- BuylistIndustry
The prices a store or vendor will pay to buy cards from you, usually lower than retail because they resell at a margin.
Buylist prices are a floor and retail prices are a ceiling for what a card is worth.
- Chase CardIndustry
A specific card in a set valuable or sought-after enough that collectors specifically buy product hoping to pull it, driving box-opening demand independent of that card's actual gameplay power level.
- FoilIndustry
A card printed with a shiny finish. Foil versions typically sell for more than non-foil copies, though the premium varies by card and treatment.
Check whether a listed price is for the foil or non-foil version.
- Reprint RiskIndustry
The likelihood that a card's secondary-market price will drop because Wizards reprints it in a new set, Secret Lair, or Commander product, increasing supply. A core concept for anyone buying singles as a long-term hold rather than to play immediately.
- Reserved ListIndustry
A policy from Wizards of the Coast of never reprinting certain older cards in a functionally identical form. It keeps some cards, such as original dual lands, scarce and expensive.
Reserved List cards cannot be reprinted, which supports their prices.
- Secret LairIndustry
A direct-to-consumer product line of alternate-art reprints and occasional new cards, sold in limited drops outside the normal set-release calendar. A frequent source of reprint risk for cards that were previously scarce.
- Spoiler SeasonIndustry
The weeks before a set releases when the new cards are revealed to the public, driving early set reviews and speculation.
Prices of cards from a new set are most volatile during spoiler season.
- Universes BeyondIndustry
Wizards of the Coast's branding for Magic sets built around licensed non-Magic intellectual property, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Marvel, The Hobbit, and Star Trek in the 2026 schedule. Since 2025, new Universes Beyond booster sets are legal in every Constructed format, Standard included, while new cards from their Commander decks are legal only in Commander, Legacy, and Vintage. Hasbro credited Universes Beyond sets, along with backlist and Secret Lair, for Magic's 59% revenue growth in 2025.