This is the inserts entry for Color Blast — one of 75 card types rated on appreciation, liquidity, accessibility and risk instead of being given one vague grade.
Appreciation is 92 but liquidity is only 55, and that combination describes a long project rather than a trade. Something that gains value slowly and takes months to sell ties your money up for the whole ride, which is fine if you planned for it and painful if you didn't.
Accessibility of 8 is the catch. That score tracks whether you can buy near MSRP or you're already paying a premium to someone else, and at 8 you are paying up. A card with real upside bought at double MSRP is a worse purchase than an ordinary one bought at retail.
Set against the 14 insert card types scored here, its appreciation of 92 ranks 2nd of 14, liquidity 55 ranks 13th, accessibility 8 ranks 13th, and risk 45 is the 12th-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is Kaboom, which scores 96 and 80 on the same two axes — if you're weighing one against the other, the difference is in the reasoning rather than the scores.
A one-year horizon means you're betting on a single body of work — one season, essentially. That's a much narrower bet than a career, and it should be sized like one.
A risk score of 45 means ordinary risk — the failure modes are the boring ones, which is also why they're easy to talk yourself out of worrying about.
You can realistically find Color Blast at a card show and online.
A card show is worth the trip for this because you are buying a specific card rather than a sealed product: you can compare several copies side by side, check the centring and corners yourself, and negotiate — none of which a listing photo lets you do.
Every entry gets four separate scores instead of one grade, because a single grade hides the thing you needed. Full explanation in the guide: what Kabooms, Downtowns and Color Blasts are worth.
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