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Logan Paul Peeled the First Pokémon Card: What Happened, and What It Graded
Published July 27, 2026 · Updated August 6, 2026 with the PSA grades
On Wednesday, July 30 at 9:30 PM ET, Logan Paul peels a 1996 pre-production CoroCoro Pikachu and Jigglypuff sheet live on his YouTube channel. If the Pikachu grades a 10, it would be the first confirmed PSA 10 of the first Pokémon TCG card ever printed, a card with 1,400+ graded copies and zero verified tens. His last attempt came back a 5.
Grades are in · August 6, 2026
The Pikachu graded PSA 9. The Jigglypuff graded PSA 8. Logan Paul revealed both in a video posted the evening of August 6, opening the slabs on camera for the first time since the peel. There is still no PSA 10 of the glossy Ivy Pikachu. The record he was chasing stands unbroken, and his own on-stream read of a nine turned out to be exactly right.
He put the Pikachu at "minimum a $250,000 card", citing another PSA 9 owner who turned down a $250,000 offer, and called it roughly the 22nd or 23rd PSA 9 in existence. Take that as the seller's framing rather than a clearing price: before the reveal he had estimated two nines at about $200,000 combined against the $400,000 he paid for the sheet, and an 8 is a step below that scenario, not above it. The slab label reads CoroCoro Comic No. 223.
Source: "I Spent $400k on Pikachu's Rookie Card *Grade Reveal*" (Logan Paul / YouTube, published August 6 2026, 23:16), transcribed from the video's own captions.
1996 CoroCoro glossy Pikachu: what copies actually sell for
A PSA 9 is now the top of the market. Sold comps first, because asks on this card run far above them.
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Check the illustrator credit before buying: a "glossy" listing showing Kinebuchi is the non-glossy reprint, and mislabelled slabs are the whole reason the PSA 10 population is disputed.
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Results · July 30 stream
He peeled it, and both cards survived. The Pikachu came off the $400,000 sheet cleanly; the Jigglypuff fought him and came off with what he called brutal centering. Both went to PSA at the National on July 31 and came back a 9 and an 8 respectively. See the grades above. His own honest read on the Pikachu was a nine, because of centering.
The night's biggest wins came from the boxes rather than the sheet: two 1st Edition Charizards out of the $450,000 box, ending five straight boxes without one, and five Michael Jordan rookies out of the $160,000 Fleer box.
In his words as he examined it: "In my heart, I think it's a nine… It's that centering." And on what happens if he is right: "If these cards don't 10 tomorrow, this journey ain't over for me."
Source: the official live stream VOD, "Peeling the World's First Pokémon Cards & Opening ANOTHER 1st Edition Box" (Logan Paul / YouTube, July 30 2026, ~5 hours).
What he is opening tonight
- The $400,000 pre-production CoroCoro sheet. The peel this page is about, chasing the first PSA 10 of the card underneath.
- A $450,000 1st Edition Pokémon box. The Charizard hunt.
- A $160,000 1986–87 Fleer basketball box, containing a Michael Jordan rookie card.
Values as stated by Logan Paul in his July 30 2026 post announcing the stream. He calls the sheet peel "by far the biggest gamble of my life."
What happened, step by step
- A warm-up peel first. Before touching the main sheet he peeled a separate pre-production sheet to finish his CoroCoro set: a grey-star Pikachu and grey-star Jigglypuff. The Pikachu showed whitening he put at "eight or nine"; he noted that card in a 10 is a $60,000 card.
- The Jigglypuff went first, and it stuck. One corner would not release, "30 years of glue", and it took several minutes to free. It came off intact in what he called fantastic condition, but with centering he described as brutal. His estimate: a nine.
- The Pikachu came off clean. This was the whole point of the exercise, and the peel itself went perfectly: no paper loss, no bends. What is left is a small nick on the left edge and centering that a digital grading tool measured at roughly 55/45 top-to-bottom and 57/43 left-to-right.
- No grade yet. Nothing was graded on stream. He said he would walk both cards into PSA at the National the following day. Until PSA returns them, there is no PSA 10 and no confirmed answer.
- The 1st Edition box ended a five-year Charizard drought, twice. This was the fifth consecutive 1st Edition box break where a Charizard had failed to appear; by his own account on stream, it had been five years since he last pulled one. This box produced two 1st Edition Charizards. The first was pulled by a guest, Beamer of Collector's Cash, who had previously sold Logan two of his 1st Edition boxes, and drew an immediate reaction for its condition: dead-centred, with the room and chat calling it a potential 10. Both are ungraded; a blind offer was made on the first before grading and declined.
- Another six-figure card came out of the same box. A second guest pulled what the room called one of the biggest cards in the set, "not the Charizard, just the second best", which they estimated at over $100,000 in a PSA 10.
