Bulbasaur

What moves the price of this card

The Bulbasaur on this page is the Holofoil printing from Sword & Shield Promo Cards, and it trades at $11.73£8.83€10.33 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 $8£6.02€7.05, PSA 8 $9.99£7.52€8.80, PSA 9 $24.83£18.69€21.87, CGC/BGS 9.5 $27£20.32€23.78, PSA 10 $73.40£55.24€64.64. PSA has graded 307 copies of it. 218 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Bulbasaur worth?

A PSA 10 Bulbasaur from Sword & Shield Promo Cards sells for $73.40. 9.3% 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 Bulbasaur from Sword & Shield Promo Cards worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $23.63 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $11.33 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $87.69.

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 $73.40£55.24€64.64. 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.