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Welcome back. Let's get right into the news
Revenue fell 15% this week units fell another 15% as well
The seller pull shrank by about 26 sellers
TCG player did about 804 thousand dollars across 5,040 units
The hobbit is three weeks old and the launch week volume is settled. Everything was lighter
Manipul came in at about 53,000 across 388 units
Also down and sitting right in the middle of all of that the hobbit collector booster display gained again
Third straight week supply grew 34% more sellers showed up and the price still went up to about
$841 the shelf turned over more than once during the week even with 40 extra units of average depth
Supply has been growing every week since launch and the price keeps climbing anyway if you've been waiting for the post-release
correction on this box it hasn't shown up at this point that
Usually means the pre-release premium wasn't a premium at all the market tested the price brought more supply and the demand absorbed it
Either that or the signals are pulling enough value that cracking is still profitable at 840 dollars
And the arbitrage floor is holding the sealed price up either way if you're holding one you're not wrong yet
We still do have to see how the Amazon restock wave affects current pricing
Crack the plates the hobbit scene box kept climbing to it found its floor two weeks ago around
$53 when sellers left after margin disappeared
Now it's at about $61 and nearly clearing the shelf every week
The sellers who bailed haven't come back and their remaining supply is being absorbed faster than new inventory shows up if you picked up one near the floor
That's looking good
Reality fracture is five weeks from release on October 2nd and the pre-order book out of this week
The playbusher display supply nearly tripled on TCG player and the price still rose to about 150
The collector booster display supplied doubled and the price jumped 10% to $533 on 17 units and there's a new wrinkle
Watson announced that the first wave of playboosters may be delayed because of the Panama Canal shipping disruptions
They said they'll be enough for pre-release, but supply could be tight afterwards
If you're watching this set the story content starts today
Spoiler season begins September 8th and now those it concrete supply constraint on top of the hype
That usually means buyers start routing demand
Toward the product that's confirmed available at launch
Which in this case is the collector booster?
The price climbing into a supply tripling makes more sense once you factor in the delay
On the declineer side the one you should pay attention to is more win-equipped
The playbusher display dropped about 8% to roughly $114
Units tripled 56 bucks last week 148 this week a
Distributed restock wave pushed the shelf from
494 to
717 average quantity and 14 new sellers showed up the price fell the volume exploded at
$123 people weren't buying at
114 they were
If you're looking at older in-universe sets
This is what late cycle price discovery looks like the new clearing price is $114 and at that number it moved nearly three times as much product
The final fantasy commander decks keep drifting lower
Revival trans down counter blitz down limit break down on manapult
Three or four fell as distribution keeps adding inventory
That usually means big stores are getting restocked from a delayed second wave and competing the price down
If you're holding final fantasy commander sealed this probably isn't the bottom just yet
Boomboro commander deck animated army is the tightest commander deck on the board right now
Supply fell 19% a quarter of the sellers left and it's clearing nearly 90% of the shelf every week
The manapool side shows the same drain on even thinner tape commander format demand is pulling the specific product off shelves
All the rest of the commander line sets if you've been holding one of these there's no hurry
If you've been thinking about picking went up the window was narrowing
Fewer sellers means less competition on price which usually means the next move is up
Star Trek collector booster display is still draining
Supply fell another 17% to average quantity 51 with only seven sellers left
The price hasn't moved from 699 but 51 units across seven sellers is a thin shelf by any measure
10 weeks before the November 13th release
Two consecutive weeks of double digit supply drops
That usually means the remaining sellers have priced where they want to be and the inventory is walking at the door at that price
If you want one at 699 the math on waiting is getting worse every week
StrixAven is a split story this week the codex bundle supply bounced back 40% and the units crashed from 66 to 23
So the acute tightening I flagged last week didn't hold on that product
On the commander side
Prismari artistry still rose with sellers dropping 16%
And watts you confirm production delays for secrets of StrixAven commander decks
The commander products and the codex bundle are telling you different things right now
The delay announcement makes me lean towards a real constraint on the commander side
Even if the broader sealed line had a one week bounce
The hobbit gift bundle launched a September 4th it fell below the tracking threshold this week
So you won't see the current data on the site
But the official launch should tell you whether the pre release premium unwinds to the $90 MSRP or stabilize it somewhere above it
Reality fractured spoiler season begins September 8th and the play booster display is confirmed
The pre-order book built again this week despite supply tripling
With the delay giving collector boosters a structural advantage at launch
The question is whether you start seeing
Displaced play booster demand show up visibly in the collector display numbers next week
StrixAven commander is the one to watch here for the structural supply
Wassid delays are confirmed, sellers are still leaving, and we've got one mixed data point
Another week should break the tie
So that's the week revenue down across the board
The hobbit collector booster display is still climbing
Reality fracture is building in dispoilers and and Laura when found the price the market wanted all along
That's it that's the week full numbers in the article on mtgsold.com see you later