Star Wars: Unlimited · run printed on the card · about two years
This is the Star Wars cards entry for SWU Serialized /250 — one of 80 card types rated on appreciation, liquidity, accessibility and risk instead of being given one vague grade.
Appreciation is 72 but liquidity is only 45, and that combination describes a long project rather than a trade. Something that gains value slowly and takes months to sell ties your money up for the whole ride, which is fine if you planned for it and painful if you didn't.
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 all 80 card types scored here, its appreciation of 72 ranks 65th of 80, liquidity 45 ranks 76th, accessibility 15 ranks 53rd, and risk 45 is the 69th-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is Topps Star Wars Deceased-Cast Autographs, which scores 74 and 48 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.
A risk score of 45 means ordinary risk — the failure modes are the boring ones, which is also why they're easy to talk yourself out of worrying about.
You can realistically find SWU Serialized /250 at a card show and online.
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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