Panini Optic · Base holo parallel · Budget entry · about a year
Optic Holo, filed under parallels. Scored on four axes, because a type that gains value but can't be sold quickly is a different proposition from one you can move in a weekend.
With appreciation at 65 and liquidity at 78, this sits in the ordinary range on both axes. Those are the entries where the reasoning matters more than the scores.
Accessibility is 75, 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 12 parallel card types scored here, its appreciation of 65 ranks 10th of 12, liquidity 78 ranks 5th, accessibility 75 ranks 1st, and risk 32 is the 5th-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is Post-WC Soccer Silver Prizms (Peak Sell), which scores 50 and 78 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.
Risk is scored 32, toward the low end of anything in the tool. Low risk in trading cards is still not low risk in any sense your bank would recognise — it means the identifiable ways for this to go wrong are fewer, not that they're absent.
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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