If you’re going to Gen Con, I’m going to guess you might like trading card games. You’ll probably come home with some booster packs. You might even have some boxes stashed in your attic.
If for whatever reason you find yourself with a dragon’s hoard of cards, you might be interested in knowing what they’re worth. To sell or trade them, or just to know how much your favorite shiny cardboard is valued.
There are a lot of places you can go to find that out. A quick google search will deliver a ton of results all showing prices, from stores to tracking sites. For the uninitiated this is an entire world within a world full of charts and graphs and arcane knowledge.
So let’s make it a little easier.
Long-time trading card gamers tend to gravitate to a few sources for card pricing. TCGplayer is one of those. The median price shown on TCGplayer is often what players use to trade cards in their local game store. If they can make a deal based on ‘TCGplayer mid’ they’ll both come away with a fair trade.
For graded cards, the ones in a sealed case with numbers denoting the quality of various aspects of the card, eBay listings are better. Sorting by ‘sold’ shows what cards are actually selling for too.
You’ve also got resources like Price Charting which collects a lot of data about a lot of games, trading cards, comics, Funkos and Lego.
Finding a trusted resource to value your cards might net you some extra cash or make sure you get a fair deal on trades. Every collection has a few hidden gems, and if you’re cracking packs at Gen Con, you probably want to know if you opened something worth a small fortune.
The TCGplayer mobile app allows you to scan and price your cards in seconds. It’s been completely revamped to be better than ever, and is available free on the Play Store and App Store.
The TCGplayer mobile app is fast, accurate, and can instantly tell you what your cards are worth. You can use it to build and track collections and it works for every game that’s on TCGplayer. Whether you’re scanning Magic, Pokémon, and Yu-Gi-Oh or new games like the GUNDAM CARD GAME and Star Wars: Unlimited, you can use the TCGplayer app to identify the card and see the current price.
If you’re looking for a quick answer about that pack you just opened, download it and get started. Download the TCG Player app on the Apple App Store or Google Play.