📊 Weekly Market Reports

Magic: The Gathering

News: Magic news this week reads like a greatest hits of modern MTG discourse, with Secret Lairs, delays, and bans all sharing the stage. Star City Games covered the full contents of Magic’s A Marvelous Mathoms Secret Lair Superdrop, then pivoted to report delays for The Hobbit Play Boosters and to reveal the title and first details for Vibes Set 4. On the gameplay side, EDHREC spotlighted Arzakon in a piece about "becoming the final boss," while multiple outlets, including Wargamer and Star City Games, focused on fresh MTG banlist updates and the broader Banned and Restricted Card Lists, capped off by Wargamer highlighting that the mythic Badgermole card has finally been banned and MTGGoldfish marking the moment with a tongue in cheek "Podcast 600" headline about Badgermole Cub and, allegedly, somebody’s grandmother.

Tournament: Standard this week looks like a coin flip between two archetypes, Ashling's Command with Burst Lightning and Bushwhack with Earthbender Ascension each claiming half the field, with support cards like Abrade and Broadside Barrage showing up in exactly the same proportions, which tells you the format is still very small or very young. In Modern, the data shows a more familiar spread, Kappa Cannoneer with Pinnacle Emissary leading at 10.7 percent, followed by Atraxa with Faithful Mending and an Agatha's Soul Cauldron package with Badgermole Cub, all leaning on the usual blue red fetch shock mana base where Steam Vents, Scalding Tarn, and Flooded Strand are the most played lands. Commander, meanwhile, continues to be the cEDH greatest hits station, with Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy, Kraum plus Tymna, and Rograkh plus Thrasios at the top and nearly every deck apparently starting with Sol Ring, Gemstone Caverns, and Lotus Petal before anyone even decides what their win condition is.

Metrics: Goblin fans quietly took over the tape this week, with Knucklebone Witch reportedly riding new synergy with The Great Goblin to a 651 percent jump, now around $12.54, a move that suggests more than one player decided their Goblins needed a proper one drop. Gimli of the Glittering Caves followed with a 649 percent climb to $8.01, the kind of leap you usually only see when a small pool of copies gets cleared out and relisted higher. On the margins, Ayula, Queen Among Bears in Retro Frame Foil Etched and Nature's Lore both more than doubled to $2.88 and $2.06 respectively, price points that look like low supply reacting to a handful of higher sales rather than a feeding frenzy. At the top end, Dain of the Ancient Halls Extended Art pushed up 90 percent to $50, a move consistent with a premium variant where a few determined buyers can move the market, all contributing to a market average shift of plus 132 percent and 15 unusual spikes that feel more like a cluster of targeted pickups than a broad repricing of the format.

Biggest gainer: Knucklebone Witch: up 651% this week

Pokémon TCG

News: The Pokémon machine is doing what it does best this week, stretching from anime to doughnuts to the TCG without stopping for breath. On screen, Feebas finally gets its glow up in a Pokémon Journeys clip featuring Jinny and Feeby, while the 2026 Pokémon Worlds soundtrack and the new UNITE tournament theme track "OUT LOUD" give competitive play its official music. Pokémon GO is loading up the calendar with a PokéXciting! tour in Asia-Pacific featuring exclusive Pikachu and Gigantamax battles and a teased Mega powered reveal for GO Fest 2026 Mega Finale, and in the cardboard world the 30th Celebration spotlights Meowth and Alolan Meowth with two new cards revealed for International Cat Day ahead of a September release, all while Krispy Kreme quietly volunteers to handle your pre tournament sugar crash with Pokémon doughnuts and special edition cups.

Tournament: Standard this week is still Dragapult country at 11.3 percent of the field, but Mega Excadrill at 7.7 percent and Festival Lead at 6.6 percent are clearly the other decks people are sleeving when they want to actually win and not just vibe. Under the hood, though, the format looks weirdly unified: Boss's Orders shows up in 91.2 percent of lists, Lillie's Determination in 86.3 percent, and Night Stretcher in 85.7 percent, which tells you that regardless of whether you are spreading counters, swinging with a Mega, or looping Festival tricks, everyone is playing the same core of gust, draw smoothing, and recovery to keep their game plan running.

