New era (2022+) · Owns Topps · Taking over NFL/NBA licenses · about two years
This is the card manufacturers entry for Fanatics — one of 75 card types rated on appreciation, liquidity, accessibility and risk instead of being given one vague grade.
Appreciation 80 with liquidity 70 is the combination worth looking for: room left to run, and a market deep enough that you could act on a change of mind. It's also the combination that attracts the most competition, which is usually why accessibility is the score that suffers.
Accessibility is 65, meaning this is still available at or near a sensible price. That is genuinely half the case for any sealed purchase, and it's the half that disappears first once something gets talked about.
Set against the 8 manufacturer card types scored here, its appreciation of 80 ranks 8th of 8, liquidity 70 ranks 8th, accessibility 65 ranks 1st, and risk 40 is the 7th-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is Konami (Yu-Gi-Oh), which scores 82 and 72 on the same two axes — if you're weighing one against the other, the difference is in the reasoning rather than the scores.
Two years gives the situation time to develop past its first impression, which is usually when the price is set by whoever shouted loudest. It also means two years of not touching it, including through the stretch where it looks wrong.
Risk at 40 is the middle of the range: real ways to fail, none of them exotic. A role change, a slow start, or the hobby simply deciding to care about something else for a while.
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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