Pop report deep dives, card by card
One card per post: what its PSA population actually says, why the 10s are scarce or common, what the grading math looks like, and the history behind the cardboard. Population figures in every post refresh from the pop report dataset each time the site rebuilds.
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Ascended Heroes Elite Trainer Box promo pop report: the worst ETB promo since 2021
The Ascended Heroes Elite Trainer Box promo pop report: N's Zekrom #031 gems 12.7 percent, with 83.6 percent of its census stuck at a 9 or an 8.
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Shrouded Fable Special Illustration Collection pop report: twelve points between two promos
The Shrouded Fable Special Illustration Collection pop report: Greninja ex #132 gems 39.1 percent while the Kingdra ex #131 sold beside it gems 51.1 percent.
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Unova Victini Illustration Collection pop report: one grade holds six copies in ten
The Unova Victini Illustration Collection pop report: SVP #208 sends nearly six in ten back a PSA 9, second widest of any English card past 20,000 grades.
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First Partner Illustration Collection Charmander pop report: ninety four copies below an 8
The First Partner Illustration Collection Charmander pop report puts #038 first among English cards past 20,000 grades, with just 94 copies below a PSA 8.
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Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery pop report: one subset, two gem rates
The Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery pop report splits at GG34: 34 cards gem under 44 percent, 36 gem over it, nothing lands in between. Live PSA counts and the math.
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Birthday Pikachu pop report: the subset does the gemming, not the Pikachu
The Birthday Pikachu pop report: how many Celebrations Classic Collection #24 PSA 10s exist, why all 25 cards in the subset gem alike, and what a submission returns.
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Shining Fates Charizard VMAX pop report: the card that gems, and still loses
The Shining Fates Charizard VMAX pop report: how many SV107 PSA 10s exist, why it gems more often than any card its size, and why grading one still loses money.
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Phantasmal Flames Mega Charizard X ex pop report: the nine loses money
The Phantasmal Flames Mega Charizard X ex pop report, live from the PSA data: six in ten gem, and a PSA 9 that sells for less than an ungraded copy.
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Snorlax 151 ETB promo pop report: the only plain card past 40,000
The Snorlax 151 Elite Trainer Box promo pop report, live from the PSA data: how a Basic Pokemon with no mechanic joined the 40,000 grade group.
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Crown Zenith Pikachu pop report: the set printed two of them
The Crown Zenith Pikachu pop report, live from the PSA data: why card 160 holds 32,000 Gem Mint 10s while the Galarian Gallery Pikachu holds 4,083.
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Oricorio ex pop report: the other card in the Charizard box
The Oricorio ex pop report, live from the PSA data: why a promo nobody chased has taken 60,000 grades while every other English Oricorio adds up to 3,517.
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Charmander Obsidian Flames Elite Trainer Box promo pop report: two cards, one stamp
The Charmander Obsidian Flames Elite Trainer Box promo pop report: how many PSA 10s exist, why the stamped copy gems 14 points worse, and what grading returns.
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Charizard V SWSH260 pop report: nine prints, one that will not gem
The Charizard V SWSH260 pop report: how many PSA 10s exist, why this promo gems far worse than every other Charizard V print, and what grading one returns.
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Prismatic Evolutions Eevee promo pop report: the fee moved, not the card
The Prismatic Evolutions Eevee promo pop report: how many PSA 10s exist, why a free box promo outdrew its set's chase card, and what grading returns now.
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Mew ex 151 UPC pop report: one grade point, eight times the price
The Mew ex 151 Ultra-Premium Collection pop report: how many PSA 10s exist, why most of the census stopped at a 9, and what a submission actually returns.
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McDonald's Pikachu pop report: no card has been graded more
The McDonald's Pikachu pop report is the largest PSA census of any Pokemon card, and it was built by a Happy Set promotion that ran for three days.
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Champion's Path Charizard pop report: the fee costs more than the ten
The Champion's Path Charizard pop report holds one of the largest PSA 10 populations in English Pokemon, and PSA has almost stopped adding to it. Here is why.
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Obsidian Flames Charizard ex pop report: the worst gem rate in its whole rarity tier
The Obsidian Flames Charizard ex pop report holds the worst gem rate of any English Special Illustration Rare at scale, plus what a submission costs now.
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Base Set Mewtwo PSA 10 pop: 596 tens, and only Zapdos has more
The Base Set Mewtwo PSA 10 pop holds 596 tens, second most of any Base Set holo, on gem odds stuck in the middle of the set. Plus what a submission costs now.
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Moltres Zapdos Articuno GX pop report: the promo PSA cannot stop counting
The Moltres Zapdos Articuno GX pop report: why the SM210 Hidden Fates ETB promo draws more PSA submissions than Base Set Charizard, and what a 9 costs you.
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Special Delivery Charizard pop report: the box did the damage
The Special Delivery Charizard pop report, and the packaging note that predicted it: how the SWSH075 census sorts by grade, and what a submission actually returns.
