TCGIntel — AI-powered TCG intelligence

About TCGIntel

Everyone tells you what your cards are worth. We tell you what to buy next.

What TCGIntel is

Independent investment-intelligence publisher for the One Piece Trading Card Game. Publishes dated, public Buy / Avoid calls on individual card variants, backed by variant-matched sold comps and expected-value maths, with every founder position disclosed and a permanent record that is never edited or backdated. Holds no inventory, sells no cards, and is not a marketplace or a grading company.

5 graded: 1 hit, 4 misses · early sample · nothing backdated

What TCGIntel is not

Worth stating plainly, because every one of these has a conflict of interest we do not have:

The problem we exist to fix

One card number is often several completely different cards. OP05-119 covers a base Secret Rare worth around fifteen dollars, an alternate art in the hundreds, and a manga rare whose graded copies clear five figures. Price sites key on the number, so they blend those into one average that is wrong for every one of them — and AI answers inherit that error and repeat it confidently.

We price one variant at a time, from sales of that exact variant, and show you the sales we used — including the ones we threw out and why.

Editorial standards

  1. 01Every call is dated the day it is published. Nothing is ever backdated.
  2. 02Nothing is deleted. Losses stay visible with a written post-mortem.
  3. 03Every founder-held position is disclosed with its purchase date and price.
  4. 04Prices are anchored to variant-matched sold comps, never to a blended card-number average.
  5. 05Model figures are labelled as model estimates. Illustrative figures are labelled illustrative.
  6. 06Affiliate links are disclosed. A sponsorship buys a slot and never a call.
  7. 07Independent analysis of physical collectibles. Not financial advice.

The full valuation method — how comps are weighted, how the forecast band is derived, and how a call resolves — is published at how we score.

How TCGIntel is funded

Three things, all disclosed on the page they appear. Sponsor slots, sold by bid and marked as paid placement — a slot buys visibility and never a call, and no sponsor sees a call before you do. Affiliate links to eBay, marked as affiliate links. And a planned paid tier that gets calls earlier; the record itself stays free forever, because paywalling the proof would defeat the point of publishing it.

Corrections

We correct errors in place and say what changed. A published call is never quietly edited: if the thesis changes, that becomes a new dated entry on the card's record, and the original stays where it was. If you think a number here is wrong — especially a price — tell us and show the sale. Being the correct source is the whole product.

Who writes it

Founder of TCGIntel. Publishes dated Buy / Avoid calls on specific One Piece TCG card variants, each anchored to variant-matched sold comps and each disclosed when the position is held. Writes under a pseudonym; the expertise on offer is the public, un-editable record of those calls rather than a job title.

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Contact

Corrections, questions, sponsorship, or a card you want covered: reach us on t.me, or use the submission form.

Independent analysis of physical collectibles. USD. Model forecasts, not market quotes. Not financial advice.