| RECON // NEWSLETTER NO. 014 |
FRI NOV 6, 2026 |
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Know the market. Collect with conviction.
TCG · VIDEO GAMES · ANIME
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Delta Reign booster boxes are trading at $222.95 on launch day, 38% above Best Buy’s $160.99, and the smaller boxes carry twice that markup
| MARKET | $222.95 · TCGPLAYER MARKET PRICE · NOV 5 |
| RETAIL | $160.99 · BEST BUY, INVITE ONLY |
| ETB | $103.18 MARKET VS $49.99 RETAIL |
$222.95 +38% VS BEST BUY RETAIL
Pokémon’s Delta Reign goes on sale today, and its 36-pack booster box already has a TCGplayer Market Price of $222.95 (Nov 5 data), 38% above the $160.99 Best Buy is charging by invitation only, per CollectiblesNews. The smaller products sit further above retail: the Elite Trainer Box at $103.18 against $49.99, and the six-pack Booster Bundle at $53.95 against $26.94, both about 2x. The chase card, Mega Rayquaza ex at 138/103, is at $397.94 before most packs are open.
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| VIDEO GAMES |
Switch 2 passed 26.35 million units sold; hardware fell 37.4% year on year in the first half, while Switch 2 software rose 18.8% to 24.49 million. (Nintendo Life, Nov 5) |
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Riftbound’s next set, The Reckoning, is on preorder for April 30, 2027: 250 cards with more than 60 Showcase cards and 14-card boosters. (ICv2, Nov 5) |
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Disney Lorcana’s Into the Inkdark, the first set with serialized Illustrious cards, is on preorder for Feb 12, 2027 (Oct 23). (ICv2, Oct 23) |
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| UPCOMING RELEASES |
DROP DATES |
| NOV 6 |
Cyberpunk TCG: Welcome to Night City (WeirdCo): the first full retail release, with weekly Night City Brawl events starting at stores, per Cyberpunk TCG
LIVE LISTINGS ON EBAY → |
OUT TODAY |
| NOV 12 |
Sonic Pico Park (game): launches on Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC, per Pico Park |
NEW GAME |
| NOV 13 |
Magic: The Gathering – Star Trek (Wizards of the Coast): Collector Packs $37.99 and the Bundle $69.99 MSRP, per ICv2; prerelease events start today, per Wizards of the Coast
LIVE LISTINGS ON EBAY → |
PRERELEASE NOV 6 |
| NOV 19 |
Grand Theft Auto VI (Rockstar Games): PS5 and Xbox Series X|S; pre-load begins Nov 10, per Rockstar Games |
PRE-LOAD NOV 10 |
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| THINGS TO WATCH |
UP AND COMING |
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Cyberpunk TCG · NOV 6
The retail set reaches stores today, and its Kickstarter-only Beta booster box will never be restocked.
US search interest is at 46 against 8 before on Google Trends, and the franchise is coming off Edgerunners 2’s Netflix premiere on Oct 20. (Cyberpunk TCG) |
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Magic: The Gathering · NOV 13
Star Trek releases a week after today’s prerelease events.
Brainstorm Brewery spent 16.8% of its talk on Magic in the last four weeks against 14.7% before, while YouTube uploads fell, so the rise is in the core audience so far. (Wizards of the Coast) |
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Sonic the Hedgehog · NOV 12
Sonic Pico Park, a co-op puzzle game, launches on Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox and PC.
The Treasure Hunters Podcast gave Sonic 2.4% of its talk in the last four weeks after none before; YouTube uploads are down, so this is an early, narrow signal. (Pico Park) |
Stages: Early = a date on the calendar or attention starting to move; Building = attention rising into a dated event; Fading = the event has passed or attention is falling. Attention is podcast talk, news, search and video counts, each against its own past. A watch list, not a buy list.
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FIELD NOTE
On launch day, the cheapest boxes carry the biggest markups.
Delta Reign’s booster box trades 38% over Best Buy’s price, but its Elite Trainer Box and Booster Bundle trade at about twice theirs. Small boxes are where most buyers can afford to chase a new set, so their launch markups show how far demand runs past the first wave of supply. Watch whether those 2x gaps close as restocks land; the box price says less about that than the ETB does.
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