Tentacruel

What moves the price of this card

The Tentacruel on this page is the Reverse Holofoil printing from Legendary Collection, and it trades at $183.54£138.77€166.07 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 6 $169.99£128.52€153.81, PSA 7 $215.24£162.73€194.75, PSA 8 $463.94£350.76€419.78, PSA 9 $1,100£831.80€995.47, CGC/BGS 9.5 $1,210£914.82€1,095, PSA 10 $30,087£22,748€27,224. PSA has graded 741 copies of it. 771 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Tentacruel worth?

A PSA 10 Tentacruel from Legendary Collection sells for $30,087. 4.9% 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 Tentacruel from Legendary Collection worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $1,967 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $126.97 for a raw copy plus $2,019 to send it through PSA Premium 2, so it loses $178.66.

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 $30,087£22,748€27,224. 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.