Tornadus VMAX (Secret)

What moves the price of this card

The Tornadus VMAX (Secret) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Chilling Reign, and it trades at $7.47£5.62€6.58 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 $9.57£7.20€8.43, PSA 9 $14.75£11.10€12.99, CGC/BGS 9.5 $28.37£21.35€24.98, PSA 10 $65£48.92€57.24. PSA has graded 268 copies of it. 248 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Tornadus VMAX (Secret) worth?

A PSA 10 Tornadus VMAX (Secret) from Chilling Reign sells for $65. 69.5% 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 Tornadus VMAX (Secret) from Chilling Reign worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $48.91 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $7.53 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $58.61.

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 $65£48.92€57.24. 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.