The grimoire

Field notes on rarity and worth.

Short, considered writing on the forces that move the market for relics — rarity, value and the lineage of a treasure.

How rarity hides value

Two relics of the same name can be worth wildly different sums. The thing doing the hiding is rarity — here is how the Oracle reads it.

Cheap is not the same as undervalued. A true undervalue is a gap between an asking price and what a specific relic is worth.

From Common to Grail, every relic holds a station. A short field guide to the five tiers and the 0–100 index that sits beneath them.