Spark

What moves the price of this card

The Spark on this page is the Holofoil printing from Sword & Shield Promo Cards, and it trades at $1.69£1.27€1.49 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 $11.99£9.02€10.56, PSA 9 $17.89£13.46€15.76, CGC/BGS 9.5 $20£15.05€17.61, PSA 10 $37.78£28.43€33.27. PSA has graded 329 copies of it. 151 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Spark worth?

A PSA 10 Spark from Sword & Shield Promo Cards sells for $37.78. 49.2% 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 Spark from Sword & Shield Promo Cards worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $26.32 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $2.45 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $76.12.

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 $37.78£28.43€33.27. 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.