Metrics: This week’s Pokémon market looked like someone leaned on the fast-forward button, with an average move of nearly 100 percent and nine separate spikes. Zekrom from Next Destinies led the pack, jumping 1163 percent to $11.62, a move that almost certainly reflects a very thin supply being repriced by a handful of higher sales rather than a sudden rush of players sleeving it up. The Costco-exclusive Charizard climbed 74 percent to $45.39 and Mewtwo SM214 rose 53 percent to $12.24, both consistent with premium promos getting relisted higher as older listings vanish, while Mega Absol ex and Poliwrath posted smaller, single-digit-dollar gains that look more like low-end cards being tugged upward by a few outlier sales than a broad shift in demand.

Biggest gainer: Zekrom - 50/99 (Next Destinies): up 1163% this week

One Piece TCG

News: Bandai seems to be doing its usual “small booth, big footprint” routine at Gen Con, with coverage noting that even tucked away from the main Exhibitor Hall the publisher is still a major One Piece presence. On the product side, OnePiece.gg quietly logged updates for OFFICIAL CARD SLEEVES 16, the BOOSTER PACK -THE WORLD’S STRONGEST WARRIORS- [OP-17], and Double Pack Set Vol.12 [DP-12], so the pipeline is clearly still moving. TCGPlayer spent July and August churning out meta and market coverage, from a rundown of the biggest One Piece card price shifts in July 2026, to a “10 One Piece Cards You Should Buy Before The World’s Strongest Warriors (OP-17)” list, and back-to-back pieces on the best decks in the One Piece Card Game for July and August 2026, which is about as close as this game gets to a monthly weather report.

Tournament: Standard this week looks like the Luffy show, with Monkey.D.Luffy leading the field at 21.6 percent of decks and Dracule Mihawk trailing at 17.1 percent, while Marshall.D.Teach shows up as a solid but distant third at 8.1 percent. The card usage numbers tell the real story, though, with Monkey.D.Luffy appearing in 39.5 percent of lists, Roronoa Zoro in 38.7 percent, and Nami in 31.6 percent, a core trio that is quietly defining what "stock" looks like in current Standard whether you are sleeving up Luffy or trying to beat it.

Metrics: One Piece prices drifted higher this week, with the market up about 15 percent on average and nine notable spikes, but the pattern looks more like scattered pockets of activity than a single story. Parallel Foxy led the move with a 50 percent jump to about 6 dollars, the kind of climb you get when a few higher sales meet limited listings, while Ancient Weapon Poseidon and Chaka & Pell from Winner Pack 2026 Vol. 3 each climbed around a quarter to the 8 and 4 dollar marks respectively, both in ranges where a small number of buyers can move the needle. Perona pushing to roughly 19 dollars and Mansherry Alternate Art nearing 6 dollars round out the gains, and in all cases the data points to small but impactful shifts in supply and realized sale prices rather than any confirmed external trigger.

Biggest gainer: Foxy (071) (Parallel): up 50% this week

Yu-Gi-Oh!

News: Prize support and nostalgia are doing their usual tug of war this week, with the 2026-2027 Day 2 Prize Pack revealed on one side and news of reprints from the “YU-GI-OH! ORIGINAL ARTWORK COLLECTION” [YAC1] on the other. Competitive players are eyeing the reported August 2026 Yugioh banlist and a TCGPlayer feature on the best rogue Advanced decks for June 2026, while Rush Duel fans get new toys in “Crystal Seer” [RD/SJMP] and “Red-Eyes Mars Dragon” [RD/KP26]. Rounding things out, YGOrganization teases a “[Chronicles] Sinful Spoils Ep 1” and showcases an “Unchained with Umbral Horror and Fiendsmith” CDP built around RV01 and BETB support, because of course even the combo decks are getting lore episodes now.

