Arctovish V (Full Art)

What moves the price of this card

The Arctovish V (Full Art) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Evolving Skies, and it trades at $2.91£2.19€2.56 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 8 $7.53£5.67€6.63, PSA 9 $16.43£12.37€14.47, CGC/BGS 9.5 $18£13.55€15.85, PSA 10 $59.99£45.15€52.83. PSA has graded 72 copies of it. 192 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Arctovish V (Full Art) worth?

A PSA 10 Arctovish V (Full Art) from Evolving Skies sells for $59.99. 57.6% 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 Arctovish V (Full Art) from Evolving Skies worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $40.28 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $3.19 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $62.90.

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 $59.99£45.15€52.83. 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.