Tropical Wind (Worlds 09) [Staff]

What CGC copies sold for

Sold prices from listings that named the grader and the grade, not asking prices, and not a PSA figure converted across. A CGC 9 runs about 0.44x the PSA 9 on the cards where we hold both, but the spread is wide enough that it is only worth quoting where copies actually traded, which is what these are. The count beside each price is how many.

CGC 9 and 9.5 are one row on purpose. A CGC 9.5 sells for 3% more than a 9 across the corpus and is the cheaper of the two on nearly half of cards, so the market is not pricing them apart and splitting them here would invent a distinction. BGS is left split because there the same test says a 9.5 really is worth about 30% more.

What moves the price of this card

The Tropical Wind (Worlds 09) [Staff] on this page is the only printing from Diamond and Pearl Promos, and it trades at no recorded price 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 7 $210.79£157.96€183.94, PSA 8 $254.89£191.01€222.42, PSA 9 $356£266.78€310.65, CGC/BGS 9.5 $392£293.76€342.06. PSA has graded 106 copies of it. 75 completed sales are on file.

Is Tropical Wind (Worlds 09) [Staff] from Diamond and Pearl Promos worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $287.16 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $358.94 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $171.77.

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. 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.