How we price different conditions

A Near Mint copy and a Heavily Played copy of the same card aren’t worth the same amount — every trader knows that instinctively, but putting an actual number on the gap is where most price checks go sideways. TCGRadius bakes that adjustment into every raw-card listing automatically, so the price you see already reflects the copy you’re actually looking at, not just the card’s market average at Near Mint.

The starting point is always the market price for a Near Mint copy. From there, we apply a downward adjustment scaled to how far off Near Mint the listed condition is — a Lightly Played card loses a small slice of value, a Heavily Played or Damaged card loses considerably more, and the drop-off isn’t linear: condition matters more at the rough end of the scale than the pristine end.

Graded slabs work differently, and deliberately so — we don’t auto-estimate what a PSA 10 or a BGS 9 is worth, since a slab’s value depends on the grader, the population count, and the market for that exact card in a way a flat formula can’t capture responsibly. Sellers set the price on graded listings themselves instead.