📊 Weekly Market Reports

Magic: The Gathering

News: Hall of Fame season is in full swing, with Reid Duke publicly outlining his 2026 Pro Tour Hall of Fame ballot even as the official voting period reportedly closes today, a neat little collision of transparency and deadline pressure. On the product side, 2026’s full Magic set release schedule has been laid out, and Universes Beyond keeps marching, with Star Trek Welcome Decks revealed and a batch of Star Trek commons and uncommons spoiled. Commander players get their own spotlight, as the full contents of the Secret Lair Commander Deck featuring Hatsune Miku are now known, and Mystery Booster Commander Edition has stepped out of the shadows with complete details and all its new cards spoiled.

Tournament: Tournament data this week paints a familiar picture, with cEDH leaning hard into efficient commanders and fast mana as Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy, Kraum and Tymna, and Rograkh with Thrasios sit atop the archetype spread while Sol Ring, Command Tower, and Lotus Petal quietly appear in nearly every list like the basic food groups of the format. Standard looks tightly clustered around red interaction and flexible burn with Abrade, Ashling's Command, and Broadside Barrage each showing up in half the decks, suggesting a format where cheap removal and reach are mandatory. Modern, meanwhile, continues to be defined by blue red and blue white mana bases, with Steam Vents, Scalding Tarn, and Flooded Strand leading the pack, a reminder that fetch shock infrastructure is still the skeleton key for casting spells on time.

Metrics: This week’s Magic metrics look like someone kicked the Treasure chest, with the market average up a hefty 63.8 percent and a dozen unusual spikes lighting up the board. Last Laugh, reportedly riding Smaug, the Impenetrable synergy, jumped 364 percent to $7.74, the kind of move that usually means copies are getting cleared out quickly rather than a gentle uptick. Rain of Riches, reportedly following The Hobbit spoilers and new Treasure payoffs like Thorin and Smaug, climbed 66 percent to $12, while Fanatic of Rhonas at $18.45, Broadside Bombardiers at $2.19, and Apex Devastator at $4.46 all posted sizable gains that suggest a mix of thin supply and renewed interest rather than a single clean narrative tying them together.

Biggest gainer: Last Laugh: up 364% this week

Pokémon TCG

News: International Cat Day is apparently a Meowth holiday now, with two new Meowth cards revealed and the 30th Celebration product also showcasing Meowth and Alolan Meowth ahead of its September release. On the competitive side, Pokémon is already dressing up the 2026 World Championships, rolling out the official Pokémon UNITE tournament theme track “OUT LOUD,” a global trailer for PokémonXP and the 2026 Worlds, and an official anthem “Champions” by Loren Allred. Around the edges, Nintendo is quietly flexing with 3.82 million Nintendo Switch 2 units sold in a strong Q1 FY2027 report, The Duskbloods network test has its August participants locked in, and Ace Trainer rewards will feature a Celebratory Fanfare card for 2026, just in case you needed more reasons to grind.

Tournament: Standard play this week is a three deck story, with Mega Excadrill narrowly ahead at 7.9 percent of the field, Dragapult close behind at 7.4 percent, and Festival Lead decks right on their heels at 7.1 percent. Under the hood, though, the format looks almost scripted, with Boss's Orders appearing in 92.2 percent of lists, Lillie's Determination in 87.3 percent, and Night Stretcher in 85.4 percent, a trio of staples that quietly define how nearly every game is sequenced and closed out regardless of which archetype you shuffle up.

Metrics: This week’s metrics look less like a meta shift and more like the market tripping over a stack of older promos. Pansage BW14 vaulted 323 percent to $54.99, a level that almost certainly reflects very thin supply where a couple of high sales can reset the asking price, while Chespin XY01 and a Pikachu printing climbed 228 percent to $4.92 and 265 percent to $7 respectively, again big percentage moves on cards that were cheaper and lightly listed. Slowbro at $15.82, up 143 percent, and Pokemon Reversal at $3.78, up 83 percent, round out a week where the average move was a hefty 73.7 percent and 19 unusual spikes were detected, with no verified catalyst, so what we are really seeing is scattered price jumps in pockets of low inventory rather than a clear, single story about demand.

