Pokémon · Magic · Yu-Gi-Oh! · Sports
Know what it's worth.
Know how it'll grade.
One scan names the card, prices it, and predicts the grade — before you send it anywhere.
Currently in private beta.
Identified
Live market
Charizard
What it's worth at each grade
- Raw$135
- PSA 9$1,502
- PSA 10$22,750
One grade point is the difference between $1,502 and $22,750.
Live from the Cardinal catalog
7.43MCards catalogued
6.66MSports cards
96%Priced · 378K graded ladders
Know what you have
A binder makes everything look equal. The market never does.
Alpha or Unlimited. 1st Edition or not. The right printing, or the one that looks identical and sells for a fraction. Cardinal reads the difference in the viewfinder and puts a live number next to it.
Blue-Eyes White Dragon
Charizard
Pikachu
The pre-grading engine
It inspects the card the way a grader does.
Not one number from one photo. Cardinal reads the same four attributes a grading room scores on, separately, at magnification — and reports each one with the crop it was read from.
Centering
9.5Corners
9.7Edges
9.5Surface
9.3
Anyone can quote an accuracy percentage. We'd rather show you the corner.
Every subgrade comes back with the magnified crop it was read from, sitting next to the number it produced. If Cardinal calls the bottom-left soft, you can look at the bottom-left and decide whether you agree.
That is a claim you can audit. A percentage on a landing page isn't.
Before the envelope
Grading is a bet you place blind.
You pay the fee, post the card, and wait. Weeks later a slab comes back with a 9 on it — and a 9 is worth a fraction of a 10 on the same card. Cardinal is the read you take first.
| Grader | Fee | Turnaround |
|---|---|---|
| PSA | $79.99 | 50 days |
| BGS | $30.00 | 45 days |
| CGC | $30.00 | 65 days |
| SGC ★ | $25.00 | 30 days |
| TAG | $150.00 | 20 days |
The whole collection
Scan the box once. Know what the box is worth.
Every card you keep goes into a collection with a running total, an average grade and a week-on-week move. Sort by what's actually worth acting on and find the three cards in four hundred that deserve a submission slot.
Magic, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! and sports — in the same scan.
Nobody's collection is sorted by game. Cardinal reads whatever comes out of the box — Alpha-era Magic, WOTC holos, 1st Edition Yu-Gi-Oh!, a 1997 Metal Universe Jordan — off one catalog of 7.43M cards.
For dealers & traders
The best collections aren't listed anywhere.
The good stuff comes out of collections that never reached a marketplace, because the owner didn't know what they were sitting on and never started the conversation. Cardinal puts the grade and the number in their hands — and what comes out the other side is supply that's already identified, already condition-read, and attached to someone who has decided to sell.
Talk to us about supply- Condition, not adjectivesSubgrades and crops instead of “near mint, I think” — before you quote sight-unseen.
- Raw lots, already sortedThe bulk separated from the hits before it ever reaches your table.
- Sellers who've seen the compsFewer fantasy asks, fewer wasted evenings, a faster yes.
Cardinal Vision AI
Every asset class ends up with a decision layer.
Stocks have Bloomberg. Real estate has Zillow. The hobby still runs on comps you looked up yourself and a gut feel about centering. Cardinal Engine — the identification, grade-probability and pricing intelligence under the app — is being built as the layer that closes that gap for the whole market.
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