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1st Edition Machamp pop report: the most graded, the worst gem rate
The 1st Edition Machamp pop report: why the most graded 1st Edition Base Set card gems worst of the sixteen holos, and what a submission actually returns.
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Base Set 2 Charizard pop report: 70 tens, and the foil changed
The Base Set 2 Charizard pop report: the live PSA 10 count, why 14 of the 15 holos it shares with 1999 gem worse, and what a submission returns.
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Blastoise ex 151 pop report: seven illustrators, one gem rate
The Blastoise ex 151 pop report: the live PSA 10 population, why all seven Scarlet and Violet 151 Special Illustration Rares gem alike, and the grading math.
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Charizard VSTAR UPC pop report: the whole box grades like this
The Charizard VSTAR UPC pop report: 9,243 PSA 10s from 59,337 grades, why all three promos in the 2022 Charizard box grade the same, and what one costs.
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Base Set Venusaur PSA 10 pop: 589 tens, more than Charizard
The Base Set Venusaur PSA 10 pop, live from the population data: 589 tens on fewer submissions than Charizard or Blastoise, why two thirds land below a 7, and the fee math.
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Greninja Gold Star pop report: one in nineteen, and the math still clears
The Greninja Gold Star pop report: 3,015 PSA 10s from 56,219 grades, why the 8 and 9 columns are tied, and how a 26 times grade cliff still beats an $80 fee.
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Celebrations Pikachu pop report: nearly half come back an 8
The Celebrations Pikachu pop report: 941 PSA 10s out of 46,215 grades, why almost half of them land at 8, and what an $80 submission is really worth.
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Mega Charizard X ex pop report: nine months to a six figure census
The Mega Charizard X ex pop report, live from the PSA data: how a November 2025 promo hit a six figure census, and why it gems 43 points under Japan's print.
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XY Evolutions Charizard pop report: more tens than the 1999 original
The XY Evolutions Charizard pop report, live from the population data: 602 PSA 10s from 53,000 plus graded, why the 2016 frame stops one grade short, and the fee math.
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Base Set Blastoise PSA 10 pop: 381 tens, and seven in ten below a 7
The Base Set Blastoise PSA 10 pop, live from the population data: 381 gems out of 51,000 plus graded, why it still gems better than Charizard, and the fee math.
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Ancient Mew pop report: fewer than one in twenty gems
The Ancient Mew pop report: the ninth most graded card in the PSA census, under 5 percent come back Gem Mint 10, and a third of them land at 7 or lower.
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Umbreon ex Prismatic Evolutions pop report: a wall of nines
The Umbreon ex Prismatic Evolutions pop report: half of all graded copies land PSA 9, the gem rate sits under 30 percent, and the 10 pays 4.6 times raw.
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Shadowless Charizard pop report: 58 tens, and that is the whole story
The Shadowless Charizard pop report: why 14,000 plus submissions have produced only 58 PSA 10s, the worst gem rate of any Base Set Charizard print.
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Pikachu Illustrator pop report: 56 grade events, one perfect ten
The Pikachu Illustrator pop report: 39 awarded copies, 56 PSA grade events, exactly one PSA 10, and why the census overstates how many actually exist.
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Moonbreon pop report: 21,000 PSA 10s and the price will not budge
The moonbreon pop report explained: Umbreon VMAX alt art's real PSA 10 population, its 69 percent gem rate, and why a huge pop never crashed the price.
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Lugia alt art pop report: the most graded card in Silver Tempest
The Lugia V alt art pop report: 46,000 plus graded, 25,000 PSA 10s, a 55 percent gem rate, and how to stop confusing card 186 with the 185 full art.
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Giratina V alt art pop report: more nines than tens, and a 4x price gap
The Giratina V alt art pop report: why PSA 9s outnumber 10s on Lost Origin's chase card, the 40 percent gem rate, and what the near black foil does to grades.
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Felt hat Pikachu pop report: the biggest English census, still climbing
The felt hat Pikachu pop report: the Van Gogh promo's PSA 10 population, why it became the most graded English Pokemon card, and what the 43 percent gem rate means.
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Charizard ex 151 pop report: a hundred thousand grades, one in four gems
The Charizard ex 151 pop report: the SIR's PSA 10 population, a 28 percent English gem rate against 84 percent for the Japanese print, and the grading math.
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Celebrations Charizard pop report: the reprint that actually gems
The Celebrations Charizard pop report: 35,000 plus PSA 10s of the anniversary reprint, a 59 percent gem rate, and what that census does to the price.
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Base Set Charizard PSA 10 pop: 488 tens from a hundred thousand tries
The Base Set Charizard PSA 10 pop, live: 488 gems out of 104,000 plus graded, why unlimited copies almost never gem, and what the grading math really pays.
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1st Edition Base Set Charizard pop report: why the 10s stay scarce
The PSA pop report for 1st Edition Base Set Charizard: current PSA 10 population, a gem rate near 2 percent, what keeps the 10s scarce, and the real grading math.
