Moltres EX (Team Plasma)

What moves the price of this card

The Moltres EX (Team Plasma) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Plasma Storm, and it trades at $12.98£9.77€11.43 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 $17.63£13.27€15.53, PSA 8 $44.99£33.86€39.62, PSA 9 $86.67£65.23€76.33, CGC/BGS 9.5 $99.99£75.26€88.06, PSA 10 $809.50£609.27€712.90. PSA has graded 417 copies of it. 252 completed sales are on file.

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

A PSA 10 Moltres EX (Team Plasma) from Plasma Storm sells for $809.50. 8.2% 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 Moltres EX (Team Plasma) from Plasma Storm worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $102.15 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $8.34 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $6.18.

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 $809.50£609.27€712.90. 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.