Trading Card Games · What’s new

What’s new

Changes to the site itself — new features, improvements and fixes.

This page is about the site. For price and market moves on the products, see market activity.

16 September 2026

New How the whole market has done, in the Pulse sentence. We have tracked an index of the typical market price since February 2024, and it only ever showed inside a panel most people never opened. Pulse now says it: Pokémon sealed is up 84% since then. Hover it for what the index counts.

New Market Pulse says how the market is doing, in a sentence. Above the counts: whether the market is holding steady, moving up or cooling, with the median 30-day move and the rising and cooling counts it rests on. It is a description of those numbers, not a forecast.

Improved A tag the whole set shares sits on the set. “Launch window” was on all 32 cards of a new set, because it describes the set’s age rather than any one product. Now the set heading says it once. Sets where only some products carry a tag keep it on those cards.

Fixed Market cards show their price again. The MSRP or Target.com price at the bottom of a Market card was being squeezed to a single letter, and a signal next to a chip was cut to “T…”. Both read in full now.

Improved At 1-yr high is a count, not a line on every card. Most of the sealed market is at its high, so saying it on hundreds of cards told you nothing. Market Pulse now counts them and one tap shows just those. How far below its high a product is still sits on the card.

New See a sample Portfolio before you sign in. Portfolio now opens on a made-up stack priced at today’s real market, so you can see what it does before signing in. You get it too if yours is still empty. It is never shown over your own lots, and nothing in it can be saved.

New Paste a list into Portfolio. Put your collection in at once instead of one form at a time. One product a line, with how many and what you paid: 4 Prismatic ETB $49.99. A row copied from a spreadsheet works too. You see what each line matched, and can change or skip any of it, before anything is saved. One date and one plan cover the list, and anything that still needs a fix waits in the box instead of holding up the rest.

Improved Portfolio is out of beta, and reads cleaner. Keep / Some / List now shows which one is picked, which it never did. In your stack says each product once. On a phone the totals are tighter and the stack swipes, so you reach what you hold sooner.

Improved Catalog cards, one shape. Every card has the same rows in the same order: both dollars, the tier, one line of reads, the chart. A card with nothing to read says why (asks only, no market price yet). Cards are a little wider so nothing is cut off. A violet ring now means one thing, in your list; NEW, the street date and DROPPING stay on the photo. The trend word comes off the catalog card; it is still on Market and in the chart.

14 September 2026

Improved The market price is on every card. On a computer, each catalog card now shows the market price as its largest number, with Target’s price under it, so you no longer have to open the chart to see it. The multiple drops the word “Target”, since this page always measures against Target, and the charts, prices and tiers line up across each row.

Improved Catalog cards drop the MSRP chip. Target’s markup over MSRP is about the same for every product of a kind (+$1 on a blister, +$5.05 on a booster bundle), so the chip repeated one number and said little. MSRP is still in each item’s price panel and on its chart, and tiers are still measured against Target’s price.

13 September 2026

New MSRP beside Target’s price. Target charges more than MSRP on most of what it sells ($69.99 for a $59.99 Elite Trainer Box). Catalog cards now carry a chip like “+$10 vs MSRP”, the price panel shows both prices with a multiple each, and the chart draws both lines. Tiers are still measured against what Target charges. The Market page now measures every product against MSRP, so two identical boxes no longer read differently because one is sold at Target.

New The Market reads, on the catalog. Each catalog card shows its price signal, its 30-day move and how far it sits from its 1-year high. Pulse, set scorecards and Compare work on the catalog too, and the tier filter can pick a signal.

New Pre-order asking prices, drawn dashed. An unreleased product used to have a blank chart. Its pre-order asks are now drawn as a grey dashed line up to release. They are asks, not sales, and none of the figures use them.

New A 30-second tour, and community credits. “Show me around” in the header walks through the page in four stops. Recent changes now say when an item was added by the community, and there is a filter for those items.

New Market (Beta): every sealed product, at its real price. A new Market page lists every sealed product in the sets we track, whether or not Target sells it, at its TCGplayer market price. Each price has a multiple against its shelf price and a signal that says what it's doing: heating up, rising, steady, cooling, falling.

New Pulse, set scorecards and Compare. Pulse shows how many products in a game are rising or cooling and the biggest movers. Each set opens with how much of it is up and its best and worst product. Pick up to three products with ⇄ to see them on one chart, rebased to 100.

New Signals, checked against 2.5 years of prices. We replayed the signal rules over 31,319 weekly readings. Prices after a Heating up reading rose more than average; after Cooling, Falling or a product's launch window, they didn't. How signals work. It describes the market; it isn't advice.

11 September 2026

New Your list is still there next time. “My list” is now saved in your browser, so closing the tab no longer loses it. It stays on your device and is never sent to us. Clear removes it.

