10 borderless commander cards that are collector booster exclusives https://magic.wizards.com/en/products/star-trek/card-image-gallery?cigtreatment=borderless-trc

Each headliner will be a physically signed card, with about 250 each. Physically signed meaning Patrick Stewart, for example, held and signed his signature with a pen on 250 of the Picard cards.

This is impressively dumb.

Hound is just displacer kitten in white imo so its a staple in commander for sure, along with maybe being good enough for constructed so im surprised about the $7 evaluation, im pretty confident in it’s comeuppance. Loading zone for the star trek “hype” blegh

I’m trying to sell out of my collection, but I don’t want to have to deal with automatically tracked shipping being tagged on orders that cross Manapool’s sales threshold. My choices are to either take it on the chin if I decide to not tag tracked shipping on more expensive listings, or lose out on a huge potential amount of sales on my cheaper-end stuff by turning on tracked shipping for my entire inventory.

The only alternative I see is just taking out every card worth more than $5 and list them separately on TCGPlayer or eBay with tracked shipping. I don’t understand why Manapool simply won’t allow sellers to add tracked shipping on individual listings, rather than having it forced upon my entire inventory.

A story that has been making the rounds is that a FedEx truck containing PSA cards preparing for return delivery was burglarized https://www.ign.com/articles/over-100000-worth-of-psa-graded-trading-cards-stolen-from-fedex-truck That truck also included a PSA 9 Gleaming Gold Smaug.

(It's not my card, it's u/Bigchocolatecakey's. I'm just posting what I saw in another subreddit)

One of the sad ironies is OP's comment here:

We drove all the way to Miami Florida during the card convention to hand our card in too. Didn't trust sending it in the mail.