A 60-second tour of the prep tools.
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A quick tour of the prep flow.

Drop a wishlist into Search — plain English works alongside the name | set | number form:

top 5 Mew cards <= $50
All Charizard cards
top 10 Surging Sparks cards
Charizard | Base | 4/102

Hit Look up and the rows stream in. Then export whatever you'll actually carry:

  • A printable binder PDF — thumbnail, set, number, market price, and comp tiers at 80/85/90/95% for every card. Fold it up, slip it in a backpack pocket, walk the booths.
  • A condensed binder PDF — 24 cards per page instead of the standard 9, for when carrying less paper matters more than card size.
  • A checklist PDF — one tick box per card, in set order, grouped by list. Mark cards off by hand as you find them.
  • A spreadsheet — same data, sortable, comps included.

Those comp tiers are the point: when a dealer names a number, you already know what 85% of market looks like.

Prices come from two open sources checked automatically — pokemontcg.io, then TCGdex — and you can paste a PriceCharting link on any row to override it directly, which is the only way to price region-exclusive prints neither of the other two indexes. Walking a set at a booth? Browse lets you page through a whole set on your phone, prices attached. And if your prep is already scripted into a laptop workflow, the same pipeline runs as a CLI (./pkmn lookup) — same exports, no browser needed, plus ./pkmn set-cards for printable set-ID tab cutouts.

Try it with my sample list →

Got a show coming up? Give it a real list and tell me what's missing.

— Matt

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