Heatran VMAX (Secret)

What moves the price of this card

The Heatran VMAX (Secret) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Astral Radiance, and it trades at $7.17£5.40€6.31 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 8 $8.01£6.03€7.05, PSA 9 $22.28£16.77€19.62, CGC/BGS 9.5 $25£18.82€22.02, PSA 10 $71.41£53.75€62.89. PSA has graded 223 copies of it. 244 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Heatran VMAX (Secret) worth?

A PSA 10 Heatran VMAX (Secret) from Astral Radiance sells for $71.41. 71.1% 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 Heatran VMAX (Secret) from Astral Radiance worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $56.01 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $6.84 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $50.82.

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 $71.41£53.75€62.89. 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.