Gundam Freedom Ascension: 31 of 34 big cards are down, Wing Gundam Zero LR+ by 66%
Amuro Ray R+ fell from $127 to $39. The LR++ cards look stable, but most of their prices changed two times or fewer in a month.
Freedom Ascension came out on July 24. We leave its first two weeks out, because launch prices are set before real supply arrives. From August 7 to October 25, 31 of the 34 cards worth $20 or more got cheaper. The median card lost 31.8%.
The LR+ and R+ cards lost the most
Amuro Ray (R+) fell from $127.24 to $39.24, a 69% drop. Wing Gundam Zero (EW) (LR+) went from $176.00 to $59.46, down 66%, and Nu Gundam (LR+) from $70.80 to $27.95, down 61%. All three trade almost every day, so these are real market moves.
Most EX Resource SP cards lost 30% to 45%
Six of the eight EX Resource SP cards lost between 30% and 45%. EX Resource (EXR-005) went from $324.51 to $193.36. EXR-007 lost 21%, and EX Resource (EXR-009) is the exception, up 3.8% to $767.76.
The character SP cards are spread wider: Heero Yuy (C+) (SP) lost 48%, Suletta Mercury (C+) (SP) 44%, Kira Yamato (C+) (SP) 15.5%.
LR++ prices look calm because they rarely change
The five LR++ cards are the most expensive in the set, and on paper they held: Wing Gundam Zero (EW) (LR++) is up 9.2% to $3,910.18, Sazabi (LR++) up 1.7%. But in the last 30 days, none of the five changed price more than 4 times, and Sazabi's price did not change at all. Wing Gundam Zero LR++ changed once, and its cheapest listing is $4,249, above the market price.
A price that does not update is not the same as a price that holds. We wrote about this in why card prices jump by thousands: when a card sells once a month, the number tells you about one sale, not about the market.
The ten most expensive cards
| Card | Aug 7 | Oct 25 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wing Gundam Zero (EW) (LR++) | $3,582.39 | $3,910.18 | +9.2% |
| Strike Freedom Gundam (LR++) | $2,621.95 | $2,605.72 | −0.6% |
| Nu Gundam (LR++) | $1,597.40 | $1,532.38 | −4.1% |
| Sazabi (LR++) | $1,250.89 | $1,272.77 | +1.7% |
| Master Gundam (LR++) | $1,223.77 | $1,112.98 | −9.1% |
| EX Resource (EXR-009) (C+) (SP) | $739.71 | $767.76 | +3.8% |
| EX Resource (EXR-007) (C+) (SP) | $706.02 | $558.17 | −20.9% |
| EX Resource (EXR-010) (C+) (SP) | $478.69 | $303.42 | −36.6% |
| EX Resource (EXR-004) (C+) (SP) | $370.08 | $225.87 | −39.0% |
| EX Resource (EXR-006) (C+) (SP) | $288.75 | $201.28 | −30.3% |
Only three cards went up
Two of the three cards that rose are LR++ cards that barely trade. The third is EX Resource EXR-009. Below the top ten, every card in the list is down. Every card from the set is on the Freedom Ascension page.