Tournament: Tournament results this week paint a pretty clear picture, with Kewl Tune leading the field at 16.6 percent of tops, trailed by Blitzclique at 11.9 percent and Chaos Ritual at 7.2 percent, a spread that suggests one deck is quietly setting the pace while the rest try to keep up. Across those strategies the real constants are the staples, Mulcharmy Fuwalos showing up in 58.4 percent of decks, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring in 53.7 percent, and Called by the Grave in 51 percent, which tells you that no matter what engine players choose, they are all converging on the same disruption and insurance package to survive the current format.

Metrics: This week’s metrics read like a grab bag of quiet cards suddenly getting loud, with the market average up 57 percent and 72 separate spikes flagged. WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils nearly tripled to 8 dollars on a 190 percent jump, which, without any listed catalyst, looks like a handful of higher sales pushing up a still developing ultra rare. Catapult Turtle in its Green printing climbed 165 percent to just under 8 dollars and Gate Guardian is up 62 percent to about 14, both classic names where relatively thin supply can make a few motivated buyers move the needle. On the lower end, Imperial Iron Wall reached 2.65 after a 77 percent rise and Charmer Quartet in Bloom is up 76 percent to 7.89, suggesting broader but still modest demand rather than a full scale buyout, more like the market testing how much these cards are really worth when people remember they exist.

Biggest gainer: WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils (UR): up 190% this week

Final Fantasy TCG

Tournament: Standard this week looks like a three way split at the top, with Ice/Water, Earth/Water, and Earth/Lightning each taking 14.3 percent of the field, so no single shell is running away with the format yet. Under the hood though, the card choices are a lot less diverse, with Cloud showing up in 62.5 percent of decks and Viktora and Serjes each in half the lists, which suggests players are converging on a shared core of efficient Forwards and utility while still arguing over which element pair they want to wrap around it.

Metrics: Full Art premiums quietly did most of the work this week, with the market average up 11.8 percent and several Illustration Rares showing sharp but uneven gains. Tidus Full Art jumped 27 percent to $72.28 and Yuna EX Full Art climbed 12 percent to $88.18, moves that look like a handful of high sales pushing prices in a relatively thin market rather than a broad rush. Mid-tier Full Arts like Matoya (I) at $15.11, Summoner at $19.18, and Ace at $5.83 rose 10 to 16 percent, and with six unusual spikes flagged and no clear external trigger, this reads more like collectors quietly draining specific listings than a single event reshaping demand.

Biggest gainer: Tidus (Full Art): up 27% this week

Flesh and Blood

News: Flesh and Blood news this week reads like a tour of the whole ecosystem, from kitchen table to world stage. FaBTCG.gg is flagging both the announcement of Mastery Pack Assassin and a Battle Grounds London wrap up, while TCGPlayer is busy telling you how to upgrade Armory Deck Olympia and which 10 cards "everybody wants" from Mastery Pack Warrior, reportedly with more value than you can shake a sword at. On the official side, we get an Errata Bulletin, a fresh World Tour Weekly, a Deck Dive focused on Calling: Bangkok, and a Roll of Honor for Victor Goldmane, High and Mighty, which together suggest organized play and rules policy are keeping pace with the new product cycle, at least on paper.

Tournament: Classic Constructed this week looks like a three hero story, with Olympia, Prized Fighter quietly sitting on top at 11.4 percent of the field, Hala, Bladesaint of the Vow close behind at 9.9 percent, and Oscilio, Constella Intelligence trailing at 6.4 percent. That gap is not a monopoly, but it is enough to say Olympia is the deck you actually have to plan for, Hala is the one that punishes you if you do not, and Oscilio is the specialist choice that still shows up often enough to matter in sideboard conversations.

Metrics: Flesh and Blood’s metrics this week read like a classic “someone noticed these cards exist” story, with prices drifting up rather than exploding. Shake Down more than doubled to just over two dollars, a move that looks big on paper but is still very much in the playable-rare price band, while Uzuri, Switchblade climbed nearly 40 percent toward the mid sixties on relatively sparse high-end supply. Extended Art Anaphylactic Shock and Ironsong Determination both posted solid double digit gains off low single digit price points, suggesting a mix of thin listings and steady sales rather than a single buyout, and red Money Where Ya Mouth Is ticked up under 20 percent to the mid five dollar range. With the market average up about 20 percent and eleven isolated spikes flagged, this feels less like a coordinated rush and more like a handful of underpriced tools getting quietly repriced by actual demand.

