Origin Forme Palkia V

What moves the price of this card

The Origin Forme Palkia V on this page is the Holofoil printing from Sword & Shield Promo Cards, and it trades at $2.94£2.21€2.59 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 $11.06£8.32€9.74, PSA 8 $13.65£10.27€12.02, PSA 9 $17.44£13.13€15.36, CGC/BGS 9.5 $19£14.30€16.73, PSA 10 $74.88£56.36€65.94. PSA has graded 483 copies of it. 230 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Origin Forme Palkia V worth?

A PSA 10 Origin Forme Palkia V from Sword & Shield Promo Cards sells for $74.88. 55.4% 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 Origin Forme Palkia V from Sword & Shield Promo Cards worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $48.48 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $3 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $54.51.

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 $74.88£56.36€65.94. 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.