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We're back. Market update, finally. Welcome, everybody. I know you're all eagerly waiting to know some of my thoughts, and you're probably like, "Where's PC been? Why has he not been doing a market update? Is Sorcery just doing too well that he can't talk bad about Sorcery any longer?" And a lot of you, a lot of you have been watching me, you know, for a long time now in Sorcery. And, um, one thing you'll, one thing you'll always know is that I tell it like I see it, right? If I think things are good, I talk about the good. If I think things are bad, I talk about the bad. I'm not about to sugarcoat anything for you. I'm not about to pump anything to try to get my sales. I'm not, I'm not trying to do anything. I'm just telling you guys how I feel. This is just a conversation of feelings.
So, we got a long video here ahead of us today. We're going to kind of talk about everything that I've missed in the past couple weeks that I haven't done a market update video. We'll talk about Sorcery Con. We might even get into play discussion. [laughter] Log off now, everybody. Thumbs down the video. Run away. So, we'll talk about my deck. We'll talk about how I performed at Sorcery Con. We'll talk a little bit about the market. We'll talk about my thoughts on Gothic. Thoughts on some of the other sets. We'll hit into some other, we'll call tertiary things, like, uh, Trusted Games Marketplace and some updates there. So, this is kind of a, a long video. Um, you know, grab your, grab your toilet paper and have a seat and, uh, you know, put your earbuds in, and here we go.
So, Sorcery Con. Um, what a wonderful turnout, guys. If for those of you that went, what a wonderful event. Wonderful turnout. Uh, like all types of events like this, there's just so much to do. So, for me, I didn't attend Sorcery Con with an intent to do much selling. It was more just spending time with you guys, doing some play. Um, yes, I, I do like to play Sorcery, and it is not just for optics. I do enjoy playing. I've always enjoyed playing. Well, me being good is a, is a different type of a story.
So, our story begins actually prior to Sorcery Con. Um, you know, I don't know if you guys were, are on my Discord. If some of you are, some of you aren't, but a couple weeks ago, I was calling for, I was calling for someone to do something about all of these different cards, like the errated cards and things that have been changed and all these different codexes. It's just really hard for people to play, right? So, from my perspective, I, I don't get to play that often, right? I, I try to do some deck building. I play some on the weekends here at the Feisty Goblin with our crew, the Blueberry Bullfrogs. And, um, you know, you can't remember all the cards all the time. So, I said, "Why don't, why don't they come out with a, you know, a fixed card like with a text correct in the Dust Store, something like, just give us a little bit of something." Then, and all of a sudden, we saw Druid. I'd like to see some other ones, like Infiltrate. Infiltrate's a really, uh, big one. I think, um, Ice Lance. So, just some of the other ones where newer folks that are trying to play, it's just, it could end up with a bad experience with people like, "Nope, nope. Did you read the codex? Did you read the FAQ?" And it's just not a, it's not a good feel.
So, first thing was, we saw the, the Dust Store drop. And guys, I've been trying to get the next painting that drops, assuming that there is a next painting. Big assumption, but I've been trying to make sure that when the day comes, that I'm prepared. So, we saw the Dust Store drop. We saw all those new avatars drop. And I ordered a couple, right? I have a Necromancer deck. I have an Impostor deck. And my Impostor deck is what I ran for Sorcery Con. So, I, I picked up a couple of the avatars, making sure that I have enough in the, in the savings account there in case a, in case a, uh, a painting were to drop. And we saw the, the fixed Druid. Druid returned, and it was fixed. So, I mean, that's a positive. I, I'd love to see more. I'd love to see a whole stack of corrected cards, 50 dust on the dust. Something so cheap that's like, you do one or two events and you can instantly purchase the cards. You don't want people to be able to just buy all these cards, you know, and then, and then flip them or whatever they're doing. You just want to make sure that anybody that's actually playing has the ability to get the corrected card names for their construct or corrected card text for their constructed deck boxes. So, um, yeah, I thought that was good with the Druid that we saw it.
