Starting from the DanDaDan set and onward, new Weiss Schwarz releases will no longer allow access to individual cards through Cardmarket, effectively limiting interaction with these sets to sealed products only. While this may appear, on the surface, as a neutral or even protective measure, in practice it represents a serious restriction on how players and collectors are allowed to engage with the game.

Weiss Schwarz is not merely a sealed-product hobby. It is, by design, a trading card game and a collectible system. Its structure assumes that players will be able to acquire specific cards in order to build decks, test strategies, and curate personal collections focused on particular characters or series. Removing access to individual cards eliminates this fundamental layer of interaction and replaces it with forced randomness.

This is not a minor inconvenience; it is a structural problem.
By restricting interaction to sealed products only, Cardmarket is effectively saying that participation in new sets should be dictated by luck rather than intent. Players who want to build decks must now rely on chance, and collectors who want specific characters are pushed into unnecessary and inefficient product opening. This approach is incompatible with how trading card games naturally function.

• A FREE MARKET is based on the idea that individuals should be able to decide how they buy, sell, and exchange goods without artificial restrictions imposed by a central platform. By allowing sealed Weiss Schwarz products to be traded while simultaneously prohibiting the exchange of individual cards derived from those same products, Cardmarket is no longer acting as a neutral intermediary. Instead, it is actively dictating which forms of participation are acceptable and which are not.

This is fundamentally incompatible with the concept of a free market.
A marketplace should facilitate exchange, not control it.
It should enable user choice, not remove it.
And it should remain neutral, not impose artificial structures that benefit one form of transaction over another.

Beyond the restriction on individual cards, there is an even more revealing problem: Cardmarket’s continued refusal to properly support Japanese Weiss Schwarz.

• Weiss Schwarz is, by origin and by design, a Japanese trading card game. The Japanese version is not a niche curiosity or a secondary format; it is the primary and most widely used version of the game worldwide. A substantial portion of the global community plays, collects, and follows Japanese releases. Ignoring this reality in 2026 is not merely an oversight — it is an institutional failure to acknowledge how the game actually exists.

Cardmarket already provides multilingual and multi-version support for other major trading card games. This demonstrates that technical limitations are not the issue. The issue is selective neglect. Weiss Schwarz in Japanese is effectively treated as if it does not deserve the same legitimacy as other languages, despite being the original and dominant format of the game.

This policy actively damages the community in several ways.
It fragments players into artificially separated ecosystems.
It makes it harder to track sets, releases, and card availability.
It discourages collectors who focus on Japanese series.
And it reinforces the idea that only certain forms of engagement are “valid” while others are excluded by design.

Ultimately, the prohibition on trading individual Weiss Schwarz cards has consequences far beyond mere inconvenience. The logic is simple: if players and collectors cannot sell the singles they do not need, the incentive to purchase sealed boxes collapses. Most players buy boxes not merely for the experience of opening them, but to acquire specific cards for decks or collections. When singles can no longer circulate freely, the majority of cards in each box become essentially useless to the buyer, creating a scenario in which purchasing sealed product is no longer rational or appealing.

Limiting singles is not a protective measure. It is a market distortion. It disincentivizes purchase, reduces engagement, and threatens the structural integrity of the European Weiss Schwarz economy on Cardmarket. If the policy remains, Cardmarket risks seeing the very foundation of its market — active players and collectors — erode, leading to a collapse in both activity and trust.