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Some cards aren’t about today’s price. A Commander banlist card could be unbanned next announcement. A spec box might pop on rotation. The usual habit is to price them high and forget them — which works until the day it matters, when you find out a week late that buyers cleared every listing while yours sat at last month’s price. Watching fixes the “forget” part. This guide walks through watching a card and what happens when it moves.

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Watch the card

  1. Find the card anywhere in Hoard — Cards tab, Movers, or search — and click it to open the detail panel.
  2. Open History. Under Price controls → Market tracking, tap Watch (the eye icon).
The button flips to Watching, and the line below reads Watching since Aug 6 with the date you started it. That’s it — Hoard now keeps this card’s market data fresh every couple of hours instead of on the slower routine schedule.
  1. Repeat for the rest of your list. To see everything you’re watching, type is:watched in the Cards search bar, flip the Watched toggle in the filter panel, or open the Lists popover in the Cards toolbar and click the pinned Watching entry — it carries a live count. Watching a whole filter’s worth of cards at once? Use Watch results in the Filters panel instead of tapping each card. See Market depth and watching for every way to find and manage watched cards, the per-plan watch cap, and what “unwatched by you” means.

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Watch several cards at once

Watching cards one at a time works fine for a short list, but if you have a whole filtered set to keep an eye on, do it in one pass instead:
  1. Search or filter the Cards tab down to the set you care about — a set, a rarity, a price band, whatever matches what you want to watch.
  2. Open the Filters panel and use Watch results under Export.
Hoard tells you how many cards match before it does anything, then confirms afterward how many it actually watched, plus how many it had to skip because they don’t have a resolved catalog match yet. A bulk watch writes a standing watch on every matched card — Hoard caps standing watches at 2,000 per store, so narrow your filter or unwatch some cards first if a batch would put you over that. Stop watching results works the same way in reverse, but only touches cards that are already being watched; anything in your filter that wasn’t watched yet is left alone.

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What happens when the card moves

Say the unban hits and buyers clear the listings within the hour. Because the card is watched, Hoard notices on its next refresh:
  • A BOUGHT OUT · 1H AGO badge appears on the card in Movers.
  • If Hoard’s repricer held back a price change on the card (it won’t reprice into a market that’s actively moving), Why this price? shows a Price change held note explaining why.
  • An action lands at the top of your Today tab: “Bought out: … — buyers just cleared the listings and the price is moving”, with two one-tap responses — Raise to X∗∗(anchoredtorecentsales)or∗∗AskX** (anchored to recent sales) or **Ask Y (match what the remaining sellers want). Either sets the price and locks it so the next sync can’t drag it back down.
You make the call while the market is still moving, instead of reading about it on social media that evening.

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Verification

After watching a card, open History in its detail panel again. The button reads Watching, and the line below shows when you started watching it. Open Comps when you want to inspect the current listings and sales; Refresh asks your online Hoard agent to fetch them immediately instead of waiting for the normal watch cycle.

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Good candidates to watch

  • Commander banlist cards you hold (unban spikes are the canonical case)
  • Sealed product you’re timing — though Hoard auto-watches sealed in your inventory already
  • Reserved-list or buyout-prone cards
  • Anything you’ve priced high “just in case” — the watch is what turns “just in case” into an actual signal

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Troubleshooting

The Watch button isn’t there. The card needs a resolved catalog identity first — very new or oddly-named cards occasionally take a sync to resolve. If Price controls is missing, you’re looking at a stacked row (multiple printings) — open a specific printing. I unwatched a card and it came back. Unwatching sticks — Hoard won’t re-add a card you turned off, even if it still stocks the sealed product or the sale is still recent. It only becomes eligible for an automatic watch again after about a month, so a card you unwatched a while back can reappear when it’s worth another look. If one came back sooner than that, it was watched again from the detail panel.