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Budew — Ascended Heroes #221, PSA 9

Illustration RareAscended Heroes221/2172026PSA 9

Budew 221/217 · Ascended Heroes PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$14

Fair buy $14 · sell $241.9× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$7
  • PSA 9this page$141.9×
  • PSA 10$456.1×
PSA 9 sales
42
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
41
sells often
Confidence
High
41 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
3d ago
one every ~1d

Our published graded price for this card, checked against every cert-verified sale below. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

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PSA 9 slabs for sale right now

Live asks for a PSA 9 of this exact card · stock as of . A raw copy or a reverse holo is a different product and is not in this list.

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Why $14? Cert-verified PSA 9 sales

Each sale is tied by PSA to a specific graded slab — click the cert to check the exact card, grade and serial on psacard.com. Outliers against the grade’s own median are dropped; qualified slabs are listed separately beneath.

DateSold viaCertPrice
2026-09-25eBay · auctionlisting#170239046$14
2026-09-25eBay · auctionlisting#172631544$17
2026-09-22eBay · auctionlisting#170239042$8
2026-09-21eBay · bestofferlisting#167619769$15
2026-09-21eBay · auctionlisting#170239044$12
2026-09-21eBay · auctionlisting#170239043$14

5 of 6 were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 0 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 44 sales across 3 months, Jul 2026 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$14▼ 58%over 245 days

2026-02-01 → 2026-10-04

$15
$20
$25
$30
$35
1 FebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept4 Oct
The recorded PSA 9 price index, closing on the figure above. The line is the running level, so a single unusually cheap or dear sale does not spike it. Hover any day for its price on the line.

Latest $13 (Sep 2026, 24 sales) · ▼ 38% since Jul 2026

Every PSA 9 sale we can show you

Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. We hold 42 PSA 9 sales with a median of $14; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 1 PSA 9 sales, 1 in the last 90 days.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
Pokémon TCG Budew 221/217 Me: Ascended Heroes IR Holo EN 30 HP PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-10-02—$12.00
2026 POKEMON ASC EN-ASCENDED HEROES ILLUSTRATION RARE #221 BUDEW PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-10-01—$21.10
2026 POKEMON ASC EN-ASCENDED HEROES ILLUSTRATION RARE #221 BUDEW PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-30—$14.99
2026 POKEMON ASC EN-ASCENDED HEROES ILLUSTRATION RARE #221 BUDEW PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-30—$16.51
Budew 221/217 Me: Ascended Heroes Holo PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-29—$12.00
2026 POKEMON ASC EN-ASCENDED HEROES ILLUSTRATION RARE #221 BUDEW PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-29—$16.50
171090557 Budew 2026 Pokemon Ascended Heroes #221/217 Illustration Rare PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-29—$13.50
2026 POKEMON ASC EN-ASCENDED HEROES ILLUSTRATION RARE #221 BUDEW PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-27—$12.50

1–8 of 15 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

How many PSA 9 copies exist

PSA’s cumulative census for this card. It counts resubmissions, so it skews toward nicer copies and overstates the rate a fresh submission should expect.

PSA 9 population

862

31.8% of 2,709 graded

Graded higher

1,712

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

2,709

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: TAG 52 of 137. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Budew worth grading?

Every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it — the PSA 9 outcome is one leg, not the whole answer.

Verdict

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-56

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

3480%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-73

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$80

tier fee + shipping

Trader

Compare graders, and the live market

The verdict above is PSA's — the grader the population, the ROI table and the ladder on this page all use. Trader prices all three graders against each other and adds what the asking market is doing right now.

Trader plan and above →
  • PSA, CGC and Beckett side by side — each on its own population and fees, Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market pays for.
  • Lightly and moderately played — the same expected return for a copy that cannot gem.
  • Ask vs sold — what the live listings want, against what copies have really closed at.
  • Momentum — the 30-day median against the 90-day, per grade.
  • Where it sells higher — the Fanatics-versus-eBay premium, with the sale counts behind it.
  • Population history — the weekly PSA census, so you can see how fast 10s are arriving before you post the card.

Built on 212 graded sales and a population of 5,111,326 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Prices are raw near mint; PSA 10 shown where we have one.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Budew (Ascended Heroes #221) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Budew from Ascended Heroes is worth approximately $14, with a fair range of $14 to $24 — about 1.9× the $7 raw near-mint price.

Where does the PSA 9 price come from?

From 6 cert-verified PSA 9 sales, each tied by PSA to a specific slab with a public cert number — 5 at auction, 1 by best offer and 0 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 9 Budew exist?

PSA has graded 862 copies of Budew (Ascended Heroes #221) a 9, out of 2,709 submitted — 31.8% of the population, with 1,712 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Budew hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $80 grading fee is about $-56; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3480% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Budew a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Budew has 42 recorded sales, 41 of them in the last 90 days, and the slab-history table above shows what happened to copies that sold twice. Read those before you read anyone's forecast.