Lugia EX (Team Plasma)

What moves the price of this card

The Lugia EX (Team Plasma) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Plasma Storm, and it trades at $87.36£65.75€76.94 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 $61£45.91€53.72, PSA 8 $89.50£67.36€78.82, PSA 9 $299£225.04€263.32, CGC/BGS 9.5 $329£247.62€289.74, PSA 10 $2,307£1,736€2,032. PSA has graded 366 copies of it. 224 completed sales are on file.

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

A PSA 10 Lugia EX (Team Plasma) from Plasma Storm sells for $2,307. 6.3% 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 Lugia EX (Team Plasma) from Plasma Storm worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $288.43 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $35.13 for a raw copy plus $169 to send it through PSA Express, so it clears $84.30.

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 $2,307£1,736€2,032. 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.