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A card’s price can jump for a lot of reasons, but one specific pattern — buyers clearing out the listings — has its own signal in Hoard. Here’s how to tell if that’s what happened.

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Check for the BOUGHT OUT badge

Open the Movers tab, or the card’s own detail panel. A row that just got bought out carries a badge like: BOUGHT OUT · 2H AGO This means buyers just cleared the listings for this card, and the price is moving right now. The badge always reflects the market at that moment, with its own timestamp — it isn’t tied to whatever time window you’re viewing, so you’ll see it on a 30-day view even if the buy-out happened this morning. The top-mover hero card and the spike strip carry the same badge next to the card’s name. Hover it for the one-line explanation.

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Why this matters beyond “the price went up”

A buy-out means real supply cleared, not just that the last listing ticked up. If you own the card, Hoard’s repricing engine already treats a buy-out differently: it won’t blindly reprice into a market that’s actively moving, and if it holds back a change on the card, you’ll see a Price change held note in “Why this price?” explaining why.

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If you own it: check Today

When a card you own gets bought out and Hoard held a price change on it, an action appears at the top of your Today tab with two one-tap responses:
  • Raise to $X — the safer move, anchored to what the card has actually been selling for.
  • Ask $Y — match what the remaining sellers are asking, a more aggressive bet that the spike holds.
Either choice sets the new price and locks it, so the next sync’s market data — which may still reflect the pre-buy-out market — can’t drag your price back down while things settle.

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If you don’t own it yet

A bought-out card with few copies listed can be a spike that fades once new listings show up, or the start of a real trend. See tell if a price spike will last before you chase it, and check the listing count with how many copies are listed.