How Silvane prices cards
Five price sources, one active at a time — how Silvane prices your collection.
Silvane treats your collection like a portfolio: every printing carries a real price, refreshed daily, per finish (normal, foil, etched) — and your collection's total value is charted over time like a stock.
The pricing model
- Five sources. Silvane tracks five markets for every card: TCGplayer, Star City Games, Card Kingdom, Mana Pool and Cardmarket. Each measures something different — see Price sources.
- One source active at a time. You pick one, and every amount in Silvane — collection value, deck totals, movers — is that source's number, and a new price alert watches it. A few recorded amounts keep their own: What doesn't follow your source. The choice is saved to your account and shared by the app, the web and MCP.
- Your currency. Four sources price in USD; Cardmarket prices in EUR. Pick one of 50 display currencies and market prices show in it, converted at the latest rate. Percent changes are worked out on the store's own prices, and no percentage compares a dollar price with a euro price. Sales, purchases and price alerts keep the currency they were written in.
- No fallback. When your source has no price for a card, the card shows no price — Silvane counts it apart as unpriced instead of borrowing a number from another source.
Price history is kept per (card, finish, source) — switching sources never erases a chart, and every market's history keeps accumulating whether or not it's the one you're reading.
The app keeps every card's prices with the card data on the phone, and they update when new card data downloads; there is no separate price refresh. Profile → Storage & Sync → Cards names the day your source's prices are from. See Storage & Sync.
Prices are estimates
All values in Silvane are informational estimates — they can lag or differ from any specific store. Confirm with a store or marketplace before you buy, sell or trade. Nothing in Silvane is financial advice.
In this section
- Price sources — what each source measures, how to switch, currencies, coverage.
- Display currency — the 50 currencies, what converts and what stays as written.
- Card prices — the pricing section on every card, with the five-source comparison table.
- Full price analysis — the deep-dive screen (Pro).
- Movers — what went up or down, in your collection and in the market.
- Collection value — what your collection is worth today, live, and day by day in each source.