Blastoise

What moves the price of this card

The Blastoise on this page is the Holofoil printing from Plasma Storm, and it trades at $1,100£831.64€995.28 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 $582.35£440.29€526.92, PSA 8 $900£680.45€814.33, PSA 9 $2,563£1,937€2,319, CGC/BGS 9.5 $2,819£2,131€2,551, PSA 10 $17,746£13,417€16,057. PSA has graded 1,436 copies of it. 512 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Blastoise worth?

A PSA 10 Blastoise from Plasma Storm sells for $17,746. 3.2% 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 Storm worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $1,752 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $379.77 for a raw copy plus $1,019 to send it through PSA Premium 1, so it clears $353.50.

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 $17,746£13,417€16,057. 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.