Biggest gainer: Pansage - BW14: up 323% this week

One Piece TCG

News: This week is mostly about Bandai quietly tuning the machine. OnePiece.gg logged updates to OFFICIAL CARD SLEEVES 16, the BOOSTER PACK -THE WORLD’S STRONGEST WARRIORS- [OP-17], the Double Pack Set Vol.12 [DP-12], and the TREASURE PACK CAMPAIGN tied to the OP-17 Dash Pack, all small signals that the next wave of product is being lined up. On the content side, TCGPlayer pushed back to back metagame roundups for the best decks in July and August 2026, and published a broader think piece asking whether it is time to rethink the traditional "Big Three" TCGs as One Piece continues its self-appointed quest to become King of the Card Games.

Tournament: Standard this week is very much a Luffy format, with Monkey.D.Luffy leaders showing up in about 22 percent of the field, followed by Dracule Mihawk at 17.8 percent and Marshall.D.Teach at 8.9 percent as the main alternatives. Across those decks, the card choices tell the real story: Roronoa Zoro is in 41.5 percent of lists, Luffy himself appears in 38.3 percent, and Demon Aura Nine Sword Style Asura Blades Drawn Dead Man's Game shows up in 33.8 percent, a trio that points to an aggressive, board-focused metagame where efficient attackers and powerful combat tricks are doing most of the work.

Metrics: Prices in One Piece drifted up more than usual this week, with a market average move of 14.9 percent and nine flagged spikes suggesting some concentrated activity rather than a sleepy seller update. Mid-tier pieces like John Giant and Hattori climbed into the 9 dollar range on gains of roughly 30 percent, which at these price points usually means a mix of higher recent sales and not a lot of copies left to undercut them. The Premium Card Collection version of For Fun followed the same pattern at a lower absolute price, while the Koby Treasure Cup promo and OP05-119 Manga Monkey.D.Luffy jumped at the high end, now posted around 600 dollars and 5000 dollars respectively, moves that look less like casual demand and more like a few aggressive sales resetting expectations in very thin, high-end markets.

Biggest gainer: John Giant: up 34% this week

Yu-Gi-Oh!

News: Yu-Gi-Oh! news this week is a mixed bag of competitive structure and flavor drops, starting with the announcement of Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series Japan Tokyo 2026 for the OCG, a reminder that Konami is already planning the long game on that side of the ocean. On the TCG front, the new Ultimate Tournament Pack is reportedly more than a simple branding upgrade, with Zachariah Butler framing it as a genuine shift in how these packs function for organized play. Around that, YGOrganization previewed Legendary ARC-V Decks: Lunalight for LAVD-AE, showed off some Chronicles reference arts and a Diabellstar comment, and continued the parade of Rush Duel reveals with Kewl Tune , Herald Edition from CDP and a trio of RD/KP26 spotlights including “The Sounds of a Piano Heard After School,” “Healthie Olivia,” and alternative artworks for “Headliner of Reigning,” all suggesting Konami is still very committed to giving the side formats their own distinct personality.

Tournament: Kewl Tune quietly sits on top of the TCG field at 17.7 percent, with Blitzclique trailing at 12.9 percent and Branded still clinging to relevance at 7.3 percent, a reminder that fusion piles never really leave, they just get outpaced. Across all of that, Mulcharmy Fuwalos showing up in 62.5 percent of decks is the real headline, functioning as the glue of the format, with Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 49.2 percent and Called by the Grave at 48.6 percent confirming that generic handtraps and catch‑all answers are still the tax you pay to sit at the competitive table.

Metrics: This week’s metrics look like the market took one of those Snake-Eye combo lines and never stopped extending, with Original Sinful Spoils, Snake-Eye showing up twice, climbing 236 percent to $3.63 and 199 percent to $4.49 on what appears to be fast moving listings rather than any confirmed external trigger. Sword Ryzeal’s 138 percent jump to $5.96 and Emissary of the Afterlife’s move past the $18 mark both fit the pattern of sharp increases in a week that logged 60 unusual spikes, suggesting a mix of thin supply and a handful of higher sales pulling averages upward. Even Fusion Devourer in Ultimate Rare quietly doubled to $4.99, a reminder that older foils can post big percentage moves when the market is thin, even without any reported tournament or ban list catalyst behind them.

