InkSight Weekly · Market data: seven TCGs · snapshot of August 17, 2026

InkSight Weekly — week of August 17, 2026

Where all seven trading card games we price sat in the August 17, 2026 snapshot: 3 of 7 measured indices higher over seven days, Riftbound at +1.1% and Gundam Card Game at -1.4%, plus the week's movers, verdict shifts and dated releases.

Games priced

7

Indices higher (7d)

3 of 7

Indices lower (7d)

4 of 7

Sets measured

303

Where each market sat

Every figure in this section is a stored observation, not a recalculation: the daily writer records each game's index level, its breadth and its regime once a day, and this brief reads the most recent stored row for each game, dated on or just before August 17, 2026. Of the seven games we price, seven carry at least 14 stored days and therefore carry an index figure at all. 3 of those 7 sat higher over the seven days to August 17, 2026 and 4 sat lower. Riftbound recorded the largest seven-day move at +1.1%, with 48% of its screened cards higher and 32% lower; Gundam Card Game recorded the lowest at -1.4%.

In Disney Lorcana, 135 cards cleared the screener between the Aug 16, 2026 and Aug 17, 2026 snapshots, and its largest screened gain was Mad Hatter — Unruly Eccentric, +47.5% to $54.74, while its largest screened decline was Lilo & Stitch — Fun-Loving Friends, -32.9% to $2.05. The game's stored index sat at -0.4% over the seven days to Aug 17, 2026, described as stable. Each figure is the change between two stored snapshots of Market Price, so it is a step, not a trend.

+47.5%

Mad Hatter — Unruly Eccentric

$54.74 · D23 Promos

+30.0%

Sulley — The New Boss

$2.29 · Attack of the Vine!

+27.8%

Goliath — Clan Leader

$9.23 · Whispers in the Well

Breadth matters more than the headline number. An index can rise because most cards in the game rose, or because a handful of expensive printings did while the rest sat still, and only the breadth columns separate those two cases. That is what the regime label describes — it is a name for the shape of the move, assigned by the thresholds published in our methodology, not a judgement about the market.

The cross-game view of the same observations, with each game's own timeline, is on the Market Compass.

What moved

Movers are measured between two consecutive daily snapshots, not over the week: the feed stores one Market Price per card per day, and the change below is the difference between the last two stored days. Every card here cleared the same screener the market pages use, so thin listings, presale rows, serialized one-offs and moves beyond ±50% are already excluded.

A large percentage on a low-priced card is a small amount of money, which is why the table prints the screened pool size next to each game: a game with a few hundred eligible cards produces a different kind of top three than one with several thousand. Each card's own page carries its 30-day range and the gap between its lowest ask and Market Price.

In One Piece, 569 cards cleared the screener between the Aug 16, 2026 and Aug 17, 2026 snapshots, and its largest screened gain was Roronoa Zoro (034), +43.9% to $18.72, while its largest screened decline was Super Spot-Billed Duck Troops, -50.0% to $7.55. The game's stored index sat at +0.1% over the seven days to Aug 17, 2026, described as mixed. Each figure is the change between two stored snapshots of Market Price, so it is a step, not a trend.

+43.9%

Roronoa Zoro (034)

$18.72 · 500 Years in the Future Pre-Release Cards

+41.8%

Monkey.D.Luffy (001) (Parallel)

$119 · Starter Deck EX: Gear 5

+41.3%

Brook (Premium Card Collection -BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest. 23-24 Edition-)

$17.11 · One Piece Promotion Cards

In Riftbound, 210 cards cleared the screener between the Aug 16, 2026 and Aug 17, 2026 snapshots, and its largest screened gain was Lux, Lady of Luminosity (Starter), +36.6% to $7.78, while its largest screened decline was Azir, Sovereign (Alternate Art), -46.9% to $8.27. The game's stored index sat at +1.1% over the seven days to Aug 17, 2026, described as stable. Each figure is the change between two stored snapshots of Market Price, so it is a step, not a trend.

+36.6%

Lux, Lady of Luminosity (Starter)

$7.78 · Origins: Proving Grounds

+32.7%

Sona, Harmonious

$3.26 · Origins

+32.0%

Renekton, Brute (Alternate Art)

$2.37 · Vendetta

In Star Wars: Unlimited, 178 cards cleared the screener between the Aug 16, 2026 and Aug 17, 2026 snapshots, and its largest screened gain was Neel — The Cutest Boy (Hyperspace), +44.0% to $3.51, while its largest screened decline was Rey — Skywalker (Hyperspace), -32.4% to $18.60. The game's stored index sat at -0.2% over the seven days to Aug 17, 2026, described as stable. Each figure is the change between two stored snapshots of Market Price, so it is a step, not a trend.

+44.0%

Neel — The Cutest Boy (Hyperspace)

$3.51 · Ashes of the Empire

+33.1%

Planetary Bombardment (Hyperspace Foil)

$13.30 · Jump to Lightspeed

+30.1%

Victor Leader — Leading from the Front (164)

$85.57 · Sector and Regional Promos: Season 1

Set value concentration

Concentration asks a different question from price: within one set, how much of the tracked value sits in its five most expensive cards. Across the 303 sets with at least 20 priced cards on August 17, 2026, 94 measured as highly concentrated, 71 as concentrated and 25 as spread out; a further 113 sets carry too few priced cards for the measure to mean anything and are left unmeasured rather than estimated.

