Rip Station's pricing engine published its first new marks since September 15 this morning, and the vintage basket re-marked 5.2% higher in one reading, with 85 of 116 cards up. The EX era led: Team Rocket Returns +13.5%, Unseen Forces +11%, Deoxys and Holon Phantoms near +10%.
Read itThe four Delta Reign prerelease promos are Masquerain, Magmortar, Enamorus and Kommo-o; a Garchomp LV.X made $900,000 and a First Edition Neo Revelation Ampharos $600,000; Team Rocket's Ambition ends tomorrow and Pocket's next set lands Wednesday.
Read itThe Illustrator PSA 10 is one of one. The Raincoat Pikachu PSA 10 that sold for $8.4 million overnight is one of 57. The gap between those two facts is the difference between a grade premium and a trophy premium, and it matters for the other 56 owners.
Read itSecond consecutive paused reading: Rip Station's pricing engine has not published new lane prices since September 15, so both baskets read 0.0% with every card unchanged. We are holding the Index until the feed resumes and will compare the first reading back against September 14.
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 itA PSA 10 2015 Art Academy Raincoat Pikachu closed at Fanatics Collect overnight for $8.4 million after 64 bids, the second most expensive Pokemon card ever sold. Days earlier an Art Academy Mudkip made $3.72 million to lead a $6.7 million week.
Read itThe Pokemon Company revealed a Zarude and an Azurill illustration rare from Delta Reign, Team Rocket's Ambition wraps in Pocket on September 29 with a new set on September 30, and PSA's next update is October 6.
Read itThis issue's quiz card is the 1999 Japanese CD Promo Charizard in PSA 6, our mark $866, loaded in the new $1,000 machine. The Pokemon Song Best Collection promos were handled, not stored; a 6 is the normal grade and the card carries value in any grade.
Read itBoth baskets read 0.0% with every card unchanged. That is not a market reading: Rip Station's pricing engine has not published new lane prices since September 15, so there is nothing to compare. We are holding the Index until the feed resumes.
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 itPSA's September 22 update: 9 million cards, down 900,000 in two weeks and 3.4 million from July. A new Standard tier at $59.99 opened September 14 with a 90-100 business day quote, queued behind the paused Value orders. The Value threshold is still 5 million.
Read itThe largest trading card week on record: a PSA 9 Illustrator at $5 million, a CGC 9 at $2.8 million a day later, an Alpha Black Lotus at $2.2 million, a sealed First Edition Base Set box at $750,000 and a Legendary Collection reverse Charizard at $575,000.
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