Flips

Profit = sell price − 10% market tax − what you paid. Concretely: buy a card at its sell-order price of 10,000 stubs and list it at a buy-now of 12,000, and the sale nets 10,800 after tax — an 800-stub profit, not the 2,000 the raw spread suggests. Every profit and ROI figure on this page already has the tax baked in, which is why a spread that looks juicy elsewhere can rank low here.

They grade a flip using four things: the ROI, the stub profit, how many times we priced the card today (more readings = more confidence the number is real, not a blip), and its measured sales volume. Prime clears the top bar on all four — and the stub profit is a hard floor, so a 40% return on a 300-stub card is still only a Watch. Solid clears a good bar on all four. Thin is the bottom: the profit is real but small or fragile — fine in bulk, painful if the market shifts mid-flip.

Watch is the interesting one, because it is a fall-through rather than a verdict. It means the row missed one of the Prime/Solid gates — and that gate might be the margin, too few price readings, or too little sales volume. A card with a 40% return and 5,000 stubs of profit still lands in Watch if we’ve only read its price once. So a Watch can be hiding a monster: check the numbers, not just the tag.

The grade now measures whether the card actually sells. Prime and Solid require enough recent sales volume to hold the tier, so a wide spread on a card nobody is buying no longer grades Prime — it gets capped, and we mark it with a ⚠ meaning the margin would rank higher but the card is barely trading. The one exception is a brand-new card we haven’t measured yet: we don’t demote it for lack of a reading, so check Vol/hr — measured from real completed sales — for the raw rate beside any grade.

The quick-sell floor is the guaranteed price the game itself pays for a card. When a card’s market price sits near its QS value, your downside is capped: if the flip goes wrong, you quick-sell and lose almost nothing. The QS Viable filter shows only those protected flips — the closest thing the market has to a risk-free trade.