Set-concentration verdicts are compared against a dated copy of the previous week's measurement. This edition is the first to keep that copy, so verdict shifts start appearing in next week's brief rather than being inferred from a single snapshot.

In Gundam Card Game, 181 cards cleared the screener between the Aug 16, 2026 and Aug 17, 2026 snapshots, and its largest screened gain was Resource (RP-023) (Event Pack 01), +33.3% to $17.54, while its largest screened decline was Master Gundam, -46.0% to $2.29. The game's stored index sat at -1.4% over the seven days to Aug 17, 2026, described as stable. Each figure is the change between two stored snapshots of Market Price, so it is a step, not a trend.

+33.3%

Resource (RP-023) (Event Pack 01)

$17.54 · Promotional Resource Tokens

+33.3%

Resource (RP-041) (Premium Accessory Set — Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans)

$4.62 · Promotional Resource Tokens

+28.6%

Wing Gundam Zero (EW)

$2.28 · Freedom Ascension

In Digimon Card Game, 282 cards cleared the screener between the Aug 16, 2026 and Aug 17, 2026 snapshots, and its largest screened gain was Unique Emblem: Narrative Ronde (Dawn of Liberator Box Topper), +39.4% to $9.34, while its largest screened decline was BeelStarmon // Fly Bullet, -45.9% to $2.50. The game's stored index sat at -0.1% over the seven days to Aug 17, 2026, described as stable. Each figure is the change between two stored snapshots of Market Price, so it is a step, not a trend.

+39.4%

Unique Emblem: Narrative Ronde (Dawn of Liberator Box Topper)

$9.34 · Digimon Promotion Cards

+36.2%

MoonMillenniummon (Alternate Art)

$25.42 · Release Special Booster 2.0

+35.9%

Takutoumon

$4.80 · Digital World Shambala

Cards whose ask has stayed on one side of Market Price

The lowest ask and the Market Price are two different things: the ask is what a seller is asking today, the Market Price is what TCGplayer publishes as the market level. When the two sit on the same side of each other for many days in a row, that is a persistent gap rather than one odd listing. These cards carry a run of at least 7 consecutive stored snapshots.

Dated releases in the next fortnight

In Dragon Ball Super: Fusion World, 148 cards cleared the screener between the Aug 16, 2026 and Aug 17, 2026 snapshots, and its largest screened gain was Paikuhan — FB09-088 (Alternate Art), +45.8% to $35.40, while its largest screened decline was Android 18 — SB01-004, -42.9% to $2.31. The game's stored index sat at +0.7% over the seven days to Aug 16, 2026, described as stable. Each figure is the change between two stored snapshots of Market Price, so it is a step, not a trend.

+45.8%

Paikuhan — FB09-088 (Alternate Art)

$35.40 · Dual Evolution

+43.1%

Chi-Chi : Childhood — FB06-103

$16.46 · Rivals Clash

+33.8%

Zen-Oh — FB09-031 (Alternate Art)

$7.40 · Dual Evolution

What changed on InkSight

What changed on InkSight this week: Fanatics partner strip on the shop hub — An off-catalog partner strip on the shop hub, labelled as covering products outside the seven games we price. Embeddable price widgets — Server-rendered card, set and market widgets any site can embed, each carrying a link back to the page the numbers come from. Spread persistence on card pages — Card pages now state how many consecutive daily snapshots the lowest ask has sat below or above Market Price. Chase concentration on set pages — Every set page reports how much of its tracked value sits in its five most valuable cards. Price journey on card pages — A 30-day Market Price range bar on card pages, with the card's position inside that range. Portfolio movement attribution — Portfolio Home breaks a change in value down into the cards and sets that moved it. Cross-game Market Compass — One page carrying the stored daily market-regime observation for every game we track.

The other side of the same screener: One Piece carried the deepest screened decline of any game this week, -50.0% on Super Spot-Billed Duck Troops to $7.55 between the Aug 16, 2026 and Aug 17, 2026 snapshots. A decline of that size on one card says nothing about the game's index, which is printed above.

-50.0%

Super Spot-Billed Duck Troops

$7.55 · Kingdoms of Intrigue Pre-Release Cards

-33.1%

Gin (Alternate Art)

$3.15 · Adventure on Kami's Island

-29.5%

Monkey.D.Luffy (OP15-119)

$13.48 · Adventure on Kami's Island

Basis and limits

Everything above is one daily snapshot dated August 17, 2026, on a Market Price basis with Lowest Ask as the fallback, and it will have moved since. There is no sold-listing feed, no auction data and no grading premium in any figure here. Index and breadth figures are stored observations from the days we have; a game we started tracking recently has a shorter history and says so rather than showing a number. Movers cover one snapshot-to-snapshot step, not seven days. Concentration verdicts are bands, so a set can cross one without much happening. This is a description of what our records hold, and nothing in it is a forecast.

Same numbers, other views: Market Compass, Lorcana, One Piece, Riftbound, Star Wars Unlimited, Gundam, Digimon, Fusion World, the release calendar and the concentration data brief.

InkSight is an independent price-tracking site, not affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by any publisher. Card names and card images are the property of their respective publishers; card images served from TCGplayer. Prices as recorded by InkSight on August 17, 2026.