Pokémon
Pokémon is unusual in carrying three quite different customers at once: players who need singles for a deck, collectors chasing specific art and sets, and parents buying packs for a nine-year-old.
1153 shops · 50 states
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Magic: The Gathering
Magic has the oldest and most sophisticated secondary market of any trading card game, which means a Magic shop is judged largely on its singles operation.
954 shops · 50 states
Sports cards
Sports cards covers everything from a 1950s baseball common to a numbered rookie patch autograph pulled last week.
753 shops · 49 states
Comics
Plenty of card shops carry comics, and plenty of comic shops carry cards — the two hobbies share a customer, a supply chain, and a grading culture.
732 shops · 48 states
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Yu-Gi-Oh! is a heavily competitive game with a fast-moving banlist, which makes the local scene matter more than the shelf.
450 shops · 44 states
One Piece
The One Piece Card Game is recent enough that shop support is genuinely uneven: some shops have built a real local scene around it, and others have a shelf of product and no players.
429 shops · 47 states
Disney Lorcana
Disney Lorcana draws an unusually mixed crowd: competitive card game players, Disney collectors who do not play at all, and families.
368 shops · 47 states
Vintage
Vintage generally means pre-1980 in sports and pre-2000 in trading card games, though no definition is universal and shops use the word loosely.
339 shops · 44 states
Grading
Shops in this category submit cards to third-party grading companies on your behalf, usually at bulk rates you could not access individually.
304 shops · 46 states
Baseball
Baseball is the deepest category in the hobby by volume and by history, which cuts both ways: there is more genuinely interesting material than in any other sport, and there is also more effectively worthless overproduced cardboard than in any other sport.
251 shops · 44 states
Basketball
Basketball has the hobby's sharpest concentration of value in a small number of players and a small number of parallels, which makes accurate pricing harder than it looks and makes shop knowledge worth more.
225 shops · 41 states
Football
Football collecting is dominated by rookie cards, which makes it the most seasonal category in the hobby: interest and prices move with the draft, the season, and one player's Sunday.
216 shops · 40 states
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