Biggest gainer: Shake Down: up 113% this week

Grand Archive

Tournament: Standard this week looks more like a three way negotiation than a solved format, with Water Aetherwing Diana at 7.5% of the field barely edging out Wind Seiryuu at 6.7% and Fire Oblation Ciel close behind at 6.4%. That spread suggests players are still comfortable rotating between control leaning Diana shells, tempo focused Seiryuu lists, and Ciel’s more explosive fire strategies, so if you are sitting across from a champion in the top tables right now, odds are it is one of these three.

Metrics: Grand Archive’s secondary market quietly tilted upward this week, with a 27.8 percent average move and a few cards doing the heavy lifting. Camelot, Impenetrable nearly doubled to a little over two dollars, a move that looks like a small card reacting to thin listings and a couple of higher sales rather than some grand revelation about shields. Sacrifice Play in Curio Foil and Seething Intercession both crept up about 6 percent, now sitting just under twenty and in the low teens respectively, the kind of modest climb you get when higher-end copies change hands in a relatively stable supply rather than a coordinated sweep.

Biggest gainer: Camelot, Impenetrable: up 72% this week

Sorcery: Contested Realm

News: This week in Sorcery land we get a very on-brand mix of fan energy and official teases. All Things Contested Realm digs into a community passion project with “Episode 31, What is The Ruby Core-ier Magazine? Let's Explore This Fan-Created Sorcery Magazine!”, while the official channel quietly drops a notable art announcement, welcoming fantasy and horror illustrator Paul Carrick and showcasing his piece The White Death for the upcoming Frost Mage vs. Lavamanc product.

Tournament: Tournament results this week show a fairly even spread at the top, with Water Necromancer edging ahead at 13.2 percent of the field and Fire Pathfinder and Earth Archimago tied at 10.4 percent each. That tells us players are still gravitating toward the classic poles of the format, Water leaning on attrition and recursion, Fire on proactive pressure, and Earth on resilient board control, with no single avatar running away with the metagame yet.

Metrics: Foil premiums quietly crept up across several Sorcery staples this week, with the market average move sitting at a hefty 17.6 percent. Headliners like Mephistopheles and Pied Piper of Hameln nudged higher into the mid to high $100s on what looks like a few strong sales in a relatively thin foil market, while cheaper options like Firebolts, Slumbering Giantess, and Shrike Orchard posted 30 to nearly 40 percent gains but still live in the single digit range where a handful of purchases can reset the going rate. With no clear external catalyst in sight, this looks less like a coordinated rush and more like the slow realization that certain foils simply are not as plentiful as players and collectors assumed.

Biggest gainer: Firebolts (Foil): up 39% this week

Shadowverse Evolve

News: Shadowverse: Evolve quietly dropped more details on its latest crossover, with "Card Details and Q&A Added for Crossover Set, Princess Connect! Re:Dive" going up on the official site. The update spells out how the new collaboration cards work and fields rules questions before they become judge calls at locals, a rare case of the game trying to answer our confusion before we weaponize it.

Tournament: Tournament results this week paint a fairly narrow field, with Abysscraft leading the pack at 20.6 percent of top finishes and Swordcraft close behind at 19.3 percent, while Runecraft trails at 12.5 percent. That spread suggests players are still comfortable defaulting to established Abyss and Sword shells, with Runecraft functioning as the third pillar rather than a true challenger, and if you sat down at this event without a plan for those first two crafts you were essentially volunteering for the early exit interviews.

