TCG Card Shop Simulator Wiki — Cards, Sets & Shop Guides

Buy stock before anything else. Order a modest amount of sealed product, get it onto shelves where customers can reach it, and price it close to market value so it actually sells. Stay on the register yourself to keep the queue short, because a customer who leaves without paying costs more than a thin markup does. Only once you can cover the daily electricity and counter fees should you spend on expansion, furniture or staff.

Throughput beats margin. Stock what customers are actually asking for, price near market so the shelf keeps turning over, and reinvest the proceeds in more stock rather than in floor space you cannot fill. Play tables add income that does not consume inventory, and hosting an event that lifts a category you already hold lets you sell into a price spike. Chasing high markups usually backfires, because customers simply walk out.

Selling sealed gives you a known margin immediately, while opening is a gamble whose expected value depends on the border distribution, which has never been officially published. A practical split is to sell most product sealed and open a deliberate portion for your own collection or for a Tetramon deck. Shift the ratio toward opening when a specific card is what you need, and toward sealed when cash flow matters most.

Grading through Cardinal's Grading is worth it when the card is valuable enough that a high grade meaningfully outsells a raw copy, and it is a waste when the card is bulk stock. Community data describes a four-tier service with a 1 to 10 scoring scale and a re-grade option, but those probabilities are player-tested rather than official, so treat grading as a calculated bet rather than a guaranteed upgrade on a rare pull.

Hire once ordinary trading comfortably covers a daily salary without eating your restocking budget. Wages are charged whether the shop is busy or not, so hiring early converts a healthy balance into a slow drain. The practical trigger is the moment you keep leaving the till to restock, because that is when a second pair of hands adds revenue rather than just cost. Workers unlock from shop level 10 upward.

Customers pay the fee you set to sit down and play, so a table earns without consuming stock. Each event you run adds a daily cost and shifts the market for one category of card, lifting it while pushing another down. Table income also scales with your average review score, which is driven by cleanliness and fair pricing, so keeping the shop tidy and reasonably priced directly increases what every table earns.

Tetramon became fully playable with the 1.0 release. You build a deck at the workbench using cards from your own collection, read the rulebook there to understand costs, turns and win conditions, and then duel your customers in short matches that run a few minutes each. Opponent decks scale with your shop level, and there is no player-versus-player mode, so the competitive ceiling is the tournament structure added at launch.