MTGSold Podcast
MTGSOLD is an ongoing Magic: The Gathering finance show anchored by a weekly Monday market newsletter episode. Between weekly reports, the feed includes editorial logs, market notes, behind-the-scenes analysis, and side essays on the business, data, and reality behind the card market. Topics include sealed product tren…
Weekly Report (Sep 28 - Oct 4, 2026): Demand Eats Supply
Oct 5, 2026 · 8:23The Reality Fracture Play Booster shelf Wizards warned would be tight grew 56.70% on TCGPlayer in release week, the price dropped under pack-equivalent MSRP, and sell-through still set a record at 6.07 on 2,020 boxes. RF took 60.8% of a $1.35M week and its pre…
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Weekly Report (Sep 21-27, 2026): RF, Hobbit, LTR: A Market Getting Tighter
Sep 28, 2026 · 8:23Reality Fracture’s Play Booster Display posted a 5.81 sell-through in prerelease week. RF claimed 50.4% of TCGPlayer’s $1.23M week for a third consecutive week above 50%. The LTR Set Booster Box absorbed last week’s restock and rebounded 7.2% to $329. Seventy-…
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Weekly Report (Sep 14-20, 2026):RF Reprices Higher, LTR Restock Breaks the Floor, 44 Sellers Vanish
Sep 21, 2026 · 9:16Reality Fracture’s Commander Deck Multiverse Reforged reversed from last week’s top decliner to this week’s top gainer, repricing 41% higher to $69.67 on 2,034 units after the full spoiler closed September 17-18. RF claimed 51.7% of TCGPlayer’s $1.3M week for…
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Weekly Report (Sep 7-13, 2026): RL preoders explode, Hobbit cools, CK Carve outs
Sep 14, 2026 · 9:34Reality Fracture’s Debut Stream detonated the preorder book: 990 Play Booster Display units at a 4.17 sell-through, 535 Collector units at 2.85, and $520K in RF revenue made up 45% of the week’s $1.15M TCGPlayer total. The Hobbit Gift Bundle entered tracking a…
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Weekly Report (Aug 31-Sep 6, 2026): The Hobbit Hits Peak Supply: Gift Bundle Craters, StarTrek Drains
Sep 7, 2026 · 10:03“The Hobbit Play Booster Display took a 35% supply wave at a 9% markdown and buyers absorbed 635 units anyway. The Gift Bundle launch landed at $53K in sales while sliding toward MSRP. Reality Fracture’s preorder book paused the week before spoilers, Bloomburr…
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Weekly Report (Aug 24–30, 2026): The Sealed Market Is Cooling Off… Except for These
Aug 31, 2026 · 7:32“Reality Fracture preorder supply tripled on TCGPlayer and the price kept climbing after WotC warned of a Play Booster first-wave delay. The Hobbit Collector Booster Display gained for a third straight week on 34% more supply. Lorwyn Eclipsed hit a late-cycle…
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Weekly Report (Aug 17 - 23, 2026): Hobbit Premium has been priced in, In-Universe sets are silently draining.
Aug 24, 2026 · 9:46“The Hobbit Collector Booster Display gained 2.6% in its second week of open-market trading while supply and sellers both grew 60%+. Crack the Plates reversed three weeks of decline after supply cratered 59%. Reality Fracture preorders accelerated with half th…
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Weekly Report (Aug 10 - 16, 2026): Hobbit Lands and Marvel is running out
Aug 17, 2026 · 7:21Revenue jumped 9% in a week where every Hobbit price came down. Release day flooded TCGPlayer with 58 new sellers, doubled supply on some SKUs, and the set still cleared six times its shelf at the top end. The scene boxes fell for a third week running. The Mar…
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Weekly Report (Aug 3 - Aug 9, 2026): : One Set Held Up a Flat Week
Aug 10, 2026 · 9:38A flat headline with one set underneath it: The Hobbit grew to 64% of TCGPlayer revenue through prerelease weekend while the rest of the board went soft. Stores undercut each other on the scene boxes, Marvel’s restock kept landing, and the old-box drain broke.…
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Weekly Report (Jul 27 - Aug 2, 2026)
Aug 3, 2026 · 8:35The market’s up twelve percent, but almost half of that is two Hobbit boxes on a set that isn’t out yet. Sort the board by supply and it’s a barbell: money flows to what can’t be opened yet and what can’t be reprinted, while the openable middle, all of Marvel,…
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Weekly Report (Jul 20 - 26, 2026)
Jul 27, 2026 · 5:35TCGPlayer revenue fell 11.94% and the two biggest products on the board both went up. The Hobbit’s preorder book is now about 40% of cohort revenue on a set that doesn’t release until August 14, and it climbed while everything in hand cooled. Also this week: w…
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Hasbro Is Printing More Magic Up Front. The Next Miss Will Look Different.
