Mr.3's 509% Week Still Can't Buy an Upgrade
A cluster of alt arts posted some of the wildest weekly numbers we've logged, yet the board refused to chase any of them into ACCUMULATE.
Mr.3(Galdino)'s OP09-056 alt art is up 509.1% over the past week and 364.2% over the past month. Read that twice. It's now sitting at A$34.14, and by most collector instincts that screams "get in now." Our board disagrees, and it's still stamped HOLD.
That's not an oversight. It's the overheating check doing exactly what it's built to do: a card ripping this hard, this fast, gets treated with caution rather than chased. History backs the caution. Dip-buying into a market like this has historically lost money, and near-vertical spikes are specifically excluded from high-conviction buy calls even when the weekly number is jaw-dropping.
Mr.3 wasn't alone. A whole cluster of alt arts posted numbers that would normally headline the piece on their own, and every single one of them is parked at HOLD tonight.
Worth noting this isn't a thin-market illusion either. All five cards below carry our top Liquidity Tier A rating, meaning real trading volume sits behind these prints rather than one or two isolated sales dragging an average around. Mr.3(Galdino) is the single biggest mover on the entire board today, and Benn.Beckman is turning over roughly 90% of its 30-day stock per day, some of the fastest liquidity we track anywhere on the site.
Today's top moves
Mr.3(Galdino) OP09-056 leads the board at +509.1% for the week and +364.2% for the month, now A$34.14, and still HOLD under the overheating rule.
Mr. 1 (Daz.Bonez) isn't far behind at +483.8% weekly and +471.8% monthly, priced at A$19.93, both timeframes rocketing in lockstep.
Trafalgar Law's ST10-001 base print jumped +425.4% this week and +388% this month to A$25.33, a starter deck card suddenly trading like a chase card.
Crocodile's OP09-046 alt art climbed +367.9% weekly and +307.1% monthly to A$30.28, keeping pace with the rest of this OP09/EB pack.
Benn.Beckman's OP17-027 alt art tells a different story: up 157% this week but still down 46% for the month, a reminder that a hot week doesn't erase a rough month.
What we're watching
No scheduled catalysts sit on our radar for this OP09/EB01/ST10/OP17 cluster specifically, so the move reads as purely demand-driven for now, though tomorrow's Treasure Cup in Gatineau, QC could add fresh format buzz to the conversation. Five cards, five absurd weekly prints, zero upgrades. That's the board telling you the setup matters more than the sprint. Worth watching whether any of these cool off enough over the next few weeks to actually earn that ACCUMULATE tag, and whether Benn.Beckman's blistering sell-through rate is early demand or just a thinner remaining pool doing the same job.