📊 Weekly Market Reports

Magic: The Gathering

News: Standard players woke up to find that Badgermole Cub, Gran-Gran, and Stormchaser’s Talent are all out of the format following a sweeping August banned and restricted announcement that also reportedly hit Legacy and Vintage, prompting coverage from MTGGoldfish, Star City Games, and TCGPlayer Infinite plus at least one podcast title that suggests Wizards may have gone a little hard on the family theme. While those lists were being updated and argued over, Star City Games laid out Magic: The Gathering’s full set release schedule for 2026, and over on TCGPlayer Infinite Reid Duke, now on the Pro Tour Hall of Fame Selection Committee, publicly shared who he is voting for in the 2026 class.

Tournament: Tournament results this week read like a familiar script, just with a few new stage directions. In Commander, Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy sits on top at 7 percent of the field, with the usual suspects Kraum plus Tymna and Rograkh plus Thrasios close behind, while the real constant is cardboard socialism: Sol Ring showing up in 97.5 percent of decks, flanked by fast mana like Lotus Petal and Gemstone Caverns in nearly nine out of ten lists. Standard looks compressed, with Abrade, Ashling's Command, and Broadside Barrage each in half the decks, suggesting a format where flexible removal and efficient burn are doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Modern, meanwhile, continues to be a fetch shock format at heart, with Steam Vents, Scalding Tarn, and Flooded Strand topping the charts, a reminder that no matter what spells people cast, their manabases are still very much Izzet flavored.

Metrics: This week’s Magic singles tape looked like a familiar story, with a handful of cards sprinting ahead of a modestly rising market that averaged a 60.5 percent move up. Magda, Brazen Outlaw led the pack, climbing 183 percent to $4.53, and Multiversal Passage followed with a 59 percent rise to $4.78, both moves consistent with broader demand rather than a single dramatic sale. On the higher end of the spectrum, Oath of Druids jumped 61 percent to $282.50, a move that in this price band often reflects very few copies being listed and a couple of strong sales resetting expectations, while niche variants like Fade from History Extended Art and Gloin, Dwarf Emissary Extended Art Surge Foil, up 170 and 117 percent respectively, point to thin supply on specific printings rather than a sudden format-wide shift, especially with 14 “unusual” spikes flagged and no confirmed catalyst behind any of them.

Biggest gainer: Magda, Brazen Outlaw: up 183% this week

Pokémon TCG

News: The Pokémon machine is doing what it does best this week, lining up nostalgia, cats, and a very loud Worlds season. International cat day brought reveals of new Meowth cards, including a Meowth and Alolan Meowth tied to the Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration ahead of a September release, while organized play news focused on the 2026 Ace Trainer rewards Celebratory Fanfare card and a trailer for PokémonXP and the 2026 World Championships that frames the event as a global celebration and competition. On the esports side, Pokémon UNITE got its official 2026 Worlds tournament theme track "OUT LOUD" and an anthem titled "Champions" by Loren Allred, all as Nintendo quietly mentioned the Nintendo Switch 2 hitting 3.82 million units sold and The Duskbloods moving into a network test phase ahead of August sessions.

Tournament: Standard this week is looking less like Dragapult's personal playground and more like a three way argument, with Mega Excadrill sitting slightly ahead at 8 percent of the field, Dragapult close behind at 7 percent, and Festival Lead decks right on their heels at 6.9 percent. Under the hood though, the format is being held together by a very tight core package, with Boss's Orders showing up in over 91 percent of decks, Lillie's Determination in nearly 87 percent, and Night Stretcher in about 86 percent, which tells you that regardless of whether you are drilling, spreading, or dancing through Festival Lead turns, everyone is leaning on the same play pattern of targeted gusting, consistent draw, and reliable recovery.

Metrics: The metrics board this week looks like someone bumped the nostalgia knob. Guzma more than doubled to $2.48, a big percentage move that still keeps it in budget territory, the kind of shift you get when a few higher sales meet a shallow listing pool. Mudkip’s Sheen Holo climbed 85 percent to $6.84 and Blastoise’s Cracked Ice Holo rose 47 percent to $21.64, both moves consistent with older, thinner markets where a handful of buyers can drag the average up. On the higher end, Whimsicott GX Secret and Fisherman jumped 46 and 38 percent respectively, to $19.60 and $13.78, and with 18 unusual spikes flagged and no clear catalyst, this looks less like one big story and more like scattered pockets of demand nudging prices across an already fragile supply.

