Market reports
What the 1996 Bandai Carddass prisms sell for in PSA 10, red against green, from the sales we track across eBay, Fanatics Collect, Goldin and PSA's own records.
The Bandai Carddass prism PSA 10 population has grown 141% since 2021, and the average prism still has 84
On 14 November 2021 the twelve 1996 Bandai Carddass prisms had 416 PSA 10s between them. In October 2026 they have 1,002. The Alakazam went from 22 to 77 and the Charizard from 66 to 113, nine of the twelve are still under 100, and because PSA pools red and green the average prism works out at about 42 PSA 10s per colour. This report is the five-year change, card by card, and what the population does and does not say about price.
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Is red or green more rare in the 1996 Bandai Carddass vending set? The PSA 10 count so far
The 1996 Bandai Carddass vending prisms were, by long-standing rumour, printed half red and half green. Nobody could check, because PSA's label is the same for both. We have now read the colour of 330 of the 1,001 PSA 10 prisms off the slab photos: 182 are red and 148 are green. That is a red lead a 50/50 print produces about one time in fourteen, so the rumour stands for now. The table below gives every prism, and the Charizard, where red is said to carry a premium, has sold for more in green.
Bandai Carddass PSA 10 prices are four times what they were a year ago, and this is every card's price
A PSA 10 from the 1996 Bandai Carddass set sold for a median of $840 in the twelve months to 13 October 2026, against $160 in the twelve months before, and the rise reached the 139 plain cards as well as the twelve prisms. Every card's PSA 10 and PSA 9 price is below, with the quarter-by-quarter path since January 2024.
Everything in the 1996 Pokémon Carddass vending set, the first Pokémon card set
The 1996 Pokémon Carddass vending set is 158 cards sold from Bandai's machines in two parts, Part 1 from 21 to 30 September 1996 and Part 2 from 1 to 10 October, with every Pokémon card printed in a red and a green version. Three title cards, 151 Pokémon of which twelve are prisms, and four checklists. This is what each of them is, which exist in one colour only, and how the two versions are told apart.
The Bandai Carddass PSA population is 32,314 cards and 3,134 PSA 10s, and here they are split by red and green for the first time
PSA has graded 32,314 cards from the 1996 Bandai Carddass vending set and 3,134 of them are a PSA 10, as of its report of 4 October 2026. PSA's label pools the red and green versions, so we read the colour off each slab photo instead: 686 of those PSA 10s are red, 603 are green, and 540 known certs have no photo to read yet. The full grade ladder, the gem rate by card type, and the split for every prism.
The 1996 Bandai Carddass cards came out a month before the Pokémon TCG, and here is the timeline
Three cards are called the first Pokémon card. The Bandai Carddass vending cards were on sale in Japan in late September 1996; the glossy CoroCoro Pikachu was given away on 15 October; the Base Set, in its no-rarity first print, followed on 20 October. This is the order they came in, what each one is, and what the market pays for each today.
Bandai Carddass prism PSA 10 prices over the past three months, every card at a record
Between 7 July and 6 October 2026 the twelve 1996 Bandai Carddass prisms in PSA 10 sold 47 times for $662,902, four times the money of the quarter before, and every one of the twelve set a new record. This is the whole quarter, card by card and colour by colour.
A green Carddass Charizard prism in PSA 10 sold for $100,100 on PSA's own eBay store
The first six-figure sale of a 1996 Bandai Carddass card closed on 6 October 2026, one day after the set's previous record. Here is every PSA 10 Charizard prism sale we hold since 2018, and what the green and red versions have each sold for.