Buffer Piece
Sold price movement
- 12 months ago
- $2.79£2.10€2.46
- Today
- $3.20£2.41€2.82
- Change
- +$0.41+£0.31+€0.36 (+14.7%)
Market activity
| Price type | Pop share | PopulationPop | Sold 90d | Median | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | – | – | – | $3.20£2.41€2.82 | |
| PSA 5 | 2 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 6 | 2 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 7 | 3 | – | – | $19.79£14.89€17.43 | |
| PSA 8 | 8 | – | – | $21.91£16.49€19.30 | |
| PSA 9 | 17 | – | – | $30.50£22.96€26.86 | |
| CGC/BGS 9.5 | – | – | – | $34£25.59€29.94 | |
| PSA 10modelled | 1 | – | – | $126.80£95.44€111.67 | |
About these prices
3.0% of copies sent to PSA come back a 10. The 9.5 is a CGC and BGS grade, so it carries no PSA population.
Priced from 87 completed sales, updated Sep 12, 2026.
Price history
Recent sales
87 completed listings on eBay
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Buffer Piece 83/97 2003 EX Dragon Pokemon Card Nintendo Uncommon Trainer Nm/Vlp$3.53£2.66€3.11Pokemon Cards - Buffer Piece 83/97 - Ex Dragon - eBay Live Sun 5th 6:30pm$1.32£0.99€1.16POKEMON TCG Card - BUFFER PIECE 83/97 EX DRAGON UNCOMMON - NEAR MINT 83/97$1.78£1.34€1.57Pokemon Card Buffer Piece (EX Dragon) 83/97 NEAR MINT Non-Holo Uncommon TCG!!!!!$0.99£0.75€0.87Pokemon Card Buffer Piece (EX Dragon) 83/97 NEAR MINT Non-Holo Uncommon TCG!!!!!$1.98£1.49€1.74Pokemon Buffer Piece 83/97 Ex Dragon NM-Mint See Pictures$1.99£1.50€1.75Pokemon TCG 2003 EX Dragon Buffer Piece Trainer 83/97 - Penny Start Auciton - LP 83/97$0.24£0.18€0.21Pokemon Card Buffer Piece (EX Dragon) 83/97 NEAR MINT Non-Holo Uncommon TCG!!!!! 83/97$0.99£0.75€0.879Cert 53781203Auction$21.19£15.95€18.6610EX Dragon Buffer Piece 83/97 UNCOMMON Trainer Pokemon Tool Card BGS PSA 10 MINT?$0.98£0.74€0.869Cert 43350703Best offer$22.99£17.30€20.25More from EX Dragon
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CGC has graded 77 copies. Where they landed:
These are CGC grades. The prices above are for PSA slabs, and a CGC 10 is not the same grade as a PSA 10, so read the two as separate markets rather than one.
Why the verdict weights the odds
Only 12.8% of copies reach a 10, which is why the top price is the wrong number to plan around. Weighting each grade’s PSA price by these odds, a submission is worth $37.01£27.86€32.60 on average against $103.19£77.67€90.88 for the card plus $79.99£60.20€70.44 at Regular, the cheapest level PSA will insure it at. That loses $66.18£49.81€58.28, so a copy is worth more raw.
1 of the 5 grades priced above had no sales at that grade, so the figure is modelled from the grades that did rather than observed.
Card facts
- Card number
- 83/97
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Illustrator
- Katsura Tabata
- Set released
- Nov 24, 2003
- PSA population, all printings
- 47
- Printings priced
- 2
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What moves the price of this card
The Buffer Piece on this page is the Reverse Holofoil printing from EX Dragon, and it trades at $2.96£2.23€2.61 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 $19.79£14.89€17.43, PSA 8 $21.91£16.49€19.30, PSA 9 $30.50£22.96€26.86, CGC/BGS 9.5 $34£25.59€29.94, PSA 10 $126.80£95.44€111.67. PSA has graded 47 copies of it. 87 completed sales are on file.
What is a PSA 10 Buffer Piece worth?
A PSA 10 Buffer Piece from EX Dragon sells for $126.80. 3.0% 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 Buffer Piece from EX Dragon worth grading?
On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $27.05 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $3.20 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $76.14.
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 $126.80£95.44€111.67. 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.