| RECON // NEWSLETTER NO. 013 |
WED NOV 4, 2026 |
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Know the market. Collect with conviction.
TCG · VIDEO GAMES · ANIME
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The only PSA 10 sealed copy of Pokémon Snap sold for $231,800 at Landry Pop, more than a 9.8 A++ Super Mario 64 made in August
| SOLD | $231,800 · LANDRY POP AUCTIONS · NOV 3 |
| ESTIMATE | $200,000–$300,000 |
| GRADE | PSA 10 SEALED A++ · POP 1, NONE HIGHER |
$231,800 +16% VS LOW ESTIMATE
A factory-sealed 1999 Pokémon Snap for the N64, graded PSA 10 Sealed A++ and the only copy at that grade on PSA’s census, sold for $231,800 at Landry Pop Auctions on Nov 3, per the house’s unofficial result with premium. That is above the $225,000 a PSA 9.8 A++ Super Mario 64 made at Heritage on Aug 29, per What The Slab. A spin-off photo game outpricing the N64’s flagship says the top of the census now sets the price as much as the title does.
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| BIG SALES |
RECENT COMPS · SINCE NOV 2 |
2007 Pokémon World Championships No. 1 Trainer
TCG · CGC 8, POP 1, NONE HIGHER · LANDRY POP · NOV 3 · INCL. PREMIUM, UNOFFICIAL |
$85,400 |
2017 Ishihara GX 60th Birthday Party promo
TCG · CGC 8 · LANDRY POP · NOV 3 · INCL. PREMIUM, UNOFFICIAL |
$85,400 |
2019 Doug Ferguson GX jumbo farewell card (one of five made)
TCG · CGC AUTHENTIC · LANDRY POP · NOV 3 · INCL. PREMIUM, UNOFFICIAL |
$50,800 |
1998 Pokémon Red Version (Game Boy), sealed
VIDEO GAMES · CGC 9.6 A++ · LANDRY POP · NOV 3 · INCL. PREMIUM, UNOFFICIAL
LIVE LISTINGS ON EBAY → |
$24,400 |
Dragon Ball Z genga, four sheets
ANIME · MANDARAKE · NOV 2 · CLOSING PRICE ¥4,600,000 (~$29,100 AT ECB RATE, NOV 2), 116 BIDS |
$29,100 |
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October card sales hit $1.07B, the first billion-dollar month on record
Card Ladder tracked $1.07B in card sales in October across 9.2 million transactions, a record count and about half a million above August, per Collectibles On SI. The average sale was about $116, and the year started at $445.06M in January. Pokémon held three of October’s top five sales, led by the $4.88M Daisuke Ochiai Mudkip PSA 10, and Oct 25 was the biggest Pokémon sales day Card Ladder has recorded, at over $18M.
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The Cyberpunk TCG reaches store shelves Nov 6 after a record $27M Kickstarter
WeirdCo’s Welcome to Night City goes to full retail Friday. Its Kickstarter closed in April at $26,953,978 from 47,676 backers, the most a trading card game has raised there, per Game Rant. The Kickstarter-era Beta booster box has a TCGplayer Market Price of $342.11, while the Retail box slid 12% in three days to $136.69 before release. Edgerunners 2 drew 4.6 million Netflix views in its first week, and our watch model rates Cyberpunk Building.
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| VIDEO GAMES |
A sealed 2017 PS4 Fortnite at PSA 9.8 A++ sat at a $2,200 bid on Heritage with almost a week left, as Sony plans to stop making discs for new games from January 2028. (ComicBook.com, Nov 2) |
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Upper Deck signed Crystal Dynamics for Tomb Raider cards and games; Power Up Tomb Raider lands in spring 2027 with parallels numbered to 25 and 10 plus one-of-ones. (CollectiblesNews, Nov 2) |
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A 2004 ArtBox Daniel Radcliffe autograph card, PSA 9/Auto 9 and one of two at that grade, leads Heritage’s non-sports showcase at a $4,100 bid; a 1977 Topps Star Wars #2 PSA 10 is at $3,500. (ComicBook.com, Nov 3) |
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Dan Ayoub, who ran Dungeons & Dragons, took over as president of Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Digital Games on Nov 2, the first internal pick for the job. (ICv2, Oct 27) |
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| UPCOMING RELEASES |
DROP DATES |
| NOV 6 |
Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution – Delta Reign: 36-pack booster box $160.99 at Best Buy, sold there by invitation only, and Elite Trainer Box $49.99, with Mega Rayquaza ex at the center, per CollectiblesNews (reported)
LIVE LISTINGS ON EBAY → |
BOX $160.99 |
| NOV 6 |
Cyberpunk TCG: Welcome to Night City (WeirdCo): the first full retail release, after pre-release events, per Cyberpunk TCG
LIVE LISTINGS ON EBAY → |
FIRST RETAIL SET |
| NOV 12 |
Sonic Pico Park (game): launches on PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch and PC, per Pico Park |
NEW GAME |
| NOV 13 |
Magic: The Gathering – Star Trek (Wizards of the Coast): Play Boosters, Collector Boosters and Beam Me Up Bundles; prerelease events start Nov 6, per Wizards of the Coast
LIVE LISTINGS ON EBAY → |
PRERELEASE NOV 6 |
| NOV 19 |
Grand Theft Auto VI (Rockstar Games): PS5 and Xbox Series X|S; pre-load begins Nov 10, per Rockstar Games |
PRE-LOAD NOV 10 |
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| THINGS TO WATCH |
UP AND COMING |
| TCG |
Cyberpunk TCG · NOV 6
Organized Play stores can begin weekly Night City Brawl events the day the retail set lands.
US search interest is at 46 against 8 before on Google Trends, and VGC is covering the franchise at 1.6% of its articles against 0.2%. (Cyberpunk TCG) |
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Magic: The Gathering · NOV 13
The Star Trek set releases, a week after its prerelease events open on Nov 6.
Brainstorm Brewery spent 16.8% of its talk on Magic in the last four weeks against 14.7% before, and GetTheGregGames picked it up at 0.9% from none. (Wizards of the Coast) |
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Metroid Ravenous · JAN 28, 2027
Metroid Ravenous releases on Nintendo Switch 2.
People following the game on IGDB are up 15% in about four weeks; YouTube uploads are down, so the rise is narrow so far. (Nintendo) |
Stages: Early = a date on the calendar or attention starting to move; Building = attention rising into a dated event; Fading = the event has passed or attention is falling. Attention is podcast talk, news, search and video counts, each against its own past. A watch list, not a buy list.
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FIELD NOTE
At the top of the census, the grade can outprice the title.
Pokémon Snap was never the N64’s flagship, yet its only PSA 10 sealed copy beat the $225,000 a 9.8 A++ Super Mario 64 made in August. A pop-1 slab gives a buyer something no other copy can, and that can matter more than which game is inside. A second PSA 10 sealed copy is what would test this price.
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