Altaria (Prerelease)

What moves the price of this card

The Altaria (Prerelease) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Black and White Promos, and it trades at $40.25£30.29€35.45 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 7 $31.99£24.08€28.17, PSA 8 $77£57.95€67.81, PSA 9 $506.28£381.05€445.87, CGC/BGS 9.5 $557£419.22€490.53, PSA 10 $608£457.61€535.45. PSA has graded 153 copies of it. 127 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Altaria (Prerelease) worth?

A PSA 10 Altaria (Prerelease) from Black and White Promos sells for $608. 8.5% 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 Altaria (Prerelease) from Black and White Promos worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $282.01 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $33.50 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it clears $148.52.

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 $608£457.61€535.45. 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.