Star Wars: Unlimited foil and Serialized cards: how are they priced and listed?
Direct answer
Foil has two models. On Spark of Rebellion, Shadows of the Galaxy and Twilight of the Republic a foil shares the number with the normal card, so the seller decides with a switch, and the switch moves the prices to the foil prices. Newer sets give a foil its own number and its own prices. A Serialized Prestige is different again: the number on the copy moves the price, so it is never priced by a machine. You type the price and the daily price sync skips the listing.
Foil on SOR, SHD and TWI
- The number does not tell a foil from a normal copy, so the photo cannot prove it. A card starts as non-foil.
- The Foil column switches a copy, per card or in bulk edit. It moves the Cardmarket and TCGplayer prices and the listing price to the foil or non-foil price.
- If there is no foil price, a foil copy has no price. It never takes the non-foil price.
Foil on newer sets
A foil has its own number and its own prices, so the number proves it and there is no switch.
How foil copies are listed
- A foil copy is never mixed up with the normal one: each has its own price and SKU.
- On eBay "Foil" goes into the title and the Finish item specific says Foil.
- On Shopify one printing is one product, with Foil and Normal as variants.
- The TCGPowerTools CSV carries an isFoil column for Cardmarket.
- The daily price sync reprices a foil copy only from a foil price of the chosen source.
Serialized Prestige
- The number on your copy moves the price, so a market figure says little about it. In the table it is only a reference.
- Every price step asks you for a price, and every export uses only what you typed.
- There is no eBay median for it, and the daily price sync never changes the listing, whatever the price source.
Prestige, Showcase and promos without a price
These prints can be worth far more than a plain card, so a missing price stays missing, also with a minimum price set. Type the price yourself. For how to find the right printing see how to tell which version and printing you have.
Further reading
Price your foil and special prints apart
See every printing and finish with its own price, and decide yourself where a machine should not.
No account required for the first 10 detections.