The live card glossary
· 8 min read · By United Card Exchange floor team
Slabs, chase, pop reports, breaks, personals, razz, and everything else you'll hear on a UCE stream, explained.
Live card streams have a vocabulary that can sound like a different language the first night you watch. This is the short version of the terms you will hear most often on a United Card Exchange stream, written for buyers and new streamers alike.
- Slab
- A card that has been graded and sealed in a tamper-evident plastic case by a grading company such as PSA, CGC, or BGS. The label shows the grade.
- Chase
- The most sought-after card or cards in a set. Opening packs for a chase is the reason most breaks exist.
- Pop report
- A grading company's population report: how many copies of a card have received each grade. Low population at a high grade generally means scarcity.
- Box break
- A sealed box or case opened live on stream, with the contents distributed to buyers who purchased spots before the break.
- Personal
- A sealed product a buyer purchases for themselves and has opened live on stream. Everything pulled goes to that one buyer.
- Bundle
- A group of cards or products sold together as one lot, often at a lower combined price than the items would fetch individually.
- ETB
- Elite Trainer Box. A retail sealed product containing booster packs, sleeves, dice, and accessories for a given set.
- Alt art
- Alternate-art card. A version of a card with different, usually full-bleed, artwork from the standard print. Frequently the chase in modern sets.
- WOTC
- Wizards of the Coast, the publisher of English Pokémon cards from 1999 to 2003. Shorthand for the vintage era.
- 1st edition
- Cards from the first print run of a WOTC-era set, marked with a 1st Edition stamp. Typically the most valuable print of a vintage card.
- Shadowless
- An early Base Set print without the drop shadow to the right of the artwork box. Scarcer than the later unlimited print.
- Reprint wave
- A new print run of an existing set arriving at retail. Reprint waves increase supply and tend to soften sealed prices in the short term.
- Set rotation
- The point at which older sets leave the competitive format. Rotation shifts demand toward newer sets and can change how singles are valued.