- And the Fleer box delivered. Five Michael Jordan rookie cards, with the run opening on a single pack that held both a Jordan rookie and a Jordan sticker. Peak concurrent viewership was around 31,000.
Worth keeping in perspective: a nine is not a failure. He estimated that if both cards grade nine they are worth roughly $200,000 together, against $400,000 paid for the sheet. The PSA 10 that does not exist still does not exist, and by his own account the quest continues.
What the cards he's chasing actually cost
The headline numbers on a livestream are what someone paid for a sealed box or a one-of-one. What the same cards trade for in the open market is a very different figure, and it is the one worth knowing if this story makes you want to buy something. Sold comps are the honest number. Asking prices on thin vintage markets routinely sit far above what anything actually sells for, so the sold links below are the ones to trust.
1st Edition Base Set Charizard
The card that makes a sealed 1st Edition box worth $450,000. Check sold comps before believing any ask.
1st Edition Base Set packs & boxes
Sealed 1st Edition product, the category he is opening tonight.
CoroCoro glossy Ivy Pikachu
The card under the sheet. Check the illustrator credit: a glossy listing showing Kinebuchi is the non-glossy reprint.
CoroCoro glossy Jigglypuff
Same peel sheet. Exactly one confirmed glossy PSA 10 exists.
Pikachu Illustrator
The card he sold for $16.49M to fund this. Copies below PSA 10 do trade.
1986–87 Fleer Michael Jordan sticker
Pulled from the same pack as the rookie on tonight's stream. The sticker is a separate card from the base rookie and trades on its own comps.
1986–87 Fleer Michael Jordan rookie
The chase from the $160,000 basketball box, the one non-Pokémon item in tonight's stream. Graded copies span an enormous range, so comps matter more here than anywhere on this list.
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Know which peel the number belongs to
Three peels in two weeks, and half the coverage is reporting the first one's grades as the last one's. The Friday digest: chase card movement, the drop calendar, and numbers checked against the source.
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Why this peel is different from the last one
His previous attempt, documented in the July 23 video, peeled cards from an actual CoroCoro magazine, copies that spent thirty years compressed under hundreds of pages. PSA graded them 5 and 2; TAG confirmed the grades and named the killer: bends, invisible in scans. The full story of that attempt, the population dispute, and how to spot the mislabelled slabs is in our CoroCoro Pikachu explainer.
A pre-production sheet never lived inside a magazine. No compression, no binding glue on the cards themselves. That removes the specific defect that sank the last attempt. It does not remove 1996 centering, glossy stock's memory of every touch, or thirty-year-old adhesive on the sheet.
What a 10 would actually mean
The honest answer to "what would it be worth" is that no comparable sale exists, which is exactly what people said about the Pikachu Illustrator before Paul's PSA 10 copy sold for $16,492,000 in February, the most expensive trading card in history. A first-ever 10 of the first Pokémon TCG card would be a second functionally-one-of-one CoroCoro grail.
The asterisk collectors will fight about: a pre-production copy is not a magazine copy. Whether the market treats a pre-production 10 as "the first Pokémon card in PSA 10" or as a related-but-separate artifact is genuinely unsettled, and that debate, more than the grade, may decide the price.
Either way, the existing copies move
Attention reprices markets. After the July 23 video, CoroCoro promo purchases through this site jumped within days. The 9 landed in the middle of the two outcomes people expected: it is not the proven grail that would have made every high-grade glossy copy an under-copy, and it is not another 5 either. What it does is harden the "a 10 may be impossible" case. The best-prepared attempt anyone has made, on a card taken straight off an uncirculated sheet, still stopped at nine. That is a scarcity argument for the copies that already exist.
Every CoroCoro promo, from Surfing Pikachu to Lilypad Mew to the grey stars, is tracked with reference images, live asks and sold comps on our CoroCoro promo set page.
Chasing modern product as well as vintage?
The restock alert communities are how people catch Pokémon Center and Target windows that open without warning, and they carry in-store stock checkers you run yourself across most of the big retailers. Hand one a SKU and it comes back with every store in your area and what each is holding. It is what we use.
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FAQ
Did Logan Paul get a PSA 10 Pikachu?
No. The grades came back on August 6 2026: the Pikachu graded PSA 9 and the Jigglypuff PSA 8. His own assessment on the July 30 stream was that the Pikachu would grade a nine rather than a ten, because of centering measured at roughly 55/45 top-to-bottom and 57/43 left-to-right, plus a small nick on the left edge. That read proved correct. No confirmed PSA 10 of the glossy Ivy Pikachu exists, which is the same situation as before the peel: 1,400+ copies graded, zero verified tens.
What did Logan Paul pull on the July 30 stream?
