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The Reality Fracture Play Booster shelf Wizards warned would be tight grew 56.70% on TCGPlayer in release week, the price dropped under pack-equivalent MSRP, and sell-through still set a record at 6.07 on 2,020 boxes. RF took 60.8% of a $1.35M week and its premiums compressed toward sticker across the line. Foundations Commander split on launch day: Tramplesaurus Rex up 19% on a halved shelf, Keen Engineering launched 13% under MSRP. LTR sellers crossed the 50 line we set, so wave two is here. Hasbro reports October 20.

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Reality Fracture’s Play Booster Display posted a 5.81 sell-through in prerelease week. RF claimed 50.4% of TCGPlayer’s $1.23M week for a third consecutive week above 50%. The LTR Set Booster Box absorbed last week’s restock and rebounded 7.2% to $329. Seventy-four sellers left the located pool in two weeks while revenue stayed above $1.2M each week. Wizards expanded product delays to Mexico and New Zealand and canceled the Star Trek Beginner Box worldwide.

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Reality Fracture’s Commander Deck Multiverse Reforged reversed from last week’s top decliner to this week’s top gainer, repricing 41% higher to $69.67 on 2,034 units after the full spoiler closed September 17-18. RF claimed 51.7% of TCGPlayer’s $1.3M week for the second straight week. The LTR Set Booster Box saw a distributor restock and a large existing holder surface 150 units, dropping the price 22% to $307 on 385 units sold. Forty-four sellers exited the located pool in a week where revenue grew 13.5%.

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Reality Fracture’s Debut Stream detonated the preorder book: 990 Play Booster Display units at a 4.17 sell-through, 535 Collector units at 2.85, and $520K in RF revenue made up 45% of the week’s $1.15M TCGPlayer total. The Hobbit Gift Bundle entered tracking at $117.54, still sliding toward MSRP. Bloomburrow’s shelf drained another 37%. Star Trek’s three-week accumulation pattern broke. Card Kingdom sold a majority stake to private equity.

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“The Hobbit Play Booster Display took a 35% supply wave at a 9% markdown and buyers absorbed 635 units anyway. The Gift Bundle launch landed at $53K in sales while sliding toward MSRP. Reality Fracture’s preorder book paused the week before spoilers, Bloomburrow’s Play Booster shelf lost 43% of its listed depth, and Star Trek supply keeps draining ten weeks from release.”

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“Reality Fracture preorder supply tripled on TCGPlayer and the price kept climbing after WotC warned of a Play Booster first-wave delay. The Hobbit Collector Booster Display gained for a third straight week on 34% more supply. Lorwyn Eclipsed hit a late-cycle supply inflection as a distributor restock pushed volume to 3x last week at a 7.8% lower price. Bloomburrow Animated Army is draining faster than any other Commander deck in the current lineup.”

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“The Hobbit Collector Booster Display gained 2.6% in its second week of open-market trading while supply and sellers both grew 60%+. Crack the Plates reversed three weeks of decline after supply cratered 59%. Reality Fracture preorders accelerated with half the Collector Booster supply consumed five weeks before release. Strixhaven sealed tightened across the line as the last in-universe set approaches the end of its reprint cycle.”

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Revenue jumped 9% in a week where every Hobbit price came down. Release day flooded TCGPlayer with 58 new sellers, doubled supply on some SKUs, and the set still cleared six times its shelf at the top end. The scene boxes fell for a third week running. The Marvel Collector Booster Box kept draining into a shelf with no restock coming. Reality Fracture preorders appeared for the first time.

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A flat headline with one set underneath it: The Hobbit grew to 64% of TCGPlayer revenue through prerelease weekend while the rest of the board went soft. Stores undercut each other on the scene boxes, Marvel’s restock kept landing, and the old-box drain broke. Everything gets tested on the 14th, when the set releases and individual sellers can finally list.“

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The market’s up twelve percent, but almost half of that is two Hobbit boxes on a set that isn’t out yet. Sort the board by supply and it’s a barbell: money flows to what can’t be opened yet and what can’t be reprinted, while the openable middle, all of Marvel, gets dumped as its delayed restock keeps landing.

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