{
  "url": "https://www.moonstonehq.com/articles/the-handout-grails",
  "slug": "the-handout-grails",
  "title": "The Handout Grails: Wizards Black Star Promos and the Cards Nobody Paid For",
  "summary": "A stadium card handed out free at Wizards-era league nights is worth $1,284. The promos Wizards gave away free now anchor four-figure prices on registries growing at under half the market's rate, and on gem rates as low as 4.6%. Accidental scarcity beat deliberate scarcity, and the receipts are in the registry.",
  "section": "Analysis",
  "published": "2026-08-28",
  "readMinutes": 5,
  "publisher": "moonstone",
  "findings": [],
  "tables": [],
  "charts": [],
  "sections": [
    "Why handouts out-survived products"
  ],
  "method": [
    "Prices from the daily TCGplayer sync (August 28, 2026); the Lucky Stadium figure is the $1,283.67 reading our per-card tape carries, and the same card reads $1,700 on 2026-09-22. Registry figures recomputed 2026-09-22 from daily PSA population snapshots: the Wizards Black Star Promo average is the mean across the nineteen basep cards whose latest snapshot on or before August 28, 2026 shows a pop above 100, the same above-100 rule the registry-depth study uses, and the growth rates compare each card's first and last snapshot. Entei's gem rate is its recorded tens over its recorded total in one snapshot, and its PSA 9 and PSA 10 medians are verified-sold medians on 258 and 42 comps. Closed-registry dynamics per the linked studies. Distribution history per WotC league program records. Not financial advice."
  ],
  "terms": "Figures are moonstone's own recorded measurements, dated as published. Quote them with the population stated beside them. The article at `url` is the human form of this file."
}