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How each price and screen is built, and dated market notes written from the catalog's own reads. Signals, not tips.
The 30th Celebration launches tomorrow. Here is what the 25th's Classic Collection is worth today
A 30-card Classic Collection of gold-bordered reprints arrives on 16 September 2026. The 25th anniversary did the same in 2021; five years on, its reprints trade at a fraction of the originals and carry far larger PSA 10 populations.
CardGameInsight Desk · Sep 15, 2026 · 5 min read
Box EV: what a box is worth opened, from published pull rates and today's prices
Screen 6 sums each card's pull probability times its observed value into an expected value per pack, then compares it with sealed prices. Three sets have a published sample; opened value covers 7 to 36% of the sealed price.
Discontinued watch: out-of-print sealed product against the price it cost at retail
Screen 5 ranks out-of-print sealed products by how far above MSRP they trade, lowest first. Only six products have a retail price we can cite; here is why the other 78 are listed unranked rather than guessed.
Chase concentration: how much of a set is really three cards
Screen 3 measures the share of a set's total raw value held by its top three cards, plus a Herfindahl index. Black & White is the most concentrated seeded set at 73%; here is the method and the first results.