Metrics: Shadowverse Evolve’s metrics this week read like someone quietly leaning on the gas pedal, not slamming the brakes. Ginsetsu, Great Fox (Evolved) jumped 36 percent to $58.33 on what looks like a thin upper market, where a few higher sales can drag the average up fast, while a cluster of SL evolutions like Nightmare Doll, Alice, Ceridwen, Eternity Hunter, and Belphomet, Worldreaver all posted mid-teens gains, now sitting in the low to low-double digits. With the market average up 13.2 percent and 18 separate spikes flagged, this looks less like one big story and more like a broad repricing of key evolved and SL pieces, driven by limited listings getting cleared out rather than any single confirmed catalyst.

Biggest gainer: Ginsetsu, Great Fox (Evolved) (U): up 36% this week

Riftbound

News: Riftbound spent the week doing two things at once, tightening the screws on Vendetta’s core rules with a new Vendetta Rules FAQ and Clarifications while also kicking off the set’s competitive season with the first Vendetta Regional Qualifier in Barcelona. Strategy content kept pace, with Riftbound.gg spotlighting Ambessa, Matriarch of War best decks and synergies and a Week 3 Vendetta meta tier list, plus a surprisingly practical detour into why clear symbols matter in both trading card games and online slots. On the broader ecosystem side, Riftbound.gg outlined how to enter the Riftbound T1 Bundle draw and its schedule, while TCGPlayer Riftbound framed 2027 as potentially the game’s brightest year and highlighted the best selling cards from Riftbound’s Vendetta Vargas, because of course someone has to count what we are all pretending not to be speculating on.

Tournament: Riftbound’s constructed tables this week look like a three way argument about how you want to win your midgame. Hwei, Brooding Painter with Moonfall is the most represented shell at 6.8 percent, just ahead of Defiant Dance with Stellacorn Herder at 6.4 percent, with Baited Hook alongside Black Rose Dignitary trailing at 4.5 percent, so nothing is running away with the format yet. Across those archetypes the real story is the glue cards, Stacked Deck shows up in 39.8 percent of lists, Star-Crossed in 38.3 percent, and Defy in 37.1 percent, which tells you players are converging on a shared core and then arguing over which finishers look prettiest on the pairing board.

Metrics: Riftbound’s secondary market took a sharp step up this week, with the average move sitting at a hefty 55.5 percent and a few cards sprinting ahead of the pack. Thrill of the Hunt’s 350 percent jump to 13.50 dollars and Void Rush’s climb to 16 dollars at plus 167 percent look like classic cases of a few high sales hitting relatively thin listings, the kind of pattern you see when early adopters finally decide these are not bulk rares. Premium treatments followed suit, with Pyke, Dockside Butcher Alternate Art up 74 percent to 16.50 dollars and Lillia, Protector of Dreams Alternate Art up 70 percent to 5.95 dollars, while even a lower rarity piece like Spiderling nearly doubled to 6.25 dollars, suggesting broader upward pressure across the format rather than a single obvious trigger.

Biggest gainer: Thrill of the Hunt: up 350% this week

Disney Lorcana

News: Disney Lorcana news this week reads like a marketing department that just discovered espresso. We got a D23 2026 rundown teasing Collector Boosters, new rarities, and a first look at Hyperia City, all framed as the start of a new chapter for the game. TCGPlayer is also pushing coverage of a new format, politely redacted here as [Format Coconut], including one piece explaining what it even is and another arguing it could rival Commander, with Ravensburger reportedly wanting to build it in public with the community. Rounding things out, there is an early look at Illumineer's Quest: The Great Hunny Rescue, suggesting Lorcana is doubling down on co-op style content right alongside its experimental formats.

Metrics: Lorcana prices drifted upward this week, with the tracked cards averaging a 12.4 percent gain and a mix of competitive and collector pieces doing the heavy lifting. Hades, Looking for a Deal climbed 20 percent to $24.02 and Judy Hopps, Snowball Patrol rose 13 percent to $4.59, both moves that look like steady demand rather than a classic buyout since there is no reported catalyst. On the high end of the spectrum, Malicious, Mean, and Scary in its Enchanted treatment jumped 14 percent to $100.92 and Minnie Mouse, Sweetheart Princess as an Iconic card crept another 8 percent higher to $1948.68, prices that are more about a very thin supply and a few strong sales than any sudden surge in new decks, while If I Didn't Have You added 7 percent to reach $3.75, a modest move that fits the overall gentle rise rather than a spike.

