Expedition Pop Report (2026): PSA 10 Population for Every Holo — 443 Gems Total
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There are 443 PSA 10 Expedition cards in existence across the 9 holos with countable population chains — fewer gems in the entire first e-Series set than a single Base Set Charizard printing has on its own. This page is the census: the PSA 10 population of every countable Expedition holo with the gem-mint price next to each count, the full Charizard grade pyramid, and the pop-15 card the market prices at —. PSA's own population report now sits behind a login; ours is free, built on exact GemRate population chains, and refreshed monthly. It is one chapter of the full WOTC pop report — and the cost side of the same data lives in what a complete PSA 10 Expedition set costs.
How Many PSA 10 Expedition Cards Exist?
443 PSA 10s across the 9 tracked holos whose population chains resolve — 6 counts are exact GemRate chains and 3 are modeled and marked †; the other 18tracked holos have no resolvable chain yet. For scale: Base Set's tracked printings hold 5,865 gems, and the Base Set Unlimited Charizard alone has 487 PSA 10s — more than all of Expedition combined. Populations collapse once you cross from the Base era into the e-Series: fewer boxes opened, brutal split-frame centering, and twenty-four years of nobody submitting. The census, scarcest first:
| Card | PSA 10 pop | PSA 10 price | Gem market cap | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 2002 Expedition Pidgeot #23 | 13† | $1,350 | $17,550 |
 | 2002 Expedition Magby #17 | 13† | $150 | $1,950 |
 | 2002 Expedition Alakazam #1 | 20† | $9,600 | $192,000 |
 | 2002 Expedition Pichu #22 | 24† | $1,315 | $31,560 |
 | 2002 Expedition Cloyster #8 | 39 | $1,523 | $59,397 |
| 2002 Expedition Charizard #6 | 45 | $21,600 | $972,000 | |
 | 2002 Expedition Tyranitar #29 | 73 | $2,880 | $210,240 |
 | 2002 Expedition Machamp #16 | 76 | $840 | $63,840 |
 | 2002 Expedition Venusaur #30 | 104 | $2,640 | $274,560 |
Every card on that table is pop 104 or lower — in Base Set terms, every Expedition holo is rarer in PSA 10 than the 1st Edition Charizard. The deepest chain in the set is the Venusaur #30 at pop 104.
How Many PSA 10 Expedition Charizards Are There?
45 — an exact GemRate chain. From 3,475 total gradings, 45 came back gem mint — a 1.3% gem rate. Compare the funnels: the Base Set Unlimited Charizard has 101,739 gradings; this card has 3,475. And the shape of the pyramid tells the e-Series story better than any sentence — there are 221 PSA 1 Expedition Charizards, roughly five for every PSA 10:
That is what split-frame borders and 2002 print sheets do to a population: the pyramid bulges at PSA 7–8 and starves at the top. The market has noticed — here is the pop-45 card, live:
Real sold comps from CardboardSniper's pricing engine · 5 sales(eBay & Fanatics).
View live data on CardboardSniper →Does Expedition Have 1st Edition Cards?
No. There is no such thing as a 1st Edition Expedition card.Expedition Base Set — like every e-Series set that followed it (Aquapolis and Skyridge) — was printed in a single run with no 1st Edition stamp. WOTC's last 1st Edition print run was Neo Destiny in early 2002; Legendary Collection and the e-Series dropped the stamp entirely, and no card with an e-Reader bar ever carried one. That is why this pop report has one column where the Base Set report has three.
The practical warning: any listing, slab label description, or auction title offering a "1st Edition Expedition Charizard" is mislabeled at best and fraudulent at worst — usually a seller borrowing Base-era vocabulary to imply scarcity that is not on the card. The scarcity here needs no imaginary stamp; a pop-45 Charizard and a pop-15 Poliwrath are scarce on the census alone. If a listing says 1st Edition and shows an e-Reader bar, walk away.
What Is the Rarest Expedition Card in PSA 10?
The Poliwrath #24, at pop 15 — an exact chain, and the most extreme unknown we track anywhere in WOTC. Fifteen gems exist — rarer than the Expedition Charizard (pop 45), rarer than any tracked Base Set printing — and no verified PSA 10 sale of the holo exists in our archive at all.The card's PSA 9s trade around $250, and a PSA 10 always prices above its 9, so that number is the floor of a market that hasn't happened yet. It ranks #3 in the 50 rarest WOTC cards precisely because of that combination: exact pop-15 supply, zero public gem price.
