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Zincy
Zincy watches the binder from the counter — surfacing deals under market, random set spotlights, what's getting looks, and what's actually selling.
Browse singlesZincy's weekly scan
Market set spotlights, deals under guide, and what collectors are actually browsing.

Binder tour — ME: 30th Celebration: Classic Collection edition. Five standouts from the set, live on the shelf today.
Browse ME: 30th Celebration: Classic Collection- Darkrai & Cresselia LEGEND 100 ME: 30th Celebration: Classic CollectionIn stock
- Shining Celebi 106 ME: 30th Celebration: Classic CollectionIn stock
Shining Celebi 106 ME: 30th Celebration: Classic CollectionIn stock- Metagross 11 ME: 30th Celebration: Classic CollectionIn stock
- Palkia LV.X 106p ME: 30th Celebration: Classic CollectionIn stock

Receipt roll — 30th Celebration Mini Tin (random) is this week's top seller. When it clicks, it really clicks.
30th Celebration Mini Tin (random)

Zincy's traffic cam: Nidorina 88 ME: 30th Celebration wins the stare-down contest with 16 views this week.
Nidorina 88 ME: 30th Celebration
Zincy notes — Nidoran ♀ 87 ME: 30th Celebration has attention without a sale. Come decide if the hype is deserved.
Nidoran ♀ 87 ME: 30th Celebration
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Notes, fresh arrivals, and shop news — straight from Zincy's corner of the counter.
My Collection Filters Added!
Sorry this took a while but we got there in the end. Filters have now been added to My Collection. This will make it much easier to work through your owned cards!
Bug Squash and QoL improvements
Hey! This week has been a 'scrub up' week. First up, filtering was not where it should have been on the AardCore Singles store. You should now be able to filter your searches by energy correctly. Some cards are not showing in their sets. This is currently on the slab and we are getting that in shape. We are working on better, easier site navigation and card manipulation by making the app remember what you did last. No more having to keep repeating a procedure to get back to where you originally were. This will be great for both shopping and adding to your collections. Two new HUGE features are coming your way soon, we have 30th Celebration going fully live on the singles site next week and there is also Delta Reign on the horizon for Pokemon, Fractal for Magic and very soon, Cyberpunk.... See you at the store soon (no, you might be surprised) Zincy
30th Price Fix
A few cards from 30th Celebration were not showing prices. This should now be resolved.30th Celebration now Live in SETS.
All of the 30th Celebration cards should now be available to all members complete with the relevant filtering system. Hope you all have a wonderful time creating sets and binders!
Pitch Black Restock Confirmed - Pre Order Live
We will be taking stock of Pitch Black this week and we don't expect to see any more this year. You may want to head over to the Sealed section of the webstore if Pitch Black is your thing.
Read morePokemon Release Update
Pokemon fans. Here is the latest release schedule for Pokemon products. 🚨UPDATED POKEMON RELEASE CALENDAR FOR 2026🚨 September 16th: - Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration Binder Collection - Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration Poster Collection - Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration Pokémon ex Box/Sylveon ex & Greninja ex - Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box October 2nd: - Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration Booster Bundle - Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration Mini Tins - Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration Tech Sticker Collection - Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration 2-Pack Blister October 30th: - Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration Battle Deck—Espeon ex & Umbreon ex November 6th: - Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration Ditto Premium Collection - Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration Ultra-Premium Collection Day & Night - Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration Figure Collection Mew & Mewtwo - Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution Delta Reign (All Products) November 13th: - Pokemon TCG: Mega Greninja ex League Battle Deck
AardCore Market
Some of you may have encountered problems uploading your cards to the market (thanks those who got in touch). We've been busy smashing bugs and also adding a few extra tweaks and hopefully you will now be able to get your cards on there. Please do let me know if there are any issues.
Read moreAardCore Market (beta) is now open!
Get ready to move your cards into the community. Now you can sell your cards via the safe hands of your local Games Store. Try out the listing, it's super simple but gives potential buyer all the information they need. Add a photo if you can! It adds confidence to see what you are buying, right? Happy Vending!
Updates: UK Price Conversion
Hey all, welcome to the end of the week. While the focus has been on preparing to add Magic the Gathering there have also been some other tweaks! You know have the option of viewing your Portfolio amount in Dollars or Pounds, or both. Remember, the US market is not the same as the UK, you can reliably stick another 10% on a good number of cards, but the conversion will help you see where the absolute basement can be considered. You can toggle the pricing at the top of the page. We have improved wishlist notifications, so if you wishlist on the singles site or Collector you will get a notification of a new card matching your demand. When looking through your collection you have the option to have prices visible on each card in dollars. This is another on/off option. We thought you might like to see this feature as we use it in our admin. We are building up to Pokemon releases, One Piece (very small stock) is expected and Lorcana is completely sold out. We will keep you updated on Facebook and via our news. Once MTG is out the roadmap begins for Riftbound. Finally, Grand Archive is IN STOCK. We may be the only Stoke on Trent stockist, not sure!
