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Card price index: coming soon

We plan to publish a price index for each major card game, tracked over time. We have not chosen the underlying sales data yet, so there are no index numbers on this page.

A player opening booster packs at a trading card game event
Opening booster packs at a card game event.

What it will cover

  • One index per game: Pokémon, One Piece, Magic: The Gathering, Lorcana, Yu-Gi-Oh and sports cards, with newer games such as Riftbound and Gundam added once there is enough sales history.
  • Monthly values, so you can see how each market moved over time and against the others.
  • Separate views for raw singles, graded singles and sealed product where the data allows.
  • A published basket and method: which cards are in each index, how sales are weighted and how outliers are handled.
  • CSV downloads and a citation line, like our other data pages.

Best public references today

Until our index is live, Card Ladder's indexes are widely cited public trackers of card values over time, with indexes for sports and trading card games. Check each index's own notes for which cards it includes and how it is calculated.

Card Ladder also tracks overall sales volume. Sports Collectors Daily reported that, by Card Ladder's count, trading card sales tracked across platforms topped $1 billion in October 2026 for the first time, from more than 9.2 million transactions.

For individual cards, recent sold listings on eBay and auction-house archives remain the primary evidence of what a card is worth. For record sales, see our guide to the most valuable Pokémon cards, and for the bigger question, are Pokémon cards a good investment?

Cards an index would have to cover

At the top end, single sales move by millions; the oldest sports cards trade so rarely that each sale is news. Prices for these are in the record sales guide.

Left: record Pokémon sales (ranks 1, 2, 4 and 12). Right: T206 Honus Wagner, 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth and two Ty Cobb tobacco cards, public domain scans from the Library of Congress and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Card photos: Guinness World Records; Sports Illustrated. All credits

Want it first?

Journalists and researchers who want the index when it launches, or who can recommend a sales data source, can email [email protected].

Sources

All links checked November 12, 2026.

  1. Card Ladder indexes (cardladder.com)
  2. Sports Collectors Daily: October 2026 grading and Card Ladder sales figures (sportscollectorsdaily.com)

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