And then, and then we saw something really crazy. The Necromancer is already out of stock on the Dust Store. Now, granted, if you played at Sorcery Con in the, in Constructed event, you would know that everyone's playing Necromancer right now, so it's not too much of a shock. But in the, in the, in the, in the words of, uh, of our buddy with the buyouts, I mean, what's next? The other, there's, there's three left. Persecutor is probably a big one, and that'll probably, that'll probably go next. And we know there's not a ton of stock. I, I will they restock the Dust Store? Who knows? We've only seen the restock of the Dust Store happen one time, and that was for the non-foil version of those exceptional cards like River of Blood, Fields of Fixus, um, Hay Stack. We saw the non-foil restock. We never saw a foil restock after that thing blew out. So, um, dust is becoming harder and harder to come by. Dust is, you know, I was buying dust aggressively before the Dust Store was updated at $7 per dust. And, uh, when I say aggressively, um, I'll flash my Dust Store balance up on the screen here so you guys can see it. So, I was buying aggressively, and now the amount of buyers, the amount of buyers and sellers on dust, there's too many buyers, not enough sellers, and the price is going $10 and up per dust, uh, per 100 dust.
So, hang on a second, guys. Got to, got to get my coffee from Splat here. If you haven't had Splat's coffee, this video is sponsored by Splat's Coffee. It's not, but Splat's coffee is good. So, if you like coffee, join my Discord. And [laughter] so, Dust is, is going to the moon. Dust is running out. And it will be interesting to see if, you know, Eric's Curiosa comes out with a second Dust Store drop. And that's what I'm hoping for. Everybody was like, "How did you know you were buying up all the dust at the perfect time?" Because I bought up all the dust everywhere prior to the big, uh, the big update at the Play Store or at the Dust Store. And the reasoning is because you have to know at this point with Eric's Curiosa, they have a few levers, and we're going to talk about some levers in this whole video today. Again, this could be a long video. They have a few levers, and now they're getting good at using the levers. They're getting good, guys. So, they know, they, they're, they're, they're mapping the demand and supply swings. They're, they're very, very aware that when, when, when you start to get a little bit of a dip, boom, you hit another lever and you kind of re-engage and re-emerge some of that base. That's, you know, they're doing things over the course of the year that will keep people engaged. So, we don't see the big lulls that we saw the past couple years. And I'm very, very, very happy about it.
So, when you start to see these Dust Store numbers and this, and some of these cards get bought out, and there's a lot of buyouts on the Dust Store, there's a lot out of stock there. It'll be interesting to see if they remove some of those images from the Dust Store to talk, you know, from a sellout perspective. The removal of those items from the Dust Store will indicate to me that it's gone forever. Could be gone forever now, but you just don't know. In the back of your mind, you just don't know. So, just be aware of that. They, all of a sudden, there could be another hundred that drops. Just be mindful.
So, we got the levers and Gothic's dripping out. Everybody's kind of getting saturated with Gothic. Gothic isn't being cracked as much because the price is reaching now, MSRP $166, that's going up, up, up, but people still need singles. So, now you have a lot of demand on certain playable singles because nobody's really cracking Gothic to the levels that they did back in December, right? December was that massive wave of everything coming out, and now there's some boxes here and there cracked, but not at the big level. So, you get a little bit of pullback, you get some, you, you lose some excitement from Gothic. It's, it's, it's waning. It's waning. Boom. You hit the lever on the, on the Dust Store at the right time. And it was a, it was a perfect time to hit the lever. So, everybody was saying, "How'd you know? How'd you know?" And it's just, I, I've seen and I've, I've watched and I've analyzed over the past couple years, and we're seeing the company getting really good at figuring out when to, when to hit those levers and to keep the engagement going.
So, um, I, I'm not surprised that I, and I was pl-, I actually, guys, um, I probably shouldn't say this, um, but I, I have some technical capabilities. There's some of you out there on the Discord that are much more technical than me, but I'm still pretty good. Pretty good. And, uh, I was looking at building a bot to, uh, scrape the Dust Store site to ping me when it updates because I didn't want to miss the painting if it were to drop. Little bit sad it was precons. Don't need any precons. Didn't buy any precons. I could have wanted a painting. So, um, where am I, tell, where am I going with this? So, yeah. Anyhow, the Dust Store is, is, uh, one of those levers that TC, or I'm sorry, EC was using.
