The Details rows

The Details section groups the facts about your copy, using the words for its game.

A card game card is more than a name. It was printed a particular way, in a particular run. The Details section of the card panel groups the printed facts into compact fields.

Every game gets the rows its own cards need, so a Magic card and a Pokémon card do not ask exactly the same questions.

Every card game card has Finish, Condition, Rarity, Kind and Copies. Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Flesh and Blood add Edition. Pokémon adds Stage and Stamp. Magic adds Treatment. Some games add Version, and a batch of slabs adds Graded.

The printing rows

Every row in the Details section is a menu. The menu shows the answer, and it opens to the whole list.

The list is the same on every card of a game, in the same order. You see every option even when this card was never printed that way.

In the Finish and Edition menus, Printed beside an option means this card was printed that way. In the Rarity, Kind and Stage menus, Catalog marks the answer the catalog gives.

In the Finish menu, each option also shows its market price.

Pick the one you are holding. Pick it again to clear it. Your own pick always wins.

Condition and Graded always hold one answer, so picking the same one again changes nothing.

A pick changes the price, the eBay search and the listing title at once. Nothing is re-read.

Rarity, Kind, Stage, Finish and the card’s language go to eBay as item specifics too, so buyers can filter on them.

The Stage row

On a Pokémon card, the Stage row says how far the Pokémon has evolved, such as Basic, Stage 1 or Stage 2.

On a Trainer card the same row is Trainer type, such as Item or Supporter. On an Energy card it is Energy type, Basic or Special.

The catalog fills it in. Change the Kind row and this row asks the new kind’s question.

The stage goes into the description and into eBay’s Stage item specific. It never goes into the title.

Promo cards

A promo is a card given away rather than sold in a pack, such as a Black Star Promo. Promo is one of the answers in the Rarity menu.

Pick Promo there, and eBay gets Promo as a feature buyers filter on.

What Printed and Catalog mean

Printed under a Finish or Edition option means the card was printed that way. Catalog under a Rarity, Kind or Stage answer means the catalog filled it in.

Both are hints, not rules, and you can always pick something else.

A finish picked for you usually comes from the catalog. It is the only printing of the card, or the printing its rarity points to.

On an English card printed only Non-Holo or Reverse Holo, we pick Reverse Holo when the scan shows foil. That card stays a Draft until you check it.

The scan misses about half of real reverse holos. Pick Reverse Holo yourself when you hold one, and the price follows.

The Treatment row

Magic prints the same card in several frames, such as Showcase, Borderless and Extended Art. Each frame carries its own collector number, so each one is a separate card at a separate price.

The catalog fills the Treatment row in from the card it matched, so you rarely touch it. The word goes in your eBay title and in the item specifics buyers filter on.

Change it when the matched card has the wrong frame, and set it to None when you hold the plain card. Only Magic cards show this row.

The Version row

Some games print two separate cards at one set and number, and the Finish row cannot reach the second one.

Those cards get a Version row with each version and its price. Picking one changes the market price and puts the version word, like Parallel, in the listing title and in the description.

See how versions work. A card with one version shows no row.

Other printings

The catalog sometimes sells a printing the menu has no word for, like a Master Ball pattern. Those sit under one heading, Other printings, at the foot of the Finish menu.

A pattern name is not a finish. A Full Art, an Alt Art and a Rainbow are all still Holo or Reverse Holo underneath.