Lugia EX (Team Plasma) (134 Full Art)

What moves the price of this card

The Lugia EX (Team Plasma) (134 Full Art) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Plasma Storm, and it trades at $2,717£2,054€2,459 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 $1,801£1,361€1,629, PSA 8 $3,159£2,388€2,858, PSA 9 $9,000£6,804€8,143, CGC/BGS 9.5 $9,900£7,485€8,958, PSA 10 $10,800£8,165€9,772. PSA has graded 1,766 copies of it. 655 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Lugia EX (Team Plasma) (134 Full Art) worth?

A PSA 10 Lugia EX (Team Plasma) (134 Full Art) from Plasma Storm sells for $10,800. 1.2% 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 Lugia EX (Team Plasma) (134 Full Art) from Plasma Storm worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $3,228 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $739.55 for a raw copy plus $1,019 to send it through PSA Premium 1, so it clears $1,470.

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 $10,800£8,165€9,772. 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.