Biggest gainer: Hades - Looking for a Deal: up 20% this week

Digimon Card Game

News: This week the Digimon Card Game conversation is already tilting toward the next banlist, with TCGPlayer running a feature by Juan López asking what cards could be hit. It is August, the list is looming, and the framing around "major threats" says everything about where competitive players are mentally right now, bracing for which pieces of the current power structure Bandai might decide to trim.

Tournament: Standard this week looks less like a defined meta and more like a grab bag, with "Other" decks making up a hefty 61.2 percent of tops while Olympos XII trails at 7.9 percent and Vemmon shows up at 3.5 percent. In that chaos, the real story is the glue cards: Asuna Shiroki shows up in nearly a quarter of decks at 24.5 percent, with Analog Youth and Genshi Continent & Ashino Island each at 16 percent, which suggests players are converging on the same consistency and memory tools even if they cannot agree on what the actual win condition should be.

Metrics: Digimon prices drifted higher this week, with the tracked cards averaging a 19.8 percent move up and Ultimate Cup promos doing the heavy lifting. Globemon from Ultimate Cup 26-27 Season 2 jumped 64 percent to about 57 dollars 50 cents, reportedly on tournament prize demand, and its partner DoGatchmon from the same series climbed 11 percent to 39 dollars, a pattern that looks more like players and collectors quietly soaking up a limited print than a sudden buyout. On the more playable side of the spectrum, Diaboromon X Antibody Alternate Art rose 36 percent to 5 dollars 50 cents, Takutoumon gained 21 percent to 4 dollars 74 cents, and Kiyoshiro Higashimitarai edged up 14 percent to 3 dollars 75 cents, all modest price points where a few higher sales can reset the averages and suggest a broad but measured uptick in demand rather than a feeding frenzy.

Biggest gainer: Globemon (Ultimate Cup 26-27 Season 2): up 64% this week

Star Wars: Unlimited

Metrics: Star Wars: Unlimited prices drifted higher this week, with the market average up a hefty 17.1 percent and six separate cards tripping the "unusual spike" alarms. Both versions of Improvised Identity climbed together, the regular copy up 17 percent to $2.92 and the Hyperspace Foil up 45 percent to $3.72, a pattern that usually points to broad play or collection demand rather than a single outlier sale. Jango Fett, Guarding the Count jumped 44 percent to $3.07 on similarly brisk movement, while the big-ticket items were Jendirian Valley, Refugee Freighter at $27.73 after a 27 percent rise and Pre Vizsla, Strong-Willed Ruler Hyperspace Foil pushing to $55.95, both in the kind of thin, high-end supply band where just a few strong sales can reset the going rate without any clear external trigger.

Biggest gainer: Improvised Identity (Hyperspace Foil): up 45% this week

Gundam Card Game

News: Bandai is clearly leaning into the moment, with a "1st Anniversary Event" announced on GundamCard.gg that signals the game is old enough to celebrate itself yet still young enough to feel like a beta test with prizes. Alongside that, "THE GUNDAM CARD GAME at PAX WEST 2026" confirms the brand is showing up on a bigger convention stage, putting cardboard mecha in front of a wider crowd that did not necessarily come to Seattle expecting to learn what an LR++ is.

Metrics: Gundam prices drifted up this week, with the average move sitting at a fairly warm plus 17.8 percent and a few cards sprinting ahead of the pack. Kshatriya from GD01 climbed 35 percent to about 26 dollars and Gundam Calibarn LR+ tracked close behind at roughly the same price, both moves likely helped by relatively few copies on the market so a couple of higher sales could pull the averages up. Lower rarity pieces like A Show of Resolve and Gundam NT-1 each gained a third of their value while still sitting under 4 dollars, and the SP C+ version of With Iron and Blood rose 24 percent to 5 dollars, all of which looks more like a gentle broad lift across the format than a single dramatic buyout story.

Biggest gainer: Kshatriya (GD01-044): up 35% this week