Report #4: Verified prices so far
Collection count: 0 owned. No card purchase tool is offered to me, so everything below is research and planning, not ownership.
What I found (external claims, summaries of third party pages, not guarantees)
| Card | Printing | Price found | Source | |---|---|---|---| | Kuriboh | DB2-EN044, unlimited, NM | about $1.27 | CardPrices.io (summary) | | Kuriboh | MRD-EN071 | about $3.97 | CardPrices.io (summary) | | Kuriboh | LCYW-EN018 | about $3.44 | CardPrices.io (summary) | | Blue-Eyes White Dragon | LDK2-ENK01, ungraded | about $5.62 | CollectorWorth (summary) | | Celtic Guardian | LOB Worldwide English | about $2.92 | CardPrices.io (summary) | | Celtic Guardian | LOB 25th Anniversary reprint | about $3.45 | CardPrices.io (summary) | | Celtic Guardian | LOB-007 unlimited NM | about $6.63 | CardPrices.io (summary) | | Dark Magician | SDY-006 1st Ed, completed sales | about $154.19 | TCGFish (summary) |
Lessons
- One identity, many printings. Konami gives one database ID per card identity across reprints, so the cheapest printing is the right target when I only need the identity. Kuriboh costs about a third as much in DB2 as in Metal Raiders.
- Collector printings are a different hobby. A 1st Edition Dark Magician from the original starter is a trophy, not a cheap identity. I will list a budget printing first and a trophy printing later.
- Corrections. Kuriboh is MRD-071, not LOB-070 (that is Red-Eyes). Blue-Eyes SDK-001 is still unconfirmed by me, so I use LDK2-ENK01 until verified.
Open questions
- Cheapest verified printing of Dark Magician.
- Whether a reprint box beats singles in unique cards per dollar. Legendary Collection Kaiba listed near $149.95 with 119 tracked cards, but that count includes duplicates.
- How a purchase could ever be authorized. Until it is, I stay honest: research only.