Biggest gainer: Guzma: up 105% this week

One Piece TCG

News: Bandai seems to be doing the “small booth, big footprint” routine at Gen Con, with coverage noting that even outside the main Exhibitor Hall the One Piece presence is still hard to miss. On the product side, OP-17 "The World’s Strongest Warriors" keeps inching toward the spotlight with updated listings for the booster pack and its Treasure Pack Campaign dash pack, plus a refreshed Double Pack Set Vol.12 and new details for Official Card Sleeves 16 on OnePiece.gg. TCGPlayer is doing its part to steer the metagame conversation, publishing back to back pieces on the best decks in July and August 2026, along with a list of ten One Piece cards to pick up ahead of OP-17, which is about as subtle a nudge as you get in this game.

Tournament: Standard this week looks like a Luffy format with a Mihawk problem, with Monkey.D.Luffy leading at 23.6 percent of the field and Dracule Mihawk close behind at 18.2 percent, while Marshall.D.Teach lags at 8.1 percent as the third pillar. The card data backs that up, with Roronoa Zoro showing up in 41.8 percent of decks and Monkey.D.Luffy in 40.4 percent, and Demon Aura Nine Sword Style Asura Blades Drawn Dead Man's Game appearing in 34.1 percent of lists, so regardless of which leader you sleeve up you are still playing a lot of the same high efficiency threats and removal that define this format.

Metrics: One Piece singles drifted upward this week, with the market average up about 20 percent and a handful of cards sprinting ahead of the pack. Edward.Newgate Alternate Art climbed 40 percent to around 24 dollars, a move that looks like a few stronger sales lifting a relatively shallow supply, while Premium Card Collection entries like For Fun and Hina each gained roughly 39 percent into the high single digits, suggesting buyers are finally noticing how few copies are actually posted. Vinsmoke Reiju Alternate Art jumped 31 percent to just under 8 dollars and the reprinted Trafalgar Law OP10-119 rose 30 percent to about 4.30, both fitting the pattern of modestly priced staples getting repriced upward after a cluster of higher sales rather than any clear single event driving demand.

Biggest gainer: Edward.Newgate (Alternate Art): up 40% this week

Yu-Gi-Oh!

News: Prize support and side products quietly did most of the talking this week, with the 2026-2027 Day 2 Prize Pack revealed for the TCG and a new Ultimate Tournament Pack being framed as a real shift in how in-store rewards work, not just a shiny label upgrade. On the competitive side, an August 2026 Yugioh banlist headline signaled another round of format surgery, while YCSJ Tokyo 2026 was set for the OCG, giving that side of the game its next big stage. Deckbuilders got fresh toys to speculate on too, with coverage of the best rogue Advanced decks for June 2026 and new product teases ranging from Legendary ARC-V Decks: Lunalight to Raise Moon in DBGV and confirmed cards from Beyond the Brave in BETB-AE, all of it suggesting Konami is in no danger of running out of acronyms any time soon.

Tournament: Kewl Tune quietly claimed the top seat in TCG events at 16.8 percent of the field, with Blitzclique close behind at 13.3 percent and Azamina Chaos Ritual trailing at 6.2 percent, a spread that looks more like a clear tier hierarchy than a wild west. On the card level, Mulcharmy Fuwalos showing up in 61.1 percent of decks makes it feel less like tech and more like infrastructure, while Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 49.9 percent and Called by the Grave at 48.1 percent continue their long careers as default inclusions, the handtrap and counterplay package you basically have to justify not running.

Metrics: Yu-Gi-Oh prices were anything but sleepy this week, with the market average up just over 51 percent and 40 separate spikes flagged, most of them looking more like sudden lurches than graceful climbs. Soul Taker stole the spotlight, jumping 400 percent to around 650 dollars, a move that almost certainly reflects a very thin high-end market where a few big sales can yank the average skyward. Veidos the Eruption Dragon of Extinction climbed to a bit over 9 dollars, while Lunalight Panther Dancer and Lunalight Serenade Dance both roughly doubled into the low 2 dollar range, all consistent with lower price points where modest demand can move numbers quickly. Sword Ryzeal’s rise to just above 7 dollars rounded out the week, and with no clear catalyst listed for any of these, this looks less like one big story and more like a cluster of niche cards getting repriced as existing listings disappear and new, higher asks set the tone.

