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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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 census in Pokemon, still climbing
The felt hat Pikachu pop report: the Van Gogh promo's PSA 10 population, why it became the most graded Pokemon card ever, 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.