So, now moving on to Sorcery Con. We had, uh, a couple vendors at Sorcery Con. I think both, uh, two or three vendors did really, really well from a sell perspective. He talked to, he talked to them, and there's just so much demand on the non-foil cards, guys. In history with Sorcery, there's some multipliers to keep into account. And if you know Shibby, Shibby's got a Patreon. Shibby's got a great tool on Patreon. Um, it's very cheap per month. I use it myself. I pay Shibby for the tool 'cause I see a lot of value on it. I've reviewed the tool and showed you guys in previous videos, um, you know, on my channel here about it, and what you can do is understand those multipliers to determine, hey, is the foil a buy right now or not? And we're just going to talk about a couple of them in my mind at the moment. One of them is, uh, the Avatar of Air, right? I was trying to sell an Avatar of Air. Uh, nothing too crazy. Historically, the price of Avatar of Air has always gone between $800 and $1,200. We've seen it spike a little bit higher recently, but we're still seeing like off-platform sales like hand-to-hand in that $800 to $1,200 range. More pushing the $1,200 range now. But the interesting thing, and this is the interesting thing to me, is that the non-foil Avatar of Air is going for like, it was selling for 300. Now, if we look at the foil copy of Avatar of Air, let's say we round it to a,000. Let's round to 1,200. 1,200. It sells at 1,200 for 300. That's a 4x multiplier for a foil. Do you guys know how hard it is to pull a foil Avatar of Air? I've, I've heard of one guy, Stew, who happened to pull two in the same Alpha box. That was wild. But do you guys really understand how hard it is from a play perspective? You know, a lot of folks want the foil avatars because that's the card that you always have on the board. I bought a Temple of Moolok foil and, uh, I paid $190 'cause it was the last card I needed in my full foil deck for, uh, Sorcery Con. $190. And you may or may not even see that card pulled the entire event, right? I, I think I saw, I pulled it once. So, you're paying 190 for a card you can pull once out of your deck. Whereas an avatar, it's always there. You can player slab it. You can slim slab it from PCG. You can do whatever. It's always there. 4x multiplier is way too low. I'm just going to say that there's, there's either two things going on. One, the non-foil prices are overbought, meaning they're too high, or the foil prices haven't reflected the change of the non-foil pricing. All right, one of those two things is going on. Either the foils are priced correctly and the non-foils are not, or the non-foils are priced cor-, correctly and the foils are not. Now, we can start to see this across the board. Look at the envelopes, the Dank Torrid Char. All of those Torrid. Yeah, Char Dank. What the heck? What am I forgetting? Anyhow, if you look at the prices of the non-foils, let's say it's $60. All right. $60 and you can get a foil off-market for like 200, 220. That doesn't make any sense. So, either the foil prices and the adjustments, you know, either the, the margin that we've historically seen of usually a 5 to 10x multiplier on foils is wrong and it should be lower multiplier, or something really interesting is going on. We've got a lot of folks thinking that, um, you know, the non-foil cards are the ones they need 'cause those are the play versions and nobody's thinking about the foils, and suddenly the foils become a little bit undervalued. And we see this all the time, um, you know, in markets that are growing, in card games that are growing. We see this often times in, in Magic the Gathering where you're seeing certain types of boxes that are lower with an EV that's high. Like, you see these types of market things all the time, and it's very interesting, and now is a very good time to make some big pickups. Inmouth Dock, I'm just going to talk about that one a minute too. Doc's a really, um, you know, powerful card from, uh, I think the, the Necromancer decks that everybody's playing right now. You can get some movement off folks. And I, I think like the foil copies been selling pretty aggressively at the $75 to $80 price range. And you have non-foils that are that are pushing like what, $20? I don't, I haven't looked at it recently on what Insouth Doc is, but it just, the multipliers are weird given how hard the foils are to pull. So, I want to mention that because this is a very interesting thing in the market that's happening right now, are the foil multipliers.