The $450,000 1st Edition Pokémon box produced two 1st Edition Charizards, ending a run of five straight boxes without one and, by his account on stream, five years since he last pulled one. The first was pulled by guest Beamer of Collector's Cash and was dead-centred enough that the room called it a potential 10. The same box also produced a card the hosts estimated at over $100,000 in a PSA 10. The $160,000 1986–87 Fleer basketball box produced five Michael Jordan rookie cards, with the run opening on a pack holding both a Jordan rookie and a Jordan sticker. From the CoroCoro sheets he peeled a grey-star Pikachu and Jigglypuff as a warm-up, then the Pikachu and Jigglypuff from the $400,000 pre-production sheet. Everything is ungraded as of the end of the stream.
Did Logan Paul pull a Charizard?
Yes, two of them. The $450,000 1st Edition box opened on July 30 2026 produced two 1st Edition Charizards, breaking a streak of five consecutive 1st Edition box breaks without one. On stream he said it had been five years since he personally pulled a 1st Edition Charizard. The first was pulled by guest Beamer of Collector's Cash, who had previously sold Logan two 1st Edition boxes; the room described it as dead-centred and a candidate for a 10, and an offer to buy it blind before grading was declined. Both cards remain ungraded.
What grade did Logan Paul's CoroCoro Pikachu get?
PSA 9. He revealed the grades in a video posted August 6 2026: the Pikachu from the $400,000 pre-production sheet graded PSA 9, and the Jigglypuff from the same sheet graded PSA 8. That matches his own on-stream read of the Pikachu as a nine on centering. No PSA 10 was achieved. He described the Pikachu as roughly the 22nd or 23rd PSA 9 in existence and put its value at a minimum of $250,000, pointing to another PSA 9 owner who declined a $250,000 offer. That is his own framing, not a completed sale. Before grading he had estimated two nines at about $200,000 combined against the $400,000 he paid for the sheet.
When is Logan Paul peeling the CoroCoro sheet live?
July 30, 2026 at 9:30 PM Eastern on his YouTube channel. In a July 30 post he confirmed the lineup: the CoroCoro pre-production sheet peel, a $450,000 1st Edition Pokémon box, and a $160,000 1986–87 Fleer basketball box containing a Michael Jordan rookie card.
What exactly is he peeling?
A pre-production sheet of the 1996 glossy Ivy Pikachu and Jigglypuff, the pair that became the first Pokémon TCG cards when CoroCoro Comic bound them into its November 1996 issue. He disclosed paying roughly $400,000 for a pre-production sheet in the July 23 video.
Has anyone ever graded a PSA 10 of the first Pokémon card?
No confirmed glossy PSA 10 Ivy Pikachu has ever surfaced. PSA's population report listed a few over the years, but collectors traced every photographable one to mislabelled non-glossy copies, and PSA has been deactivating those certificates. Roughly 1,400+ have been graded. The Jigglypuff from the same sheet has exactly one confirmed glossy PSA 10.
What happened the last time he tried this?
His previous peel, documented in the July 23 video, came back PSA 5 for the Pikachu and PSA 2 for the Jigglypuff. He cracked the slabs and took them to TAG, which confirmed the grades and identified bends, invisible in scans, as the cause. The cards had spent three decades compressed inside a magazine.
What would a PSA 10 be worth?
Nobody knows, and any specific number is a guess. The anchors: Paul's PSA 10 Pikachu Illustrator, a different one-of-one CoroCoro card, sold for $16,492,000 in February 2026, the most expensive trading card ever auctioned. A first-ever PSA 10 of the first Pokémon TCG card would be functionally one-of-one too. The complication: this would be a pre-production sheet copy, not a magazine-bound copy, and collectors will argue about whether that counts as "the first Pokémon card". Expect that debate to affect any sale.
What are the realistic odds?
Poor, and he knows it. Glossy stock shows every handling mark, the 1996 printing left the factory badly centred, and peeling can lift paper because the glue has bonded for thirty years. A pre-production sheet that never went inside a magazine avoids the compression bends that sank his last attempt. That is the one genuine reason for optimism.
CoroCoro promos: what buyers actually paid
Sold comps across the whole CoroCoro run: the baseline to judge post-reveal asks against
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Sources
- Logan Paul, "I Spent $400k on Pikachu's Rookie Card *Grade Reveal*" (YouTube, August 6, 2026): the PSA 9 Pikachu and PSA 8 Jigglypuff, his $250,000 valuation and PSA 9 population claim
- Logan Paul, "I Spent $2,713,096 on The World's First Pokémon Card" (YouTube, July 23, 2026): peel date, pre-production sheet purchase, prior PSA 5/2 grades
- PSA population report & 2019 set registry article: graded population and the mislabelled-cert history
- Elite Fourum population investigation: the walk-down of claimed glossy PSA 10s
- Goldin Auctions: Pikachu Illustrator PSA 10, $16,492,000 (February 16, 2026)