Speculation: What the Letter After the Number Is Worth
Starred and lettered variants are supposed to carry a premium over their base printings. In this catalogue they do so barely half the time, and the exceptions are not random.
Spirit Forged · 054a/221
Origins · 237/298
Spirit Forged · 120/221
Unleashed · 184/219
Demo dataPrices on this page are generated sample data, not real market prices. Prices sourced from TCGplayer. What this means
Starred and lettered variants are supposed to carry a premium over their base printings. In this catalogue they do so barely half the time, and the exceptions are not random.
Everyone priced the Spirit Forged Showcase Legends on release and then stopped looking. The set's Epic and Uncommon tiers are still trading at opening levels.
Order has no Showcase Legend anywhere in the tracked catalogue. Its most expensive card is a Rune, and that single structural fact explains most of its price behaviour.
The Origins Epic tier had its best week of the summer, led by the Chaos cards. The spread between the top Epic and the median one is now uncomfortably wide.
Spirit Forged is the flattest set on the board, with no printing above the low hundreds and a remarkably even distribution beneath. That is unusual and probably temporary.
Every Battlefield in this catalogue is an Uncommon, and every one of them trades above five dollars. The rarity symbol is lying to you.
Five Legends in this catalogue exist as ordinary Rares. They are liquid, cheap relative to their Showcase counterparts, and nobody writes about them. That is the whole thesis.