Panini Optic · Pop-art SSP · Colorful explosion design · about two years
Fireworks is one of 75 card types scored in The Card Investor, filed under inserts.
Appreciation 72, liquidity 60 — a middling, workable profile. Nothing about the shape of it forces a decision, which means the price you pay decides whether it was a good idea.
Accessibility of 32 is the catch. That score tracks whether you can buy near MSRP or you're already paying a premium to someone else, and at 32 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 72 ranks 10th of 14, liquidity 60 ranks 11th, accessibility 32 ranks 6th, and risk 42 is the 11th-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is All-Etch, which scores 76 and 65 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 42 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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