Biggest gainer: Original Sinful Spoils - Snake-Eye: up 236% this week

Final Fantasy TCG

Tournament: Wind/Water is clearly setting the pace in Standard at 22.2 percent of the field, with Lightning/Water and Ice/Lightning/Water each trailing at 11.1 percent, a familiar picture of flexible, multi element shells trying to keep up with the premier tempo/control build. Across these lists Sephiroth and Zidane show up in 45.5 percent of decks, with Melusine in 36.4 percent, which tells you that regardless of your CP colors you are still expected to answer these marquee Forwards and their support or risk falling behind the core engines that are defining the format.

Metrics: Cloud (Legend) is the headline this week, jumping 481 percent to just under fifty dollars, a move far beyond the market’s already elevated 157.5 percent average and likely reflecting a small number of high sales in a relatively thin market rather than a broad, stable reset. Odin EX and the Full Art Behemoth (19-066C) both climbed sharply as well, up 83 percent to $2.74 and 54 percent to $9.23 respectively, modest prices that can swing hard when a few listings disappear. Alexander’s quieter 12 percent rise to $3.41 looks more like a typical drift upward, and with 18 unusual spikes flagged and no confirmed catalysts, this week’s data reads more like a series of localized supply squeezes than a coordinated shift in the Final Fantasy TCG economy.

Biggest gainer: Cloud (Legend): up 481% this week

Flesh and Blood

News: This week’s Flesh and Blood beat is split between spotlight and spectacle, with an official interview of Jacob Clements on one side and a World Tour Weekly update on the other, quietly reminding us the competitive circuit is very much in motion. Skirmish Season 15 is being framed as “Primed to Fight,” while TCGPlayer is busy telling everyone about “The 10 Cards Everybody Wants from Mastery Pack Warrior,” which, at minimum, confirms Warrior fans are not short on enthusiasm. Prism, Awakener of Sol, gets a formal Roll of Honor treatment from the official site, and in a neat bit of meta commentary, TCGPlayer runs a piece titled “I Visited the Flesh and Blood Booth at Gen Con and I Guess I Play FAB Now?” that reads like a love letter to organized play and onboarding, the kind publishers wish they could bottle.

Tournament: Classic Constructed this week looks like a format where Olympia, Prized Fighter is quietly sitting at the top of the heap, showing up in 9.2 percent of reported lists and setting the pace for everyone else. Hala, Bladesaint of the Vow at 7.4 percent and Oscilio, Constella Intelligence at 6.3 percent round out a field that is still diverse, but clearly orbiting around these three heroes as the primary archetypes players are choosing when the games actually matter.

Metrics: Prices nudged up across the board this week, with the market average climbing 11.9 percent and a cluster of 21 unusual spikes suggesting more turbulence than clarity. Golden Gauntlets and Censor both posted double digit gains to modest mid tier levels, the kind of move that can come from a handful of higher sales rather than a wave of new decks. The LGS promos told a similar story, with Sigil of Temporal Manipulation (Extended Art), Slap-Happy, and Prized Galea all rising sharply, but with no confirmed catalyst this looks more like thin supply and aggressive repricing on niche pieces than a single meta shock.

Biggest gainer: Golden Gauntlets: up 32% this week

Grand Archive

News: This week the spotlight is on "Casella , The Weight of Looking Up," a new Grand Archive TCG piece that, at minimum, adds another name to the growing roster of champions players have to memorize. Details in the headline are sparse, but the focus on Casella suggests a character driven reveal, the sort of thing that usually signals upcoming story or product attention even if the publisher is not ready to spell out the fine print yet.

