Ice Rider Calyrex V (Full Art)

What moves the price of this card

The Ice Rider Calyrex V (Full Art) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Chilling Reign, and it trades at $5.66£4.26€4.98 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 $2.95£2.22€2.60, PSA 8 $7.50£5.64€6.61, PSA 9 $10.11£7.61€8.90, CGC/BGS 9.5 $25£18.82€22.02, PSA 10 $42.57£32.04€37.49. PSA has graded 125 copies of it. 207 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Ice Rider Calyrex V (Full Art) worth?

A PSA 10 Ice Rider Calyrex V (Full Art) from Chilling Reign sells for $42.57. 49.6% 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 Ice Rider Calyrex V (Full Art) from Chilling Reign worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $25.85 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $5.32 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $79.46.

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 $42.57£32.04€37.49. 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.