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 September 10 against September 3.
- Vintage basket: +0.6% (median of 116 cards; 59 up, 34 flat, 23 down)
- Modern basket: 0.0% (median of 112 cards; 42 up, 37 flat, 33 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 | +1.5% | 10 cards |
| Legendary Collection | +0.0% | 10 cards |
| Skyridge | +2.0% | 10 cards |
| XY-P Promotional cards | +0.0% | 10 cards |
| Expedition Base Set | +1.8% | 10 cards |
| EX Team Rocket Returns | +0.8% | 9 cards |
| EX Deoxys | +2.2% | 10 cards |
| Neo Destiny | +0.1% | 10 cards |
| EX Holon Phantoms | +1.1% | 9 cards |
| Team Rocket | -0.0% | 10 cards |
| Neo Genesis | +0.1% | 10 cards |
| EX Unseen Forces | +2.8% | 8 cards |
Modern sets
| Set | Index w/w | Basket |
|---|---|---|
| Evolutions | +1.0% | 6 cards |
| Ascended Heroes | -1.6% | 10 cards |
| Generations | +0.3% | 10 cards |
| Celebrations | +0.4% | 8 cards |
| Crown Zenith | -0.1% | 10 cards |
| Fates Collide | +6.3% | 9 cards |
| 151 | -0.1% | 10 cards |
| Paldea Evolved | +0.1% | 10 cards |
| BREAKpoint | +0.0% | 9 cards |
| Celebrations: Classic Collection | +1.8% | 10 cards |
| Pokémon Card 151 | -0.7% | 10 cards |
| Shining Legends | +0.3% | 10 cards |
Nine readings
Vintage: +0.1, +0.2, +0.3, +0.2, +0.3, +0.4, +0.7, +0.4, +0.6 percent. Compounded, about 3.3 percent in four weeks. The four largest readings are the four most recent, and the breadth has held: nine of twelve sets up this week, only Team Rocket fractionally lower. The EX era led again, Unseen Forces and Deoxys, but Skyridge (the $150,000 Gengar still feeding through), Expedition and Base Set were all up more than 1.5 percent. This is the most even the vintage basket has looked.
Modern: still no positive reading in nine. But the lines underneath are starting to separate. Fates Collide, the 2016 set that had read exactly 0.0 percent in every prior week, re-marked 6.3 percent across its ten cards on a batch of new comps. Classic Collection rose for a third straight week, Evolutions and Celebrations were up, and the sets that are falling are the current ones: Ascended Heroes (nine straight), Japanese 151, Crown Zenith. Six days before 30th Celebration, modern looks like a market rotating out of the newest sets and into the ones built on old art.
Movers
Up: a PSA 7 EX Holon Phantoms Pikachu Gold Star from $2,800 to $11,500, the mid-grade catching up with the summer's Gold Star auctions; a PSA 8 Holon Phantoms Deoxys δ from $300 to $510; a PSA 9 Team Rocket Returns Dark Dragonite from $275 to $1,100; a CGC 8 Generations Charizard from $35 to $55. Down: the PSA 10 Skyridge Vaporeon ($28,000 to $18,520) still inside the window, a PSA 9 Legendary Collection Psyduck from $60 to $45, and a PSA 7 Evolutions Ninetales from $24 to $12.50.
The Index ran in The Pack Report, September 10, 2026: PSA Under Ten Million, and a $367,000 Lugia This Morning. Published by Rip Station.