The state of the trading card market, by the data
People talk about "the trading card market" as if it were one thing. It is not. TCGIndex tracks 14 different games at the set level, and the gap between them is enormous: while some niche games have run up double digits over the last 90 days, others have given back a big chunk of a launch-hype spike. This is a live, data-driven look at where the money actually is, and where it is moving. The ranking below is generated from current data, so it reflects the market as it stands today, not a number we wrote down once.
The fastest-growing markets right now
Over the last 90 days, 11 of the 14 games we track are up and the rest are down. The leader is Lorcana at +29.1%, and the laggard is Riftbound at -24.1%. The pattern underneath that spread is the interesting part: the strongest growth tends to come from the smaller, younger and anime-driven games rather than the giants.
The giants move slowly, and that is normal
Pokémon and Magic are by far the largest markets by total tracked value, and they almost always post smaller percentage moves than the minnows. That is not weakness, it is scale. A mature market with hundreds of sets and tens of thousands of cards simply cannot swing as fast as a game with a handful of sets. For a collector that means the giants are the ballast in a portfolio, and the smaller games are where the fast moves, and the fast reversals, happen.
When the hype corrects
The clearest cautionary tale right now is Riftbound, down -24.1% over 90 days. A brand-new game launches into a supply shortage, prices spike on hype, the publisher prints to meet demand, and the early froth comes back out. It is the most repeatable pattern in the hobby, and it is exactly why a big launch-week number is not the same as a durable market. The data shows it happening in real time.
Where the growth is concentrated: the fastest-growing sets
Game-level numbers hide the real story, because growth concentrates in a handful of sets. Tracking value at the set level is what TCGIndex is built for, and it surfaces a clear theme: anime IP and crossover sets do the heavy lifting. As a snapshot from June 2026, these were among the fastest-growing sets across all games over 90 days:
| Set | Game | 90d |
|---|---|---|
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Magic | +297.6% |
| Mega Evolution Promo | Pokémon | +219.7% |
| Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba | Union Arena | +186.0% |
| Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion | Union Arena | +184.5% |
| Anime 25th Collection | One Piece | +159.2% |
| One Punch Man | Union Arena | +149.1% |
| Newtype Rising | Gundam | +133.4% |
| Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War | Union Arena | +122.6% |
The takeaway: Union Arena's anime sets and crossover products like Magic's Universes Beyond have been the standout growers, which fits how those markets work, demand follows the source material.
Every tracked game, ranked by 90-day movement
| # | Game | 90d | 30d | 7d | Momentum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lorcana | +29.1% | +18.0% | +7.5% | 70 |
| 2 | Dragon Ball Super | +19.8% | +5.9% | +0.2% | 63 |
| 3 | Union Arena | +18.0% | +4.6% | +0.7% | 57 |
| 4 | One Piece | +17.9% | +8.7% | +0.9% | 62 |
| 5 | Sorcery | +14.5% | +6.5% | +1.9% | 58 |
| 6 | Gundam | +9.7% | +4.0% | +1.2% | 53 |
| 7 | Pokémon | +9.4% | +2.5% | +0.4% | 57 |
| 8 | Magic | +6.7% | +2.1% | +0.4% | 56 |
| 9 | Yu-Gi-Oh | +4.1% | +0.1% | -0.1% | 53 |
| 10 | Flesh and Blood | +0.6% | -2.1% | -0.4% | 48 |
| 11 | Digimon | +0.2% | -0.3% | -0.1% | 49 |
| 12 | Grand Archive | -0.2% | +0.4% | +0.1% | 50 |
| 13 | Star Wars Unlimited | -1.8% | -3.0% | -0.1% | 46 |
| 14 | Riftbound | -24.1% | -4.8% | +0.6% | 37 |
Figures are TCGIndex market value index changes, generated live when this page loads. For the full live ranking with index values and the most valuable card in each game, see the TCG market report.
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