What do the different price points on TCGplayer.com mean?

Harnessing the power of hundreds of brick and mortar stores, online stores and individual sellers, TCGplayer puts together the most comprehensive Price Guide available anywhere.

We serve up over four million pages of pricing data each day through our popular marketplace and via partner websites and mobile applications.

This article covers each of the featured metrics included in the Price Points on TCGplayer product pages. Please note that the price points will reflect any selected printings and conditions filters applied to the product page.

An example of the pricing metrics available on a product page. The Price Points data is located on the middle of the charts on the right side.

Market Price: This price point is compiled from recent sales completed on TCGplayer.com. Market Price is updated as transactions complete and reflects the best suggested retail price of a product.

Most Recent Sale: This price point reflects the price of the most recently sold product for the filters applied to the product page. It takes into account any selected condition or card versions.

Market Price Volatility: This scale provides insights into the volatility of the market price for a particular product. The volatility of a product’s price is calculated based on sales volume and standard deviations for price range for a 30 day time period. A breakdown of the scale is included below.

Examples of the price volatility scale with values dispaying low volatility, medium volatility, high volatility, and indeterminate volatility.

Low Volatility - This product stays around the same relative price.
Medium Volatility - This product’s price changes slightly more over the 30 day period, but might have less volume/transactions per timeframe.
High Volatility - This product’s price changes more significantly over the 30 day time period.
Indeterminate Volatility - The product did not have enough sales volume within 30 days to determine a volatility score.

Price volatility is calculated based on products sold on a per order basis, not a per product sold basis (so an order with 4 of the same card will be counted as a single data point for pricing).

Listed Median: This is the median from all listed prices for a product based on listed prices only. Because of this, especially on older products with lower quantities, it can vary significantly from the actual price that people are paying for the card (see Market Price).

Example:

Let’s look at a scenario. We'll see what the true value of the Magic: The Gathering card Moat from the Legends set is, assuming the following sample price data:

Market Price: $354.66
Listed Median: $654.72

What is the value of Moat given these data points? Some sellers have it listed (as per the Listed Median) for over $600, so isn’t that its price? No. The Market Price reflects the recent sales of Moat to be $354.66, so the true value falls somewhere in between these two data points.

Let's discuss the Listed Median price more. Moat has a Listed Median of $654.72, almost double what actual sales (Market Price) are showing. This is because only a few sellers still have this card listed. What you are not seeing is that every time a new seller lists a Moat at a price near the Market Price, it sells, leaving behind cards with listed prices far above what the card will sell for.

Current Quantity: This metric reflects the current quantity of a particular product listed on the product page. (Note: This number does not take into account Listings with Photos listings that might include multiple copies of a particular card or product.)

Current Sellers: This metric is the number of individual sellers who have a listing for the specific product selected.

Change Log

2/6/25 - Added information about price volatility metric.