The Price Comparison tool aggregates pricing data across 35,000+ trading card products for Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, and Yu-Gi-Oh!. It shows market, low, mid, and high prices broken down by condition (NM through Damaged), variant (Holofoil, Reverse Holofoil, etc.), and printing (1st Edition, Unlimited). Pricing data is updated regularly from publicly available marketplace sources.
The Card Scanner uses your device's camera to identify trading cards via image recognition. Point your camera at a card, and the scanner matches it against our catalog to show you the card name, set, current market pricing, and condition-specific values — useful for quickly pricing cards at trade shows, while sorting through collections, or verifying pulls.
Our pricing data is aggregated from publicly available marketplace listings and completed sales. We collect data across multiple condition grades and variants to give a more complete picture than any single marketplace provides. We strongly prefer official API access where available and actively pursue formal data partnerships. See our Research page for more details on methodology.
Yes — the Price Comparison tool, Card Scanner, and all public-facing tools are completely free. The entire platform runs on free-tier cloud infrastructure by design. We believe pricing transparency shouldn't be paywalled.
The product catalog is refreshed on a regular cycle across our distributed collection infrastructure. Market prices, low listings, and recent sales are updated each cycle. The goal is near-daily freshness for actively traded products.
Cards & Condition
We use the standard TCG grading scale:
NM — Near Mint · LP — Lightly Played · MP — Moderately Played HP — Heavily Played · DMG — Damaged
Condition is assessed honestly. If you have a question about a specific card's condition, feel free to contact us.
Condition is one of the largest price determinants in the secondary market. A Near Mint card can be worth 2–100× more than the same card in Heavily Played or Damaged condition, especially for vintage or high-demand products. Our Price Comparison tool breaks out pricing by condition so you can see exactly what each grade is worth — not just a single "market price" that obscures the range.
Variants refer to the card's foiling: Normal, Holofoil, Reverse Holofoil, etc.
Printings refer to the edition: 1st Edition, Unlimited, etc.
These combine to create distinct price points. A 1st Edition Holofoil is a completely different price than an Unlimited Normal of the same card. Our tools decompose these automatically so you always compare apples to apples.
Currently: Pokémon TCG, Magic: The Gathering, and Yu-Gi-Oh!. Our catalog covers English-language products across all three games, spanning thousands of sets and hundreds of thousands of individual product-variant-condition combinations.
Research
Our research initiative investigates pricing transparency and information asymmetry in the collectible trading card secondary market. The TCG market has undergone significant corporate consolidation since 2022, concentrating control of grading, marketplaces, and pricing analytics under interconnected entities. We study how this affects price discovery, consumer access to data, and cross-platform pricing dynamics.
The research is led by Eric Schnelker, an Operations Analyst for the Department of the Air Force and M.S. Software Engineering candidate at Purdue University. Eric is also an active card collector and vendor — that firsthand market experience is what identified the transparency gap and motivated building these tools. See the About page for more background.
We collect only publicly available data: listing prices, completed sale prices, and product metadata visible to any marketplace user. We do not collect personal information, private transaction details, or any data behind login walls. Seller identities are anonymized in all analyses. We strongly prefer official API access and actively pursue formal data partnerships where available.
The platform runs on a distributed cloud architecture with multiple compute instances for data collection, Oracle databases for staging and production, and Firebase Hosting for the frontend. The entire stack operates on free-tier cloud resources — a deliberate design choice that ensures the project can't be shut down by revoking billing access. The technical architecture is described in more detail on the Research page.
Selling to Us
Yes — we actively buy Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering singles and collections. Check our Current Card Buylist for cards we're actively seeking and the prices we're offering. If you have cards not on the list, reach out — we may still be interested.
Buylist prices are typically 50–70% of current market value, depending on the card's demand and how quickly it moves. This is standard across the industry — the spread covers our time sorting, grading, listing, and shipping. Our Price Comparison tool shows you exactly what market prices look like so you can make informed decisions.
Yes — we regularly attend trade shows and card events in the Oklahoma City metro area. Trade shows are where we do most of our buying and selling. Follow us for event announcements, or contact us if you'd like to meet up at an upcoming show.
For larger collections or high-value cards, we accept mail-in submissions. Contact us with a description of what you have, and we'll provide a quote and shipping instructions. Cards should be sleeved and protected in transit — we recommend top loaders in a bubble mailer at minimum.
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