A pop-15 card has no liquid market — no steady bids, no fresh tape, nothing to force a price into existence until one of fifteen owners sells. When one finally crosses the tape, expect discovery, not a bargain: the freshly verified Dragonite #9 gem printed $55,200 against 9s that trade near $1,300. That is what this set does when a true gem meets an open market.
Which Expedition Cards Are Hardest to Gem?
Gem rate is the other half of a pop report: not how many 10s exist, but what fraction of all submissions earned one. Expedition's split-frame layout put four card-ruining edges on every border, and the e-Reader bar gave centering one more way to fail:
| # | Card | Gem rate | PSA 10s / total graded | PSA 10 price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2002 Expedition Charizard #6 | 1.3% | 45 / 3,475 | $19,500 | |
| 2 |  | 2002 Expedition Poliwrath #24 | 1.7% | 15 / 903 | — |
| 3 | | 2002 Expedition Tyranitar #29 | 3.6% | 73 / 2,017 | $2,880 |
| 4 | | 2002 Expedition Cloyster #8 | 4.5% | 39 / 865 | $1,523 |
| 5 | | 2002 Expedition Venusaur #30 | 8.5% | 104 / 1,221 | $2,640 |
| 6 | | 2002 Expedition Machamp #16 | 10.0% | 76 / 762 | $840 |
The Charizard gems 1.3% of the time; the Poliwrath 1.7%. Every card on that list is one where the PSA 10 is the trophy and the PSA 9 is the market — which is exactly why nine Expedition holos have never recorded a verified gem sale at all (the cost twin covers those gem-ghosts in full). If you're weighing a raw submission, the PSA 10 value calculator turns these gem rates into expected value.
Is Expedition Scarcity Priced In?
Almost none of it. Price divided by PSA 10 population is what the market pays per unit of gem supply, and Expedition's spread is enormous:
| Card | PSA 10 price | PSA 10 pop | Price per pop unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 Expedition Charizard #6 | $19,500 | 45 | $433 |
| 2002 Expedition Tyranitar #29 | $2,880 | 73 | $39 |
| 2002 Expedition Cloyster #8 | $1,523 | 39 | $39 |
| 2002 Expedition Venusaur #30 | $2,640 | 104 | $25 |
| 2002 Expedition Machamp #16 | $840 | 76 | $11 |
Charizard #6 tops the table at $433 per unit of supply, while the bottom of the list pays under $11 — and the pop-15Poliwrath, the rarest card in the set, can't be ranked at all because no gem has ever publicly sold. Attention sets vintage prices; the census just waits to be noticed. The whole tracked gem supply of this set — 443 slabs — carries a market cap of $1,552,497, less than a handful of Base Set grails. The full ranked list across all fifteen WOTC sets is in the 50 rarest WOTC cards.
Expedition Pop Report FAQ
How many PSA 10 Expedition Charizards are there?
45, per the exact July 2026 GemRate chain — from 3,475 total gradings, a 1.3% gem rate. There are 221 PSA 1 copies — about five times the gem count.
What is the rarest Expedition card in PSA 10?
The Poliwrath #24 at pop 15 — an exact chain, and rarer than the Charizard. No verified PSA 10 sale of the holo exists in our archive; its 9s trade around $250, and since a 10 always prices above the 9 of the same card, the gem price is simply undiscovered until one of the fifteen owners sells.
Does Expedition have 1st Edition cards?
No — no e-Series set (Expedition, Aquapolis, or Skyridge) was ever printed with a 1st Edition stamp. Every Expedition card comes from a single print run, and any "1st Edition Expedition" listing is mislabeled or fraudulent.
How many PSA 10 Expedition cards exist in total?
443 across the 9 holos with countable population chains (6 exact, the rest modeled) — fewer than the 487 PSA 10s of the Base Set Unlimited Charizard alone.
Is the PSA pop report free?
PSA's official population report now requires an account login. This page — and the full WOTC pop report it belongs to — is free, exact where GemRate chains resolve, and refreshed monthly.
Trade the census:every population above links to the card's live price page, the Expedition index prices the whole set daily, the WOTC set-cost guide shows what this census costs to own across all fifteen sets, the Expedition investing guide ranks every holo by the numbers, and the live deal feed is where that supply — all 443 gems of it — surfaces below market.
