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The prices in this hobby are wrong. Here’s the card that proves it.
In One Piece’s OP13 set, Monkey.D.Luffy is card number 118.
So is Monkey.D.Luffy. And so is Monkey.D.Luffy. There are five of them — the base card, the Parallel, the Wanted Poster, the Manga Rare, and the Red Manga Rare. Every one is stamped Secret Rare, #OP13-118. Same number. Same printed rarity.
| Monkey.D.Luffy · OP13-118 | TCGplayer market price |
|---|---|
| Base | $16.82 |
| Parallel — the “Temu Manga” | $84.24 |
| Wanted Poster | $338.69 |
| Secret Rare Alternate Art — the manga | $2,114.36 |
| Red Secret Rare Alternate Art | ~$12,000 |
A seven-hundred-fold spread, inside one rarity label. Portgas.D.Ace does the same thing on OP13-119 — a couple of dollars at the bottom, five figures at the top, one card number.
Now consider what an “average sold price” for OP13-118 actually means. It is arithmetic performed on a seventeen-dollar card and a twelve-thousand-dollar card. It is not a price. It is a number with a dollar sign in front of it.
And a bad average is the least of it. If a Red Manga sells one month and none sells the next, the “price” collapses ninety percent and a chart somewhere reports the card crashing. Nothing happened. The card didn’t move — the mixmoved. Every trend, every percentage, every “biggest mover” built on top of it inherits that noise, and someone makes a decision with real money based on a chart that is describing an accounting artifact.
This is not a niche bug — it is how the entire category prices itself. And the problem is the data, not the people. A collector holding these cards can usually tell them apart. But every price source that publishes a figure for OP13-118 is publishing an average of five different cards, and that number describes none of them.
You can’t make a good decision from it. Not because you missed something — because it was never a price to begin with.
What we believe
These are written so you could catch us breaking them. That’s the only kind of principle worth publishing.
Identity before price
You cannot honestly price a card until you know exactly which card it is. Not the number. Not the rarity. The actual printing.
So we built that first: 87,074 cards across 962 sets — every main set, promo, event card and starter deck — with 10,618 chase cards told apart from the base printings they share a number with. It is the coordinate system. Everything true we ever say has to hang off it.
“Unknown” is a real answer
There are no prices on this site. Not because we couldn’t generate some — anyone can average a pile of listings — but because we don’t yet have data we’d stand behind.
When prices arrive, they will point at the sales underneath them. Until then, we say we don’t know, and we mean it.
Let the arithmetic do the talking
People rip packs chasing a card without knowing the odds — or that buying the single outright is usually cheaper. The honest math almost always says don’t rip.
Everyone who sells sealed product benefits from you not knowing that. So nobody says it. We’ll show you the odds, show you what the single costs, and then say nothing — because a conclusion you reach yourself is one you actually own.
Nothing here is for sale but the software
No merchant, seller, or partner can pay to change a card’s data, its rarity, its ranking, or what we say about it. Not for any amount.
The day a number here bends toward someone’s inventory, this site is worth nothing — and we would know it long before you did.
Play and collect are different things
Every price in a card game is held up by one of two forces: the card wins games, or the card is beautiful. Those have opposite risk profiles — a meta staple can crash on a rotation; an alt-art never will.
Nobody tells you which one you’re buying. We intend to.
The gap is the product
A collector doesn’t want to be shown what they have. They want to be shown what they’re missing. That’s why the cards you don’t own stay on screen, dimmed, instead of disappearing.
The hunt is the best part of this hobby. Every product in this category forgot that and built a spreadsheet instead.
We take nothing that isn't ours
We don’t scrape eBay. We don’t scrape TCGplayer. We don’t scrape our competitors. It would be faster, and it would make every honest thing on this page a lie.
Who this is for
The people who know this stuff learned it the hard way. Nobody should have to.
Plenty of collectors can tell a Parallel from a Manga Rare on sight. They know which printing is the valuable one and why. None of that knowledge is secret — it’s just locked up. It lives in people’s heads, in Discord threads that scroll away, in the expensive mistake somebody made two years ago. You acquire it by being in the room for a long time.
Most people are never in the room.
So this isn’t for the expert. They don’t need us. It’s for the person who just bought their first box. The person coming back after ten years away. The person watching a card go for $300 on a live stream with no idea whether that’s a steal or a robbery. The person who feels stupid asking.
That person currently has nowhere to go — because every product in this hobby either assumes you already know, or quietly profits from you not knowing.
Riplytics is where you go to stop feeling overwhelmed.
Not a terminal for experts. A patient, honest source that gets you up to speed without making you feel like an idiot for asking. Here’s everything we’re building, and everything we won’t fake.
Tell us we’re wrong
If a card is mislabeled, a set is missing, a manga rare is filed as a parallel — tell us. The corrections are the product. Every one makes this catalog something a competitor starting today cannot reproduce.
Corrections & questions
A mislabeled card, a missing set, or what you’d build first. We read every one and will get back to you as soon as we can.
Partnerships
Tournament organizers, graders, marketplaces — anyone sitting on data that would make this better.
The collecting and TCG communities deserve one place they can go and trust they’re getting the facts.
Whether you’re brand new to collecting, a seasoned hobbyist, or a tournament player chasing a master set — the decision about how you participate should be yours, made on real information.
Riplytics leads with data. Find what you’re looking for, and be confident the analysis in front of you is one you can rely on.
John Lord· Founder & CEO