Kouki Saitou: 658 Cards, One Flat Premium, and a $2999.99 Charizard

Kouki Saitou has 658 cards on the books, and the artist tag as a whole prices at a 0.96x premium. That number matters more than it looks: the desk tracks artist premiums as a signal of whether a signature is doing work beyond the card itself, and 0.96x says buyers are pricing this catalog close to flat, not chasing the name.

That flatness sits awkwardly next to the top of the list. Charizard from Skyridge, the Secret Rare printing, markets at $2999.99. That single card is doing a lot of the heavy lifting for the artist's reputation, and it is not close to the next entry.

The rest of the stack

Charizard δ out of Crystal Guardians, a Holo Rare, markets at $1199.99. Rayquaza from Emerald, also Holo Rare, sits at $1078.45. Those two are the only other cards clearing four figures.

Below that the drop is sharp. Arceus & Dialga & Palkia GX from Cosmic Eclipse, an Ultra Rare, markets at $595.06, the next highest figure on the list after the top three. Dewgong, another Skyridge Holo Rare, is at $449.99. Psyduck from Sandstorm, a plain Common, still commands $436.20, which is the kind of line that makes rarity look like a suggestion rather than a rule. Lugia from Unseen Forces sits at $400.00 and Kabutops, the third Skyridge card on this list, closes it out at $399.99.

What the desk reads into this

Three of the eight top cards trace back to Skyridge, which tells you where the collector money for this artist concentrates. The Charizard at $2999.99 is an outlier even inside its own set; everything else on the list, including the other two Skyridge cards, falls off fast once you clear the top three, with the next highest entry at $595.06. A 0.96x premium across 658 cards with one card worth more than the next six combined is not a contradiction, it is just math: one chase card can carry a name's reputation while the bulk of the catalog trades like ordinary paper.

The desk is not calling a direction on any of these. We are logging where the artist's value actually sits right now and letting the scoreboard argue about it later.

Our track record

Every call we publish is scored at 7, 30 and 90 days, wins and losses alike. Each cell: how often the card went the way we said, then its average move.

Call	7 days	30 days	90 days
Mint Alerts	28% · +3.0%	44% · +7.1%	54% · +50.1%
7-day gainers we flagged	27% · +5.8%	37% · +6.1%	59% · +16.6%
7-day losers we flagged	45% · -3.8%	55% · -8.0%	69% · -19.7%

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Numbers from the TickerMint pipeline. Every call is scored publicly on the scoreboard.