Guides
Guides
Editorial starters and deep dives for Collectrio’s two boards — trading-card collections (Cards) and GO. Rankings are crowdsourced comparisons, not dollar scrapes. Abstract proxies only.
Cards
- How modern chase ladders work on Cards — SIR, alt arts, and vintage hierarchy on Collectrio Cards — and when Binder lens beats Value for real decisions.
- Starter: Cards binder on Collectrio — Start Collectrio Cards with Binder lens — Sleeve / Swap / Store trios, unlock the board, then sanity-check packages.
- Sleeve / Swap / Store on Cards — Collectrio Cards verbs explained in practice — Sleeve keeps, Swap moves fairly, Store cleans the box — with ranking tips.
- Collectrio “Sleeve” is not a penny sleeve — keep, move, or box on Cards — On Collectrio Cards, Sleeve / Swap / Store are ranking verbs — not plastic sleeves or toploaders. Map keep vs move vs box decisions to Binder, Playable, and Value.
GO
- Registration tax, special trades, and friction on GO — How registration cost, special trades, and lucky/shiny friction change Train / Trade / Transfer decisions on Collectrio GO.
- Your first careful GO trade on Collectrio — A walkthrough for a first careful Pokémon GO trade using Collectrio’s board, lenses, and calculator — tax aware.
- Starter: GO dex on Collectrio — Start Collectrio GO with Dex lens — Train / Trade / Transfer trios for living dex, shinies, and careful trades.
- Train / Trade / Transfer on GO — Collectrio GO verbs in practice — Train invests, Trade moves fairly, Transfer cleans storage — with ranking tips.
- Keep or trade? Map it to Train / Trade / Transfer — Stuck on shiny and lucky storage threads? Map keep-or-trade questions to Collectrio GO verbs and Dex / Raids / Trade bait lenses.
- Raids lens: Train priority without IV spreadsheets — Use Collectrio’s Raids lens for relative Train / Trade / Transfer invest priority among attackers — a complement to IV and DPS sheets, not a replacement.
- Untradeable on GO: rank Train (since Trade isn't possible) — never invent a Trade story — How to use Collectrio GO when a species cannot be traded — Dex and Raids Train decisions, Transfer cleanup, and why Trade bait must not invent fairness.
Trading
- Building a trade package on Collectrio — Sanity-check give / get packages with Collectrio board ranks and calculators — one market and one lens at a time.
Methodology
- When Binder ≠ Value (and Dex ≠ Trade bait) — How to pick a Collectrio lens when Binder and Value disagree — or when Dex and Trade bait pull apart on GO.
- Store and Transfer as honest box cleanup — Why Store on Cards and Transfer on GO are storage decisions — not insults — and how Collectrio uses them in trios.
- Why Collectrio is not a price list — Collectrio owns crowdsourced Sleeve / Swap / Store and Train / Trade / Transfer comparisons — not marketplace dollars.
- Collectrio crowd ranks vs dollar price guides — when to use each — Price guides answer what sold for dollars. Collectrio crowd ranks answer how collectors order keep-or-move priority. Use both without converting one into the other.
- What is the Collectrio number? — The Collectrio number is a relative crowd score for keep/move priority — not dollars and not a marketplace price.
- What is Collectrio? — Collectrio is crowd-ranked Pokémon card and Pokémon GO boards, plus calculators — not a shop, marketplace, or price guide.
- How lenses work on Collectrio — Binder / Playable / Value on Cards and Dex / Raids / Trade bait on GO — comparable sets, not cosmetic filters.
- Two boards never mix — Why Collectrio keeps Pokémon TCG Cards and Pokémon GO on separate catalogs, rankings, and calculators.
- Is it playable? Collectrio's Playable lens vs tournament meta deck lists — Tournament meta lists answer what wins events. Collectrio’s Playable lens answers which list cards the crowd would Sleeve and which it would Store. Use each for its job.
- Why Collectrio forces one of each verb in a trio — Sleeve / Swap / Store and Train / Trade / Transfer must each appear once per trio — how that shape teaches Elo without inventing dollars.
Calculator
- Uneven packages: chase on one side, depth on the other — Case study for Collectrio’s calculator when one side offers a chase piece and the other offers depth — Cards and GO patterns.
- How the Collectrio calculator works — Give / get packages from the same trio-driven Elo — quantities, NM/LP/MP or Lucky/Needs XL, share links.
- Lucky, shiny, and Needs XL: when GO modifiers change a package — How Plain, Lucky, and Needs XL adjust give/get comparison strength on Collectrio GO — plus when a shiny stays in the package versus Transfer.
Reading rankings
- Conviction, liquidity, nostalgia, utility — A practical framework for reading Collectrio numbers — conviction, liquidity, nostalgia, and utility across Cards and GO.
- Read board trend without chasing every bump — How Collectrio’s seven-day trend works — and how to use it without FOMO trading on Cards or GO.
- Reading the Collectrio board — Elite to Fringe tiers, Off board, trend, and value — how to read Collectrio rankings without treating them as prices.
- Tier cliffs are not letter grades — Elite through Fringe on Collectrio — How Collectrio’s Elite → Fringe labels come from rating gaps on one lens — not PSA slabs, not school grades, and not a second scoring system.
- Off board means switch lens — not invent a cash bridge — What Off board means on Collectrio rankings and calculators, and how to respond with Sleeve / Swap / Store or Train / Trade / Transfer without inventing dollars.
Also
How rankings work · Methodology · About · Terms · Cards calculator · GO calculator