Now, second thing, third thing, third thing, Alpha prices. So, some of you know I, um, I didn't bring any Alpha boxes to, uh, Sorcery Con. There's a few reasons behind why I didn't. Um, but one of them is the prices of Alpha boxes are way too high. And when I say way too high, in relation to how fast they've moved up. Um, so for me, you know, you Alpha, Alpha moves slower than Beta. So, if you're cracking and let's say you buy a box and you want to sell some singles to recoup, it's going to take you a long time to turn some of those singles unless they're some of the big hitters. You can still get some big cards in Alpha. But the thing is, is I don't know that the non-foil uniques are really moving up in a liquid way that supports the $1,400 box prices that we're seeing. Um, and I, I won't buy just loose boxes anymore. I won't buy like non-sticker loose box. You should, guys should have saw the sticker shirts we had, uh, that Donnie Vines had made, the Alpha sticker boxes. So, I won't buy from a search case, and I'm, I'm surely not going to pay 1300 because when you guys do breaks on my channel, um, you know, I'm sure you guys watch all the time. I want to make sure that that break experience is the best as possible, and we have the best pulls possible. I don't like it when we don't have good pulls. So, I want to try to source and do things that, um, is that supports you all that buy in and gives you the best chances and the best value for your dollar. So, Alpha boxes, I'm kind of cautious on at the moment. All right. So, that Alpha, again, eyes are on it. I'm after sticker boxes at a reasonable price that, um, you know, we can, we can break on channel together, and that is, is a reasonable cost for buying for you all with the opportunity to get some good, good, some good pulls. So, I want true odds. It's all about true odds. [gasps]
So, we've now, let's talk a little bit about play at Sorcery Con. So, um, me and the Blueberry Bullfrogs, you know, we, we made our way to Sorcery Con and, um, you know, the, the team, uh, Cory, Justin, Jane helped me tremendously in, in, uh, deck construction and practice and all different kinds of stuff. They're very good players. Um, so I did an Impostor Silence Fire Earth deck and, uh, I did really well, especially at the beginning. Um, especially at the beginning, I made my way to table two where I met, uh, I met with CJ and played against CJ and I ended up, um, I think he ended up being my [snorts] first loss. Um, I adored him though. I adored him. I'm going to throw a picture of us up on the screen here. So, um, you know, I, I, I had enjoyed playing with him a lot. You know, I think he ended up winning the event, which was great. Um, he's a heck of a player. One thing I will say coming out of it is, uh, Lord of Lies, guys. Come on. That thing needs be able to to put that out there and, you know, use its ability with itself turn one like when you play it out. It's in, it's just too good. It's so hard to remove. Um, so I, I don't know. I, I, I'd like to see some changes to that card to eliminate the ability for it to use itself. Um, because, you know, a Lord of Lies, the concept is you're, you're, you know, if we think of like, you know, the lore, you're, you're, you're trying to get two people to fight against each other. The ability for itself to be in that mix fighting against something else, it just doesn't fit the lore. It doesn't fit the card, and quite frankly, it feels a bit broken. So, I did, I did come up against a lot of Lord of Lies that I had a hard time, I had a hard time removing, and that was probably the biggest issue that I had. Silence decks though, I'm telling you guys, uh, there's, it's good. Um, it's hard to play 'cause you silence your own stuff, but had a blast. So, I had a blast and, um, you know, I, I met some good folks along the way and, um, you know, in play and, uh, everybody, everybody did really well. Everybody was, you know, really tough opponents. So, um, had a blast. If you're out there watching and I, I played with you, um, good to meet everybody, too. It's a, it's definitely, um, you know, a different scene than some of the other games where, you know, um, you know, you just sit down and it's just so incredibly sweaty and, you know, I, I don't know. It's a little more, it's still competitive, but it's, it's, you know, a little more friendly, we'll say. A little more friendly. So, it's nice. Um, had a blast. I ended up picking up, um, I'll show you guys here. It's a, I, I have a frame getting ready for it. This is the original, um, the original Gossamer Ghost, um, from Alvara. So, this was probably my bigger pickup of the event, which I was pretty excited about. So, my first Gothic original that I, I'm not, not to say I haven't tried to get others, but this was the first one that I actually, that I actually did. So, um, picked that up, got closer on some curios, did some trades. The prices and, and, and things of Gothic non-foil uniques, guys. That, that was a huge takeaway for me. I'm sure you guys, too, from Sorcery Con, is just how, how much that's moving. So, Sorcery Con, great, great time meeting the artists. Um, spending time with some of the artists. It was a, it was a blast. I'm spending time with all of you. Um, you know, I know, uh, I know some folks are critical of the channel here, and, uh, there was, um, one person in particular, uh, that was pretty aggressive in my comments, if you guys remember. So, um, I'm glad I did not run across that person, or if I did, uh, they didn't make themselves known, and I, I wish they would have so that we could have chatted a bit, and I'm sure I would have, uh, their, their mind would have changed about some things.
