Alolan Sandslash GX

What moves the price of this card

The Alolan Sandslash GX on this page is the Holofoil printing from SM Promos, and it trades at $15.65£11.78€13.78 in near mint condition. Only one printing of this card was produced, so there is no cheaper version to confuse it with.

Graded, it runs PSA 9 $25.97£19.55€22.87, CGC/BGS 9.5 $29£21.83€25.54, PSA 10 $95£71.50€83.66. PSA has graded 76 copies of it. 219 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Alolan Sandslash GX worth?

A PSA 10 Alolan Sandslash GX from SM Promos sells for $95. 18.4% of the copies PSA has graded came back a 10, so that price is the best case rather than the one a submission should expect.

Is Alolan Sandslash GX from SM Promos worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $28.04 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $9.84 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $81.79.

Condition does most of the work below the surface. A copy with soft corners or a print line off centre trades well under the market price shown here, and a copy clean enough to grade trades well above it, which is why the PSA 10 sits at $95£71.50€83.66. Before you value your own copy, look at the corners under a light and check the centring on the back, where most cards give themselves away.