Read moreLove It! Share it! Win!
We would love you to share our amazing Collector App! On Facebook right now we are shouting about AardCore and if you share your experience we will enter you into the SPIN THE WHEEL event to win a PRISMATIC BOOSTER! Yes! All you have to do is be a Subscriber and that's pretty much a done deal, share your favourite part of the app and you could grab a LOVELY PACK! Head over and do it! Like... what are you waiting for!
Read moreAardCore APP NEWS!
Hi everyone, we are back in the store and back on the development and I already have some big news here. First up, Sub Changes. It was very obvious from when the first Subs rolled in and how the app is being used that we have two very distinct users, Fun and Collector, Investor... or at least the latter is a combination of the two, someone with a stronger focus on the market as WELL as getting their sets completed. So, we have decided to lean into this and hopefully encourage people to make use of the market utility we are adding without having to commit to a full year. Current Yearly/Monthly/Founder members are not impacted by this. Yearly's will still get their benefits. Monthly are essentially untouched with the exception that they actually get more features than we planned. Market Reports, Price Alerts, Higher level Card Scanning, and of course when it is live Aardcore Market are all in the realm of the new PRO level subscription. While many of our features upcoming will have low price DLC or Bolt-On costs so that you can access them without changing Sub type they will be largely included in the Pro Level. Aardcore Market is exclusively PRO, but you might only want to use it for one month! You have that option and also will gain the market insight and additional scans. Flexibility. That's the key. More fixes are in place. Sets were not showing your Set Value. That is now in place. MERCH is coming soon. Mugs, Tees and personalised deck boxes, sorting trays and various other cash grabs to help fund the development of an even better APP. We hope you will proudly show hard AardCore you RIP with our goodies. Pre-orders go live next week. ASK ME ANYTHING - I'm planning an AMA where you will be able to join in a live stream and chat with me about the app and also about the future of the store and perhaps gaming in the city! Obviously this will rely on people being interested in this sort of thing. I'll be posting this up on Facebook soon, I do hope you will reply and join so I don't look like a very sad wanker. There WILL be some interesting information... I promise. Anyway, thanks for reading, now I have to go and sort this new feature.... what is it? Oh.... you'll see... Ed.
Read moreQoL Updates this Week
Hi all, hope you continue to enjoy the app! There have been a few Quality of Life updates to further improve mobile use. Ed felt that the pill button options for filtering by rarity and card finish took up far too much space on the screen and so he has reduced them into nice, tidy dropdowns. Hope you like the change. If you close the app and refresh you should find that the first page you encounter is the Portfolio page. Seeing the progress on your collection is a big deal for a lot of users and that includes Ed (yes, he uses his own app). When you select your chosen game you will stay on that game until your change it. Defaulting to Pokemon when all you want is One Piece can be irritating I'm sure. This too has a new drop down appearance. Finally, another wave of Pokemon ETB invites went out today. ONLY Aardcore App members were in the pool for these invites. There will be one more wave to go, soon. Keep em peeled friends! PS. An Ask Zincy message system is being constructed for me so I can answer any basic questions and also forward more complex requirements to Ed and Jack.
Read moreNew Features and One Piece update
ADD TO HOMESCREEN prompt is now active - Just a little thing to help new users create the site as an app on their phones. You will love this. No more typing in links. Boom. You are there. Market Reports. For our Cost Conscious subbers this will be a terrific way to view the markets movers. Every database will report differently, US/UK/EU will all throw up their own results and many will be derived from TCGplayer with some added algorithmic spice. We are no different. However, we are honest about the method, we also want to advise that you use ALL of these reports not as a PRICE indicator, but a MOVEMENT or DIRECTION indicator. Prices will vary vastly but card movement will usually be felt across the market. This is how you play smart. Lorcana singles are being added but this will be very slow until Ed returns from his extravagant sun watching trip. One Piece - Good News, we WILL be getting an allocation. It's not massive by any stretch of the imagination, it's not even close to enough, but we ARE now on that wagon and will be seeing more stock coming our way for releases. We'll let you know what is happening once we get closer to release. Invites will only go to One Piece Subbers. Magic the Gathering is WIP but looking very good. There is just more to check. Zincy out...
Lorcana Unleashed
Lorcana has now unlocked on the site and this, as well as One Piec, is available as a One Payment Unlock of £3 - Both One Piece and Lorcana are available to Monthly subscribers as well as Yearly. Other games are currently being prepared for future unlocks!
