Perfect Order Gengar GameStop promo pop report: the number held in four countries

Published November 6, 2026 · Pop figures refresh with every site build; the current pull is October 23, 2026

Two retail chains in four countries handed this Gengar across a counter, and PSA graded the two piles to the same number. The GameStop copies come back a Gem Mint 10 20.3 percent of the time. The EB Games copies, a separate giveaway run in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, come back a 10 on 20.68 percent of 619 grades.

Nothing about this promo program usually agrees that closely. Six other English cards carry both retailers' stamps at workable census sizes, and five of the six separate by six to twenty points.

What the Perfect Order Gengar GameStop promo pop report says

3,665 submissions at the September 20, 2026 pull, 744 Gem Mint 10s, 2,328 nines, 494 eights and 98 copies below an 8. PSA returned 856 more last period on a -18% thirty day trend. Mega Evolution Perfect Order went on sale March 27, 2026, and PokeGuardian's March 13 announcement set the terms: spend $15 or more at GameStop in the United States, or at EB Games in Canada, Australia or New Zealand, and the stamped Gengar came back with the receipt while supplies lasted.

Put that 20.3 percent against the company it keeps. This row is the sixth most graded in English Perfect Order, and the five above it run 69.33 to 77.10 percent. The set's eleven illustration rares pool 69.82 percent across 20,567 grades and its six special illustration rares 72.11 across 26,727, counts Bulbapedia's expansion page states at eleven and six. Sixteen rows in the English set have passed 1,000 grades. This is the lowest of them, and the only other one under 59 percent is the Mega Zygarde EX hyper rare at 25.74.

A giveaway card, then, graded like the hardest thing in the set and nothing like the rest of it.

Two giveaway programs, one measurement

Retailer stamps are a running experiment that nobody designed. Sixteen English cards in the data carry a GameStop or EB Games stamp, and seven have both at a hundred grades or more, which turns each into two independent samples of one print. Here is how far apart the pairs land.

Five of those seven pairs have intervals that never touch, and in every one of the five the EB Games number is the higher one. The Gengar and the Suicune are the two that overlap, and the Suicune does it on 146 grades, which is small enough that it would overlap with almost anything. The Gengar overlaps on 619 against 3,665, with its two conversion figures 0.02 points apart at 24.22 and 24.24 percent.

Why EB Games usually reads higher is the part the data will not settle. Every Canadian, Australian and New Zealand copy that reaches a PSA intake desk crossed a border at the owner's expense, a filter the American copies never pass through, and smaller censuses also tend to be younger ones full of the first copies anyone bothered to send. Both would push the same way. What this Gengar adds is a case where the filter did not bite.

Four printings in the data, six on the card

Bulbapedia's set list gives card 050 five entries on top of the booster pack Rare: the GameStop stamp, the EB Games stamp, an unstamped Pixel Cosmos holofoil in the Gengar Enhanced 2 Pack Blister and the Pitch Black Premium Checklane Blister, and a Pixel Cosmos holofoil carrying an Asia Promo stamp for Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. Add the reverse holo that falls out of the same packs as the Rare and that is six physical cards. GemRate carries four of them. The missing pair matters, because the unstamped blister card is the only copy that would isolate what a stamp costs on its own. The Pokemon Day 2026 Pikachu census could run exactly that comparison and measured the stamp at four points of damage. This one cannot. Whatever the four available rows say is about foil and packaging, with a stamp riding along.

They say plenty. Split each row's gem rate into the two places it leaks, copies that arrive beaten enough to land below an 8, and clean copies that stop at a 9.

The pack Rare is the only row that loses on both axes. It puts 4.89 percent of its census below an 8, nearly double the GameStop figure and more than triple the EB Games one, and then converts worst of the four as well. Its interval, 12.43 to 17.90 percent, clears the GameStop interval of 19.03 to 21.63 outright. The reverse holo clears everything above it, 26.74 to 36.26 percent, on the cheapest printing of the four.

A reverse holo beating the card it reverses is not the house rule in this era. Across the whole Mega Evolution block, seven cards have both a pack Rare row and a reverse holo row past thirty grades, and the reverse holo reads higher on six of them. Only this Gengar pair separates; the other six overlap, which makes it less an exception than the first readable copy of something the rest of the block only gestures at. The trailing thirty day rates in the fuller GemRate file, read at its September 16, 2026 snapshot, hold the same order: 13 percent on the pack Rare, 16 on EB Games, 18 on GameStop, 33 on the reverse holo.