So, let's talk about Gothic now. [gasps and sighs] And, uh, Gothic boxes hitting $166 MSRP and, and cracking them. And there's no, there's no supply until this past week, we got word of a new program. And the new program, guys, um, if you've been watching my channel, if you haven't, you can go back a year ago. I was probably the first, by a, by a while, 'cause people called me nuts. I was probably the first to say Eric's Curios is working on a plan to, you know, eliminate DRO. And then when the Cornerstones happen, I said the Cornerstones are the way to make sure that product does get to the right places that are supporting the game. So, this past week, this past week, we saw Team Covenant announce Fulfilled. And Fulfilled is a great program. Um, I am thrilled to see it. This is, this is amazing because Team Covenant is now taking applications for stores that Eric's Curiosa will need to approve to be able to buy product from them at what I'm assuming to be distribution prices. So, what, what are the known? We know that there's an application process. You fill out the application, tell them about yourself, tell them about your store, and then it goes to Eric's Curiosa for approval. What I also know is once you're approved, if you're approved, then you have the ability to buy a very limited number of boxes on a monthly basis. So, let's say you're a store and you're supporting play, you know, if you're a Cornerstone store that, you know, you may be approved for, I don't know, X boxes on on that schedule. If you're a smaller store and you don't host as many events, you might be approved for a little bit less boxes, right? So, [gasps] uh, I think it is great because when we talk about Gothic, when we talk about, um, you know, the market and pricing and all those levers that we talked about before, the thing is, people, when the market prices are set on cards and people are trading money cash for a card, even some of the more adamant players, even some of the word, we'll use piecers that believe all cards should be 25. If they paid $50 for a card, it's a hard pill to swallow that tomorrow it's worth 5, right? So, Eric's Curiosa, I, I think in the, in history lost a lot of folks and they lost their trust where they were paying higher dollars for cards. All these reprints smacked it right down in half. And whether you're player, collector, whatever you are, it doesn't feel good to spend money today that's worth way less tomorrow, right? If you spend $25 on a Book of the Dead, you want to, I mean, you just want to get your $25 out if you sell it. Maybe a little bit less, maybe 20, right? 20 is fine, but it doesn't feel good to be smacked down. So, I think, I think Eric Curios has done a really good job since Dragon Lord, really, we'll say trickling product and controlling the flow so that it feels good for all, all bands of the, of the community and the economy of Sorcery. They've done a very nice job. A lot of folks were very critical of Dragon Lord early on because it wasn't as available, but now you really don't hear that right now. After it was available at some events, after, you know, it was available for a couple months, pretty much folks have their non-foil cards they want or they need, right? You don't hear too many complaints. At the same time, the cards have maintained their value, and I think they'll continue to maintain their value. And I, I think that the way that they handled Dragon Lord in a very cautious and controlled way was excellent. And I think they're doing the same thing for Gothic. What they're doing is, is they're saying, "Let's make sure that the market digests, that the community digests all of these cards first, and then we'll trickle the flow out for play purposes." Now, when you trickle it out for play purposes, obviously you're going to get stores that people pull cards that they trade in that they want other, and the singles will hit the market. And, and there's something you guys have to understand. You will always have more singles all the time. Every time that a box gets cracked, more singles are injected into the market. Right? So, you have to make sure that you understand that when those singles hit the market. If you do it at too much of a rate, the whole thing collapses out from underneath of you. And it's a very thin line. And I think they're being very cautious. And this method of Fulfilled will ensure stores have the product flow to, you know, get their product and get and hold events. And at the same time, it won't collapse everything and it'll still make Gothic really coveted or really, you know, rare. A foil set of Gothic will be, you know, very hard to do and probably worth a lot of money. And I like the pace, and I, I really like what they're doing with it.
