Miltank (Master Ball Pattern)

What moves the price of this card

The Miltank (Master Ball Pattern) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Prismatic Evolutions, and it trades at $1.45£1.09€1.28 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 8 $3.25£2.45€2.86, PSA 9 $19.56£14.72€17.23, CGC/BGS 9.5 $22£16.56€19.37, PSA 10 $126.72£95.38€111.60. PSA has graded 294 copies of it. 204 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Miltank (Master Ball Pattern) worth?

A PSA 10 Miltank (Master Ball Pattern) from Prismatic Evolutions sells for $126.72. 29.3% 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 Miltank (Master Ball Pattern) from Prismatic Evolutions worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $48.24 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $1.66 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $53.41.

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 $126.72£95.38€111.60. 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.