PSA is pausing new submissions on all four Value tiers effective June 2. The backlog hit 10 million cards after the $200M expansion announcement triggered a 20% submission spike.
Umezawa's Jitte sat banned in Modern for 15 years. The May 18 unban took the original Betrayers of Kamigawa printing from $12.50 to recent sales near $39, with listings up to $53.62 shipped.
Over 100 MTG Arena workers filed to form UWOTC-CWA, the first union in Wizards of the Coast history. WOTC let the May 1 voluntary recognition deadline pass, hired Fisher Phillips, and is sending daily anti-union emails and physical letters to workers' homes. NLRB election is June 2.
The only PSA 10 of the 1998 3rd Place Trophy Pikachu hammered $1,450,000 at Goldin yesterday. Three days earlier, a CGC 8 Pikachu Illustrator did $204,000 at PWCC. Vintage Japanese trophy and promo cards are running.
The Royal Pop dropped May 16. Eight pocket watches at $400-$420. Police in four cities, tear gas in Paris, India cancelled. The product worked. The launch failed. The flip may be next.
PSA's first public fraud report dropped May 7. Counterfeit Pokemon submissions jumped 125% YoY. Altered Pokemon cards jumped 407%. Charizard is the most-counterfeited collectible on earth.
Collectors announced a $200M expansion of PSA on the same day PSA stretched turnaround times across every tier and doubled the Value Bulk minimum. It landed in the middle of the #NoPSAMay boycott.
A CGC 7.0 Conserved Action Comics #1 sold for $1.4 million at Heritage's May auction. It's the first Conserved-label comic to break seven figures, more than doubling the prior record of $528,000.
Phillips Geneva XXIII closed at $96.3M, the highest-grossing watch auction ever. A Patek 2523 ran $10.2M, but Akrivia at $3.9M and Journe at $6.3M wrote the actual headline.
Top Ascended Heroes card: Mega Gengar ex at $1,400. Top Perfect Order card: Meowth at $189. Same block, same mechanic, eight weeks apart, a 7x gap at the top of the chase pyramid. The hobby doesn't lie about which set mattered.
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