Pocket opens Ranked Season 18 and the Mega Garchomp ex drop, Delta Reign Build and Battle boxes arrive October 24 with four promos, the 40-card Deck Crafter's Collection ships October 23, and Goldin's BGS 10 Skyridge Gengar is at $122,000 after August's $150,000 PSA 10.
Read itA 2001 Neo Discovery Umbreon holo in PSA 2, graded Good, carries a $432 estimate in the $200 machine. Low grades on the right card hold real money, and the reasons are population, art and the collector who wants the card, not the slab.
Read itVintage +2.5% on the week, 80 of 118 cards higher, led by EX Unseen Forces, Neo Genesis and Expedition; modern +0.5% with Fates Collide, Evolutions and BREAKpoint up and Ascended Heroes down again. Full tables and method.
Read itWe 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 itGoldin's 30th Anniversary auction runs to October 25. Its headliner, the only PSA-graded 1997 Gold 1st Place Trophy Pikachu, is at $2,225,000 before premium, already past the $1,769,000 record for any Trophy Pikachu. The rest of the board, and what the number means.
Read itFour stories from the week that each deserved more than a line: Goldin's Trophy Pikachu, Collector Crypt's Q3, the Santa Cruz x Pokemon skateboards, and Fossil's 27th birthday.
Read itA 2010 contest-winner promo drawn by a six-year-old sold for $156,000 in PSA 10. The same card in the same grade brought $8,700 in 2023. The lesson is about population, not art.
Read itOur two-basket index of the most-traded graded Pokemon cards: vintage up 4.1% on the week, modern up 0.8%, while market volume fell 15%. The full tables, the method, and the movers.
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 itFanatics Weekly's October 4 close put five Pokemon cards at the top of the trading card market, and the headline act was a Cresselia.
Read itPSA's backlog fell to 8.2 million on Tuesday; Pokemon TCG Pocket's October expansion starts a new series with dual-type cards and basic Pokemon ex; TCG Live updated Tuesday; and Goldin's anniversary auction has a Pristine Skyridge Gengar and a sealed EX Deoxys box underneath the Pikachu.
Read itThis issue's quiz card is the 2025 Korean Project Ditto QR Stamp Rally promo in PSA 10, loaded in the $250 machine with a mark of $246. Regional promos are priced by how hard they were to get, and on an event handout the 10 is doing more work than usual.
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