# TCG API Top Price Movers

> TCG API Top Price Movers is a paid API for AI agents from api.tcgapi.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns the biggest daily price gainers and losers across Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Lorcana trading cards.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.tcgapi.dev/v1/prices/top-movers
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-tcgapi-dev-6f3ba16a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_8PdKr-qQNSsYWB0HQWOkt

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability api-tcgapi-dev-6f3ba16a -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Show me today's biggest TCG price movers — I want the top gainers and losers across Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Lorcana so I can see which cards are spiking or crashing.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a real-time snapshot of which specific cards are experiencing the most significant price volatility across major TCGs. Ideal for investment signals, market monitoring, arbitrage detection, or surfacing trending cards. Prefer this over the bulk price history endpoint when you want a pre-ranked leaderboard rather than raw historical data for specific card IDs.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid game filter returns 400 with unsupported game error
- No price movement data available for requested date returns empty result set
- Rate limit exceeded returns 429
- Payment not included or invalid returns 402 Payment Required

## How this service works

Trending TCG price movers — biggest daily gainers and losers across Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Lorcana cards.

## Output

A ranked list of trading cards with the largest daily price changes, including card name, game, current market price, price delta, and percentage change — split into top gainers and top losers across supported TCG titles.

## More

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