{
  "url": "https://www.moonstonehq.com/articles/the-umbreon-standard",
  "slug": "the-umbreon-standard",
  "title": "The Umbreon Standard: One Card, Six Datasets, and Everything the Modern Market Believes",
  "summary": "No card in the game is better documented than the Evolving Skies Umbreon VMAX alt art. Pop 30,967 and growing. 69.4% gem rate. 36.8 verified PSA 10 sales a week at $4,300. A positive grading EV of $1,281. And the worst lottery ticket in modern ripping. This is the full dossier.",
  "section": "Investment research",
  "published": "2026-08-28",
  "readMinutes": 7,
  "publisher": "moonstone",
  "findings": [],
  "tables": [
    {
      "title": "The Umbreon file, August 2026",
      "columns": [
        "Instrument",
        "Reading",
        "What it means"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Instrument": "Raw market",
          "Reading": "$2,329",
          "What it means": "a four-figure card you can pull from a pack"
        },
        {
          "Instrument": "PSA 10 median",
          "Reading": "$4,300 on 354 verified sales",
          "What it means": "the deepest graded tape we track"
        },
        {
          "Instrument": "Sales velocity",
          "Reading": "36.8 PSA 10 sales/week",
          "What it means": "third most liquid slab in the ledger"
        },
        {
          "Instrument": "Registry",
          "Reading": "pop 30,967, still growing",
          "What it means": "about eighty new slabs a week"
        },
        {
          "Instrument": "Gem rate",
          "Reading": "69.4%",
          "What it means": "a 10 is the EXPECTED outcome"
        },
        {
          "Instrument": "Grading EV",
          "Reading": "+$1,281 net at a $20 fee",
          "What it means": "the ladder still pays"
        },
        {
          "Instrument": "Rip cost",
          "Reading": "$67.92 per pack",
          "What it means": "the worst lottery ticket in the game"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "charts": [],
  "sections": [
    "The paradox: everything about this card should contradict"
  ],
  "method": [
    "All figures from moonstone recorded data as of August 28, 2026: raw market from the daily TCGplayer sync; PSA 10 median and sample from verified eBay solds; velocity from sample-size deltas in the graded snapshot ledger; population and gem rate from the August 27 PSA registry snapshot, the latest at the time of writing; grading EV on the registry-average outcome model disclosed in [our ROI study](/articles/grading-roi-for-the-cards-you-own), which here is 0.6939 x $4,300 plus 0.3061 x the $2,113 PSA 9 median, less a $20 fee, against a $2,329 raw market; pack price from tracked booster-box listings. Weekly registry growth is measured across the registry snapshots from August 2 to August 27, 30,696 slabs to 30,967 and 21,342 tens to 21,485, which is 79 slabs and 41 tens a week. Not financial advice."
  ],
  "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."
}