Gengar (Prerelease) (Staff)

What moves the price of this card

The Gengar (Prerelease) (Staff) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Sword & Shield Promo Cards, and it trades at $2,200£1,663€1,991 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 $2,118£1,601€1,917, PSA 8 $2,200£1,663€1,991, PSA 9 $2,420£1,830€2,190, CGC/BGS 9.5 $2,662£2,013€2,409, PSA 10 $15,000£11,341€13,572. PSA has graded 159 copies of it. 162 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Gengar (Prerelease) (Staff) worth?

A PSA 10 Gengar (Prerelease) (Staff) from Sword & Shield Promo Cards sells for $15,000. 15.7% 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 Gengar (Prerelease) (Staff) from Sword & Shield Promo Cards worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $4,363 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $2,222 for a raw copy plus $1,019 to send it through PSA Premium 1, so it clears $1,122.

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 $15,000£11,341€13,572. 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.