Rayquaza · Vivid Voltage
Back · 8.5 — centering 9.5 · corners 8.5 · edges 9.5 · surface 7.5
Centering is graded on both faces, and the final grade weights the front more heavily.
Centering is the weakest sub-score, so it's the most likely thing to cost this card a grade. How evenly the border frames the art, front and back. PSA publishes a tolerance per grade — it is the one sub-score you can measure yourself before you send.
An estimate from one photo — not a grade, and not affiliated with PSA. Lighting, angle and photo quality all move these numbers, and a grader sees the card in person.
Square, 1600×1600, with the grade and our mark along the bottom — sized so eBay's square crop doesn't cut your card.
The short version
Rayquaza looks like an 8.
The card is held back by one thing: centering at 8.0, against corners at 9.0. Fix nothing and it grades where centering allows — but it also means a sharper, straighter-on photo is worth taking, because a single weak reading is the one most likely to be the camera rather than the card.
On the money: submitting to BGS is worth about $96 after fees against $25 selling it raw, so grading is the better side of the trade at these odds.
Worth repeating: this is one photo read by a model, not a grade. Lighting and angle move these numbers, and a grader has the card in hand.
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Noticeably off-centre. This is the kind of margin that caps a card at 8 even when everything else is clean.
How evenly the border frames the art, front and back. PSA publishes a tolerance per grade — it is the one sub-score you can measure yourself before you send.
Corners are clean with at most a touch of softness on one.
Sharpness under magnification. Softening from shuffling or a binder shows here first, and corners cost more grades than anything else.
Some edge whitening is visible. It shows most on dark borders and graders do not overlook it.
Whitening and nicks along the card's edge, most visible on dark borders.
Surface marks are showing. This is the area a photo flatters most, so assume the card in hand is no better than this.
Print lines, scratches, dimples and gloss. Holo cards scratch easily and it rarely photographs well.
Is it worth grading?
Based on what copies of Rayquaza actually sell for at each grade — and the photo reads as near mint, so the full grade range is in play.
The expected return beats selling it raw, after fees.
What grade it would likely get · prices are BGS
Prices are the median of real BGS sales for this card, with the number of sales behind each. The odds come from PSA population data for this era and are applied to every grader, so treat them as the chance of the CARD earning that grade — not as one company's strictness. Odds describe submitted copies of this era, not this specific photo.
Which grader pays best
| Grader | Fee | Expected, after fees |
|---|---|---|
| BGS · best | $42 | $96 |
| PSA | $72 | $66 |
| CGC | $36 | $11 |
You need roughly a 16% chance of a 10 for grading to break even on this card. The population says 60%.
Based on 265 graded sales and 4,431,414 pop-report entries. Grade odds describe submitted copies — the population a "should I grade this?" question belongs to. Fees are the current published rates and exclude postage and insurance both ways.
How many already exist
CGC has graded 40,854 copies of Rayquaza.
PSA has graded 21,869 copies of Rayquaza.
A large or fast-growing gem population dilutes the premium a 10 carries, so this matters alongside the current price — not just how much a 10 is worth today.
What each grade actually sold for
Cert-verified: each of these was matched to its PSA certificate, not just a listing title — follow any cert number to check it against PSA's own record.