The Index is a proprietary model built by Rip Station, which publishes The Pack Report. Method, full history and the trend chart.
This reading is August 20 against August 13.
- Vintage basket: +0.3% (median of 113 cards; 53 up, 31 flat, 29 down)
- Modern basket: 0.0% (median of 111 cards; 33 up, 39 flat, 39 down)
How the index is built
Each basket takes twelve active sets and, within each, the ten most-traded cards. Vintage means 1999 to 2007 plus the promo series; modern means 2016 onward. Every card is priced by Rip Station's own engine from public comps, separately for every grader-and-grade lane. A card's weekly change is the average across its lanes; a set's reading is the median of its cards; the basket headline is the median of all cards. A flat reading means "no news," not "no demand."
Vintage sets
| Set | Index w/w | Basket |
|---|---|---|
| Base Set | -0.4% | 10 cards |
| Legendary Collection | +0.0% | 8 cards |
| Skyridge | +0.6% | 10 cards |
| XY-P Promotional cards | +0.0% | 10 cards |
| Expedition Base Set | +0.8% | 10 cards |
| EX Team Rocket Returns | +1.4% | 8 cards |
| EX Deoxys | -0.2% | 10 cards |
| Neo Destiny | +0.7% | 10 cards |
| EX Holon Phantoms | +1.9% | 9 cards |
| Team Rocket | +0.0% | 10 cards |
| Neo Genesis | +1.7% | 10 cards |
| EX Unseen Forces | +3.8% | 8 cards |
Modern sets
| Set | Index w/w | Basket |
|---|---|---|
| Evolutions | -0.5% | 6 cards |
| Ascended Heroes | -0.8% | 10 cards |
| Generations | +0.0% | 10 cards |
| Celebrations | +0.0% | 8 cards |
| Crown Zenith | -1.8% | 10 cards |
| Fates Collide | +0.0% | 9 cards |
| 151 | +1.7% | 10 cards |
| Paldea Evolved | -0.0% | 10 cards |
| BREAKpoint | +0.1% | 8 cards |
| Celebrations: Classic Collection | -0.2% | 10 cards |
| Pokémon Card 151 | -0.4% | 10 cards |
| Shining Legends | +0.0% | 10 cards |
Reading the week
Three readings in, the pattern is stable: the EX era leads, Neo Genesis and Skyridge follow, Base Set and Team Rocket sit still, and vintage as a whole drifts up by a few tenths a week. That is a slow bid, not a rally. The modern basket has not produced a reading away from zero yet; this week 151 added 1.7% while Crown Zenith lost 1.8% and Ascended Heroes slipped again ahead of its tins and the Delta Reign reveal.
Movers
A PSA 5 Skyridge Gyarados re-marked from $1,396 to $1,780, the largest dollar move in either basket this week. The Expedition pair of Typhlosion PSA 7 ($195 to $300) and Magby PSA 8 ($200 to $265) carried over. The down side is mostly reversals: the PSA 6 Rayquaza δ (Holon Phantoms) that jumped to $900 last week came back to $355 on a second comp, which is exactly why single lanes are not the set line.
The Index ran in The Pack Report, August 20, 2026: Rayquaza Gets a Set: Delta Reign Lands November 6. Published by Rip Station.