Charizard & Braixen GX (SM Black Star Promo)

What moves the price of this card

The Charizard & Braixen GX (SM Black Star Promo) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Jumbo Cards, and it trades at $21.30£16.03€18.76 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 $71.07£53.49€62.59, PSA 8 $78.43£59.03€69.07, PSA 9 $116.85£87.95€102.91, CGC/BGS 9.5 $129£97.09€113.61, PSA 10 $945.80£711.85€832.94. PSA has graded 5,652 copies of it. 139 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Charizard & Braixen GX (SM Black Star Promo) worth?

A PSA 10 Charizard & Braixen GX (SM Black Star Promo) from Jumbo Cards sells for $945.80. 43.2% 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 Charizard & Braixen GX (SM Black Star Promo) from Jumbo Cards worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $468.96 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $70.75 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it clears $298.22.

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 $945.80£711.85€832.94. 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.