Xerneas EX (Shiny)

What moves the price of this card

The Xerneas EX (Shiny) on this page is the Holofoil printing from XY Promos, and it trades at $15.57£11.72€13.71 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 $13.73£10.33€12.09, PSA 8 $21.30£16.03€18.76, PSA 9 $23.30£17.54€20.52, CGC/BGS 9.5 $26£19.57€22.90, PSA 10 $977.86£735.98€861.17. PSA has graded 246 copies of it. 167 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Xerneas EX (Shiny) worth?

A PSA 10 Xerneas EX (Shiny) from XY Promos sells for $977.86. 15.4% 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 Xerneas EX (Shiny) from XY Promos worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $166.06 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $14.21 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it clears $51.86.

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 $977.86£735.98€861.17. 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.