Acquisition

What this surface is

Acquisition turns inventory shortages across active target decks into a ranked buy plan. It does NOT execute purchases or hold affiliate links (see Data sources and affiliation) — its job is to tell you WHAT to buy and IN WHAT ORDER.

Where to find it in the app

Navigate to /acquisition from the main nav. Two sub-views:

• /acquisition/shortages — the raw shortage table grouped by card
• /acquisition/plan — the ranked plan grouped by priority

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The default landing — the ranked plan with priority groups.

Shortage table columns

Column	Type	What it shows	Notes
Card	text	Card name + set code	Click for detail
Required	integer	Total copies needed across all active decks	Aggregated
Owned	integer	Total copies in inventory	All locations
Available	integer	Owned minus committed	Read from inventory
Missing	integer	Required minus Available	The shortfall
Affected decks	chip list	Which decks are blocked	The most useful column for prioritization
Unit price (est.)	currency	Public-feed estimate	See Data sources
Total cost	currency	Missing × Unit price	What it would cost to close this shortage
Price confidence	badge	high / medium / low / stale	Drives “verify at checkout” guidance

Priority groups

The plan view sorts shortages into four groups. They aren’t a strict ranking — they’re shopping modes. Pick the mode that matches the budget you have today.

Group	Question it answers	Inclusion criteria
Best unlocks	”Max value for available budget”	High unlock-per-dollar (decks unblocked / total cost)
Cheap wins	”Quick wins under $20”	Total cost ≤ $20 AND unblocks ≥1 deck
High-impact expensive	”The big one I’ve been putting off”	Total cost > $50 AND unblocks ≥1 deck
Single-deck fixes	”Finish a specific deck”	Affects exactly 1 deck

A card can belong to multiple groups (a cheap win might also be a best unlock); the plan shows it under the most useful framing.

Best-unlocks math

The Best-unlocks ranking is a function of:

• Number of decks unblocked
• Number of copies needed (a 3-of shortage is worse than a 1-of)
• Copies already owned (closer to the threshold = higher priority — the marginal copy gives you more)
• Total cost
• Price confidence (a low-confidence estimate gets a soft penalty so you don’t make budget decisions on stale data)

When two cards have equal unlock value, the one with higher price confidence wins the tiebreak. The full weighting is documented in Scoring model.

Price confidence levels

Level	Meaning	Source freshness
high	Multiple agreeing sources, recent	≤7 days, ≥2 sources
medium	Single source or moderate variance	≤14 days, single agreeing source
low	Stale or single source with variance	>14 days OR significant inter-source variance
stale	Last feed >30 days old	Don’t make buy decisions on this

The “verify at checkout” guidance applies to all levels — Pegasus’s estimate ≠ the actual seller price.

Action buttons (per row)

Button	Effect
Add to buy list	Stages the row in a personal buy list (no actual purchase)
Verify price	Opens a side panel with source-by-source breakdown
See affected decks	Lists the decks blocked, with quick-nav links
Defer	Hides the row from the plan for 30 days

Interactions

• Sort by any column — click the header
• Filter to Best unlocks only — toolbar chip
• Set a budget cap — settings; the plan adapts the recommendations
• Group by deck instead of card — toolbar toggle
• Export plan as CSV — toolbar menu

States and badges

Badge	Meaning
”Blocks N decks”	Card shortage blocks N target decks
”Last unblock”	Buying this 1 copy completes a deck
”Stale price”	Price feed >30 days old — verify before budget decisions
”Multi-source agreement”	Multiple feeds within tolerance
Green check	Card was bought (manually marked received)

Edge cases

Achtung

• Card not on any public feed. Some Asian-only printings or recent releases lack feed data. Pegasus shows “no price” rather than a fake number. Verify manually.
• Currency mismatch. Default currency is set in account settings; per-card displays in that currency using the most recent FX rate (cached daily).
• Buying off stale data. Re-run readiness AFTER major inventory changes BEFORE generating a new plan. The plan can become wrong fast if inventory shifts during a shopping session.
• Defer chains. Repeated deferring of the same card means the underlying need persists. The plan will surface it again after 30 days, but consider whether to remove the deck instead.

Related workflows

Readiness and acquisition The end-to-end workflow for shortage → buy plan → reconcile.

Organize inventory Keep inventory accurate so acquisition produces honest rankings.

Related references

• Inventory — the source of availability data
• Data sources and affiliation — where prices come from, what Pegasus does NOT do
• Scoring model — the math behind unlock-per-dollar ranking