Pokémon · Released Mar 27 · Sell into peak demand · roughly a month
Perfect Order SIRs (Flip) is one of 75 card types scored in The Card Investor, filed under Pokémon cards.
Liquidity of 85 is the standout number. You could move this in days rather than months, which matters more than people expect — an appreciation score of 68 is only worth anything if you can realise it when you decide to.
Accessibility of 35 is the catch. That score tracks whether you can buy near MSRP or you're already paying a premium to someone else, and at 35 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 8 Pokémon card types scored here, its appreciation of 68 ranks 6th of 8, liquidity 85 ranks 3rd, accessibility 35 ranks 5th, and risk 45 is the 7th-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is Recent 2024-25 Pokemon SIRs (Peak Sell), which scores 52 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.
This is a flip, not a hold. The window is weeks, and it exists because something is happening right now that produces fresh coverage every few days. Flips fail in a specific way: the story ends, attention moves on, and you're holding something you bought at the top of a news cycle. If you can't watch it, this isn't the entry for you.
Risk at 45 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.
You can realistically find Perfect Order SIRs (Flip) at a local card shop, a card show and online.
There is no big-box option for this one. Hobby configurations are allocated to card shops and distributors and do not reach Walmart or Target shelves at all, so a wasted trip is the likeliest outcome of looking there.
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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