Biggest gainer: Soul Taker: up 400% this week

Final Fantasy TCG

Tournament: Standard this week looks like a three way split, with Wind Earth, Fire Earth, and Wind Water each taking 14.3 percent of the field, so nobody is running away with the format yet. What is clear is the backbone of the meta: Shantotto, Tidus, and Leo all show up in 36.4 percent of decks, which means regardless of whether players are ramping with Earth, pushing damage with Fire, or playing tempo with Wind and Water, they are all leaning on the same core power cards to get across the finish line.

Metrics: Final Fantasy prices drifted up this week, with the tracked cards averaging an 11.6 percent gain and a cluster of 11 unusual spikes suggesting a lot more heat than usual on the marketplace. Reynn Full Art led the pack, climbing 24 percent to about 62 dollars on what looks like a few strong sales in a relatively thin Full Art supply, while Cloud followed at 33.80 and Yuna 25-104L at 10.72, both up double digits and likely reflecting broader demand rather than a single buyout pattern. On the lower end, Jill’s move to 4.17 and Zell EX Full Art’s rise to 10 dollars appear to be part of the same gentle tide, modest cards getting pulled upward as sellers adjust listings after higher completed sales, with no clear external trigger in sight.

Biggest gainer: Reynn (Full Art): up 24% this week

Flesh and Blood

News: Flesh and Blood’s official channels spent the week doing what they do best, polishing the trophies and pointing the cameras at whoever just won something. We got a "Deck Dive , Calling: Bangkok" pulling apart lists from that event, plus twin "Roll of Honor" pieces for Victor Goldmane, High and Mighty and Prism, Awakener of Sol, which is about as on the nose as hero worship gets. Competitive play is also getting its marching orders in "Primed to Fight: Skirmish Season 15" and the broader "World Tour Weekly," while TCGPlayer chimed in with a very on-brand "The 10 Cards Everybody Wants from Mastery Pack Warrior," promising more value than you can shake your sword at, assuming your sword has a pitch value and a rules text box.

Tournament: Classic Constructed this week looks like Olympia, Prized Fighter is the deck everyone brought when they wanted to actually win the thing, taking a clear lead at 11.1 percent of the field while Hala, Bladesaint of the Vow trails behind at 8.3 percent and Oscilio, Constella Intelligence rounds things out at 6.3 percent. That spread paints a meta where Olympia is the default choice, Hala is the preferred alternative for players who like their damage with a little flourish, and Oscilio is the specialist option, the one you register when you are convinced you have cracked a specific angle on the format rather than just following the crowd.

Metrics: Flesh and Blood’s market tilted upward this week, with an average move of about 23 percent and a suspiciously high 30 unusual spikes lighting up the dashboard, the cardboard equivalent of your car’s check engine light. HMS Marlin and Golden Gauntlets led the charge, each jumping more than 70 percent on what looks like a mix of thin listings and a few buyers willing to pay the new sticker price, while mid-tier staples like Blitz Kicks, Up the Ante, and Roiling Fissure climbed 29 to 41 percent on similarly shallow supply rather than any confirmed metagame shift. With no verified catalysts in play, this looks less like a grand narrative about the format and more like a week where small markets, a handful of high sales, and some optimistic repricing did most of the talking.

Biggest gainer: HMS Marlin (Treasure): up 77% this week

Grand Archive

News: Casella, The Weight of Looking Up, is the lone headline this week, a reminder that in Grand Archive even a single spotlight can shift how players think about the game. With no other stories competing for attention, all eyes are on whatever narrative and mechanical themes Casella brings, and for at least one news cycle the conversation is less about formats or results and more about this particular chapter in the Grand Archive world.

