A PSA 10 Base Set Charizard has sold for six figures on multiple occasions, and the population data explains exactly why: when fewer than five hundred copies exist at that grade out of a pool of nearly ninety-five thousand, you are looking at genuine, mathematically verifiable scarcity
In the case of Whiskerquill Scribe, we got a rummaging mouse
Of the creature types from Magic's history, few have seen as many cards as humans
Among the most popular are Pauper, which only uses common and uncommon-rarity cards, formats that limit cards to only specific generations (Unova, Kalos and Alola being the big three), and Theme Pool that uses any card printed in a preconstructed theme deck
Graded Population Report: Pikachu #5 Visualize the distrbution of grades in the chart