October 2026 Pokémon Card Price Tracker (Australia)

Prices checked 13 October 2026. All prices are in Australian dollars (AUD). Overseas readers: every figure on this page is AUD. These are market guides drawn from graded sales, not our shop prices.

Every month we sit down with the sales data and ask one question: what is actually moving, and why? This month the answer is loud. Low-population vintage slabs, especially ex-era reverse holos, are climbing hard, while some of the biggest modern chase cards have given back half or more of their early highs. The thread running through both stories is the same one, and it's printed on the back of every PSA flip: the population report.

A quick ground rule before we start. We only compare PSA 10 prices here. Raw card prices depend on condition nobody can verify from a listing photo, so they make for misleading comparisons. A PSA 10 is a PSA 10, which makes the numbers comparable.

The short version

Ex-era reverse holos from 2003 to 2007 are the hottest corner of the vintage market right now. Modern chase cards from Ascended Heroes and Phantasmal Flames have fallen well off their April peaks in PSA 10. And the reason in both cases comes down to how many perfect copies exist, and how quickly more are being made.

Ex-era reverse holos are surging

If you collected through the EX series, check your binders. Reverse holos from that era have become the hottest corner of the graded vintage market.

TCGBerg runs PSA 10 indices for individual sets. Its EX Legend Maker Reverse Holo PSA 10 index tracks 72 cards and is up 29% over the past 30 days and 231% since it started on 15 May 2026, led by Gengar and Mew (TCGBerg, Legend Maker). The EX Power Keepers Reverse Holo PSA 10 index, 45 cards led by Charizard, Pikachu and Charmander, is up 20.3% over 30 days (TCGBerg, Power Keepers).

The headline example is the Legend Maker Mew #10 reverse holo. PSA 10 copies sold for about $4,150 in April 2025, about $10,160 in August 2025 and about $20,190 in May 2026 (PriceCharting sold listings). Then on 28 September 2026 a PSA 10 sold at Fanatics Collect for about $82,470 including buyer's premium (Fanatics Collect). That's one auction result, so treat it as a high-water mark rather than a settled price. But the direction over 18 months is hard to argue with.

Why Mew? Look at the population. PSA has graded somewhere between roughly 740 and 870 of these, depending on which aggregator you read, and only 47 came back a 10. That's a gem rate of about 5 to 6% (PokeMarketCap, TCGScreener). Put another way, for every 100 sent to PSA, only five or six come back as 10s.

The Power Keepers Pichu #21 reverse holo tells the same story with an even smaller number: 25 PSA 10s from about 224 graded, roughly an 11% gem rate (PokeInvest). Its recent PSA 10 sales have been all over the place, which is exactly what happens when a few dozen copies meet a lot of demand, so we won't quote a single figure.

Legend Maker came out in 2006 and Power Keepers in 2007. There's no fresh supply. Every gem copy that exists has survived nearly two decades, and that's what the market is paying for.

We have a few ex-era slabs in the cabinet right now: a 2007 Machamp 11/108 EX Power Keepers Reverse Holo PSA 9 ($1,299), a 2007 Raichu 12/108 EX Power Keepers Reverse Holo PSA 8 ($999) and a 2006 Gengar 5/92 EX Legend Maker Holo PSA 7 ($999).

WOTC vintage: the same scarcity logic

The same pattern shows up in Wizards of the Coast era holos. Take Jungle 1st Edition Jolteon #4. PSA has graded roughly 5,000 copies and just 137 are 10s, a gem rate under 3% (CardPriceLedger, PokeInvest). A PSA 10 sold for about $3,190 in February 2024. One sold for about $21,480 in June 2026 (PriceCharting sold listings).

Fewer than three in every 100 submitted come back perfect, and 1999 printing quality means that ratio isn't going to improve. When the supply of 10s is effectively fixed, any extra demand goes straight into price.

