TAIGA KASAI
Collectors have graded 43,458 copies of Taiga Kasai's 14 tracked cards. The catalog gems at 62.8 percent, a high rate that usually reflects modern print quality more than easy grading. Submissions are running hot right now: 9,370 new gradings in the last 30 days.
Hype meter
recomputed every refresh, moves with each new set9,370 fresh slabs in 30 days is doing most of the lifting here. Submission volume is weighted hardest because it costs money, and this catalog is drawing plenty of it. One of their singles passed the price consistency screen this week at -20.6 percent on average, so the heat reading is live data, not vibes. Nobody on the swept forums said the name in the last two weeks. The meter treats that silence honestly, so the reading rests on the market components alone.
THE BINDER
the 8 most graded Taiga Kasai illustrations
Mega Gengar ex · Ascended Heroes · pop 27,352
Houndoom · Shrouded Fable · pop 8,210
Mega Hawlucha ex · Ascended Heroes · pop 3,778
Mega Scrafty ex · Ascended Heroes · pop 3,219
Greninja · SWSH Black Star Promos · pop 756
Haxorus · Black Bolt · pop 45
Axew · Black Bolt · pop 40
Fraxure · Black Bolt · pop 27Ranked by total graded population across all tracked prints. A pocket that links out has a full card page behind it.
THE ARTIST
Taiga Kasai came up through the contest pipeline too: a Tama Art University graduate working as an illustrator and graphic designer, he took First Runner-Up honors for Japan in the 2022 Pokemon TCG Illustration Contest, and official card work followed.
His tracked catalog is small and recent, which is exactly what makes it worth watching: every new set is a meaningful percentage of his printed career.
Sources: Official TCG Illustration Contest column · Bulbapedia
Catalog market data
updates with every data refreshMost valuable cards
Full tracked catalog
| Card | Set | Year | Graded | PSA 10 | Gem rate | PSA 10 price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greninja SWSH305 | SWSH Black Star Promos | 2019 | 756 | 8 | 1.1% | |
| Breloom 7 | Temporal Forces | 2024 | 3 | 1 | 33.3% | $44.99 |
| Houndoom 66 | Shrouded Fable | 2024 | 8,210 | 3,015 | 36.7% | $186.89 |
| Axew 68 | Black Bolt | 2025 | 40 | 20 | 50% | $51.30 |
| Fraxure 69 | Black Bolt | 2025 | 27 | 14 | 51.9% | $64.98 |
| Haxorus 70 | Black Bolt | 2025 | 45 | 19 | 42.2% | $33.63 |
| Sandile 64 | Phantasmal Flames | 2025 | 4 | 3 | 75% | $49.99 |
| Team Rocket's Spidops 19 | Ascended Heroes | 2026 | 9 | 2 | 22.2% | $31.25 |
| Salazzle 35 | Ascended Heroes | 2026 | 7 | 0 | 0% | $31.20 |
| Spectrier 98 | Ascended Heroes | 2026 | 6 | 1 | 16.7% | $32.91 |
| Mega Hawlucha ex 268 | Ascended Heroes | 2026 | 3,778 | 2,588 | 68.5% | $46.50 |
| Mega Gengar ex 269 | Ascended Heroes | 2026 | 27,352 | 19,263 | 70.4% | $159.09 |
| Mega Scrafty ex 270 | Ascended Heroes | 2026 | 3,219 | 2,374 | 73.7% | $44.50 |
| Braixen 12 | Chaos Rising | 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0% | $33.20 |
Prices shown are for the English base print unless labeled otherwise, and population totals pool all tracked prints of each illustration. Method details live on the methodology page. Thinking of grading a raw copy of one of these? Run the numbers in the grading ROI calculator first.