The operational and commercial terms card-shop owners actually use — defined in plain language, no marketing fluff.
A 1Cart trade-in is the TCG Sync flow that lets a customer buy cards and sell cards back to the shop in the same cart, in the same checkout. Buylist credit is applied instantly against the purchase total — no separate buylist site, no waiting for store credit to land before placing the order.
An autopricer is software that reprices a card shop's singles automatically against live marketplace data — typically TCGplayer market price, Cardmarket trend price, or eBay sold listings — applying margin rules per channel and per condition.
A buylist is the set of prices a card shop offers customers for cards they want to sell or trade in. Most shops publish two prices per card: a lower cash rate and a higher store-credit rate.
Chaos inventory is unsorted bulk trading-card stock — sold by weight, box, or fixed price rather than tracked card-by-card. It's a deliberate decision to skip the cost of grading and listing the long tail of low-value singles.
Condition-based pricing is the practice of listing the same trading-card SKU at separate price points for each condition grade — typically Near Mint, Lightly Played, Moderately Played, and Heavily Played. It's standard in TCG retail because card value drops measurably with each grade step.
In card-shop ecommerce, a deckbuilder is a storefront feature that lets a customer paste a decklist (or import one from MTGGoldfish, Moxfield, Limitless, etc.), see the shop's live stock across conditions for every card in the list, and add the entire deck to cart in one click.
Friday Night Magic (FNM) is the weekly recurring casual Magic: The Gathering event run on Friday evenings at WPN-recognised stores. It's the most consistent in-store event in trading-card retail and the backbone of most card shops' Friday revenue.
LGS stands for Local Game Store — the independent retail shop that stocks trading cards, board games, and RPG supplies and hosts in-store events. FLGS prepends 'Friendly' and is community shorthand for the shops players actually want to spend time in.
TCGplayer market price is an algorithmic average of recent sold prices across conditions. TCGplayer low is the lowest currently-listed price. Market is more stable and reflects actual transactions; low is a snapshot of the cheapest seller right now and can be skewed by a single outlier.
NM (Near Mint), LP (Lightly Played), MP (Moderately Played), HP (Heavily Played), and DMG (Damaged) are the standard condition grades for ungraded trading-card singles. Each step down typically reduces the card's market value by 10–25%.
A prerelease is the in-store event held the week before a new trading-card set hits general retail. Players pay an entry fee to open sealed product from the new set early, build a deck, and play in a small tournament — usually with promotional cards as prize support.
The Reserved List is Wizards of the Coast's policy guaranteeing that a specific list of Magic: The Gathering cards (mostly from 1993–1999) will never be reprinted in a tournament-legal form. The promise creates artificial scarcity and underpins the long-term value of those cards.
Sealed product is any unopened trading-card product still in its publisher packaging — booster packs, booster boxes, bundles, prerelease kits, starter decks, collector boxes. It contrasts with singles, which are individual cards opened from product.
The Wizards Play Network (WPN) is Wizards of the Coast's official retailer programme for Magic: The Gathering. WPN status grants a shop access to prerelease kits, organised-play prize support, sanctioned-event tools, and the right to identify itself as a recognised Magic store.
WPN Premium is the higher tier of Wizards Play Network membership for Magic: The Gathering retailers. Premium stores get bigger prerelease allocations, exclusive promotional cards, marketing support, and the right to host higher-tier sanctioned events.