"Who else thinks this clefairy is undervalued?", six hundred and four votes on September second, under a Perfect Order Clefairy 94. Eighty seven replies came in behind it. Nothing else about a single card ran louder in the investing sub last week.
The undervalued case for Perfect Order Clefairy 94 leaves out the census entirely. We upvoted it too, and the drawing earned that. What nobody in it did was open the count.
The reply that beat the post
The comment that outscored everything else in the thread was about the picture rather than the price. "She's pointing to the moon for a reason", a hundred and thirty three votes on September second. Cona Nitanda drew her mid tumble, arms out over the meadow.
The second highest reply put a lid on the whole idea, and it did so politely. "Anyone thinking that a mass printed IR will explode in value any time soon is being a bit unrealistic", seventy nine votes.
Then came a buyer who had been picking copies up at the lower price. Thirty votes. "Extremely undervalued", that reply read, "the best card from perfect order".
What a copy of it costs in September
PriceCharting had Clefairy 94 at a hundred and thirty five dollars in a PSA 10 on September eighth. A raw copy sat near nineteen dollars on the same page that day. A graded nine sat near twenty seven.
Perfect Order reached English shelves at the end of March this year. Five months. Every slab of this card that exists anywhere came out of that window.
The climb from that nine up to that ten is the whole reason anyone submits one. We keep those pairs beside each other on the board that sets a PSA 9 price against its PSA 10.
The part of the count the thread skipped
Our board counts 6,056 PSA 10 copies of Clefairy 94 as of September eighth. They came back out of 8,759 copies sent in. Seven of every ten submitted come home a ten.
Six thousand. That is a count off our own board rather than a mood about the set.
Roughly four thousand of those submissions landed in the thirty days to August alone. One month. That is close to half the lifetime count on a card five months old.
Nothing else in Perfect Order was submitted more often. We counted the same shape under a Mega Gengar ex 284 a week ago.
The Base Set Clefairy that Ken Sugimori drew in 1999 carries 13,576 submissions behind it. It has produced 167 tens in all the years since. About one in eighty.
That is what a hard ten looks like when a census is read properly. A Wizards of the Coast holo has to survive its own edges first, which we took apart on a first edition Neo Genesis Lugia.
The collector who blames the set
A collector who calls it a beautiful card answered all of this last week. "The only issue with this card is what set it came in", that reply read. "People would have this joker at $100 if it released in Ascended".