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Market Trends
Market Trends helps you quickly see which cards are moving up or down in price, so you can make better buy, sell, and trade decisions.
Pick a marketplace, time period, preset, finish, and sorting mode, then review top increases and decreases side by side. This gives you a focused snapshot of the part of the market you care about.
Basic lands are excluded from all preset results.
To learn more about market prices, visit Market Prices.
Period
- Choose Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Quarterly.
- The selected period controls which price-change snapshot is used.
Marketplace
- Supported paper marketplaces: TCGplayer, Cardmarket, Mana Pool, and Card Kingdom.
Finish
- Choose All, Nonfoil, Foil, or Etched.
- Market trends show Nonfoil by default. Choose All to include every finish.
- Available finish options depend on the selected marketplace.
Presets define the search criteria before ranking price movers.
- Standard / Modern / Pioneer / Premodern: Uses format-legal sets and format legality matching.
- Eternal: Cards legal in Commander, Legacy, or Vintage.
- EDH Staples: Top Commander cards by EDHREC rank, with non-land focus.
- Reserved List: Reserved list cards only.
- Secret Lair: Secret Lair cards.
- Premium Foils: Foil or etched cards with premium treatments and a current price of at least $30.
- Important: Outside Premium Foils (and Secret Lair), cards with premium foil promo treatments are filtered out to reduce preset noise, regardless of price.
To filter out noise, every result must move by at least both a minimum amount and a minimum percentage over the selected period:
- Daily: $0.50 (0.50€ on Cardmarket) and 3%
- Weekly: $1 (1€ on Cardmarket) and 5%
- Monthly: $1 (1€ on Cardmarket) and 5%
- Quarterly: $1 (1€ on Cardmarket) and 5%
Both minimums apply to increases and decreases, regardless of sorting. Daily minimums are lower because single-day moves are smaller. These rules apply to all presets, set trends, custom Market Search, and homepage movers.
Each card appears once. The printing and finish with the biggest move leads the row, and other printings of the same card that also meet the minimums are grouped under it.
Results are sorted by value change by default. You can switch to percent change to rank qualifying cards by their relative movement.
- Value change: Sorts by raw currency move (for example, USD or EUR).
- Percent change: Sorts by percentage move.
- Moves exactly at the minimums qualify. Smaller moves and results with missing changes are excluded, so some views may have fewer results or none.
- Results inconsistent with other marketplaces are excluded as likely data errors, for example when a marketplace briefly lists a printing at another card's price.
If preset-based trends are too broad, use Custom Market Search for format, finish, period, and sorting control with additional query filters.