Dragonite (Cracked Ice Holo)

What moves the price of this card

The Dragonite (Cracked Ice Holo) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Deck Exclusives, and it trades at $33.19£24.98€29.23 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 $20.50£15.43€18.05, PSA 8 $28.90£21.75€25.45, PSA 9 $81.50£61.34€71.77, CGC/BGS 9.5 $90£67.74€79.26, PSA 10 $1,000£752.65€880.67. PSA has graded 154 copies of it. 156 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Dragonite (Cracked Ice Holo) worth?

A PSA 10 Dragonite (Cracked Ice Holo) from Deck Exclusives sells for $1,000. 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 Dragonite (Cracked Ice Holo) from Deck Exclusives worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $238.22 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $15.69 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it clears $122.54.

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 $1,000£752.65€880.67. 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.