Two kinds of writing sit here, and every card says which it is. Measured pieces are data reports: every figure in them is computed from the TCGplayer price snapshot and re-checked against the source data on every build. Demo pieces are illustrative content written by fictional personas to fill the templates — the market events they describe did not happen. See About & Disclaimers.
SpeculationDemoAhri's Signature print already outprices every other Signature in Origins, Kai'Sa's included. A ten-year call on it becoming Riftbound's flagship chase card, and the honest case against it.
Data ReportMeasuredThe Organized Play set contains 184 priced printings. Forty-six of them carry the Metal treatment, and their median price is $1,375.00 against $3.71 for everything else in the same set.
Data ReportMeasured788 of the 1,376 priced printings in the catalogue have no non-foil price at all. Foil is not a treatment applied to some cards — for most of the printings tracked here, it is the only version that exists.
SpeculationDemoStarred 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.
Data ReportMeasured102 cards in the catalogue exist as both a base printing and an alt art at the same collector number. The median alt art costs 5.65× its base card, and the extremes reach past 60×.
Data ReportMeasuredThe Signature printings — the ones TCGplayer writes with an asterisk — number just 36 across every booster set, and together they account for $32,445.22 at market. Their median card costs $642.60.
Data ReportMeasuredAcross the five booster sets the median price rises cleanly with rarity — $0.08 for Common up to $59.38 for Showcase. Then a Common turns up at $191.96.
Data ReportMeasuredOrigins has 54 Showcase printings and Spirit Forged has 66. Unleashed and Vendetta have zero between them — the chase slot moved to overnumbered Rares instead.