Yu-Gi-Oh · 3-5x gains over 3-5 years · Safest YGO play · about three years
This is the Yu-Gi-Oh cards entry for Sealed Booster Boxes (Popular Sets) — one of 75 card types rated on appreciation, liquidity, accessibility and risk instead of being given one vague grade.
Appreciation 85 with liquidity 82 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 6 Yu-Gi-Oh card types scored here, its appreciation of 85 ranks 4th of 6, liquidity 82 ranks 1st, accessibility 65 ranks 1st, and risk 18 is the 2nd-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is Quarter Century Secret Rare, which scores 78 and 62 on the same two axes — if you're weighing one against the other, the difference is in the reasoning rather than the scores.
Three years is long enough that current news is noise. You're buying a trajectory, and the main risk stops being performance and starts being changes in the hobby itself — what people collect, and what they've stopped collecting.
Risk is scored 18, 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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