New Share exactly what you're looking at. The link in your address bar now carries your search, filters and sort, so sending it to someone opens the same view. Back undoes a filter.

New Tap a TCIN to copy it, and sort by release date. Tapping any TCIN copies it. The sort menu adds “coming soonest” (what isn't out yet, soonest first) and “release date, newest”. On a computer, press / to jump to search.

Improved Point at the ticker for details. The scrolling market-price ticker now eases to a stop when you point at it, instead of freezing with a jolt, and shows the product, its market price before and after, and Target's price. Move away and it carries on.

Improved “Send to TargetDoge” is now “Send to Poke Snipes”. Same button, same Discord channel, named after the community it goes to.

New Add it to your home screen. In your phone's browser, choose Share → Add to Home Screen. The site opens full screen with its own icon.

New One tap to clear a filter. Every filter you have on now shows as a chip under the dropdowns, like “Just listed ✕”. Tap it to remove it, or “Clear all” when there are several. Tapping “just listed” or “new releases” at the top a second time turns it off, and the Filters button at the bottom of a phone shows how many are on.

New JUST LISTED tag for products Target has only just put up. A product that isn’t out yet and joined the catalog in the last two weeks now says JUST LISTED under its release date. NEW still means it came out in the last 30 days. The counts at the top of the page are now “just listed” and “new releases”, and tapping one shows those items.

Fixed Product names no longer get cut down to “Box” or “Tin”. Cards used to drop the product type from the middle of a name, so “30th Celebration Booster Bundle Box” showed as “Box”. Names now keep the whole product and only leave off the set name the card already shows.

Fixed Target prices for new listings show up within the hour. Items with no stored Target.com price are checked every hour instead of once a day. We only store a dollar if the scrape reads one; Target still shows retail when Out of Stock.

Fixed Open any item on Target from your phone. The phone list had no link to Target’s page. Each row now has the same ↗ button as the desktop cards, next to + Add.

New A light theme that follows your device. The site now matches your phone or computer’s light or dark setting on its own, and switches when that does. To pin one, use Auto / Light / Dark at the bottom of the catalog page.

Fixed Spotted early only lists products Target has no page for. A report of an Elite Trainer Box the catalog already had showed up there under a second number. Every early item is now checked against the catalog, the flagged third-party list and Target itself before it is added.

10 September 2026

New Products reported before Target lists them. Backend monitors sometimes spot a product in Target’s systems weeks before its page exists. When a reliable one does, it now appears for a week in a Spotted early section above the catalog, with the source named and the reported price and date. It joins the catalog on its own once Target publishes the page.

9 September 2026

New Show only the products on your list. Paste a list of twelve and the page still showed all 228. One button in the list bar now hides everything else, and it works alongside the search box and the filters. It stays off until you ask for it — browsing the whole catalog is still what the site is for.

Fixed Tiers said they accounted for fees and shipping. They don’t. That deduction was removed on 4 September, because it assumed you resell through one particular marketplace at one particular fee — and most people don’t. The legend and the how-it-works page had gone on claiming it. A tier is the market price over Target’s price, and nothing else.

Fixed Unreleased products showed a multiple as if it had been traded. A box that isn’t out yet read “2.5× retail” in the same type as one that has been selling for a year. Nothing has sold, so nothing has traded: those cards now read “pre-order 2.5×”. The site already left pre-release prices out of every chart for this exact reason.

Fixed “24 new items” above a page showing eight. The strip at the top counted what had been added to the catalog in a fortnight; the NEW stickers mark what Target put on sale in the last month. Both were right, and they were using the same word for it. The strip now says “added”.

Fixed Huge “Target price” jumps that Target never made. Eight entries on the market activity page showed shelf prices doubling or halving. Those are us correcting prices we had read wrongly in late August, not Target moving anything, and they are now labelled as such rather than presented as news.

Improved The how-it-works page counts instead of remembering. It claimed a third of the catalog had no market price (it was under a fifth) and that eleven listings had been kept out (it was twenty-two). Those sentences are now counted from the published data every time the page loads, so they can’t drift again.

Improved Product names stop repeating their set. A card headed “30TH CELEBRATION” then called itself “30th Celebration Greninja ex”, spending both lines of the title on a word already directly above it. It now just says “Greninja ex”.

New See only the products on your list. After pasting a list, one click hides everything else — and one more brings the whole catalog back. It’s your choice; pasting never changes the view on its own.

Improved Pasting again adds to your list, and says so. The button now reads “Add to my list” once you have one, with an option to start a new list instead.

Improved Flagged listings show the product. Some third-party listings were a grey box. They now show the photo, so you can tell at a glance whether it’s a product you care about.

Improved A straight answer on third-party sellers. How it works now explains exactly how marketplace listings are kept out, including what happens to a TCIN nobody has checked yet — and every section has its own link you can share.

