Rayquaza

What moves the price of this card

The Rayquaza on this page is the Holofoil printing from Legends Awakened, and it trades at $447.50£338.33€404.90 in near mint condition. The other 1 printing of the same card sits lower, which is normal: the scarcer print run always carries the premium.

Graded, it runs PSA 5 $44.34£33.52€40.12, PSA 6 $190.09£143.72€172, PSA 7 $426.61£322.54€386, PSA 8 $1,063£803.49€961.58, PSA 9 $6,880£5,202€6,225, CGC/BGS 9.5 $7,568£5,722€6,848, PSA 10 $9,689£7,325€8,766. PSA has graded 787 copies of it. 1,055 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Rayquaza worth?

A PSA 10 Rayquaza from Legends Awakened sells for $9,689. 2.0% 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 Rayquaza from Legends Awakened worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $1,901 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $62.50 for a raw copy plus $619 to send it through PSA Walk-Through, so it clears $1,219.

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 $9,689£7,325€8,766. 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.