Guide
How to collect
From your first card to tracking value, price moves, and completing sets.
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Start your collection
Add the cards you own so the app can value and track them. You can search the catalogue and add a card by hand, point your camera at it to scan it in, or import an existing collection in bulk. Each card is recorded with its condition, finish, quantity, and (optionally) what you paid.
- Search the catalogue and add a card with its condition, finish, and quantity.
- Scan a card with your camera to identify it and add it.
- Import a list in bulk if you already have a collection elsewhere.
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See what it's worth
Your dashboard is the home for your collection. It sums the market value of every card you own (plus any sealed product) into one total, shows how that number has moved over the last 30 days, your all-time high, and a split between singles and sealed. A value chart traces the trend over time.
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Track what's moving
Prices move constantly. The app surfaces your movers — cards whose market price has shifted beyond your threshold over your window — both as a this-week glance on the dashboard and in full on the Price Moves page, where you can dig into a 90-day trend and live in-app offers.
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Complete your sets
See how close you are to finishing every set you collect. Progress rings show owned-vs-total per set, the dashboard highlights the set you are closest to finishing, and Finish a Set lays out every missing card cheapest-first with the best in-app offer to buy each one.
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Build a wishlist
Keep a list of the cards you want, each with a target price, the condition you are after, and a priority. Your wishlist is where buying intent lives — and it ties into offers and price moves so you know when a card you want is worth grabbing.
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Tune your insights
You decide what counts as a meaningful price move. In Settings, set the mover threshold (how big a swing has to be), a minimum card value (ignore moves on cheap cards), and the window (7 or 30 days). These tolerances control movers across the whole app.
Knowledge base
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Detailed guides for every part of collecting on The TCG OS.
Getting set up
Adding cards, scanning, importing, and conditions.
- Adding cards to your collectionThe three ways to get cards in, and what each card records.
- Scanning cards with your cameraPoint, identify, add — the fastest way to log a card.
- Importing an existing collectionBring a collection you already track elsewhere in, in bulk.
- Conditions, finishes & gradingWhat condition, finish, and grade mean for a card.
Your collection's value
How the total is worked out and what it includes.
Insights & price moves
The dashboard, movers, Price Moves, and milestones.
Completing sets
Completion rings and finishing a set for less.
Wishlist & buying
Price targets, in-app offers, and buying cards.
Reference
Tolerances, key terms, and how it all fits.