What is TCGplayer market price versus the low listing?

TCGplayer says Market Price is an average of recent completed sales, not the cheapest card currently listed. Low, mid, and high describe the listing scale. Scryfall copies market price, not low, mid, or high, and Tappr shows that figure.

How often do Tappr card prices update?

Scryfall syncs affiliate prices every 24 hours. Tappr shows that sync as a market estimate. It is not a live storefront and not an in-stock offer.

Does Tappr show what a store will pay for my card?

No. A buylist is a store’s buy price. Tappr does not show one. See the Card Kingdom buylist guide for that cash-offer path, and use TCGplayer or Cardmarket when you want an asking price.

Why do some Tappr card pages have no price?

Digital-only printings (MTG Arena or Magic Online), such as Alchemy: Innistrad at /card/ymid/56/, have no paper card, so TCGplayer and Cardmarket paper prices do not apply.

Does the estimate assume Near Mint?

Scryfall’s price FAQ does not name a condition. TCGplayer’s Market Price article describes recent sales and does not say the figure is Near Mint, played, or graded. A played copy is a different product. Foil and special frames have their own figures.

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How to Read an MTG Card Market Price

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The number on a Tappr card page is a market estimate

There is no single official price for a Magic card, and Tappr is not a store. On an exact printing page the USD figures are the TCGplayer market price Scryfall syncs (nonfoil and foil when both exist), and the euro figure is the Cardmarket value Scryfall syncs. Scryfall’s price FAQ says affiliate prices sync every 24 hours. The card page says the same thing in the eyebrow: Market estimate · ~24h. That is a useful baseline. It is not a live storefront, not an in-stock offer, and not a promise you can buy the card at that number.

Identify the printing before you read any figure. Reprints share a name and often share art. Use the exact-printing workflow (set symbol, collector number, treatment, language), then open the matching /card/{set}/{number}/ page — for example Banishing Light from Bloomburrow.

Market price is not the cheapest listing

TCGplayer’s Market Price help says Market Price is based on actual recent sales, averaged across multiple recent transactions, and that it is not the same as currently listed prices. Their price-points article separates that sales baseline from Listed Median, which can sit far above recent sales when only expensive unsold listings remain.

Scryfall is explicit about which TCGplayer number it copies: market price, not TCGplayer low, mid, or high. Tappr therefore does not show the cheapest active listing. If you are about to buy, open the TCGplayer or Cardmarket listing and read the asking price. Use the estimate as the recent-sales baseline, then decide whether the listing is close to it.

Cardmarket is a different market, not a second copy of the same number

Scryfall’s FAQ says the Cardmarket sync uses the Trend Price, one-day average, seven-day average, average price, or suggested price — whichever is available. Cardmarket is priced in euros and clears European supply. A USD market price and a euro Cardmarket figure can diverge for the same printing. Do not convert one into the other and call them the same fact.

A buylist is a third number

A buylist is the price a store posts to buy your card. Tappr does not show one. TCGplayer market price is what recent buyers paid on that marketplace; a store’s cash offer is a different transaction. The Card Kingdom buylist guide explains that cash-offer path. Do not subtract a made-up percent from the Tappr estimate and call it what a shop will pay.

Condition and finish are not labeled on the estimate

Scryfall’s price FAQ and TCGplayer’s Market Price article do not name a condition. Sellers on TCGplayer list Near Mint, Lightly Played, Moderately Played, Heavily Played, and Damaged separately, and that conditioning article does not say the Market Price figure is one of those grades. A played copy is a different product from the unlabeled sales figure. A foil, borderless, or showcase printing is its own product. Read nonfoil and foil separately on the card page, then grade the copy in hand before you treat the estimate as what that copy would sell for. The condition guide is the checklist for that step.

Digital-only printings have no paper price

Alchemy and other Arena or Magic Online lines can appear in the card database without a physical printing. Those pages say No paper market price. TCGplayer and Cardmarket paper prices do not apply. Alchemy: Innistrad (/card/ymid/56/) is one of those records. Do not invent a USD figure for it.

App price is not card price

Tappr pricing is the Pro plan for the app. Scanning and checking the market estimate are free; Pro adds set-completion tracking, collection analytics, and value history. That page does not set the price of a Magic card.

What still moves the estimate

Reprints add supply. Rotation and bans change who wants a card. Commander demand can keep a card expensive with no Standard home. Those forces move the sales that TCGplayer’s market price summarizes. Because Scryfall syncs about every 24 hours, a spike that happened this morning can show up on Tappr on the next sync — not tick by tick.

Sources

Scryfall: Where do prices come from? — every 24 hours; TCGplayer market price, not low, mid, or high; Cardmarket trend or averages, whichever is available.
TCGplayer: Market Price — recent completed sales, not current listings.
TCGplayer: price points — Market Price versus Listed Median.
TCGplayer: Card Conditioning Overview — sellers list Near Mint through Damaged. The Market Price article does not assign the sales figure to one of those grades.