Thursday, July 2, 2015

Price Guide: Week of 6/21 Through 6/28

The following is a price guide for the week of 6/21/2015 through the week of 6/28/2015, comprising the primary high-rarity cards from B01: Warblade of Heroes. Rather than relying on auction sites to determine prices, the prices given below are based on averaging the day to day most expensive cards at Card Kingdom's Akihabara branch, at Grand Panda Canyon in Akiba, and at Cardbox Japan. Future guides will include additional retailers' in the price averages; at this time Card Kingdom and GPC are two of the biggest shops in the secondary market, with Cardbox being secondary to them, and web stores have yet to seriously adopt Cipher. In general GPC's prices are slightly higher than Card Kingdom's. The timeframe for the weeks given below is more limited than it may appear; Cipher launched on the 25th and the first price lists from a shop came out on the 24th, while the week of 6/28 ends on the 1st of July. 7/6/2015: Finalized prices for the week of 6/28 ending on 7/1 are now up.

Although most of the cards that made this list are Super Rare or above, the promotional cards "Prince of Piercing Principles, Chrom" and "Stoic Prince, Marth" are also included; unlike most promotional cards, these are not alternate artwork reprints of existing cards, but have a unique skillset and low availability. Chrom was given out to participants at official demo events of Fire Emblem Cipher, while a holographic print of Marth is packaged with the Japanese special edition of Fire Emblem: Fates. The difficulty of acquiring these cards and the small number distributed is driving up the price more than their skills.

"Knower of the Future, Lucina" is the breakout hit of the set, consistently outdoing other SR-rarity cards and coming out of this week at 1600 yen per card. Her signed SR+ print is currently the most expensive card in the game, averaging at the currency equivalent of over $50.

To convert from yen to US dollars, the quickest and easiest way is to introduce the decimal point two spaces in. So 400 yen becomes $4, and 4500 yen $45. However, this is only a pneumonic device, and should not be substituted for the real exchange rate. The real exchange rate of the yen is not 100 yen to $1 as is often thought, but is closer to 80 yen to $1 and fluctuates frequently. To get a truly accurate conversion, use either Google Finance's currency conversion or another financial exchange service.

Hero to His Country, Marth (SR)
230 yen (previous week) → 525 yen (current week)

Hero to His Country, Marth (SR+, signed)
2200 yen → 4180 yen

Angelic Advocate of Affection, Caeda (SR)
620 yen → 1200 yen
Angelic Advocate of Affection, Caeda (SR+, signed)
 1950 yen → 2640 yen

War-god of Talys, Ogma (SR)
200 yen → No data

Crimson Reaper, Navarre (SR)
230 yen → 330 yen

Crimson Reaper, Navarre (SR+, signed)
No data → 1500 yen

Manakete Princess, Tiki (SR)
830 yen → 1050 yen

Sable Order, Camus (SR)
150 yen → No data

New Exalt, Chrom (SR)
420 yen → No data

Knower of the Future, Lucina (SR)
 1110 yen → 1480 yen

Knower of the Future, Lucina (SR+, signed)
 5240 yen → 5880 yen

Sweetest Assassin, Gaius (SR)
250 yen → 300 yen

Pegasus Knight Paragon, Cordelia (SR)
970 yen → 1300 yen

Mage of Dark Obsessions, Tharja (SR)
660 yen → 1030 yen

Mage of Dark Obsessions, Tharja (SR+)
No data → 1400 yen

Chosen Warrior of Hope, Owain (SR)
50 yen → No data

Prince of Piercing Principles, Chrom (P01-005PR)
No data → 875 yen

Stoic Prince, Marth (P01-003PR)
No data → 1000 yen

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