Leafeon (Team Plasma)

What moves the price of this card

The Leafeon (Team Plasma) on this page is the Reverse Holofoil printing from Plasma Freeze, and it trades at $43.11£32.45€37.97 in near mint condition. The other 1 printing of the same card sits lower, which is normal: the scarcer print run always carries the premium.

Graded, it runs PSA 7 $39.99£30.10€35.22, PSA 8 $48.50£36.50€42.71, PSA 9 $233.35£175.63€205.50, CGC/BGS 9.5 $257£193.43€226.33, PSA 10 $308.81£232.42€271.96. PSA has graded 113 copies of it. 147 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Leafeon (Team Plasma) worth?

A PSA 10 Leafeon (Team Plasma) from Plasma Freeze sells for $308.81. 5.3% 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 Leafeon (Team Plasma) from Plasma Freeze worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $111.45 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $25.48 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $14.02.

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 $308.81£232.42€271.96. 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.