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You're listening to the MTG Sold podcast. This is the week of August 24th to August 30th,

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2026

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Welcome back. Let's get right into the news

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Revenue fell 15% this week units fell another 15% as well

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The seller pull shrank by about 26 sellers

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TCG player did about 804 thousand dollars across 5,040 units

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The hobbit is three weeks old and the launch week volume is settled. Everything was lighter

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Manipul came in at about 53,000 across 388 units

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Also down and sitting right in the middle of all of that the hobbit collector booster display gained again

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Third straight week supply grew 34% more sellers showed up and the price still went up to about

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$841 the shelf turned over more than once during the week even with 40 extra units of average depth

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Supply has been growing every week since launch and the price keeps climbing anyway if you've been waiting for the post-release

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correction on this box it hasn't shown up at this point that

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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

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Either that or the signals are pulling enough value that cracking is still profitable at 840 dollars

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And the arbitrage floor is holding the sealed price up either way if you're holding one you're not wrong yet

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We still do have to see how the Amazon restock wave affects current pricing

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Crack the plates the hobbit scene box kept climbing to it found its floor two weeks ago around

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$53 when sellers left after margin disappeared

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Now it's at about $61 and nearly clearing the shelf every week

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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

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That's looking good

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Reality fracture is five weeks from release on October 2nd and the pre-order book out of this week

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The playbusher display supply nearly tripled on TCG player and the price still rose to about 150

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The collector booster display supplied doubled and the price jumped 10% to $533 on 17 units and there's a new wrinkle

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Watson announced that the first wave of playboosters may be delayed because of the Panama Canal shipping disruptions

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They said they'll be enough for pre-release, but supply could be tight afterwards

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If you're watching this set the story content starts today

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Spoiler season begins September 8th and now those it concrete supply constraint on top of the hype

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That usually means buyers start routing demand

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Toward the product that's confirmed available at launch

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Which in this case is the collector booster?

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The price climbing into a supply tripling makes more sense once you factor in the delay

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On the declineer side the one you should pay attention to is more win-equipped

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The playbusher display dropped about 8% to roughly $114

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Units tripled 56 bucks last week 148 this week a

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Distributed restock wave pushed the shelf from

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494 to

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717 average quantity and 14 new sellers showed up the price fell the volume exploded at

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$123 people weren't buying at

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114 they were

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If you're looking at older in-universe sets

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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

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The final fantasy commander decks keep drifting lower

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Revival trans down counter blitz down limit break down on manapult

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Three or four fell as distribution keeps adding inventory

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That usually means big stores are getting restocked from a delayed second wave and competing the price down

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If you're holding final fantasy commander sealed this probably isn't the bottom just yet

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Boomboro commander deck animated army is the tightest commander deck on the board right now

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Supply fell 19% a quarter of the sellers left and it's clearing nearly 90% of the shelf every week

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The manapool side shows the same drain on even thinner tape commander format demand is pulling the specific product off shelves

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All the rest of the commander line sets if you've been holding one of these there's no hurry

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If you've been thinking about picking went up the window was narrowing

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Fewer sellers means less competition on price which usually means the next move is up

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Star Trek collector booster display is still draining

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Supply fell another 17% to average quantity 51 with only seven sellers left

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The price hasn't moved from 699 but 51 units across seven sellers is a thin shelf by any measure

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10 weeks before the November 13th release

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Two consecutive weeks of double digit supply drops

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That usually means the remaining sellers have priced where they want to be and the inventory is walking at the door at that price

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If you want one at 699 the math on waiting is getting worse every week

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StrixAven is a split story this week the codex bundle supply bounced back 40% and the units crashed from 66 to 23

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So the acute tightening I flagged last week didn't hold on that product

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On the commander side

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Prismari artistry still rose with sellers dropping 16%

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And watts you confirm production delays for secrets of StrixAven commander decks

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The commander products and the codex bundle are telling you different things right now

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The delay announcement makes me lean towards a real constraint on the commander side

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Even if the broader sealed line had a one week bounce

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The hobbit gift bundle launched a September 4th it fell below the tracking threshold this week

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So you won't see the current data on the site

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But the official launch should tell you whether the pre release premium unwinds to the $90 MSRP or stabilize it somewhere above it

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Reality fractured spoiler season begins September 8th and the play booster display is confirmed

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The pre-order book built again this week despite supply tripling

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With the delay giving collector boosters a structural advantage at launch

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The question is whether you start seeing

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Displaced play booster demand show up visibly in the collector display numbers next week

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StrixAven commander is the one to watch here for the structural supply

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Wassid delays are confirmed, sellers are still leaving, and we've got one mixed data point

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Another week should break the tie

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So that's the week revenue down across the board

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The hobbit collector booster display is still climbing

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Reality fracture is building in dispoilers and and Laura when found the price the market wanted all along

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That's it that's the week full numbers in the article on mtgsold.com see you later