Collection Tweaks - 01/08/2026
Hey all! Just a heads up that we've added a new filter to your Set Collection. If you look at the top each game has a filter for the rarity/finish to that particular game. We think it's a really useful filter to have! Let us know on Facebook if you like it! We will be working on some price and cost analytics to be added to your portfolio over the next few weeks as well. Cheers all, Enjoy the weekend!
Pokemon Illustration Collector Series 3
The final box in the trilogy is expected to arrive with us soon. This will not be released as shelf item. We will be sending out invites to a number of people, these will be from our pool of Monthly and Yearly Subbers on the Collector App. No weight will be added to either 3/12 months, it's the whole pool. We have VERY limited stock allocation compared with other stores and we advise you to try and secure your box elsewhere rather than hoping to strike it lucky here, if you do, AWESOME. All invitees will be offered the box at £15 (1p will go towards Ed's Yacht Fund) Good luck everyone. Invites will be complete by August 2nd. Feel free to post your successful invites on our Social Media as it makes us look cool...
Collector Updates
Hi all, There have been some minor changes and improvements to Collector over the last few days, don't be surprised to see some things moved around. First up, THIS! Yes, I can now put my updates on the app as well as the singles site. 1. Expansion Laoyout - POP/PROMO/Macdonalds etc are now collected into their own block to tidy the screen 2. New logos and blocks for all expansions 3. Yearly Members, BETA Pricing and Portfolio is now LIVE 4. Cards in SEARCH results can be moved to 1. Wishlist 2. Collection 3. Binder (of choice) 4. Market (not yet live) 5. Cards can be moved around the page in Binders more quickly.30th Celebration Invites
Invites for 30th Celebration Bundles have gone out to all Yearly Subbers on the Collector App! We plan to send out more Bundle invites nearer to the release and these will be more generally produced, so if you have purchased from the site, subbed or used monthly you are in with a shout, sorry Yearlys, you have already had yours! There are more invites for products coming up soon and I'll make sure you get to know about them if you check my Desk! I only get to keep my job if Ed see's results. More features are being primed ready for release on the collector App but Ed will be shouting about those. He's also promised me a better email solution but also stated that he 'Trusts AI as far as he can throw the Large Hadron Collider'. Harsh? So, expect his constant scrutiny.
Read morePokemon Tins (2024) Available - Classy!
We had a cheeky drop of Pokemon Tins (2024) and we have put them up on the store at RRP! They are expected within the next couple of days. Reserve yours now!
Read moreHype Intensifying - The Hobbit Magic The Gathering Release
One of the hottest titles on my radar is The Hobbit for the ever popular Magic the Gathering. Not only is this gaining momentum across the internet our own DMs and emails are filled with requests for pre-orders of the product already! While it is highly unlikely we will offer pre-orders we WILL have stock on release, but this is only because we won't be offering pre-orders... stores will be allocated, and when that happens 'SHELF STOCK' gets sucked up into the pre-orders as a priority (they have already paid for it) and this means a very boring release and more importantly little chance for visitors to the store to have a shot at getting boosters or decks. Still, we do like to surprise people with occasional drops! So, you never know. All we are saying is our stock arrives precisely when it means too...
New Feature!
We are trialing a new feature would love you to try it out. If you go to your account page you should see a new 'Wishlist' tab. If you click on that and add the Name and Card/Set number when requested, and importantly, you are subscribed, if your chosen card arrives on the site you should receive an alert! Of course, there are a lot cards and we are only slowly working through them so it might be a while before (or ever) your card is brought in, but if it is you will know straight away! Hope you like the feature, Zincy
Chaos is Coming Back!
The second wave of Chaos Rising is on its way. Packs are already being processed with the distributor so there is a chance they could reach some stores by the weekend. Those that miss out should see theirs land next week. Stay tuned for updates
Read moreSubscribers, did you get your Promo!
We just sent out a promo code to ALL our subscribers. Thank you all for giving our site a shot! Your promo will allow you to purchase 2 x Boosters for Pitch Black and collect on Release. YES, you will also buy additional packs on the day. There's more to come! Zincy
Read more2 FOR 8 Pitch Black Booster Offer
You can pre-order 2 packs of Pitch Black Boosters for just £8 thanks to being a member of this site! Pretty soon we will be sending out codes so that members can order the packs via the site. Make sure to check your email and spam box when we announce it here and on Facebook/Discord. Collection is on Release Day or later and packs will be held for you for up to 4 weeks. If not collected you will be refunded and the packs returned to stock Offer is limited (we are breaking one box).