The giveaway copies also arrived in their own sealed sleeve rather than stacked inside a booster, which is the cleanest physical difference between the rows and lines up with the damage column. It does not explain the conversion column, where the reverse holo wins from inside the same pack as the Rare it beats. The Ascended Heroes Psyduck census ran into the same split from the other direction, with the damage belonging to a rarity tier and the conversion belonging to the card.

Masako Tomii drew it, and Japan filed it as an Uncommon

The credit reads Illus. Masako Tomii, whose first Pokemon card was the Obsidian Flames Smoliv at 19 in 2023 and who has drawn illustration rares for Obsidian Flames and Paradox Rift since. The drawing is a Stage 2 Gengar with 130 HP, the Infinite Shadow ability and Mind Jack, rising out of a bedroom wall in a smear of purple smoke with the bed still made behind it. On the stamped versions the red retailer logo sits over the bottom right of the art window, crossing the frame into the picture.

The card started as 049/080 in the Japanese Nihil Zero expansion of January 23, 2026, where Bulbapedia records it at Uncommon. English promoted it to Rare and then printed it five more ways. The Perfect Order Clefairy census covers what the set's own chase cards did with the same press run.

Sixty dollars against a $670 median ten

Thirty PSA titled sales of the 10 cleared between October 1 and November 6, 2026 at a $670.00 median, after the CGC, BGS and TAG rows sharing these listing titles came out. Thirty PSA 9 sales from October 16 to November 6 medianed $88.50, and ten PSA 8 sales from September 4 to October 22 medianed $72.50. PriceCharting's own grade columns read $663.99, $93.59 and $74.57 against that tape.

The 10 is worth 7.6 times the 9 here, and that gap is what makes the envelope work. PSA Standard was $59.99 at a $1,000 maximum insured value and 70 to 80 business days when psacard.com was read on November 6, 2026, with Value still paused at $39.99. Take 15 percent off every sale for fees and shipping, run the full census ladder, and an $81.00 Near Mint copy plus the fee returns about $161 at the trailing 18 percent gem rate, a gain near $20 a card. Breakeven sits at 13.9 percent, against a lifetime rate of 20.3 and that trailing 18.

Then look at which copy you are holding. Fifteen sales of the still sealed giveaway sleeve from August 9 to November 4, 2026 medianed $134.99, against $81.00 for a loose Near Mint single over roughly the same weeks. Cutting the sleeve open turns a $134.99 asset into an $81.00 input, and on that basis breakeven climbs to 24.8 percent, which no printing of this card except the reverse holo has ever reached. The odds do not change. The scissors do.

What to do with the copy you have

If it is still sealed, leave it sealed, because the plastic is worth more than the grade it is likely to buy. If you want to submit, buy a loose Near Mint copy at the going $81.00 and send that one instead, and sort candidates against the 9 rather than the 8, since three in four submissions that arrive clean still stop one grade short. Start at the dark teal slab of text box that fills the bottom half of this card, because a flat unbroken colour that size is where a surface mark shows up first, then look at how squarely the retailer logo sits over the art frame. How low population cards actually behave covers why a small census and a hard grade are different problems, and every row quoted here stays live in BetterPop's card browser.

Sources

• Population figures: GemRate PSA population data, pulled by the BetterPop app pipeline. The four card 050 rows, the retailer stamp program comparison, the Mega Evolution block reverse holo pairs, the set tier pools and the Wilson intervals were all computed inside the same snapshot. Trailing thirty day gem rates come from the fuller GemRate file at its September 16, 2026 snapshot.
• Set facts, printings, rarity counts, illustrator and Japanese print: Bulbapedia, Perfect Order (TCG), Gengar (Perfect Order 50), Nihil Zero (TCG) and Masako Tomii, all read November 6, 2026.
• Giveaway terms and retailers: PokeGuardian, Gengar, Luxray and Aurorus Perfect Order Store Promos Revealed, published March 13, 2026, read November 6, 2026.
• Prices: PriceCharting, Gengar [Gamestop] #50 Pokemon Perfect Order, grade columns and sold tape read November 6, 2026 and filtered to PSA titled rows.
• Grading fees and turnaround: PSA pricing, read November 6, 2026. Standard $59.99 at a $1,000 maximum insured value and 70 to 80 business days, Priority $79.99 at $1,500 and 50 to 60 days, Value paused at $39.99.