Gyarados (Prerelease)

What moves the price of this card

The Gyarados (Prerelease) on this page is the Normal printing from Nintendo Promos, and it trades at $262.50£197.57€231.18 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 $93£70€81.90, PSA 8 $116.04£87.34€102.19, PSA 9 $327£246.12€287.98, CGC/BGS 9.5 $475£357.51€418.32, PSA 10 $1,002£754.22€882.51. PSA has graded 260 copies of it. 102 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Gyarados (Prerelease) worth?

A PSA 10 Gyarados (Prerelease) from Nintendo Promos sells for $1,002. 15.4% 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 Gyarados (Prerelease) from Nintendo Promos worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $364.02 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $319.74 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $55.71.

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 $1,002£754.22€882.51. 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.