Tournament: Standard this week looks surprisingly balanced, with Water Aetherwing Diana quietly sitting at the top at 7.6 percent of the field, followed closely by Wind Seiryuu at 6.7 percent and Fire Oblation Ciel at 6.2 percent. That spread suggests no single champion or line is choking the format, instead you have Diana leaning on water’s control and sustain tools, Seiryuu leveraging wind’s tempo and evasive pressure, and Ciel representing the burn and board clear end of the spectrum, a pretty textbook mix of control, tempo, and proactive fire strategies all sharing the top tables without any one list running away with the metagame.

Metrics: Prices in Grand Archive drifted upward this week, with the market average move at a modest 12.1 percent and a mix of competitive tools and chase rarities sharing the spotlight. Purifying Thurible and Polaris, Twinkling Cauldron both posted double digit gains into the mid single digit and low double digit dollar range, the kind of move that usually reflects steady demand rather than a single outlier sale, while Abnegation’s climb toward three dollars suggests a similar broad uptick from a lower base. On the higher end, Snow White, Weiss Queen crept up 11 percent to just under nineteen dollars, and Fabled Sapphire Fatestone // Genbu, Black Tortoise in CSR form jumped 18 percent to the five hundred dollar mark, a shift that in a card that expensive typically indicates a few large purchases moving a thin supply rather than a flood of new buyers.

Biggest gainer: Purifying Thurible: up 23% this week

Sorcery: Contested Realm

News: This week Sorcery is leaning into its community side, with All Things Contested Realm spotlighting "The Ruby Core-ier," a fan-created magazine that reportedly digs into the game from a player driven perspective, the kind of thing you start when you realize you care way too much about threshold math. On the official front, Sorcery TCG is promoting its presence at the Auckland Card Show, outlining tournaments, Learn to Play sessions, artist appearances, and promos, signaling that this event is meant to be part convention, part competitive stop, and part recruitment drive for new avatars.

Tournament: Constructed this week was a fairly tight field, with Water Necromancer edging out as the most played avatar at 12.2 percent, just ahead of Earth Imposter at 11.5 percent and Fire Pathfinder at 10.3 percent. That mix points to a meta where graveyard recursion and control from Water, flexible Earth trickery, and proactive Fire aggression are all viable, so players cannot assume a single axis of attack will carry them through a tournament.

Metrics: Sorcery’s secondary market drifted upward this week, with an average move of 13.7 percent and a cluster of eight flagged spikes that look more like price discovery than a single dramatic event. Bottomless Pit Foil led the pack with a 51 percent jump to 101.52 dollars, the kind of move you usually only see when a very thin supply meets a few high sales, while Mount Ussar Sanctuary and Boulevard of Bones Foil climbed more moderately to 42.04 and 33.02 dollars respectively. Lower tier foils like Lucid Dreamers and Screamer nudged up into the low double digits, suggesting a broad lift across premium printings rather than a targeted rush on one deck staple, although with no confirmed catalyst on record this week we are left reading the tape rather than the headlines.

Biggest gainer: Bottomless Pit (Foil): up 51% this week

Shadowverse Evolve

News: Bushiroad is putting Shadowverse: Evolve on the summer stage with the "Bushiroad English Conference Summer 2026," signaling at least a continued effort to talk to the English speaking player base, if not yet a full road map. Alongside that, TCGPlayer is already framing the conversation around Neometropolis with Drew Knapp’s feature, "The 10 Cards Everybody Wants From Neometropolis," positioning the newest set as a futuristic pivot point and singling out a handful of chase pieces that, reportedly, everyone is eyeing as the early standouts.

Tournament: Abysscraft quietly took the driver’s seat in Constructed this week at 22.3 percent of the field, with Dragoncraft close behind at 17.5 percent and Swordcraft rounding out the top tier at 14.4 percent, a spread that says “you have choices” more than “one deck to rule them all.” The numbers point to a format where Abysscraft is the default predator, Dragoncraft supplies the big finishers, and Swordcraft keeps pressure on curve, so anyone sitting down at a competitive table now has to plan for all three rather than hoping to dodge a single boogeyman.

