Blaziken

What moves the price of this card

The Blaziken on this page is the Reverse Holofoil printing from Great Encounters, and it trades at $48.26£36.49€43.67 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 $10£7.56€9.05, PSA 8 $73.22£55.36€66.25, PSA 9 $300£226.82€271.44, CGC/BGS 9.5 $330£249.50€298.59, PSA 10 $1,350£1,021€1,222. PSA has graded 387 copies of it. 628 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Blaziken worth?

A PSA 10 Blaziken from Great Encounters sells for $1,350. 18.9% 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 Blaziken from Great Encounters worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $361.40 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $15.22 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it clears $246.19.

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 $1,350£1,021€1,222. 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.