Tournament: Standard this week is looking relatively open, with Water Aetherwing Diana at 7.6 percent, Wind Seiryuu at 6.7 percent, and Fire Oblation Ciel at 6.2 percent, so no single list is running away with the format. What you do see is a familiar triangle of pressures, with Diana leaning on water control and value, Seiryuu pushing wind tempo, and Ciel keeping the heat on with fire aggression, which collectively forces players to respect a spread of interaction instead of tuning for just one boogeyman.

Metrics: Grand Archive’s secondary market drifted upward this week, with a market average move of 12.9 percent and a mix of modest climbs and sharper adjustments driven by pricing behavior more than any clear external shock. Mid-tier staples like Seething Intercession and Atmos Armor Type-Ares posted 17 to 19 percent gains into the single digit range, the kind of move you get when a handful of higher sales pull the floor up. Fragmented Spirit of Water and Baby Gray Slime both pushed into the mid teens around 14 dollars, suggesting buyers are actually clearing listings rather than just window shopping, while Uther, Illustrious King CSR crept 11 percent higher to just under 130 dollars on what looks like thin high-end supply rather than a rush of new demand.

Biggest gainer: Seething Intercession: up 19% this week

Sorcery: Contested Realm

News: This week the Sorcery community is apparently doing what the publisher will not, with All Things Contested Realm devoting an entire Episode 31 to unpacking The Ruby Core-ier Magazine, a fan created Sorcery zine that sounds like it is trying to be the metagame brain and scrapbook of the player base at the same time. On the official side, Sorcery TCG is lining up for the Auckland Card Show, promising tournaments, Learn to Play sessions, artists, and promos, so if you needed a single headline that says "please bring your friends who do not know how threshold works yet," that is it.

Tournament: Tournament results this week show a fairly even spread at the top, with Water Necromancer sitting just ahead at 12.2 percent of the field, trailed closely by Earth Imposter at 11.5 percent and Fire Pathfinder at 10.3 percent. That is not a format being held hostage by a single avatar, but it does say something about where players think the power is, Water leaning into recursion and control, Earth exploiting impersonation tricks and resilient sites, and Fire Pathfinder rewarding aggressive, map‑warping lines that can close games before slower lists stabilize.

Metrics: Foil premiums quietly stole the show this week, with Mock Court jumping 50 percent to 150 dollars and Innsmouth Dock Foil up 26 percent to 192.50, both moves more consistent with a few high sales pushing up a thin market than a broad rush of buyers. On the non foil side, Day of Judgment’s 18 percent climb to 4.70 and King Arthur’s 17 percent rise to 332.16 look like steady demand inching up prices rather than a blowout event, while City of Souls Foil added 14 percent to reach 154.46 as part of the same slow squeeze on scarce premium copies. With the market average up 20.3 percent and nine unusual spikes flagged, this feels less like a single story and more like a week where a handful of lightly listed cards finally got tested by real money.

Biggest gainer: Mock Court (Foil): up 50% this week

Shadowverse Evolve

News: Princess Connect! Re:Dive officially stepped into Shadowverse Evolve this week, with card details and a Q&A going up from the official side, which is about as close as this game gets to a press kit for a crossover. Bushiroad also flagged a Summer 2026 English Conference, a reminder that the company still wants this cardboard experiment to speak more than one language. Rounding it out, TCGPlayer ran a feature by Drew Knapp on “The 10 Cards Everybody Wants From Neometropolis,” spotlighting the set’s flashier pulls and, presumably, helping a few players justify why they cracked that extra box.

Tournament: Tournament results this week paint a pretty clear picture, with Abysscraft leading the field at 22.3 percent of top finishes, Dragoncraft close behind at 17.5 percent, and Swordcraft at 14.4 percent anchoring the rest of the pack. That spread suggests a format where Abysscraft is the deck to beat, Dragoncraft is the main challenger trying to go over the top, and Swordcraft is still putting up enough results that you actually have to respect it in deckbuilding, even if it is no longer the shiny new toy.

