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30th Celebration, five weeks in: three Mew hold 95% of the set, PSA has graded 711 copies, and the art behind it
The follow-up to the nine-days-in note. Independent opening counts agree with TCGplayer's odds on the main tiers and still cannot pin down the RGB Mew; PSA's count went from 125 in BetterPop's 8 October build to 711, 261 of them RGB Mew, which come back PSA 10 far less often than the rest; a pack's contents are worth 57% of its $10.83 price. Plus what The Pokémon Company chose for the art, and the stories of the first five weeks.
CardGameInsight Desk · Oct 21, 2026 · 10 min read
30th Celebration, a month on: the set gave back 42%, the RGB Mew found a price, and PSA has graded 125 copies
The same 158 cards that cost $1,267.51 for one of each on 25 September cost $731.96 on the latest reads, with the middle tiers down most. The three RGB Mew, unpriced then, now read $3,739 to $6,000 on 8 to 16 listings each. A pack's contents are worth 49% of its $13.37 price, down from 60%.
Ascended Heroes: every tracked card got cheaper in a month, and every PSA 10 count grew
Between the 9 September and 8 October population builds, the twelve Ascended Heroes cards this site tracks fell a median 18.4% at TCGplayer market while their PSA 10 counts rose a median 18.4%. Across all 302 tracked cards the median count grew 0.9%, and the ten sets released before 2012 did not move at all.
30th Celebration, nine days in: the friendliest pull rates of the era, and what a pack holds
TCGplayer's 3,000-pack study puts a Special Illustration Rare at 1 in 21 packs and an Illustration Rare at 1 in 5, against 1 in 80 and 1 in 9 for the rest of the era. On the catalog's first read the expected value of a pack is $10.87 against an $18 pack, 60%, where the three other studied sets sit at 7% to 36%.
What is in a master set? Pitch Black, all 120 cards by type
A complete set is one of every numbered card; a master set is every printing of every card. Pitch Black has 120 cards in eight rarity tiers and 74 reverse holofoils, so a master set is 194 cards. Every card pictured, grouped by type, with what one of each costs on 18 September 2026.
Before Delta Reign: what the Mega Evolution era looks like in the data
Mega Evolution: Delta Reign arrives on 6 November as the era's final main set. Across the era's 31 tracked cards, PSA 10 population explains nothing of PSA 10 price yet, and the month to mid-September was the softest of any era.