Psyduck

What moves the price of this card

The Psyduck on this page is the Normal printing from Japanese High Class Pack: MEGA Dream ex, and it trades at $0.24£0.18€0.21 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 $10£7.46€8.95, PSA 8 $13.04£9.72€11.66, PSA 9 $24.99£18.63€22.35, CGC/BGS 9.5 $27£20.13€24.15, PSA 10 $48.13£35.89€43.05. PSA has graded 337 copies of it. 287 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Psyduck worth?

A PSA 10 Psyduck from Japanese High Class Pack: MEGA Dream ex sells for $48.13. 39.7% 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 Psyduck from Japanese High Class Pack: MEGA Dream ex worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $32.78 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $2.06 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $69.27.

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 $48.13£35.89€43.05. 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.