This reading is August 24 against August 17.
- Vintage basket: +0.2% (median of 113 cards; 53 up, 41 flat, 19 down)
- Modern basket: 0.0% (median of 112 cards; 44 up, 29 flat, 39 down)
How the index is built
Each basket takes twelve active sets and, within each, the ten most-traded cards. Vintage means 1999 to 2007 plus the promo series; modern means 2016 onward. Every card is priced by Rip Station's own engine from public comps, separately for every grader-and-grade lane. A card's weekly change is the average across its lanes; a set's reading is the median of its cards; the basket headline is the median of all cards. A flat reading means "no news," not "no demand."
Vintage sets
| Set | Index w/w | Basket |
|---|---|---|
| Base Set | +0.7% | 10 cards |
| Legendary Collection | +1.4% | 8 cards |
| Skyridge | -0.0% | 10 cards |
| XY-P Promotional cards | +0.0% | 10 cards |
| Expedition Base Set | +0.0% | 10 cards |
| EX Team Rocket Returns | +0.0% | 8 cards |
| EX Deoxys | +1.6% | 10 cards |
| Neo Destiny | +0.2% | 10 cards |
| EX Holon Phantoms | +2.7% | 9 cards |
| Team Rocket | +0.2% | 10 cards |
| Neo Genesis | +0.7% | 10 cards |
| EX Unseen Forces | +2.1% | 8 cards |
Modern sets
| Set | Index w/w | Basket |
|---|---|---|
| Evolutions | +6.2% | 6 cards |
| Ascended Heroes | -1.8% | 10 cards |
| Generations | +0.3% | 10 cards |
| Celebrations | +0.0% | 8 cards |
| Crown Zenith | -0.5% | 10 cards |
| Fates Collide | +0.0% | 9 cards |
| 151 | +0.9% | 10 cards |
| Paldea Evolved | -0.5% | 10 cards |
| BREAKpoint | +0.0% | 9 cards |
| Celebrations: Classic Collection | +1.2% | 10 cards |
| Pokémon Card 151 | -1.1% | 10 cards |
| Shining Legends | +0.0% | 10 cards |
Reading the week
The vintage basket has now posted four small positive weeks in a row, and the breadth improved: only 19 of 113 cards fell, the fewest yet. The EX era keeps leading, and this week the EX Deoxys line picked up the Gold Star auction. Modern was flat as a basket but Evolutions, the 2016 Base Set reprint, re-marked 6.2 percent across its ten cards, the largest single-set move in either basket to date; with the 30th Celebration set three weeks away, the one modern set that looks like Base Set is getting a bid. Ascended Heroes fell for the fourth straight reading, which is what a set does in the week before its own tins ship.
Movers
The biggest dollar move was a BGS 7.5 Mew ex (Holon Phantoms) from $610 to $1,050. An EX Deoxys Rayquaza holo in PSA 6 went from $80 to $250 on a new comp, and a PSA 9 Legendary Collection Ivysaur doubled from $20 to $41. On the down side the PSA 6 Rayquaza δ reversal ($900 to $355) is still inside this window, a PSA 1 Light Azumarill (Neo Destiny) fell from $75 to $42, and an Ascended Heroes Banette PSA 9 dropped from $21.50 to $12.50.
The Index ran in The Pack Report, August 24, 2026: A $180,000 Koffing, and the Treecko That Went From $7,000 to $132,000. Published by Rip Station.