This page describes the parameters that decide which cards appear in a marketplace search and in which order. It is written from the query that actually produces the results, so where the interface and the query disagree, the disagreement is named rather than hidden.
A card reaches the result list only when it has at least one listing that is published, is not a placeholder, and is visible to you. Visibility is decided per viewer, so a card that is on hold for someone else is not in your list.
The seller must be able to receive money. A listing whose seller has no completed payout account on file is left out of the marketplace entirely, whatever the price or the offer type.
Filters (game, language, set, rarity, condition, seller country, graded, first edition, reverse holo, altered, offer type, minimum and maximum price) remove cards from the list. They never change the order of the cards that remain.
A search term does the same: every word you type has to appear somewhere in the card name, set, game, language, rarity, condition, set number, printing code or variant words. Accents and punctuation are ignored on both sides, so 'blue eyes' finds 'Blue-Eyes' and 'yugioh' finds 'Yu-Gi-Oh!', and the order you type the words in does not matter. There is still no relevance score, no ranking by how well a card matches, and no boost for a better match: a card matches every word or it does not appear.
Price: low. The lowest 'From' price first. Cards with the same 'From' price are ordered by the most recently listed first, and any remaining ties by an internal card identifier so that the order is stable across pages.
Price: high. The highest 'From' price first, then the same two tie-breakers.
Newest first. The most recently listed card first, then the lowest 'From' price first, then the same internal identifier.
There is no other ranking input. No listing is promoted, boosted, featured or paid for placement, and no seller is favoured over another. The clauses above are the whole ordering rule.
The amount on a card tile is the lowest price among all published listings for that card, from all sellers.
That set includes listings that are offered for trade only. On a card that is offered both for cash and for trade, the lowest price can therefore belong to a listing that cannot be bought with money. That is also why the fee line under the price differs per card: where every listing behind the amount is a cash listing we state the buyer service fee in euros, and where the card mixes cash and trade listings we state the percentage without attaching it to an amount that may not be purchasable.
Sorting by price uses exactly the same number that is displayed, so what you see is what the order was computed from.
If you have started a purchase and the card is still reserved for you, that card is shown at the top of the first page, before the ranked results, with the most recent reservation first.
These rows are yours alone. They are not part of the ranking, they are not counted in the result total, and they do not appear in the filter counts.
Filtering, counting and the filter options are all computed over the complete set of eligible cards before the page is cut, so the result total and the filter counts describe everything that matched, not just the page you are looking at.
A page holds at most 100 cards. Asking for a page beyond the last one returns the last page.
Binder marketplace: when you search, binders are ordered by how well they match first — an exact title match, then the number of matching cards and matching sets — before the chosen value, density or recency order is applied. This is the one list on the platform where a search term does affect the order.
Sealed marketplace: newest first, price low to high, or price high to low.
The other offers on a card detail page: price from low to high by default.
Homepage preview: the most recently listed cards, then the lowest price, limited to a small preview and not a search result.
