American Idol wants to know: Is one Anoop Desai worth two Danny Gokeys? How many Sanjaya Malakars equals one William Hung? And would you ever give up your Adam Lambert, David Archuleta or David Cook–for any price?

Soon you’re going to have to make these tough decisions, with the Associated Press reporting Idol is going into the trading card business:

“Idol” production company FremantleMedia and trading card
publisher Upper Deck are launching a new line of trading cards
featuring images of past and current contestants as well as the
judges and host of the Fox singing competition.The 138-card line
is set to debut April 21.

Six special cards autographed by past “Idols” will be randomly
slipped into the five-card packs.

Regular cards will feature
rejected hopefuls such as William Hung and Nick Mitchell, past
winners like Ruben Studdard and David Cook, and popular finalists
including Adam Lambert and Jennifer Hudson.

I wonder which card is going to become the most valuable — Idol’s equivalent of baseball’s Honus Wagner card (one of which sold at auction for $1.265 million).

I’d guess Clay Aiken’s card, his fans are nutso about him. I’ll tell you one thing for sure, those cards of Randy and Paula aren’t gonna be nearly as popular as the ones of Simon.