The Palkia LV.X

The 2008 Diamond & Pearl Great Encounters Palkia LV.X #106 in PSA 10 sold for $204,000 at Fanatics Weekly on August 30. The LV.X cards were the top rarity of the Diamond & Pearl era, 2007 to 2010, and for most of the past decade their PSA 10s have traded in the low thousands, priced like mid-tier modern rather than like the Neo and EX-era cards that preceded them. A $204,000 result is the first we can find from that era above $200,000, and it fits the pattern of the summer: the repricing started with the Illustrator and the Snap cards, moved to the Gold Stars, then to Neo Genesis, and is now reaching the generation after. The Diamond & Pearl sets are not in our vintage basket, which stops at 2007. Results like this are how a set becomes a candidate.

Typhlosion, Pristine

The First Edition Neo Genesis Typhlosion #17 in CGC Pristine 10 sold for $336,000 in the same auction. It is the set's second chase after the Lugia, and like the Lugia it is a dark-bordered holo that was cut badly in 2000, so top grades are scarce. The Pristine designation (all four subgrades at 10) has now been on two of the summer's largest CGC results, the other being the $1.02 million Rayquaza Gold Star on August 30. The pattern we described on August 20 holds: on a card with a tiny top-grade population, the Pristine label stops being a premium and becomes a different object.

Eleven Pikachus

A lot of eleven 2015-16 Japanese XY promo Pikachus, all PSA 10, sold for $336,000, or about $30,500 per card. Lots are hard to comp because the buyer is paying for completeness, not for any one card. The result says that a complete, perfect run of a Pikachu promo series is worth a premium over the sum of its parts, which is worth remembering with thirty new Pikachus arriving in 30th Celebration packs on September 16.

PSA on Tuesday

PSA's fortnightly backlog update is due September 8. The August 25 report put the active backlog at 10.9 million, down 950,000 in two weeks, with the $80 Regular tier at 70-80 business days and Value tiers closed until the pile is under 5 million. The question for Tuesday is whether the roughly 475,000-cards-a-week clearance rate survived the run-up to 30th Celebration.

Sources: SI Collectibles, September 7, 2026; Heavy, August 25, 2026.

Quick Hits ran in The Pack Report, September 7, 2026: A $2.7 Million Illustrator, and a $204,000 Palkia. Published by Rip Station.