Scyther

What moves the price of this card

The Scyther on this page is the Reverse Holofoil printing from Hidden Fates, and it trades at $0.42£0.32€0.37 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 8 $13.50£10.16€11.89, PSA 9 $20£15.05€17.61, CGC/BGS 9.5 $50£37.63€44.03, PSA 10 $152.50£114.78€134.30. PSA has graded 127 copies of it. 191 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Scyther worth?

A PSA 10 Scyther from Hidden Fates sells for $152.50. 45.2% 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 Scyther from Hidden Fates worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $79.32 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $0.52 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $21.19.

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 $152.50£114.78€134.30. 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.