Lorcana Set Championships Recap: What’s Stitch – Rock Star Worth?
“Ravensburger needs to strike the right balance of enabling competition for the competitive players while also banking on this unique opportunity to market their TCG to a possibly larger audience than any other TCG has the potential to reach.”
Well, Lorcana set championships are here and social media is a blaze with people winning one, two, three and even four Stitch – Rock Star promo cards. Touted for being worth over $1,000 a piece, this sort of prize is part of the frenzy feeding into Lorcana Set Championships selling out everywhere.
However, it’s not going to last.
Already, Stitch – Rock Star promo cards are showing considerable signs of decline. Here’s how much the Stitch – Rock Star card is really worth and how much it’s likely going to be worth after the Set Championships complete.
*Updated April 25, 2024 as Stitch – Rock Star prices continue to decline.
Stitch – Rock Star (Set Championships Promo)
How much is the Stitch – Rock Star Set Championships card worth?
Getting an accurate understanding of the actual value of the Stitch – Rock Star card is a bit complicated and requires a mixture of data analysis and educated guesswork based on years of experience monitoring the trading card market for other games.
First, let’s take a look at the market data collected and publicly available on TCGplayer.
TCGplayer market price: $642
That’s a pretty impressive market price based on actual sales of Stitch – Rock Star. However, very few Rock Star Stitch cards have actually been sold. Keep in mind that this card was only made available this last weekend via Set Championships. Overtime, more and more cards will surface and those prices will dwindle further.
Realistically, I put Stitch – Rock Star’s longterm price well below its current market value. It will probably be worth around $200ish and stay around there given how widely available these Set Championships are.
Also, given how popular they have been, who is to stop Ravensburger from doing another round before set four hits the shelves?
If that were to happen, prices for Stitch would drop even further.
None of this is to say you shouldn’t be proud of having a Stitch or shouldn’t try to win it. It’s going to be a decently valuable card for some time, and winning one is a huge accomplishment. However, it certainly isn’t the golden ticket many are claiming it to be to major financial gains.
Should you buy or sell Stitch – Rock Star right now?
If you got lucky enough to win a Stitch you might be wondering if right now is a good time to sell it. That depends. If you want optimal ROI for the card then yes, likely the faster you sell it the more fast ROI you will get. The card is likely to continue to depreciate in price as more set championships occur.
That being said, this card is a limited print card, so you could start seeing its value tick upwards in the future, possibly even reaching similar levels as it is today.
However, if it were me, I would just keep the card. It’s a great memory especially if you won it and it’s likely to retain modest value overtime.
What does the inevitable price decline mean for the future of Lorcana?
Undoubtedly Ravensburger hit it out of the park with these Set Championships, creating a viral moment where Lorcana fans are hungrily attending tournaments in hopes of snagging the card their friends are posting pictures of on social media.
However, what happens once it settles in how much less valuable these cards actually are than anticipated? Will excitement for set championships go away completely?
I don’t think so. We’ll probably never see excitement for Set Championships to the scale they are at today. Once people realize how much less valuable these prizes are than originally anticipated, it will remove motivation for a lot of players from persuing the big payout. However, excitement for attaining these cards will still drive the most competitive of players who will see having them as a major flex.
No matter how you look at it, Lorcana’s Set Championships have been a major success and a big moment for the Lorcana community.
I’ll be attending my second one this weekend and hopefully will bag a Stitch – Rock Star of my own!
Issues with Lorcana set championships
That being said, no matter how great Set Championships are, they aren’t without their fair share of problems. Already players who typically play the game more casually have expressed some disenchantment (pardon the pun) with the game after going head-to-head with seasoned TCG competitors. Rebekah at The Illuminary, for example, shared her experience and frustration attending this competitive event as a more casual player via X.
While Set Championships were supposedly aimed at being an entry-level competitive event, it seems like an oversight to create huge demand for a card by printing a limited run of it and at the same time creating the perfect opportunity for only a small subset of hyper-competitive players to swallow them up.
Lorcana really should implement a system in the future that bars someone from winning prizes more than once. For example, each player can only win one Stitch – Rock Star, a playmat etc. If someone wins the entire championship, they should be banned from playing at any other Set Championship.
That might sound a little harsh but if someone is good enough to actually win a Set Championship (an incredibly difficult feat to achieve despite how many pictures you see on social media) then that’s reward enough: they’ve gotten the full experience. Given the limited nature of these events (only happening over the course of two weeks from my understanding) that sort of a limitiation on people taking home the lion’s share of prizes seems fair.
Setting limitations on prizing would increase odds of less experienced players winning
One of the things I’m excited the most about Lorcana is how many people are experiencing it as their first ever trading card game. This is huge not only for Lorcana (showing its mass appeal beyond typical card gamers) it also boads well for the future of the TCG market. In order for the TCG market to survive and thrive it needs to keep picking up new players.
But what if those same new players are so disheartened by constantly losing to the same people that they just drop the game entirely?
Ravensburger needs to strike the right balance of enabling competition for the competitive players while also banking on this unique opportunity to market their TCG to a possibly larger audience than any other TCG has the potential to reach.
If a limit were set for how many prizes can be won then inevitably the field would thin and less experienced players would pick up some prizes.
Implementing a system like this would make the Set Championships much more enjoyable in the future for everyone.
And I’m not saying this just because I haven’t gotten a Stitch yet (yes, I’m looking at you Emerald/Amethyst player who beat me).
