Chart of the Day stories from The Pack Report.
We ran the Pack Report Index back to June 1 and gave it a permanent home with a daily chart, every weekly reading, set tables and trend notes that update with each issue. The first thing the long view shows: vintage and modern are two different markets.
Read itPSA has cut its grading queue by a third since July. The Value tiers are still closed, and that is quietly working in favor of anyone already holding graded cards.
Read itPSA's October 6 update: 8.2 million cards, down 800,000 in two weeks and 4.2 million from the July peak. The $59.99 Standard tier's first full fortnight of inflow did not bend the line. At 400,000 a week the 5 million threshold arrives in early December.
Read itA PSA 10 Legendary Collection reverse Charizard made $575,000 on September 18. A PSA 10 reverse Pikachu, a common, made $780,000 on September 27. On the fireworks foil, the population report sets the price and the character does not.
Read itThe same card in the same grade sold publicly three times: $12,600 in July 2024, $19,200 in June 2025, $8.4 million on Monday. The bars do not fit on one chart, which is the point. A sale like this is a change of category, not a change of price.
Read itThe six most expensive public Pokemon sales of 2026, and four of them happened since September 10. Two are 2015 contest promos, one is a 2004 Gold Star, three are the Illustrator. The ladder is no longer one card and a gap.
Read itEight weeks, 3.4 million cards, a steady 450,000 to 500,000 a week. At that pace the 5 million threshold for the Value tiers arrives in late November; here is the arithmetic and what could move it either way.
Read itSix Illustrator sales in 2026, and the 9 rung just moved from $2.7 million to $5 million in eighteen days. The ladder is now steeper in the middle than at the top, and the gap between PSA and CGC at the same grade is 78 percent.
Read itThe vintage basket read 0.0% this week after ten straight positive readings and a record +0.9% on Monday. Fifty cards were still up and only twenty down; the median just stopped moving. What a pause looks like, and what would make it a top.
Read itThree English-language record sales in 2026: a First Edition Charizard at $954,800 in February, a Rayquaza Gold Star at $1.02 million on August 30, and a Torchic Gold Star at $2.7 million on September 10. What the shape of the ladder says about where the next one comes from.
Read itTwo shiny legendaries from the same 2011 set, the same grade, five weeks apart. Lugia closed at Goldin this morning at $367,220 after 49 bids; the Rayquaza that led the first week of August at $180,200 sold for $97,600 in the same auction.
Read itFour Illustrator sales in 2026, four grades. The new PSA 9 at $2.7 million sits 35 percent above the BGS 9 and one-sixth of the PSA 10. What the updated ladder says about label premiums and the missing 7s and 8s.
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