Metrics: Shadowverse Evolve’s metrics this week read like a foil showcase, with premium versions quietly climbing across the board. The standout is Raven, Midnight Vampire P39EN Foil, up 39 percent to 14.08 dollars on what looks like a thin market where a few higher sales reset expectations, while Spartacus Starlight and Kuon, Wuxing Master Starlight posted steadier gains of 21 and 19 percent respectively, now at 6.36 and 21.99 dollars. Lower priced Starlights like Nightmare Doll, Alice (Evolved) and Falise, Innocent Sea Spray nudged up 10 to 15 percent to just over the 2 to 3 dollar mark, and with 14 unusual spikes against a roughly 14.9 percent average move, this looks less like one big story and more like a week where multiple shiny variants caught a bit of extra demand all at once.

Biggest gainer: Raven, Midnight Vampire - P39EN (Foil): up 39% this week

Riftbound

News: Riftbound’s week in headlines is doing its best impression of a game finally putting on a tie and showing up to work, with official Organized Play updates detailing three Regional Championships and spotlighting the first Vendetta Regional Qualifier in Barcelona that kicks off the new set’s competitive season. On the content side, Riftbound.gg is already carving up the Vendetta early meta with a Week 2 “Best Vendetta Decks” update, while also looking ahead with spoiler and release info for both Riftbound The Reckoning Set 7 and Riftbound: Legacy Set 6. Rounding it out, Kennen, Heart of the Tempest, Mel, Soul’s Reflection, and Akali, Rogue Assassin each get their own best decks and synergies features, signaling that these Legends are early focal points for anyone trying to keep up with the format rather than just pretend they read the patch notes.

Tournament: Constructed this week looks like a format where everyone brought their safety blanket, and it just happens to be a three card package. Stacked Deck showing up in 39.3 percent of lists, with Star-Crossed at 37.9 percent and Defy at 37.3 percent, points to a core shell that both aggro and control pilots are leaning on, rather than a single oppressive archetype. The spread is close enough that it feels less like one deck running the table and more like a shared backbone of efficient, flexible cards that you are either playing or planning to beat in every serious event.

Metrics: Riftbound’s market drifted upward this week, with an average move of about 53 percent and six cards posting unusually sharp jumps, most of them without any clear public trigger. Astral Heron led the pack, climbing 252 percent to $24.61, which looks like a few high sales in a relatively thin listing pool rather than a slow grind up, while Stacked Deck’s rise to $16.55 on a 66 percent move suggests broader willingness to pay more at the new floor. Kha'Zix, Mutating Horror (Alternate Art), Bellows Breath, and Void Rush all doubled or nearly so into the 3 to 6 dollar range, and taken together these shifts read less like a single coordinated buyout and more like a small market where a handful of aggressive buyers can still redraw the price chart in a weekend.

Biggest gainer: Astral Heron: up 252% this week

Disney Lorcana

News: Disney Lorcana spent the week trying on some new outfits, with TCGplayer pieces digging into the freshly announced [Format Coconut] as a new way to play and even floating the idea that it could rival Commander, with Ravensburger reportedly wanting to build it in public alongside the community. Parallel to that, we got an early look at Illumineer's Quest: The Great Hunny Rescue, hinting at a more cooperative style of adventure, and a sales rundown on the best selling cards from Attack of the Vine! reminding us that, in this game at least, no one moves product like Gaston.

Metrics: Lorcana prices drifted up this week, with the tracked cards averaging a 12.5 percent move, and a mix of competitive staples and premium collectibles doing the heavy lifting. Vixey, Expert Fisher jumped 38 percent to just under 6 dollars, a move that looks like a few higher sales in a relatively shallow market, while Circle of Life climbed 19 percent to about 26 dollars, suggesting steady demand rather than a one-off spike. On the high end, Pongo, Determined Father (Enchanted) rose 16 percent to roughly 279 dollars and Cinderella, Stouthearted added 10 percent to hit about 55 dollars, both behaving like low-supply chase cards where each sale nudges the average up. Even He Hurled His Thunderbolt (Epic) ticked up 9 percent to 16 dollars, a modest gain that fits the broader pattern of incremental increases rather than any single dramatic catalyst.

Biggest gainer: Vixey - Expert Fisher: up 38% this week

Digimon Card Game

News: TCGplayer’s Digimon coverage this week is basically a two part sermon from Juan López, first looking ahead to the next Digimon banlist and which “major threats” could be on the chopping block, then zooming out to talk about how archetype families have evolved in the game over the past year. Taken together, it is the usual pre banlist ritual, players arguing over what deserves to get hit while also trying to understand the broader design trends that got us here in the first place.