Modern chase cards are well off their peaks

Now the other side of the ledger. Some of the most hyped modern cards of the past year have dropped hard in PSA 10.

Mega Charizard X ex #125/094 (Phantasmal Flames). The PSA 10 peaked at about $4,040 in April 2026. Recent sales put it around $2,100, roughly 48% off the high (PokeMarketCap). Phantasmal Flames only released on 14 November 2025 (TickerMint), so this card is less than a year old.

Pikachu ex #276/217 (Ascended Heroes). The PSA 10 peaked at about $6,660 in April 2026 and is now around $2,570, about 61% off the high (PokeMarketCap). Ascended Heroes released on 30 January 2026.

Psyduck #226/217 (Ascended Heroes). This Illustration Rare's PSA 10 peaked at about $1,080 in April 2026. Recent sales sit around $300, roughly 72% below the high (PokeMarketCap, PriceCharting).

Why: read the pop report

Here's the part most price posts skip. The single biggest driver of these drops is supply, and the pop report shows it plainly.

As of this month, PSA has graded about 56,000 copies of the Phantasmal Flames Mega Charizard X ex #125. About 33,400 of them came back PSA 10, a gem rate of roughly 60% (PokeMarketCap, TCGScreener). In plain terms, for every 1,000 sent to PSA, about 600 come back as 10s. Compare that with the Legend Maker Mew, where 1,000 submissions would produce around 50 to 60 tens.

And the Charizard count keeps rising. UltraBall noted PSA had graded about 54,800 copies in its 28 September report (UltraBall). Two weeks later the aggregators show over 56,000. More copies are being graded every day from a set that's only 11 months old. Every new PSA 10 is another copy competing for the same buyers.

Ascended Heroes tells the same story. Psyduck #226 has about 12,400 PSA 10s from about 20,200 graded. Pikachu ex #276 has about 8,240 PSA 10s from about 13,400 graded. Both sit at roughly a 61.5% gem rate (Psyduck, Pikachu). Gem rates above 60% tell you most modern copies grade well. When thousands of PSA 10s exist and more arrive weekly, a 10 stops being scarce.

Early prices are set by the first few slabs, when demand is high and very few graded copies exist. As grading catches up, the population swells and the premium for a 10 shrinks. That's what we've watched happen since April.

None of this makes modern cards bad to collect. If you love the art, buy the card. Just know that a high-gem-rate modern PSA 10 is priced on demand against a supply that's still growing. A low-pop vintage 10 is priced against a supply that's basically fixed.

Sealed product

We've left sealed prices out this month. Most of the sealed data we found is US marketplace pricing measured against US retail. It doesn't reflect what Australian collectors pay locally, and we don't want to publish a misleading number. We'll revisit sealed once we have reliable Australian sales to work from.

Coming up: Delta Reign

Pokémon's next English expansion, Mega Evolution—Delta Reign, has a release date of 6 November 2026 and contains over 135 cards (Pokémon.com). Mega Rayquaza ex fronts the set. Pokémon's 5 October preview also showed Aarune and Legendary Pyroduct, which Pokémon describes as one of the first two-card Stadium cards in the game (Pokémon preview).

If this year has taught us anything, it's to watch the pop report before chasing launch-week PSA 10s. The first slabs to market tend to sell at the highest prices they'll ever see.

Got cards that moved?

If you're sitting on ex-era reverse holos or WOTC holos in great condition, grading could make a real difference. See our PSA and BGS grading order pricing to submit through us, or visit us at Unit 4/2 Templar Pl, Bennetts Green NSW 2290 or call (02) 4049 2264. You can also browse our graded cards and Pokémon singles, and check the Pokémon Card Price Chart Australia.

Sources (all checked 12 to 13 October 2026): PokeMarketCap, TCGScreener, UltraBall, PriceCharting, Fanatics Collect, TCGBerg, PokeInvest, CardPriceLedger, TickerMint, Pokémon.com. Population figures change daily as PSA grades more cards.