Now, my expectation is, is that at the big launches, like for all new product, you'll see a big wave hitting distribution, right? And here's why. So, let's say Gothic launches, Team Covenant, Card, whoever else, we'll say these guys that are doing these, um, you know, we'll call pseudo distros, um, you can't get that injection and full penetration into the market that way on launch day. On launch day, you need the big guys to get it out everywhere. Get it out to some of the flippers, right? Get it out to, you know, um, we'll, we'll call Pro Baseball John. Get it out to Pro Baseball John. Um, you know, get it out to some of the other, the, the other LGS's that are that are big, uh, jumping grounds, all, all those, uh, all those bigger ones. Get it out. Let them, let them flip it for, you know, couple bucks. Let the market be able to buy up all the boxes that they want at good prices, and then shut off that spot to distribution. They don't get anymore. They, they, they drain their stock. That's it. Now, there's a ton of singles in the market. A lot of folks have the singles that they need already. Singles are trading hands, and now you turn the spot on on the, we'll call pseudo dist-, distribution channels. And I don't know if that's the right, the right means to call it. It's, you know, um, I don't know if like indie distribution channel. I, I don't know what the right word is for it yet, but you turn that spot on, and now all of a sudden you have boxes that, uh, that are making their way to the places that actually are supporting the game. And that's what you want to see. Now, now, if you go to your LGS and you want them to carry Sorcery, they can't just like put a big order in for distribution or say, "Oh, we don't want to carry it 'cause that stuff tanked." They have to now go and fill out an application with Team Covenant, and they have to go make sure they're doing events. And it's a, it's a wonderful thing to see. I'm very happy about it. And if you go back to my channel history and you go and you talk about all the outrageous claims that I made, and you see all the people that said that, uh, I'm, I'm, I'm a nutball. I don't know what I'm talking about. And, you know, I thought it was, I thought Card was probably more likely to do this than Team Covenant in the short term, but I was wrong about that. But what I was right about was what they're trying to do. And what they're trying to do is make sure that they have a flow of product to the right places coming from a trusted source that they know won't dump or diminish their brand. And that, um, you know, folks like you and me, uh, regular consumers can go and buy boxes from MSRP if you want to rip it and you want to do something, you know, fun on your own, on your own group or your own, uh, friend group, or stores can go and they don't have to pay MSRP, they can pay a normal price, have some packs available for sale at their store, and hold events. And that's exactly what you want to see. Everything that Sorcery is doing at the moment is, uh, in my opinion, um, is great. It's a, I, I, I don't know if there were pivots. I, I, I don't, I don't, I don't know what's happened behind the scenes, but, um, since August, July, August of last year, um, I'm, I'm in full support, guys, of, of what I'm seeing. I think it's great. I'd love to see different versions of cards come out, to be honest. Like I said, I want to see fixed versions either hit the Dust Store or something like that to make play easier. Um, judge programs are good. SCG Cons are good. Um, you know, I, I don't. We're hit [laughter]. We've hit March. It's March 1st, guys. All right. And we haven't heard a single peep from anybody saying, "What's the next set? When's the next set coming out? What is it? What's the next set? Can somebody leak the next set information?" No. Nobody's. Everybody's still like, "Give us more Gothic." And now, by controlling that flow a little bit, you can really have the product last the whole year. Now, it's a big set, and, uh, there is something to be said about that, but it'll last the whole year.
On a curio perspective, on a curio perspective, I am, I am missing a few curios. If you're out there and you have one of these curios, I'm going to rattle them off, and you're listening to me, and you want a a safe deal, easy transaction, maybe some trades or something like that. I'm missing Mirror Realm Alpha, Free City Alpha, Grid Lord Alpha, Death Dealer Alpha. Those four. I'm missing, uh, Green Knight, uh, Arthuran Legends, Sir Tristan, Sir Persal, Sir Morrid, and I'm missing Fallen Angel, Desecrate, and Gossamer Ghost. Those are the only curios I am missing in an entire full set. And for me, I, I'd love to rip tons of Gothic. Uh, but for me, the real thing was I was chasing those dang curios, guys. There's 24 in our, not counting Archie, 'cause we don't count Archie. Archie is not a real curio, guys. It's a misprint. It's not a curio. That's that. So, not counting Archie, there's 24. So, I had to like do a lot to get there. Now, if there's only seven, it's a lot easier to do. And I'm almost there. And again, it may end up having people collect curios more often now. So, we'll see. We'll see how that goes.
So, moving on. Uh, Finn Wife events have been great. Um, you know, I think we've got a big Finn Wife event coming up for some like three Alpha precons or something like that in my next Finn Wife event next week. So, tune in. Made some great music. If you guys haven't seen the music yet, it's pretty awesome. And, uh, lastly, let's hit some TGM talk.
