Neo Genesis Pop Report (2026): PSA 10 Population for Every Holo, Every Printing
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There are 1,564 PSA 10 Neo Genesis cards in existence across the 16 tracked printings with resolved population counts — 13of them exact GemRate chains, the rest modeled and marked † — and this page lists every one of them, with the gem-mint price next to each count. This is Lugia's set, and the census tells that story two ways: 45 gem 1st Edition Lugias from 6,905 gradings, and a supporting cast of sub-25 pops hiding in plain sight — the Unlimited Pichu (pop 21), 1st Edition Meganium #10 (pop 22), and 1st Edition Heracross (pop 27). PSA's own population report now sits behind a login; ours is free 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 Neo Genesis set costs.
How Many PSA 10 Neo Genesis Cards Exist?
1,564 PSA 10s across the 16 printings with resolved counts (13 exact GemRate chains, the rest modeled and marked †) — and that number does not include the 45 gem 1st Edition Lugias, which we track through the grade pyramid alone because no live PSA 10 price chain exists for the card. Count them and the census reaches 1,609. The table below is the full list, scarcest first. The pattern worth noticing before you scroll: Neo Genesis populations are shallow across the board — the deepest pop in the set is 292, a number a single Base Set holo clears many times over.
How Many PSA 10 1st Edition Lugias Exist?
45 PSA 10 1st Edition Lugias, out of 6,905 total PSA gradings — a 0.65% gem rate, one of the most brutal of the entire WOTC era. Collectors have fed this card to PSA nearly seven thousand times, and the modal outcome is a PSA 8 (1,785 copies); the notorious Neo Genesis holo bleed and 2000-era centering see to it. Here is the full pyramid, every grade, real counts:
Now the strange part: those 45gems have no recent verified sale. The card's PSA 9s — 607 of them exist — trade at $12,500, and the 10 simply does not cross the tape. That is why the set-cost bill carries Lugia at zero dollars, and why the Lugia investing guide treats the gem as a when-it-surfaces event rather than a market.
What Is the Rarest Neo Genesis Card in PSA 10?
The Unlimited Pichu #12, at pop 21 — rarer than the 1st Edition Lugia (45), rarer than its own 1st Edition (37), rarer than anything else in the set with a resolved count. The 1st Edition Meganium #10 (pop 22) and 1st Edition Heracross (pop 27) round out a sub-30 trio that most collectors have never thought to chase. The Pichu is the purest case: an unstamped baby Pokémon nobody bothered grading for twenty years, now priced at $16,800 on the strength of a census nobody read until recently:
Real sold comps from CardboardSniper's pricing engine · 1 sales(eBay & Fanatics).
View live data on CardboardSniper →For scale: there are fewer PSA 10 Unlimited Pichus than there are PSA 10 1st Edition Base Set Charizards (124). Scarcity in Neo Genesis lives in the unstamped printing nobody graded — a pattern the whole set repeats below.
Are 1st Edition or Unlimited Neo Genesis Cards Rarer in PSA 10?
Unlimited is rarer — on every single card where both counts resolve. Pichu runs 37 1st Edition gems to 21Unlimited; Togetic 152 to 48; Bellossom 180 to 57; Typhlosion #18 149 to 21†. The stamp made 1st Editions worth submitting for twenty-five years while the Unlimited cards sat raw in binders, so the "common" printing is now the scarce one. The side-by-side census — the orange number is the rarer printing:
| # | Card | 1st Ed pop 10 | Unlimited pop 10 | Rarer printing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |  Ampharos | 292 | — | — |
| #2 |  Azumarill | 41 | — | — |
| #3 |  Bellossom | 180 | 57 | Unlimited |
| #6 |  Heracross | 27 | — | — |
| #8 |  Kingdra | 74† | — | — |
| #10 |  Meganium | 22 | — | — |
| #11 |  Meganium | 93 | — | — |
| #12 | Pichu | 37 | 21 | Unlimited |
| #13 |  Skarmory | 62† | — | — |
| #15 |  Steelix | 288 | — | — |
| #16 |  Togetic | 152 | 48 | Unlimited |
| #18 |  Typhlosion | 149 | 21† | Unlimited |
The dashes matter as much as the numbers: most Unlimited printings don't even have a resolved population chain, because so few have ever been slabbed. When the market pays the stamp and the census favors the unstamped card, the census usually wins eventually — the Unlimited Pichu at $16,800 is what that repricing looks like mid-flight.
