Stacked Deck crashes on ban day: 20 cents in the EU

by Riccardo Emanuele Eustor·Riftbound Zone

As of today, September 18, Stacked Deck and Ekko, Recurrent are out of Standard and 2v2 Constructed, and the market has already settled the bill. In the United States the cheapest Stacked Deck has gone from over $7 to less than a dollar; on Cardmarket the European floor is down to €0.20, a 93.3% drop in seven days. A popular r/riftboundtcg post tells European buyers to hold off because EU stores supposedly haven't repriced yet: on the marketplace Italian players actually use, that advice is already out of date.

The crashFrom $7.33 to under a dollar

The most detailed count comes from /u/Specificx, who runs the price comparison site RiftCompare: the cheapest Stacked Deck in the US sits at $0.74, in stock at fourteen stores, against a $7.33 high since June and a $4.43 median over the same stretch. That is an 86% slide in a week.

Our own data traces the same curve with a different yardstick: the TCGplayer market price is $0.87, down 90.7% over seven days and 91.8% over thirty, with the outright TCGplayer low at $0.50. Two separate sources, one direction: the most argued-about card of Riftbound's summer is now worth less than a booster pack.

Ekko, Recurrent, the other card hit by the ban, is a different story. It was never expensive: $0.56 today, with an all-time high of $0.99. That lines up with Riot's reasoning, which pointed at the play pattern rather than at raw play rate.

EuropeThe number that doesn't add up

Here is the part that matters if you buy from Italy. The Reddit post reports that the card still costs €3.89 in Europe, more than five times the US price, and concludes that EU players should wait. The figure is real but narrow: it comes from the three European stores RiftCompare tracks, a tiny slice of the continental market.

On Cardmarket, where the overwhelming majority of European buying happens, the Near Mint floor for the English printing is €0.20 across the EU-27 and €0.50 if you restrict yourself to Italian sellers, with 44 shops and private sellers listing it. CardTrader is at €0.91. More than fifteen hundred copies are available in Europe.

One more number can mislead you, though: Cardmarket's Trend still reads €3.76, with a thirty-day average of €4.65. That is not an asking price. It is an average computed across every language over a long window, so by design it lags weeks behind a sudden collapse. When you open the page of a freshly banned card, read the floor and the number of sellers, not the trend.

Sources: r/riftboundtcg, RiftCompare, plus the Cardmarket, CardTrader and TCGplayer data on our own price pages. Images: Riot Games.