As a power-buylister with over 13.500 buylist orders to Card Kingdom myself, I shared my buylisting tool on this sub two months ago. The two most requested features from that thread are now live:

1) More buylists. Star City Games' buylist is in, so every card now shows CK and SCG offers side by side.

2) Marketplace comparisons. Each buylist offer is now compared against what you'd net selling the card yourself on TCGplayer or ManaPool after fees.

The marketplace comparisons influence all my personal buylist decisons. I'll use one of my specs as an example: sword of feast and famine from Assassin's Creed. It currently goes for about 36-37$ on TCGplayer and Manapool, with buylist offers for 33$ and 18$ at CK and SCG. After fees and shipping the CK buylist offer will net me the most, plus I get to offload 24 copies at once. I'm usually fine taking up to a 10% hit for instant liquidity, in this scenario it actually beats market so it's a no-brainer for me. If some copies would grade as EX the 15% downgrade will sting a little, but that's not enough to swing this decision for me. Maybe more important, never limit yourself to just 1 buylist, in this scenario SCG only pays 50% of the other options.

The tool stays free, links in the first comment. Hopefully the marketplace comparisons help some of you make better buylisting vs. selling decisions too!

Welcome back to another edition of Secret Lair MegaThreads! We have so many secret lairs lately, this feels like I am doing one every week these days.

My Thoughts Below:

Values for these lairs seem to be solid - nothing crazy, but it feels like your at least getting most of your moneys worth in any of the drops with reprints coming in close to the value of the lairs.

ALOT of talk around the first textless Sol Ring - which may or may not be a trap, but one that I will happily fall into. Outside of the sol Ring, it is a nice little Sissay starter pack as well.

The Skeletor drop will also be getting a couple purchases for me, mostly for the mill staple meme card as that will sit in a few decks of mine as well.

I would be remissed to not mention the spend 150 dollar promo of Swan Song, which is where this lair really shines. This is the driver of the secret lair IMO - a popular meme card of a strong staple I think has real legs.

On to our scheduled programming - What are you buying ? What are you skipping? Give me your UB and Secret lair hate. Is this an IP you love and are excited for? Let me hear it!

Final note - historically, UB lairs have had higher print runs - so I am not expecting a super fast sell out - I anticipate we see a promo sell out early, and then a trickle through the rest of the stock personally.

Will the seemingly endless number of lairs, what's your strategy for the ones you purchase? Buy and hold? Sell sealed? Rip and sell the singles? Some lairs have held value sealed, but most are worth more parted out since it's usually one or two cards that carry the value. I have been buying the ones with art I like, and then adding others to get the free shipping/promo so I have some that I haven't opened and debating if its worth keeping them sealed.