The first clean week-over-week reading since the pause: vintage +2.7% with Legendary Collection +9.2%, Expedition +7.3% and Team Rocket Returns +6.6%; modern -1.6% with Japanese 151 -5.1% and Classic Collection -4.5% against Evolutions +8.3%. Full tables.
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 itGoldin opened its 2026 Pokemon 30th Anniversary auction this week, closing October 25. The headliner is the 1997 Gold First Place First Tournament Trophy Pikachu in PSA 8, the only copy in PSA's census, awarded at the first official Pokemon TCG tournament; pre-bidding passed $1 million on day one.
Read it30th Celebration mini tins and booster bundles shipped Friday alongside a Mega-era Mini Portfolio and blister; the Deck Crafter's Collection is October 23 and the Espeon and Umbreon Battle Decks October 30; a Japanese Rayquaza Gold Star made $562,650 on eBay; PSA reports Tuesday.
Read itThis issue's quiz card is the Fusion Strike Gengar VMAX alternate art in PSA 9, loaded in the $1,000 machine with a mark of $900. On a modern chase with nearly ten thousand 10s, the 9 is where the card's value actually sits, and the 10 premium is the thing to be careful about.
Read itThe second reading since the engine resumed is still measured against the September 15 marks, because the September 28 comparison date had no new ones: vintage +6.9% with Legendary Collection and EX Deoxys +15%, modern -3.2% with Ascended Heroes -9.9%. Full tables.
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 week of September 27 to October 2 totalled $10.5 million, 80 percent of it the Raincoat Pikachu. Underneath: a PSA 10 Legendary Collection reverse holo Pikachu at $780,000, a BGS 10 First Edition Japanese Rayquaza Gold Star at $562,650 on eBay, a Neo Revelation Misdreavus at $408,000.
Read itPokemon TCG Pocket's Deluxe Pack: Mega launched Wednesday with 429 cards and a guaranteed ex per pack through October 29; 30th Celebration mini tins and booster bundles ship Friday; Pokemon Center's first Delta Reign preorder wave sold out; PSA reports October 6.
Read itThis issue's quiz card is the 2015 XY Ancient Origins Porygon-Z holo in PSA 10, loaded in the $100 machine with a mark of $641. PSA has graded eighteen of them a 10. It is a modern card with a vintage price curve, and the reason is the XY-era holo foil.
Read itThe first reading since the engine paused, compared against the last good marks of September 15: vintage +5.2% with 85 of 116 cards up and nine sets above 3%; modern -0.9% with Ascended Heroes -5.6% and 151 -4.6%. Full tables and the thirteen-reading history.
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.
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