Metrics: Shadowverse Evolve prices drifted upward this week, with the market average up 15.6 percent and a grab bag of 56 unusual spikes that look more like a broad repricing than one clear story. Kuon, Wuxing Master and Shamu & Shama, Posh Felines both saw solid gains in their Starlight versions, now at 18.7 dollars and 10.75 dollars respectively, while Falise, Innocent Sea Spray and Victoria posted similar percentage climbs at lower absolute levels, suggesting multiple crafts getting modest attention rather than a single deck driving demand. The outlier is Galmieux, Omen of Disdain in its U printing, which jumped 21 percent to 124.5 dollars, a move that, without any confirmed catalyst, points to a small number of high sales in a thin market rather than a sudden wave of new players deciding they all need the same dragon at once.

Biggest gainer: Kuon, Wuxing Master (SL): up 25% this week

Riftbound

News: This week Riftbound is doing that early game two step, with Vendetta getting back to back meta checkups as Riftbound.gg posted Week 1 tournament results followed by a Week 2 look at the best performing Legends. On the official side, Riftbound announced details for three Regional Championships, giving Organized Play a clearer spine just as spoiler season ramps up with coverage of both Legacy Set 6 and The Reckoning, Set 7. Rounding things out, individual spotlight pieces drilled into Kennen, Heart of the Tempest, Mel, Soul’s Reflection, and Akali, Rogue Assassin, suggesting that if you are not thinking about how those Legends fit into Vendetta shells, you are probably the one getting vendetta’d.

Tournament: Constructed in Riftbound is already congealing around a familiar trio, with Stacked Deck, Star-Crossed, and Defy showing up in well over a third of lists. When your most played cards all sit around that 38 percent mark, you are looking at core infrastructure pieces, not pet tech, so the early meta seems to revolve around proactive, card efficient shells that lean on these staples for consistency and interaction rather than any single flashy combo.

Metrics: Riftbound’s market drifted up this week, with an average move of 18 percent, but the real story is at the extremes. Renata Glasc, Mastermind Alternate Art and a cluster of midrange playables like Rek'Sai, Viktor, and Vi all climbed in the 22 to 46 percent band, the kind of broad, single digit pricing that usually reflects a mix of casual demand and a few higher sales rather than anyone clearing the shelves. At the top, Sett, The Boss in Metal Prize Wall treatment jumped to about 1375 dollars, a move that looks less like a feeding frenzy and more like what happens when a very thin premium market gets one or two aggressive listings and everyone else quietly adjusts upward.

Biggest gainer: Renata Glasc - Mastermind (Alternate Art): up 46% this week

Disney Lorcana

News: Gen Con coverage this week zoomed in on the Ravensburger booth, where Fabled Troves were the clear draw before players drifted into the wider board game lineup. TCGPlayer also offered an early look at Illumineer's Quest: The Great Hunny Rescue, hinting at how that product might play, and spotlighted Disney Lorcana's new [Format Coconut] as a potential rival to Commander, with Ravensburger reportedly planning to build it collaboratively with the community. Rounding things out, another piece broke down the best selling cards from Attack of the Vine, framed, appropriately, around Gaston taking center stage.

Metrics: This week’s Lorcana metrics look like a modest upswing, with the market average up 15.8 percent and two cards quietly climbing without any confirmed external trigger. Mushu, Stealthy Dragon posted the bigger move, up 20 percent to about 7 dollars, a level that suggests either a handful of higher sales in a relatively thin market or a broad willingness to pay a bit more for a solid role player. Mickey Mouse & Minnie Mouse, Adventuring Duo rose 12 percent to 2.18 dollars, a smaller absolute jump that reads more like typical organic demand than a coordinated push, the kind of incremental adjustment you see when people are actually putting a card in decks rather than just in shopping carts.

Biggest gainer: Mushu - Stealthy Dragon: up 20% this week

Digimon Card Game

News: Juan López, writing on TCGPlayer, is reportedly digging into a trend most Digimon players have felt but not necessarily named, the rise of archetype families in the Digimon Card Game. The piece focuses on how design trends have shifted over the past year, with decks increasingly built around tighter, more self contained archetype lines, a change that quietly reshapes how memory curves, deckbuilding, and even collection habits feel for anyone shuffling up in this format.

