Two weeks ago we counted 712 sales at $100,000 or more, and the newest rebuild of that count moves the trophy market again. UltraBall updated its tally on November 10 to cover January 1 through November 9, and it now records 813 sales at that level for a combined $237,989,604. That is 101 more sales and $21,792,589 more than the version we reported in our October 27 report on the 712 sale count, and the start of November did nothing to slow the pace down.

What changed since the October count

The count of sales at $1 million or more rose from 23 to 24, and the count at $500,000 or more rose from 67 to 72. Sales on or after September 1 now account for 649 of the 813 results, worth $179,785,932. Grade still does most of the filtering, with 658 of the 813 sales carrying a PSA 10 grade, up from 569 in the October count. Era does the rest, with 270 sales from the Wizards of the Coast years, 162 sales from the EX era, and only 21 sales of cards printed since 2014.

A Shining Magikarp is the newest sale past $1 million

The one new name in the group at $1 million or more is a fish almost nobody would have picked. A PSA 10 copy of the Japanese Shining Magikarp from the Neo 3 Promo 600 Points Fan Club sold at Alt on November 5 for $1,131,095 and now sits at number 16 on the year list. A second outlet confirms the result on its own reporting. Men's Journal reports the same $1,131,095 price after 34 bids and calls it the most expensive Magikarp card ever sold at auction, noting that Alt had expected $307,715 and that the PSA 10 population for the card is 19 copies. The same card last sold at Fanatics Collect in July 2024 for $49,200, so the November result stands at more than twenty times that earlier price.

November opened hot at Fanatics and Alt

The same November 5 Alt session also put a first edition Base Set Charizard in PSA 10 at $990,000, just below the $1 million line. UltraBall counts ten PSA 10 sales of that card this year, and it notes that every sale through June but one landed between $456,000 and $528,000, which makes the November result 1.9 times the top of that spring band. At Fanatics Collect, where the data runs at full depth from February, November opened with 40 sales at $100,000 or more in its first nine days for $7,512,000, after October closed at 198 such sales in this count. Across all venues in the new count, Fanatics accounts for 395 sales worth $95,373,999, Goldin accounts for 129 sales worth $66,821,995, and Alt accounts for 230 sales, with eBay at 50 sales and Heritage Auctions at 9 sales.

Goldin against last year is still a different scale

At Goldin alone, UltraBall counted 128 sales at $100,000 or more from January 1 through November 9 of this year, worth $66,614,595. In the same stretch of 2025, Goldin recorded three such sales worth $1,038,221, and it recorded six in all of 2025 worth $2,258,221. That comparison uses one auction house against its own published results for both years, so it is the cleanest evidence in the report that the surge is real and not only a wider net catching more venues. An outside check on the path between the two counts points the same way, because Staten News, citing the same UltraBall data at an earlier read, counted 775 sales through November 2 for $229,350,000, with 622 of them in PSA 10. The line from 712 to 775 to 813 is steady rather than a single weekend spike.

Read the payment caveat before the headline number

The $237,989,604 total carries the biggest caveat this series has had. UltraBall counts 29 Alt sales worth $9,681,387 as sold even though those auctions had closed but had not yet been paid for when the data was read. That group includes the biggest November additions named in this report, a Typhlosion in PSA 10 at $1,549,690 from October and the Shining Magikarp at $1,131,095 and the Charizard at $990,000 from November 5. If any of those payments fail, the count and the total will need to come down. The total also remains a floor for the wider market, because it includes no private sales and no Japanese marketplaces, and Alt sales enter the data only from July 19.

What to watch next

Our take is that the top of this hobby is still accelerating into the end of the year, while the cards most collectors actually own remain in a different market altogether. Watch whether the 29 unpaid Alt results complete, because the newest sale past $1 million sits inside that group. Watch whether Fanatics can hold anything close to its October and early November pace through the rest of the month. And watch the next weekly rebuild of this count, because the recent pace points toward a year that could pass 900 sales at $100,000 or more before it ends, and that last point is our projection from the trend rather than a reported fact.