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Should You Frame or Display Your Best MTG Cards?
UV light quietly ruins card ink, and framing your only copy of something expensive is a resale decision you can't take back.
I Said I'd Check Back on the Hobbit Secret Lair. I Wasn't Ready For This.
The Marvelous Mathoms Superdrop launched six days ago. Every single one of the five drops already resells for more than the pack cost.
Secrets of Strixhaven, Four Months Later: Which Cards Actually Held Value
The set's mythics were priced reasonably on release day. Didn't matter. Here's what four months of Strixhaven prices actually did.
Half My Collection Is Sleeved Into Decks. I Wasn't Counting Any of It.
The cards sitting in your built decks are the expensive ones, and most collection totals quietly leave them out.
MTG Star Trek Has Magic's First Autograph Cards. There Are About 1,750 in the World.
Seven cards, hand-signed by the actors, roughly 250 copies each. What that does to Collector Booster odds, and to any attempt at logging one.
Hasbro Q2 2026: Magic's First $500M Quarter Has a $25M Hole In It
Magic cleared half a billion in a single quarter for the first time. The line I keep rereading is the one about the cyberattack.
Your MTG Collection Is Worth a Different Number in Euros. The Gap Isn't the Exchange Rate.
I priced 21 ordinary English cards in dollars and euros. The ratio ran from 0.44 to 1.46, which no currency conversion can explain.
MTG's The List, Explained: The Card That Lies About Which Set It's From
The List is retired, but 5,117 cards from it are still floating around. How to spot one, and why it's worth about the same as the original.
When Are MTG Singles Actually Cheapest? I Checked Every Price I Wrote Down This Year
I said Hexing Squelcher would settle at $8 by June. It's $21.72. Here's what a year of my own price notes says about when singles bottom out.
Smaug Fell From $72 to $27. A Card Nobody Previewed Now Tops The Hobbit.
The Hobbit's preorder prices collapsed on schedule, a $34 sleeper now tops the set, and delayed Play Boosters mean September moves them again.