Who we are
We are in the hobby. That is the whole reason this exists.
Cardonomics was built for the hobby, by the hobby. Not by an analytics company that noticed breaking was growing, and not for anyone outside the rooms where this happens.
Everyone who has bought a spot has had the same moment: a break opens, the price moves, and you have about forty seconds to decide whether it is worth it. You know roughly what the product costs. What you do not have, right then, is a straight answer — how much wax is actually going in, what a spot in this product has cleared for before, and what the rarest card on your team is and its odds.
Everyone who has run a break has had the mirror image of it. You bought the wax. You know what the platform takes. You are watching the spots go and doing the sum in your head about whether this one covers itself, while also running the show.
Both of those are the same missing thing: a straight answer, available before the decision rather than after it. That is what this is.
What we are for
Three questions, answered honestly
What to buy
Which products are actually being broken, what they cost sealed, and how much of a team's list is worth chasing beside the price of a spot in them.
When to buy it
What spots in this product have cleared for lately, and whether the room is paying more or less than it was — with the dates attached, not a single timeless number.
What to pay
What spots are going for, per box, next to what a spot needs to sell for to cover the break. The gap between them is shown, never blended into a score that decides for you.
Both sides, the same numbers
This is deliberately not a tool for one side of the room. A collector sees what a spot has cleared for and what the product cost. A breaker sees the same figures from the other end — what their spots took, against the wax and the fees.
That is not an accident of scope. The two are the same market seen from opposite chairs, and a tool that only ever tells one of them what the other is doing would be a tool for taking sides. Every number here is one both parties could look at together and agree is what happened.
How we hold ourselves
What being in the hobby actually commits us to
- Real prices, dated
- The prices here are what spots and boxes actually sell for, with dates attached. We do not publish pull rates, expected value or card values — a confident number we cannot stand behind is the last thing somebody about to spend money needs.
- Blank over guessed
- Where we do not have enough to show a figure, the page prints a dash and says why. A number built on a guess is worse than no number, because you cannot tell.
- Honest about limits
- Prices change quickly, and any figure can be wrong or late. Figures update as new breaks and listings come in, and nothing here is financial advice.
- Nobody's name
- Buyer names are never shown anywhere on this site, and no single seller’s prices can be picked out of a market figure.
- Said plainly
- Cardonomics uses its own software to record what happens in live breaks on Whatnot — the spots sold, their prices and the break titles. If you sell or buy in breaks and want to be removed, email [email protected].
- Not a recommendation
- Nothing here tells you to buy. A premium over cost is what a break is — the breaker carries the money, the risk and the work. How much of one is worth paying is your call, and we would rather give you the two numbers than a verdict.
What we are working on
The catalogue follows what is actually being broken, and it gets more useful as more breaks come in.
Next up is the breaker's other big unknown: what promotion actually returns. Ad spend comes out of exactly the same margin as the wax and the fees, and almost nobody has a straight answer about what it buys. We will publish one when we can stand behind it, and not before.
Have a look at the numbers.
A free trial, no card needed. If you run breaks, link your stream and see your own shows costed against the wax and the fees.