Which Neo Genesis 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. Neo Genesis is infamous here — holo bleed, print lines, and 2000-era centering give it some of the ugliest gem rates in the hobby. The Unlimited Pichu gems 0.6% of the time: 21 tens from 3,324 attempts.
| # | Card | Gem rate | PSA 10s / total graded | PSA 10 price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 2000 Neo Genesis Unlimited Pichu #12 | 0.6% | 21 / 3,324 | $16,800 |
| 2 | | 2000 Neo Genesis 1st Edition Heracross #6 | 1.0% | 27 / 2,717 | $24,847 |
| 3 | | 2000 Neo Genesis 1st Edition Pichu #12 | 1.1% | 37 / 3,485 | $19,200 |
| 4 | | 2000 Neo Genesis 1st Edition Meganium #10 | 1.1% | 22 / 2,006 | $12,000 |
| 5 | | 2000 Neo Genesis 1st Edition Azumarill #2 | 1.7% | 41 / 2,467 | $3,100 |
| 6 | | 2000 Neo Genesis Unlimited Togetic #16 | 2.4% | 48 / 2,008 | $2,190 |
| 7 | | 2000 Neo Genesis Unlimited Bellossom #3 | 3.7% | 57 / 1,547 | $375 |
| 8 | | 2000 Neo Genesis 1st Edition Meganium #11 | 4.5% | 93 / 2,081 | $4,560 |
| 9 | | 2000 Neo Genesis 1st Edition Typhlosion #18 | 5.5% | 149 / 2,686 | $5,160 |
| 10 | | 2000 Neo Genesis 1st Edition Togetic #16 | 6.1% | 152 / 2,500 | $3,840 |
One card belongs on that table but can't appear: the 1st Edition Lugia, whose 0.65% rate (45 of 6,905) would slot in second-hardest — it's excluded only because it has no live price chain to rank it by. Every card on this list under 1.5% is a card where the PSA 10 is the trophy and the PSA 9 is the market. If you're weighing a raw submission, the PSA 10 value calculator turns these gem rates into expected value.
Is Neo Genesis Scarcity Priced In?
Not evenly — and the spread is the most useful table on this page. Price divided by PSA 10 population is what the market pays per unit of gem supply:
| Card | PSA 10 price | PSA 10 pop | Price per pop unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 Neo Genesis 1st Edition Heracross #6 | $24,847 | 27 | $920 |
| 2000 Neo Genesis Unlimited Pichu #12 | $16,800 | 21 | $800 |
| 2000 Neo Genesis 1st Edition Meganium #10 | $12,000 | 22 | $545 |
| 2000 Neo Genesis 1st Edition Pichu #12 | $19,200 | 37 | $519 |
| 2000 Neo Genesis 1st Edition Azumarill #2 | $3,100 | 41 | $76 |
| 2000 Neo Genesis 1st Edition Meganium #11 | $4,560 | 93 | $49 |
The 1st Edition Heracross costs $920 per unit of supply; the Unlimited Bellossom — pop 57, five rows up the census — costs $7. And the sharpest contrast isn't even on the table: the pop-21 Unlimited Pichu trades at $16,800 while the 1st Edition Lugia — with 45 gems, more than twice the supply — commands $12,500 for a PSA 9 and an unpriceable premium for the 10. Attention, not census data, sets vintage prices. The card the market is paying attention for:
Real sold comps from CardboardSniper's pricing engine · 4 sales(eBay & Fanatics).
View live data on CardboardSniper →The full ranked scarcity list across all fifteen WOTC sets is in the 50 rarest WOTC cards.
Neo Genesis Pop Report FAQ
How many PSA 10 1st Edition Lugias are there?
45 as of the July 2026 GemRate snapshot, out of 6,905 total PSA gradings — a 0.65% gem rate. No verified PSA 10 sale has crossed the tape recently; PSA 9 copies trade at $12,500.
What is the rarest Neo Genesis card in PSA 10?
The Unlimited Pichu #12 at pop 21 — rarer than the 1st Edition Lugia (45). The 1st Edition Meganium #10 (pop 22) and 1st Edition Heracross (pop 27) follow.
How many PSA 10 Neo Genesis cards exist in total?
1,564 across the 16 tracked printings with resolved population counts (13 exact GemRate chains) — 1,609 counting the 45 gem 1st Edition Lugias tracked separately through the grade pyramid.
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 Neo Genesis index prices the whole set daily, and the live deal feed is where underpriced supply surfaces.
