Glossary
A glossary for card shops
The words that come up when you price and stock trading cards, defined in a few paragraphs each. Where a term is TCGplayer's, the definition follows TCGplayer's own help pages and links to them.
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Terms
Every term
TCGplayer Market Price
A price point compiled by TCGplayer from recent sales completed on TCGplayer.com, updated as transactions complete, for a product in a given printing and condition.
Read itListed Median
The median of all current listed prices for a product on TCGplayer, based on listed prices only, not on sales.
Read itCard conditions: NM, LP, MP, HP and DMG
The grade of wear on a trading card single: Near Mint (NM), Lightly Played (LP), Moderately Played (MP), Heavily Played (HP) or Damaged (DMG), set by the number and extent of its imperfections.
Read itSealed vs singles
Sealed product is trading card product in its original, unopened factory packaging, such as booster boxes, packs and decks. Singles are individual cards sold one by one and graded by condition.
Read itPrinting
A version of a trading card distinguished by its finish or edition, such as Normal, Foil, Holofoil, Reverse Holofoil or 1st Edition, priced separately from the card's other printings.
Read itTCGplayer SKU
TCGplayer's identifier for one printing of a product in one condition, as opposed to the product ID, which identifies the card or sealed product as a whole.
Read itBuylist
The list of cards a store will buy from customers and the price it pays for each, usually set below the store's selling price and offered as cash or store credit.
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About the glossary
Where the definitions come from.
Write to us.The founder answers, usually the same day.help@synq.cardsTCGplayer terms follow TCGplayer's help center, cited on each page. How Synq uses a term comes from the app itself.
Put the terms to work.
Synq prices every printing and condition from TCGplayer, inside Shopify.
- cards put up for sale on Shopify with Synq
- 66,000+
- prices checked against the market, automatically
- 2.2M
- games in the catalog, from Magic and Pokémon to Riftbound
- 19
Live figures from Synq across real card shops, October 2026