Blastoise

What moves the price of this card

The Blastoise on this page is the Holofoil printing from Plasma Blast, and it trades at $25.46£19.16€22.42 in near mint condition. The other 1 printing of the same card sits lower, which is normal: the scarcer print run always carries the premium.

Graded, it runs PSA 7 $27£20.32€23.78, PSA 8 $47.55£35.79€41.88, PSA 9 $111.48£83.91€98.18, CGC/BGS 9.5 $123£92.58€108.32, PSA 10 $511.65£385.09€450.59. PSA has graded 147 copies of it. 157 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Blastoise worth?

A PSA 10 Blastoise from Plasma Blast sells for $511.65. 4.1% 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 Blastoise from Plasma Blast worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $56.14 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $9.48 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $53.33.

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 $511.65£385.09€450.59. 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.