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Mickey's Wayward Sorcerer PSA 10 climbs while most Lorcana Enchanteds fall
A PSA 10 of the 2023 card sold for $2,025 after Hyperia City arrived, while 48 of 53 Enchanteds from this year's earlier sets sell for less than in September.
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George Washington Has a Rookie Card That Came Out 153 Years After He Died
First in war, first in peace, and somehow a rookie in 1952, 64 years after his face was on tobacco cards.
What a rookie card is can be confusing. George Washington, the first United States President, has a card in the 1952 Topps Look ‘n See set. The card is often considered his ‘rookie,’ but how can someone who died in 1799 have a rookie card 153 years after his death? I think that’s the opposite of what a rookie card is. It isn't even his first card, since Washington was already on tobacco cards in 1888, in sets like…
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Tarik Skubal's Topps Chrome rookie rose after the Dodgers trade
As free agency gears up, his rookie value has come back down to pre-trade levels.
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Courtyard rips more than cards, from Pokémon slabs to a $20,000 watch box
Every card sits in Courtyard's own insured vault and cash-outs usually reach Venmo in minutes. Here's how to choose between the buyback and its fee-free marketplace.
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Topps leaves 23 Supernova players out of Cosmic Chrome packs
Only Judge's and Soto's made it into boxes. Topps will send the other 23 to collectors who submit that player's base Interstellar Gold /50.
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Collector Crypt users ripped 123,425 packs in one October day, a $24.3 million record
By the time you finished reading this sentence, someone on Collector Crypt would have ripped another pack.
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Which MLB Rookie of the Year finalists' cards are worth buying
What each finalist's cards cost now, before the winners' Red Rookies qualify for $100 in FanCash on Monday.
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Tilt Rips lets you open digital packs for a dime
Spend a little more per rip and you get access to different odds, from Conservative to Full Tilt. Read on to learn how it works.
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2026 NFL rookie card prices: what Mendoza, Tate, Love and seven more sell for
A card-by-card look at the Bowman Chrome, Refractor /499, Topps and Topps Gold rookies of 10 top NFL rookies, led by Fernando Mendoza.
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Arena Club puts every card's odds on the table before you rip
Its 90% buyback is one of the best rates among rip sites. Here's how to check the estimate behind your offer against real sales.
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Luka Dončić's Silver Prizm rookie holds near $1,800 as his hot start continues
His Silver Prizm PSA 10 sells for $1,860, while the base Prizm PSA 10 holds near $200.
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Connor McDavid's hot streak leads to a rise in his market
His Young Guns PSA 10 sells around $3,500 after he became the fastest player in NHL history to 30 assists.
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Where I'd Buy a Michael Jordan Card at Every Budget Right Now
Black Friday came early for Jordan collectors, with most of his weekly sellers marked down in October from the $25 SP1 to the PSA 8 rookie.
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Stephen Curry's 2009 Topps rookie runs ahead of his Wilkins milestone
His PSA 9 jumped from about $4,400 in July to $6,400 in August, well before Friday's milestone.
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J.J. McCarthy's PSA 10 rookie is a cheap flyer on the Giants' fifth-round bet
His 2024 Prizm sells for about $40 in PSA 10, close to Jayden Daniels' and a fraction of Caleb Williams' $300.
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Fuggler decks bring Labubu's blind-box chase to playing cards
Pre-orders are open at $16 a box, with a chase Room One calls "something special for collectors to hunt for!"
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Alex Ovechkin's PSA 10 rookie is up 20% since he named his final season
It's still short of the $5,100 his Young Guns reached while he chased Gretzky's goal record.
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Your PSA insured value is the most you'll get back if your cards are stolen
A raw 151 Charizard SIR that grades a PSA 10 sells for about $1,200, while PSA's $60 Standard tier only covers $1,000.
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Brewers Win the World Series While Rookie Cooper Pratt Sets a World Series Rookie Record
Pratt set a World Series rookie record with six straight hits as the Brewers won their first title, and his 2024 Bowman Chrome Refractor /499 auto in PSA 10 went from $246 in the regular season to about $375 after Game 4.
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Patrick Stewart Dies at 86: A Look Back at His Cards, From Captain Picard to Professor X
His cards follow his career, from Picard base cards printed while The Next Generation was on the air to an autograph Topps put in packs three weeks before he died.
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How Logan Paul Turned a $5.3 Million Pikachu Illustrator Into a $16.5 Million Record
Paul's PSA 10, the only one PSA has graded, sold at Goldin in February after a detour through a fractional platform that left some token holders unable to withdraw their money.
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A Jordan and Kobe Logoman Still Holds the Record for the Most Expensive Sports Card Ever Sold
Heritage sold the 1/1 for $12,932,000 in August 2025. Here's every sports card sale of $5.2 million or more and why each one went so high.
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How Grail Break Turned Ripping Packs Into a Group Game
Grail Break sells digital packs that pay out graded slabs from a vault, then offers to buy most of them right back. I went through its odds, its buyback rates and two weeks of pulls to see how the game works.
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Search All 6,451 Items on PSA's Stolen List Before You Buy a Slab
Thieves took 6,451 items from a FedEx truck carrying PSA customer orders on Oct. 13. Our search covers every cert on PSA's list and prices 1,922 of its 3,916 different cards by grade.
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How to Tell If the Old Trading Cards in Your Closet Are Worth Anything
A 1st Edition Jungle Snorlax just sold for $180,000. Here's what to pull from an old card box before the holidays and how to find what a card sold for.
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A Jungle Snorlax PSA 10 Now Sells for More Than a 1st Edition Charizard PSA 9
Vintage Pokémon collectors spent the past year paying up for higher grades on Jungle, Fossil and Team Rocket holos while the shadowless Base Set holos lagged behind.
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Cardsmiths deserves to win the fight over its $2 Mantle card
Mantle's rights holders want at least $750,000 over it. The first court conference is Nov. 18.
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Erling Haaland's Bundesliga rookie is the Topps slab worth paying up for
The last Bundesliga #72 PSA 10 sold for $790 before his Leipzig winner, more than double the Champions League #74.
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OP-18 boxes are a pass at $300 until the first wave lands
I'd wait for $250 to $275 after the Nov. 20 release. English preorders already ask around $300, the same as an OP-17 box.
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Mega Rayquaza ex is a sell at $330 as Delta Reign opens
All 19 Mega chases from earlier regular sets with enough launch-week sales fell by day 90, 12 of them by at least 40%.
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