Yu-Gi-Oh · Ultra-premium parallel · 1 per 2 cases · about a year
This is the Yu-Gi-Oh cards entry for Starlight Rare — one of 75 card types rated on appreciation, liquidity, accessibility and risk instead of being given one vague grade.
With appreciation at 90 and liquidity at 68, this sits in the ordinary range on both axes. Those are the entries where the reasoning matters more than the scores.
Accessibility of 15 is the catch. That score tracks whether you can buy near MSRP or you're already paying a premium to someone else, and at 15 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 6 Yu-Gi-Oh card types scored here, its appreciation of 90 ranks 3rd of 6, liquidity 68 ranks 4th, accessibility 15 ranks 5th, and risk 22 is the 4th-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is Ghost Rare, which scores 92 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.
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 22, 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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