Blastoise V

What moves the price of this card

The Blastoise V on this page is the Holofoil printing from Sword & Shield Promo Cards, and it trades at $9.07£6.83€7.99 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 $13.50£10.16€11.89, PSA 9 $17.50£13.17€15.41, CGC/BGS 9.5 $19£14.30€16.73, PSA 10 $199.99£150.52€176.13. PSA has graded 600 copies of it. 140 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Blastoise V worth?

A PSA 10 Blastoise V from Sword & Shield Promo Cards sells for $199.99. 48.2% 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 V from Sword & Shield Promo Cards worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $104.60 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $7.64 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $3.03.

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 $199.99£150.52€176.13. 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.