Champions Festival (2016) [Staff]

What CGC copies sold for

Sold prices from listings that named the grader and the grade, not asking prices, and not a PSA figure converted across. A CGC 9 runs about 0.44x the PSA 9 on the cards where we hold both, but the spread is wide enough that it is only worth quoting where copies actually traded, which is what these are. The count beside each price is how many.

What moves the price of this card

The Champions Festival (2016) [Staff] on this page is the Normal printing from XY Promos, and it trades at $519.99£391.37€457.94 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 6 $514£386.86€452.66, PSA 7 $370.28£278.69€326.09, PSA 8 $726.32£546.66€639.65, PSA 9 $2,046£1,540€1,802, CGC/BGS 9.5 $2,250£1,693€1,982. PSA has graded 493 copies of it. 210 completed sales are on file.

Is Champions Festival (2016) [Staff] from XY Promos worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $755.90 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $505.75 for a raw copy plus $169 to send it through PSA Express, so it clears $81.15.

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. 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.