Single Strike Energy (Secret)

What moves the price of this card

The Single Strike Energy (Secret) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Battle Styles, and it trades at $2.09£1.57€1.84 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 8 $8£6.02€7.05, PSA 9 $10.31£7.76€9.08, CGC/BGS 9.5 $11£8.28€9.69, PSA 10 $50£37.63€44.03. PSA has graded 173 copies of it. 209 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Single Strike Energy (Secret) worth?

A PSA 10 Single Strike Energy (Secret) from Battle Styles sells for $50. 41.8% 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 Single Strike Energy (Secret) from Battle Styles worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $26.33 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $2.39 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $76.05.

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 $50£37.63€44.03. 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.