Tournament: Standard this week looks like a grab bag, with "Other" decks making up over sixty percent of the field, so we are clearly in a brew friendly moment rather than a solved format. Within the named strategies, Olympos XII leads the identifiable packs at 7.4 percent with Vemmon trailing at 4.5 percent, but the real story is in the glue cards, Asuna Shiroki showing up in nearly a quarter of lists, Genshi Continent & Ashino Island in 17 percent, and Analog Youth in 15.1 percent, which tells you that whatever people are playing, a shared core of powerful support and memory management is quietly defining how these tournaments are actually won.

Metrics: Prices in Digimon crept up across the board this week, with a market average move of 11.8 percent and a mix of genuine demand and some very thin shelves doing the talking. Blimpmon’s 29 percent jump to just over 10 dollars looks like a modest card in a shallow pool, where a few higher sales can drag the average up quickly, while Ukkomon and Habakirimon // Habakiri Alternate Art posted mid‑teens percentage gains into the mid single digits, suggesting steady interest rather than a coordinated sweep of listings. At the top end, Imperialdramon Dragon Mode Alternate Art climbed 18 percent to about 252 dollars and Falcomon from Update Pack 2024 rose 13 percent to 17 dollars, both price tiers where low seller counts and sporadic high‑end sales tend to move the needle faster than any obvious external shock, even if it feels like someone just discovered their old binder is worth more than their car.

Biggest gainer: Blimpmon: up 29% this week

Star Wars: Unlimited

News: StarWarsUnlimited.gg spent the week looking backward and inward, with "Galactic Recap: Season One" reportedly walking through the first competitive season and its key storylines, and "Riddles from Home" hinting at more narrative flavor for the game itself. Taken together it is less about breaking news and more about stitching the early life of Star Wars: Unlimited into a coherent arc, part tournament diary, part lore tease.

Metrics: Prices drifted upward across the board this week, with the market average up 27.3 percent and a dozen cards showing unusual spikes, but the pattern looks more like thin supply getting stressed than some grand meta revelation. Neel, The Cutest Boy nearly tripled to 2.20 dollars and Grogu, Yes. Yes. Yes. Hyperspace Foil climbed 50 percent to just under 3 dollars, both moving from bulk toward low-playable territory where a couple of higher sales can reset posted prices. On the higher end, Elzar Mann, Haunted by a Vision rose 32 percent to 4.70 dollars and Han Solo, Hibernation Sick Prestige gained 26 percent to 5.74 dollars, while No Glory, Only Results now sits at 17.57 dollars after a 22 percent jump, a level that suggests broad demand across sellers rather than a single buyout, even if no clear catalyst is visible in the data.

Biggest gainer: Neel - The Cutest Boy: up 147% this week

Gundam Card Game

News: This week is very much about the first anniversary victory lap, with GundamCard.gg spotlighting new products like the Official Playmat and Card Set Athrun & Cagalli [EVX11], Official Card Sleeves EX 03 [EVX12], and Premium Card Collection 02 [EVX13], plus a dedicated 1st Anniversary Event to tie it all together. TCGPlayer is getting in on the moment with a feature asking which anniversary era cards are still worth "breaking the bank," and Bandai is clearly pushing visibility by taking The Gundam Card Game to PAX West 2026, where the game will try to convert convention foot traffic into long term players rather than just one weekend of curious onlookers.

Metrics: Prices were climbing almost across the board this week, with the average move up about 43 percent and a cluster of cards quietly getting more expensive without any confirmed external trigger. Gundam Barbatos Lupus jumped 250 percent to 7 dollars, a big percentage move that still keeps it in the midrange, while the GD05 Release Event Shining Gundam climbed 129 percent to 3.78 dollars, a shift that looks more like a handful of higher sales than a full scale run. The real pressure is in the premium slots, where Zaku II FZ R+ is now at 34.39 dollars, Momentary Respite from Store Tournament Winner Pack 02 is at 14.24 dollars, and Resource R 038 C++ has crept up 30 percent to 44.25 dollars, all consistent with thin parallel and prize card supply getting repriced rather than a sudden new meta revelation.

Biggest gainer: Gundam Barbatos Lupus: up 250% this week