{
  "url": "https://www.moonstonehq.com/articles/five-cards-hold-58-1-of-surging-sparks-and-the-top-of-the-set-sank-this",
  "slug": "five-cards-hold-58-1-of-surging-sparks-and-the-top-of-the-set-sank-this",
  "title": "Five Cards Hold 58.1% of Surging Sparks, and the Top of the Set Sank This Month",
  "summary": "One copy of every Surging Sparks card cost $1,199.97 on October 3 and $1,062.97 on November 1. Nearly two-thirds of the missing money came from five cards, and the chase Pikachu is one of them.",
  "section": "Set value check",
  "published": "2026-11-02",
  "readMinutes": 4,
  "publisher": "moonstone",
  "findings": [
    {
      "value": "2.6%",
      "measures": "the typical card's move (median), a drop",
      "basis": null
    },
    {
      "value": "11.4%",
      "measures": "change in the cost of one copy of every card, down",
      "basis": null
    },
    {
      "value": "58.1%",
      "measures": "share of the whole set's cost sitting in its five priciest cards",
      "basis": null
    }
  ],
  "tables": [
    {
      "title": "How each price band moved, October 3 to November 1, 2026",
      "columns": [
        "Price on October 3",
        "Cards",
        "Got cheaper",
        "Got pricier",
        "Typical move"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Price on October 3": "under $1",
          "Cards": "189",
          "Got cheaper": "76",
          "Got pricier": "83",
          "Typical move": "flat"
        },
        {
          "Price on October 3": "$1 to $5",
          "Cards": "31",
          "Got cheaper": "24",
          "Got pricier": "7",
          "Typical move": "down 8.7%"
        },
        {
          "Price on October 3": "$5 to $20",
          "Cards": "20",
          "Got cheaper": "17",
          "Got pricier": "3",
          "Typical move": "down 8.9%"
        },
        {
          "Price on October 3": "$20 and up",
          "Cards": "12",
          "Got cheaper": "12",
          "Got pricier": "0",
          "Typical move": "down 13.6%"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "charts": [],
  "sections": [
    "Where the money actually sits"
  ],
  "method": [
    "Population: Surging Sparks, 252 English cards with a TCGplayer market price on both October 3, 2026 and November 1, 2026. Every move compares a card to itself on the same TCGplayer product, first day against last, before anything is ranked or summed; a set total is never compared across days. Prices are TCGplayer market prices for the flagship printing, read from our daily price file. Graded figures are sold medians from our graded comps, PSA population counts come from our daily registry snapshot, and the expected value counts the PSA 9 outcome as well as the PSA 10, net of the grading fee and selling costs. Angle: how much of the whole population's value sits in its top few cards, and what those cards did."
  ],
  "terms": "Figures are moonstone's own recorded measurements, dated as published. Quote them with the population stated beside them. The article at `url` is the human form of this file."
}