Fixed The third-party counter looked frozen. It was counting, but only showed new numbers twice a day. It now updates within minutes.

8 September 2026

Fixed A green arrow next to a falling red line. The trend arrow read the last 30 days while the mini chart beside it drew whatever history the product had — so the two openly disagreed on the same card, each correct about a different period. The arrow is gone. The chart’s own colour says it.

Improved Mini charts got the width of the card. They were a small squiggle floating at the right edge of every card while everything else was left-aligned. Same height, four times the detail.

7 September 2026

New Charts now say what happened. A price can fall a third in four days with nothing on the page to explain it. Restocks, reprints and set rotations are now marked on the chart and listed underneath, so a drop reads as an event rather than a mystery. Written by hand, because no price feed announces a reprint.

Fixed A panel that claimed a year of history it didn’t have. Products we have tracked for eight months still said “from 1-yr high.” It now names the window actually measured.

Fixed Sparklines drawn outside their cards. On a full grid the little charts spilled into the gaps between products. They now sit on their own line inside the card.

6 September 2026

New Price history for every priced product, back to February 2024. Each product carries a small 90-day chart, and clicking it opens the full history: the market price day by day, the lowest listing, Target’s shelf price and the release date. Up to two and a half years of it, where the product is that old.

New A plain-English read on where a product sits. Some products now carry a short label — launch window, reprint wave, near a 1-year high, recovering, still in print. At most one, and most products have none: it means a recognisable pattern, not that we checked. Nothing here is advice.

New How a product compares to the rest of the market. A sealed-market index per game, drawn on every chart, so you can tell a product falling on its own from one falling because everything is. Pokémon sealed has roughly tripled since February 2024.

New Whether a set is running hot for its age. Sets follow a shape: a launch premium, a dip while it is still being printed, then a climb once it isn’t. Each Pokémon set now shows its month since release against what a typical set does at the same age.

Improved Trend arrows no longer appear on unreleased products. Pre-order prices are speculation, not a market. They are now left out of every trend and chart, so a product that hasn’t shipped can’t show as “falling.”

31 August 2026

Fixed The ticker was reporting our own corrections as price moves. It carried Target price changes as well as market price ones, and most of those turned out to be us fixing prices we had read wrongly in the first place — shown as if Target had moved them. The ticker is now market price only.

Fixed “NEW” on products that were years old. Where Target publishes no release date, the badge fell back to when the product was added here — so 2024 stock catalogued last week looked brand new. A set’s own release date now rules that out.

30 August 2026

New Market activity page. The full history of price moves, market price moves and newly added products, grouped by day and filterable — rather than just the newest few in the strip on the front page.

Improved Almost every set now shows its release date. Sets without one sorted to the bottom in alphabetical order, which told you nothing. Down from 11 undated sets to 5, and those five genuinely aren’t sold as sets on TCGplayer.

Improved More products now have a market price. Where the automatic matcher can find the right set but can’t tell two similar products apart — a “1-Tab” and a “3-Tab” box share a name on Target — a person now picks the right one by hand instead of the item going unpriced.

29 August 2026

New A scrolling ticker of market price moves. What actually moved, at the top of the page, using short set codes. Clicking one jumps to that item rather than applying a filter you then had to work out how to clear.

Improved “NEW” now means newly released, not newly added here. It used to flag anything recently added to our database, so backfilling a 2023 product looked identical to a genuine new release. It now uses Target’s own on-sale date. Products that aren’t out yet show their release date instead of a NEW badge.

Improved Flagged listings show the actual product. A third-party listing used to be a red box with a number in it. Being flagged says something about the listing, not the product, so the name, photo, price and market price are all shown — the warning is the exception on a normal card, not a replacement for one.

Fixed Some retail prices were wrong. The wrong element on Target’s page was being read for certain products. Because a tier is market price divided by retail price, a wrong price quietly distorted both the tier and the “most expensive first” ordering within a set.

Improved Pasted TCINs we don’t know get checked faster. An unknown TCIN used to wait up to a day to be looked up and published. It’s now usually resolved and live within about 20 minutes.

28 August 2026

New All five games, not just Pokémon. Magic, Lorcana, One Piece and Yu-Gi-Oh joined the catalogue, with real market prices rather than estimates.

New Sets ordered by release date, newest first. Alphabetical put “151” next to “30th Celebration” next to “Ascended Heroes”. Release order matches how people actually think about sets.

New A “How it works” page. Where the prices come from, what the tiers mean, and what this site deliberately doesn’t claim to know.

Improved The paste box is open by default. The main thing the site is for was hidden behind a collapsed row that looked like every other collapsed row.

Fixed Magic products had no market prices at all. Sets whose name matched several TCGplayer sets were being skipped entirely rather than resolved.

Older work predates this log. Nothing before 28 August 2026 is recorded here — not because nothing changed, but because we weren’t writing it down yet.