Lugia

What moves the price of this card

The Lugia on this page is the Holofoil printing from XY Promos, and it trades at $49.85£37.52€43.90 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 $70.91£53.37€62.45, PSA 8 $118.74£89.37€104.57, PSA 9 $515£387.61€453.54, CGC/BGS 9.5 $567£426.75€499.34, PSA 10 $882.26£664.03€776.98. PSA has graded 493 copies of it. 216 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Lugia worth?

A PSA 10 Lugia from XY Promos sells for $882.26. 1.3% 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 from XY Promos worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $145.77 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $40.21 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it clears $5.57.

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 $882.26£664.03€776.98. 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.