{
  "url": "https://www.moonstonehq.com/articles/grading-phantasmal-flames-pays-on-1-card-in-10-and-it-s-a-mega-charizard",
  "slug": "grading-phantasmal-flames-pays-on-1-card-in-10-and-it-s-a-mega-charizard",
  "title": "Grading Phantasmal Flames Pays on 1 Card in 10, and It's a Mega Charizard X ex",
  "summary": "One card in the set earns back its grading fee with room to spare. The Mega Hyper Rare with the $2,228.50 PSA 10 isn't it.",
  "section": "Grading desk",
  "published": "2026-11-12",
  "readMinutes": 5,
  "publisher": "moonstone",
  "findings": [
    {
      "value": "flat",
      "measures": "typical card",
      "basis": null
    },
    {
      "value": "10.4%",
      "measures": "one of each card, down",
      "basis": null
    },
    {
      "value": "86.6%",
      "measures": "of the set's value sits in its five priciest cards",
      "basis": null
    }
  ],
  "tables": [
    {
      "title": "How each price band moved, October 14 to November 12, 2026",
      "columns": [
        "Price on October 14",
        "Cards",
        "Got cheaper",
        "Got pricier",
        "Typical move"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Price on October 14": "under $1",
          "Cards": "96",
          "Got cheaper": "26",
          "Got pricier": "17",
          "Typical move": "flat"
        },
        {
          "Price on October 14": "$1 to $5",
          "Cards": "23",
          "Got cheaper": "17",
          "Got pricier": "5",
          "Typical move": "down 6.3%"
        },
        {
          "Price on October 14": "$5 to $20",
          "Cards": "8",
          "Got cheaper": "7",
          "Got pricier": "1",
          "Typical move": "down 7.2%"
        },
        {
          "Price on October 14": "$20 and up",
          "Cards": "3",
          "Got cheaper": "3",
          "Got pricier": "0",
          "Typical move": "too few to say"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "charts": [],
  "sections": [
    "The Charizard that pays and the one that doesn't"
  ],
  "method": [
    "Population: Phantasmal Flames, 130 English cards with a TCGplayer market price on both October 14, 2026 and November 12, 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. The expected value sits beside the raw price less the same eBay selling fee, so the two compare like with like. It counts copies that grade below a 9 at nothing and leaves out shipping to PSA and back. Angle: whether grading pays: PSA 10 and PSA 9 sale prices against the raw card, the gem rate, and the expected value after fees."
  ],
  "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."
}