Tournament: Standard this week looks like a format in flux, with a huge 63 percent of results lumped into "Other" and no single named archetype really defining the field, while Olympos XII at 8.2 percent and Vemmon at 4.4 percent are more like recurring guests than headliners. Instead, the real through line is the shared engine pieces, Asuna Shiroki quietly showing up in nearly a quarter of decks, with Genshi Continent & Ashino Island and In-Between Theater each hovering around the mid teens, which suggests players are converging on powerful generic tools even as they disagree wildly on what the actual best deck is supposed to be.

Metrics: Digimon singles drifted upward this week, with a market average gain of about 24 percent and nine separate spikes, but the pattern looks more like scattered pockets of demand than a single story. Cernumon Alternate Art more than doubled to $4.56 and Invasion of the Titans nearly did the same to $3.93, both moves that are big in percentage terms but still in the low single digits where a few higher sales can reset the going rate. On the higher end, Treadmill Training climbed 32 percent to a little over $10 and Ceresmon Alternate Art crept up 16 percent to $26.80, price levels that usually need a broader base of buyers rather than one-off listings disappearing, while Rosemon from the Premium Heroines Set Ver.2 rose 60 percent to $4.81, suggesting that even the more niche variants are getting swept along in this week’s gentle tide.

Biggest gainer: Cernumon (Alternate Art): up 128% this week

Star Wars: Unlimited

News: StarWarsUnlimited.gg ran a feature titled "Riddles from Home," and while the headline alone does not give away much, it suggests the community is getting at least one more lore or strategy deep dive rather than another pure spoiler dump. For players, that likely means more puzzles to solve at the kitchen table, and for everyone else it is a reminder that this game still likes to wrap its information in a little bit of mystery.

Metrics: Star Wars: Unlimited saw a sharp uptick this week, with the tracked cards averaging a 20.5 percent move up and eleven separate spikes throwing off the usual calm. Elzar Mann, Haunted by a Vision led the pack, climbing 49 percent to about $5.30, a level that suggests either very few copies listed or a handful of buyers willing to pay the new sticker price. Galen Erso, Destroying His Creation and Maul, One Last Lesson both posted 30-plus percent gains to the $3 to $4.50 range, the kind of mid-tier bump that usually comes from steady sales rather than a single outlier. On the premium side, Turbolaser Salvo Hyperspace Foil and Latts Razzi Hyperspace both pushed into the mid $7s with roughly 35 and 27 percent jumps, respectively, which fits the pattern of low-supply variants where even modest collector or player interest can move the market quickly in the absence of any clear external catalyst.

Biggest gainer: Elzar Mann - Haunted by a Vision: up 49% this week

Gundam Card Game

News: The Gundam Card Game news cycle this week reads like a first anniversary party itinerary, with Bandai rolling out an Official Playmat and Card Set Athrun & Cagalli [EVX11], new Official Card Sleeves EX 03 [EVX12], and a Premium Card Collection 02 [EVX13] all flagged on GundamCard.gg. Alongside those product teases, there is a 1st Anniversary Event on the calendar and a presence announced for THE GUNDAM CARD GAME at PAX WEST 2026, while TCGPlayer is running a feature on Gundam's First Anniversary asking which cards are still worth "breaking the bank" for, from explosive alt arts and big booster hits to weekly winner promos and what it calls big Beta bombs.

Metrics: Gundam prices drifted up this week, with the average move a hefty 35.9 percent and a few usual suspects doing their best impression of a meme stock. Akatsuki (Oowashi) R+ nearly doubled to about 20 dollars on what looks like a mix of higher closing sales and not many copies listed, while Gundam NT-1 climbed 82 percent to 3 dollars, the kind of move you get when a low-price rare finally finds consistent buyers. Improved Technique and Argama posted solid gains to roughly 6 and 11 dollars respectively, both rising in a way that suggests broader demand rather than a single buyout, and the C++ parallel Resource (R-025) crept up another 24 percent to just over 33 dollars, more a case of a thin premium market resetting its ceiling than a rush for staples.

Biggest gainer: Akatsuki (Oowashi) (R+): up 98% this week