So, TGM talk. We did get these coins made. Beautiful coins, guys. Um, they are zinc, um, zinc coins. Let's see if I can get. This camera is not the one that I normally use for, uh, for breaks. So, the zoom is not, not as great. Let's take one out. And, uh, the coins turned out great. We don't have many left. Um, with the Lunar New Year right now over in the, uh, China, uh, things are shut down. So, if you want coins, there's, there's maybe like 20 sets left of coins. Um, they're very nice. Uh, other people have done coins, and, um, from a person like me that does a lot of foils, I don't want any raised, any raised centering because it'll put pressure onto the actual card and create dents. So, the raised, uh, the raised nature of this coin is not raised further than the rim of the coin. So, and Jardim did the art for this side of all of our coins, which is beautiful if you see him in person. And Dustin, uh, Brasser did the, uh, art for our TGM logo. So, the coins are great. Had some great feedback at Sorcery Con. Everybody that bought the coin says they're great. On my website, philosopher.cards, if you want to go out there and buy the coins, it's just the easiest, uh, transaction place to go if you're interested. Um, like I said, if you're a TGM member, there is a coupon code to pay 25 for a set of coins. Um, any number of coins you want. You can buy 100 coins at that price. Doesn't matter. [gasps] A set of coins for a non-TGM paid member is 35. Speaking of TGM, if you're a buyer, if you're anybody, just join the server. Um, you'll go through the verification process. It is free. Don't let all the people tell you that there's not, it's not free and this and that. It's free to join. It's free to buy, and it's free to post buys. You can do all of that for free. So, even if you're casual and you're just looking for a couple cards, all of the top Sorcery sellers are selling on TGM. And we verified them because, let me tell you, the, the top sellers in Sorcery see the value of a verified place that they can go and buyers can come in and know that they're verified. We have badging set up with custom arts done by Andrina. We have, we take legacy badges. So, if you have a ton of, uh, a ton of experience and feedback in the old marketplace and you want to come in and you're like, "I don't want to lose all my feedback," you get a badge. It'll show a little, uh, blue diamond with a 25 above it. If you've had 25 or greater feedback on the old marketplace, we review it and then we give you a badge that says, "Hey, I'm a pro on the old marketplace." If you're a store, we give you a store badge. So, when people are looking at your profile and they're checking out your listing, you can say, "Hey, I'm actually a store. Here's my badge." It's verified. We verify that folks are actually stores. Whether it's a, a, um, TCG Player store, an in-person store, doesn't matter. If you're a store and you're selling and you've got over a thousand sales on TCG Player, we consider you a pro and we add a badge to your account. And there's also some badging for, you know, additional feedback in our server. Or you get gold, um, gold diamonds and stuff like that. So, it's kind of fun. And it also lets you know who the, who the big buyers and sellers are. Um, you'll see them all on the far right list and such. So, all that's free. You can get badging all, all for free. You don't need to pay. If you buy 25 things on the Trusted Games Marketplace, you get a 25 plus badge from us. And it's free. And you only have to pay, it's like less than $3 a month if you, uh, want to sell. Now, the, the, the discount that you get on the coins, if you buy two sets of coins, you pretty much pay for your year. All right. And we're, we're adding new and new things constantly. We'll be having, um, we did Shibby's tool, we did some custom art badging, we've done coins, and we're trying to find additional ways to add value all the time. And, uh, our, our mod team is paid. We, we have cut the checks and paid them. Um, and, and it's going really well. We're close to a thousand members, and, um, it's growing. It's not going to stop. So, um, we're really excited about that. It's, it's, it's done really, really, really well.
So, that about wraps it up. I, I don't know that we have too much more here to cover today. Um, you know, reach out, join my Discord if you want to chat. There's just, uh, so much going on right now. Uh, I, like I said, I'll have a Finwives event coming up. I have no Alpha plan just because of the, the situation. I'm, I'm, I'm just evaluating the market a little more before I say yes, it, it had, it's reached a new leg up and this is the new normal. Not quite sure. You want to, you just want to make sure before you just, you don't go full Timmy. You never go full Timmy, all right? So, you just got to make sure, do your due diligence, observe the market, be patient, do the right decisions and things like that. Never go full Timmy, guys. Anyhow, thanks for tuning in. Long video, I know. Appreciate all of you. Great to see everybody at Sorcery Con. Um, just, you know, put down a comment your favorite thing that you did at Sorcery Con. If you're still listening to the video here at the end, I'll know who's, uh, who's still with me and, and the, uh, the dedicated crew. So, thanks again, everybody. I'll talk to you next time. [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. >> [music]