This reading is September 14 against September 7.
- Vintage basket: +0.9% (median of 116 cards; 60 up, 33 flat, 23 down)
- Modern basket: 0.0% (median of 112 cards; 36 up, 29 flat, 47 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 | +1.5% | 10 cards |
| Legendary Collection | +0.0% | 10 cards |
| Skyridge | +2.5% | 10 cards |
| XY-P Promotional cards | -0.9% | 10 cards |
| Expedition Base Set | +2.9% | 10 cards |
| EX Team Rocket Returns | +6.7% | 9 cards |
| EX Deoxys | +1.5% | 10 cards |
| Neo Destiny | +0.0% | 10 cards |
| EX Holon Phantoms | +4.7% | 9 cards |
| Team Rocket | +0.9% | 10 cards |
| Neo Genesis | -0.0% | 10 cards |
| EX Unseen Forces | +3.6% | 8 cards |
Modern sets
| Set | Index w/w | Basket |
|---|---|---|
| Evolutions | -2.3% | 6 cards |
| Ascended Heroes | -2.3% | 10 cards |
| Generations | +0.3% | 10 cards |
| Celebrations | -1.3% | 8 cards |
| Crown Zenith | -0.4% | 10 cards |
| Fates Collide | +0.0% | 9 cards |
| 151 | -1.7% | 10 cards |
| Paldea Evolved | +0.1% | 10 cards |
| BREAKpoint | +0.0% | 9 cards |
| Celebrations: Classic Collection | -1.8% | 10 cards |
| Pokémon Card 151 | -0.2% | 10 cards |
| Shining Legends | +0.1% | 10 cards |
Ten readings
Vintage: +0.1, +0.2, +0.3, +0.2, +0.3, +0.4, +0.7, +0.4, +0.6, +0.9 percent. Compounded, about 4.2 percent in a month. On September 3 we said we would call it a rally when a reading cleared 1 percent or when the EX sets stopped doing all the work. This week the reading is 0.9 and the EX sets did most of the work, so by our own rule it is still a bid, but it is the strongest one yet, and Team Rocket Returns at +6.7 percent is the Torchic auction landing on the ten cards around it. Holon Phantoms (+4.7 percent, the Pikachu Gold Star in 7 still feeding through) and Unseen Forces (+3.6 percent) were the other big lines; Base Set added 1.5 percent for a third straight week.
Modern: flat as a basket, ten readings without a positive one, but this is the weakest the underlying lines have looked. 47 cards fell, the most in any reading. Evolutions gave back 2.3 percent after its August run, Ascended Heroes fell a tenth straight time, and the two Celebrations sets both dropped in the week their successor launches. Two days to 30th Celebration; the first post-launch reading is Thursday.
Movers
Up: a CGC 10 Expedition Typhlosion from $850 to $2,000; a PSA 9 Fates Collide Lugia from $62 to $194; the Holon Phantoms Pikachu Gold Star in 7 ($2,800 to $11,500) and the Team Rocket Returns Dark Dragonite in 9 ($275 to $1,100) still inside the window. Down: a PSA 10 XY-P promo Pikachu from $32,188 to $20,001 on a soft comp, a PSA 9 Legendary Collection Psyduck from $60 to $45, and a CGC 8.5 Evolutions Pikachu from $36 to $7.
The Index ran in The Pack Report, September 14, 2026: $2.7 Million for a Torchic: the English Record Doubles in Eleven Days. Published by Rip Station.