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FOIL-BASE
The Base Set Index
Where the modern trading card game market begins.
Testing interest
Indicative figures
- Indicative NAV
- $13.47
- 1 day
- +0.4%
- 30 day
- +5.4%
- 12 month
- +37.9%
- Assets
- 1
Illustrative data. Not actual holdings or performance.
Positioning
A portfolio built on the 1999 English base set and its first-edition and shadowless printings — the issue that established trading card games as a collected asset class and remains the reference point every later set is priced against.
- The set is finite, catalogued card by card, and its print variations are documented well enough to be screened objectively.
- It has the deepest transaction record of any trading card game issue, in both graded and raw form.
- Demand is global and is not tied to a sporting season, which gives the market a different rhythm to the sports categories.
Intended portfolio composition
| Theme | Era | Grade band | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| First-edition holographic chase cards | Modern | PSA 9–10 | 18.5% |
| Shadowless holographic cards | Modern | PSA 9–10 | 12.2% |
| First-edition non-holographic rares | Modern | PSA 10 | 8.8% |
| Sealed and unopened product | Modern | Sealed | 6.1% |
Illustrative holdings. Nothing has been acquired.
Category allocation
- First edition: 46.0%
- Shadowless: 29.0%
- Unlimited: 17.0%
- Sealed: 8.0%
Grade distribution
- PSA 10: 38.0%
- PSA 9: 41.0%
- PSA 8: 15.0%
- PSA 7 and below: 6.0%
Vintage vs modern
- Vintage (pre-1980): 0.0%
- Modern (1980–2009): 100.0%
- Contemporary (2010–): 0.0%
Index methodology
- Print variation
- First edition, shadowless and unlimited printings are treated as distinct assets, because the market prices them as distinct assets.
- Centring and surface
- Beyond the numeric grade, assets are screened on the sub-grades that this set's market has historically paid for.
- Card-level caps
- Documented limits on exposure to any one card in the set, including the chase card.
Status
- Liquidity score: 8.0 / 10 — illustrative composite of transaction frequency and market depth.
- Valuation confidence: High — A single catalogued set with heavy graded volume, so comparable sales are dense — but concentrated in a handful of cards.
- Legal status: no vehicle formed, no assets held, no offering qualified. See structure and legal.
Risk
- One set is one market. There is no category diversification inside this index by design.
- A large share of the set's value sits in a small number of cards, which limits how far concentration can be reduced.
- Diversification does not eliminate investment risk. Collectible assets are illiquid, volatile and may lose value.
- Liquidity is not guaranteed. A daily indicative valuation is not the same as the ability to transact daily, and no secondary market may develop.
- No offering has been qualified. If an offering is ever made, its risk factors will be set out in full in the applicable offering documents, which will supersede this summary.
Documents
Offering documents will be made available if and when an offering is qualified.
- Offering circular — pending
- Index methodology — pending
- Valuation policy — pending
- Custody disclosures — pending
This is not an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any security. Intended structure. Forward looking and subject to change.