Why the card market moved to live, and why we never run dry.
Short, measured reads from a team that has been selling on camera since 2019. No hype, no price targets, and no forecasts.
The Pokémon market today
Pokémon remains the largest trading-card category in the world, with sealed product, graded singles, and Japanese releases each behaving as distinct markets. Prices move weekly; set rotation, reprint waves, and grading-population shifts drive them. We publish a short weekly read so buyers know what they're watching.
Why live is winning
Live selling collapses the gap between discovery and purchase: the buyer sees the exact card, watches the pull happen, asks a question, and checks out in seconds. Trust is built on camera, not in a listing. Platforms like Whatnot turned that into a category, and the sellers who were there first have the audiences to prove it.
How we stay stocked
Centralized buying across all facilities, direct distributor allocations, a standing collection-purchase program, and an inventory floor we refuse to drop below. Product moves between cities so no room ever runs out. That is what “always in stock, always selling” means operationally.
A library of cards, priced nightly.
TCG Study tracks the sealed side of the market: booster boxes, cases, elite trainer boxes, structure decks, and Secret Lair drops, across sixteen games, from 1994 Magic through this month's presales. Every product carries a market price pulled nightly from the live TCGplayer feed, a percentage against original MSRP, and a price ledger where verified sales are marked separately from estimates.
5,172
Sealed products tracked
16
Card games covered
5,107
With a live price tonight
21:30 UTC
Re-priced nightly
Tonight's biggest 24-hour moves
- Foundations Commander Deck - Keen EngineeringCommander: Foundations · Magic$27.91+22.9%
- Union Arena Event Pack Vol. 1Earlier shelves · unionarena$4.20+15.4%
- Collector Booster Display CaseReality Fracture · Magic$2,279.04-15.4%
- Starter Deck DisplayFabled · Lorcana$187.08+14.1%
- Meditations on Nature - Non-Foil EditionSecret Lair Drop Series · Magic · Secret Lair$100.63-11.7%
Jump into the stacks
Not investment advice. TCG Study is not affiliated with The Pokémon Company, Ravensburger, or Disney.
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Set release calendar
Upcoming English and Japanese releases we are allocating for. Dates are confirmed as distributors confirm them.
Nothing on the confirmed board right now. We list a set here once a distributor gives us a firm street date, not when a rumour starts, so an empty week means an empty week. The research desk tracks prices on everything already released in the meantime.