Watch your cards

Being told when something changes

Save cards, link an address, and get told when one is reprinted, leaves a format, or moves more than a little — by email or as a browser notification. $2 a month; everything else stays free.

Saved cardsin this browserLinkedemail, or the appNightly checkreprints, formats, priceReprinteda messageNothing movednothing sentFirst sightingnever an alertthe list of cards is the one thing that leaves your devicethe address lives with the mail provider, never in our database

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    Save what you care about

    Any row in a search has a save. Saved cards live in this browser with no account, and the dashboard re-prices them on every visit — a saved price is a snapshot and is never shown as today's.

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    Link an address, or a phone

    Linking an email lets the list follow you to other devices and gives the nightly check somewhere to send news. The app pairs with a short code shown on screen — nothing is emailed for that. Either way, the list of cards you saved is the one thing that leaves your device, and the page says so before it does.

    The address is stored by the mail provider, never in this site's database, which holds only a one-way hash of it. That is the precise claim: this database never becomes a list of email addresses.

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    Checked nightly

    Every card on a linked list is re-read overnight. A new printing, a card leaving Standard or getting banned somewhere people play, or a price that moved more than a little over the week — those are the events. News is not one of them, because almost nothing this cheap has ever been written about.

    The first sighting of a card never alerts. With no baseline every printing would look new, and the feature would launch by sending hundreds of false notices to the people who just paid for it.

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    Silence is the normal result

    A digest goes out only when something moved. Most days nothing did and nothing is sent — a daily message whether or not anything happened is the fastest route to being filtered, and then the one that mattered is filtered too.

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    Sold prices on demand

    Subscribers can also ask for fresh sold comps on any card that has not been looked up yet. The answer is cached and shown to everybody afterwards — the subscription buys the right to ask a new question, never access to old answers.

Prices, search, the history charts and the cached sold comps are free for everybody and stay that way. The subscription sells work done on top of the data, never the data.