A PSA 10 Tamamushi University Magikarp sold for $1,056,000 at Alt, 5.7 times the last public PSA 10 sale eight months ago

Fanatics Collect’s $8.4 million Art Academy Pikachu sale read unpaid for 16 days, was deleted on Oct 14 and came back flagged paid on Oct 15, while the lot page still says cancelled

The PSA 10 Raincoat Pikachu closed Sept 27 with 64 bids and sat unpaid in Fanatics’ public feed until the row vanished on Oct 14 and returned flagged paid at 1:09 PM ET on Oct 15, in a bulk update shared by at least 64 other lots, per Chase Society (Oct 16, updated Oct 17); the lot page still read cancelled on Oct 16, and Fanatics did not answer its questions. The same feed shows 15 lots of $40,000 or more deleted since Oct 8, all unpaid when last seen, and 34 of the Oct 11 night’s 54 lots over $100,000 still unpaid, $7.54 million in all, while Alt’s 48 readable lots all read paid. Fanatics’ FAQ gives buyers five days to pay and its terms ten business days, so the Oct 4 lots, a $960,000 Cresselia and an $840,000 Southern Islands Mew among them, reach that deadline between Oct 16 and 20; Fanatics’ own value for the Pikachu is $1,037,000, the price a second PSA 10 made at Goldin on Oct 11.

Konami’s full emergency Yu-Gi-Oh! list is out: 34 cards forbidden, 8 limited and 1 semi-limited from today, the largest list since September 2013

The five parts revealed at YCS Houston from Friday night to early Monday name 34 newly forbidden cards, Called by the Grave, Crossout Designator, Triple Tactics Talent, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier and Anti-Spell Fragrance among them, plus eight limited (Droll & Lock Bird, Branded Opening and Toon Table of Contents included) and Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage semi-limited, all effective Monday, Oct 19, per YGOrganization. YGOrganization calls it the largest list since September 2013’s 47 changes, and Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon is the first OCG-only card limited in the TCG since Sixth Sense in October 2013. The generic hand traps and floodgates had buyers in every deck, so they carry the widest exposure; Magnificent Maestros, the set the list clears room for, lands Nov 13 per ICv2, and the first prices under the new list are set this week.

A prize card’s last sale stops being its comp when the cards beside it move. The Tamamushi Magikarp had a $186,000 PSA 10 sale in February; between then and its $1,056,000 at Alt, a PSA 9 Illustrator made $5 million at Heritage, a Torchic Gold Star $2.7 million and a Legendary Collection Snorlax $651,001 at Alt, and a PSA 8 Trophy Pikachu was bid to $2,348,500 at Goldin. Buyers at this level price a card against what the other grails just did, so the next result in the tier moves every comp in it, and Goldin’s Trophy Pikachu closes Oct 25.