Since the first issue in August, every Pack Report has carried a weekly reading of the Index: the median week-over-week change across two baskets of graded Pokemon cards, twelve vintage sets and twelve modern. This week we ran the same baskets back to June 1 as a daily level, and built a page that holds the chart, the method, every weekly reading and a set of trend notes that regenerate each time we publish.

What the long view shows

  • Vintage: 123.8, with June 1 at 100. Up about 24 percent in four and a half months, in three legs: a slow climb through June and July, a step up in early August around the Illustrator and Snap sales, and a second step in early October as the engine caught up after its September pause.
  • Modern: 100.4. It has traded between about 98 and 103 the entire period. Every set in the modern basket is either in print, being reprinted (Ascended Heroes tins), or about to be overshadowed by a new release (Delta Reign, November 6). Supply keeps arriving; the index cannot get away from 100.
  • The gap: the two baskets have decoupled by roughly 23 points. That is the clearest statistical statement we can make about 2026: the money has gone into cards that cannot be printed again.

What the page has

  • A daily chart of both baskets since June 1, with the engine's September pause marked.
  • Trend notes that update with each issue: two-week, four-week and eight-week changes, streak counts, set leaders and laggards, and a flag when the short-term direction diverges from the long-term one.
  • Per-set tables with one-week, four-week and since-June changes.
  • The method in full, including what the Index is not.
  • Every weekly reading from every issue.

Who built it

The Index is a proprietary model built and maintained by Rip Station, which publishes The Pack Report. It rests on Rip Station's pricing engine, which estimates each card's value per grader-and-grade lane from public comps, and on nothing else. Rip Station has an interest in the cards it prices. We say that on the page and in every Index section, so you can decide how much weight the number deserves; the method is public so you can check the arithmetic.

The Pack Report Index.

Chart of the Day ran in The Pack Report, October 14, 2026: A $2.2 Million Trophy Pikachu, With Eleven Days to Go. Published by Rip Station.