Every story from every issue: leads, charts, index readings, grading explainers and quick hits.
Vintage +0.3% with Legendary Collection, EX Deoxys and Team Rocket Returns leading; modern -0.4%, its first negative reading, with Ascended Heroes down 3.1% and Evolutions up 6.5% again. Full tables and method.
Read itPSA cleared 950,000 cards in two weeks and is 1.5 million below its July peak, but the Regular tier now quotes 70 to 80 business days and the Value tiers stay closed until the pile is under 5 million.
Read itThe 2026 Pokemon World Championships start Friday at the Moscone Center with finals at the Chase Center, Pocket's Team Rocket set went live Wednesday night, and the Mega Forces and Ascended Heroes tins land the same day Worlds opens.
Read itThe World Championships open Friday in San Francisco, Pocket's Team Rocket's Ambition arrives Wednesday, Mega Forces and Ascended Heroes tins both ship August 28, and the only PSA-graded Chubu No. 1 Trainer sold for $168,000.
Read itTwo identical cards in identical grades sold minutes apart in the same auction, 16% apart. The gap is made of centering, eye appeal, lot order and bidder fatigue, and it is the normal state of the market.
Read itVintage +0.2% on the week with EX Holon Phantoms, EX Unseen Forces and EX Deoxys leading; modern flat as a basket but Evolutions re-marked 6.2%. Full tables and method.
Read itThe same card, the same grade, four public sales: $7,000 in January 2025, a $32,790 record, then $114,000 and $132,000 in one August auction. The Gold Star repricing, in one chart.
Read itPokemon took all five of the week's biggest TCG sales for the second time this month: a Snap contest Koffing, the only PSA-graded Chubu No. 1 Trainer, two Treecko Gold Stars and a Fan Club Eevee, $684,000 in all.
Read itPocket's Team Rocket's Ambition lands August 26 with Owner cards, three Mega Forces tins ship August 28, TCG Live announces a fall update, and Worlds is a week away.
Read itThe $1.3 million Incorrect Illustrator was a CGC 10 and the $100,000 Legend Maker Gengar a CGC 10 Pristine. What the grading company on the label does to the price, and when it does not matter.
Read itVintage +0.3% on the week with EX Unseen Forces, Holon Phantoms and Neo Genesis leading; modern flat with 151 up and Crown Zenith down. Full tables and method.
Read itThree Illustrator Pikachu sales in 2026, three grades, prices from $1 million to $16.5 million. The ladder is steep, continuous, and tells you what condition is worth at the very top.
Read it