Guide

Selling Yu-Gi-Oh on Cardmarket

Yu-Gi-Oh is more granular to sell than it looks: the same card name exists in dozens of printings, the edition sits in small print on the card, and the language hides in the code. Once you can read those three spots, the hard part is behind you.

The card code answers most questions

At the bottom of the card sits a code like LOB-DE001. The set code at the front, the card’s number in the set at the back, and in between the language of the printing: DE means a German print, EN an English one. Very old print runs carry one-letter codes or none at all; newer ones consistently use two letters. For Cardmarket, this code is the shortest path to the right product page, because it separates printings that look identical in a photo.

First edition or not

Many sets appeared first as a first edition and later unlimited. On the card, that is the small “1st Edition” print, or “Limited Edition” on some special products; if both are missing, it is the unlimited run. On Cardmarket, first edition is its own listing attribute, and for sought-after cards the price difference between editions can be substantial. If you do not separate them when listing, you either give away the difference or ship the buyer something other than they ordered.

Same name, many printings

Hardly any game reprints cards as often as Yu-Gi-Oh. A well-known name can appear in new sets for years, each with its own code, rarity and price, and Cardmarket lists special treatments as their own entries. The rarity is not in the code either: the same number can be printed in several rarities within one set, visible in the finish of the card, not in the line below it. And not every product has its own Cardmarket page at all; what has none cannot be listed there.

Condition and language of the listing

Cardmarket grades condition on a fixed scale from Mint to Poor, abbreviated MT, NM, EX, GD, LP, PL, PO. The language of the listing is the language of the printing, not of your account: a print with DE in the code is offered as German even if you sell on the English site. Both are fixed parts of every listing, together with the edition, and can only be corrected article by article afterwards.

The route for large stacks

For a single-set stack, Cardmarket’s list-by-expansion page is a good route: pick the set, work through the list. A typical Yu-Gi-Oh buy-in rarely looks like that, though; it is mixed, unsorted and full of reprints. Then the faster route runs through a file: capture the stock elsewhere, import it into an inventory tool like TCG PowerTools and publish in one go. Cardmarket itself lists PowerTools as a partner app, and its free version reads files in and publishes up to 50 new changes a day.

What CardEntry takes over

CardEntry turns photos into the rows of that file: it matches each image to a specific Cardmarket version, and language, edition and condition travel in every row; the condition is set during review or by the export profile’s fallback. If several games sit in one stack, the export splits them automatically and Yu-Gi-Oh gets its own file. The match proposes, the decision stays with you, and that is exactly what the review view is for.

The condition scale, listing attributes and bulk listing follow Cardmarket’s public help and news pages, and the statements about TCG PowerTools follow its public knowledge base, as of 4 August 2026. The structure of card codes follows the public Yu-Gi-Oh reference works. Interfaces change; when in doubt, their documentation applies, not this page. CardEntry is an independent tool with no business relationship to TCG PowerTools, Cardmarket or Konami.

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