Jul 21, 2026 · 14:29Hasbro solved its 2025 inventory shortages by flooding day one allocations. Marvel absorbed the extra product without a hitch, but trading scarcity for inventory risk changes what a failure looks like for the next set. https://mtgsold.com Disclaimer: The views…
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Weekly Report (Jul 13-19, 2026)
Jul 20, 2026 · 7:46Everyone spent the week buying a set that isn’t out yet. The Hobbit’s MagicCon reveal did about $539K in preorders, 39% of TCGPlayer revenue, for product that ships August 14. FINAL FANTASY Collector hit $1,874 on a supply that structurally can’t come back, th…
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Weekly Report (Jul 6-12, 2026)
Jul 13, 2026 · 8:53Marvel’s release crunch is over: all four Commander decks fell 6.5 to 10.4% as supply rebuilt, and with a second reprint wave confirmed, some of that inventory looks like early selling. FINAL FANTASY Collector Boosters crossed $1,550 on a pool that structurall…
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Weekly Report (Jun 29–Jul 5, 2026)
Jul 6, 2026 · 10:01Post-release cooldown on July 4th weekend: units down 21% but average sale price climbed to $155. Jumpstart crunch deepens below 50 avg qty at $154 VWAP. Avengers Assemble and Doom Prevails absorb second restock wave and fall off the sell-through table. FINAL…
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Weekly Report (Jun 22–28, 2026)
Jun 29, 2026 · 9:11Marvel Super Heroes release week: restock wave hits Commander decks but sell-through stays above 3.0 on Avengers Assemble and Doom Prevails. Jumpstart supply crunch deepens to 52 avg qty. Scene Boxes continue drifting below $32. Cover Art - Illustrated by Vilh…
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Weekly Report (Jun 15–21, 2026)
Jun 22, 2026 · 10:47Marvel Super Heroes prerelease weekend pushes TCGPlayer to $1.04M. Commander decks already posting 3-4x sell-through before the June 26 release. Nine products above 1.0. Scene Boxes are the only miss. https://mtgsold.com Disclaimer: The views and opinions expr…
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Weekly Report (Jun 8–14, 2026)
Jun 15, 2026 · 13:29Marvel Super Heroes sell-through crunch spreads to seven products as the Collector Booster reprices to $509. Chocobo Bundle breaks out after three weeks of supply thinning. Lorwyn Blight Curse continues its volatility saga.“ https://mtgsold.com Disclaimer: The…
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Weekly Report (Jun 1–7, 2026)
Jun 8, 2026 · 11:58Marvel Super Heroes commands over 40% of TCGPlayer revenue on a quieter week, with Collector Booster sell-through nearing 3x. Strixhaven commander decks gain while the Bundle slides.“ https://mtgsold.com Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this epi…
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Weekly Report (May 25–31, 2026)
Jun 1, 2026 · 9:14TCGPlayer sealed hit $1.34M in weekly revenue with a massive May 29 Mayhem sale spike. Edge of Eternities products sweep the gainers while Commander-era boxes drain supply at lower prices. https://mtgsold.com Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in thi…
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Weekly Report (May 18–24, 2026)
May 25, 2026 · 7:55TCGPlayer sealed moved 5,123 units across 4,138 orders this week for $713,226 in total revenue, down 7.6% in units and 2.2% in revenue from last week’s 5,542 units and $729,624. Fewer units but a smaller revenue dip means average transaction value climbed: buy…
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The Toy Company That Isn't a Toy Company
May 20, 2026 · 11:15The Toy Company That Isn’t a Toy Company Hasbro just beat Wall Street’s earnings estimate by almost 50 percent, and the stock dropped. This episode digs into why a great quarter got punished, and what it says about a company that’s turning from a toymaker into…
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Weekly Report (May 11–17, 2026)
May 18, 2026 · 9:38Secrets of Strixhaven dominates the market in its post-release normalization window, compressing prices across the set while commander decks from Bloomburrow, Modern Horizons 3, and Duskmourn gain ground on tightening supply. Read the full article: https://mtg…
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