Palkia EX (Team Plasma)

What moves the price of this card

The Palkia EX (Team Plasma) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Plasma Blast, and it trades at $21.88£16.47€19.27 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 $25.30£19.04€22.28, PSA 8 $61.27£46.11€53.96, PSA 9 $69.82£52.55€61.49, CGC/BGS 9.5 $77£57.95€67.81, PSA 10 $146.12£109.98€128.68. PSA has graded 144 copies of it. 106 completed sales are on file.

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

A PSA 10 Palkia EX (Team Plasma) from Plasma Blast sells for $146.12. 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 Palkia EX (Team Plasma) from Plasma Blast worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $59.16 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $15.82 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $56.65.

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 $146.12£109.98€128.68. 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.