Mega Emboar ex — Ascended Heroes #273, PSA 9

Special Illustration RareAscended Heroes273/2172026PSA 9

Mega Emboar ex 273/217 · Ascended Heroes PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$47

Fair buy $47 · sell $86Updated today

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Raw NM$48
PSA 9this page$47
PSA 10$1142.4×

PSA 9 sales: 27; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 26; sells often
Confidence: High; 26 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 1d ago; one every ~2d

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PSA 9 slabs for sale right now

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

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PSA 9 · buy now

The Pokémon Company Mega Emboar ex 273/217 Ascended Heroes 2026 PSA 9 SIR HoloPSA 9eBay$49.99

Cheapest ask $50 — 6% above our PSA 9 estimate of $47

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Why $47? 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.

Date	Sold via	Cert	Price
2026-09-25	eBay · auction	listing #162316326	$43
2026-09-23	eBay · bestoffer	listing #171960379	$55
2026-09-23	eBay · auction	listing #156768677	$33
2026-09-21	eBay · auction	listing #159963046	$25
2026-09-17	eBay · bestoffer	listing #160881752	$50
2026-09-15	eBay · bestoffer	listing #167104163	$50

3 of 6 were competitive auctions; 3 best offers and 0 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 2 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

PSA 9 · index · latest

$47▼ 55%over 246 days

2026-02-01 → 2026-10-05

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.

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 27 PSA 9 sales with a median of $50; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2026 POKEMON ASCENDED HEROES SPECIAL ILLUSTRATION RARE #273 MEGA EMBOAR EX PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-04	—	$42.00
2026 POKEMON ASCENDED HEROES SPECIAL ILLUSTRATION RARE #273 MEGA EMBOAR EX PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-02	—	$36.00
2026 POKEMON ASC EN-ASCENDED HEROES #273 MEGA EMBOAR EX PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-26	—	$47.89
2026 POKEMON ASC EN-ASCENDED HEROES #273 MEGA EMBOAR EX PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-26	—	$39.00
2026 Pokémon Ascended Heroes Mega Emboar ex 273/217 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-25	162316326	$43.12
2026 POKEMON ASC EN-ASCENDED HEROES #273 MEGA EMBOAR EX PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-24	—	$43.12
2026 Pokémon Ascended Heroes Mega Emboar ex 273/217 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-23	156768677	$33.00
2026 Pokémon Ascended Heroes Mega Emboar ex 273/217 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-23	171960379	$54.95
2026 POKEMON ASC EN-SPECIAL ILLUSTRATION RARE #273 MEGA EMBOAR EX PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-22	—	$33.00
2026 Pokémon Ascended Heroes Mega Emboar ex 273/217 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-21	159963046	$25.00
2026 Pokémon Ascended Heroes Mega Emboar ex 273/217 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-17	160881752	$50.00
2026 Pokémon Ascended Heroes Mega Emboar ex 273/217 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-15	167104163	$49.99

1–8 of 12 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

812

29.8% of 2,724 graded

Graded higher

1,849

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

2,724

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: TAG 54 of 148. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Mega Emboar ex 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

$-37

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

2970%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-82

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$81

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 185 graded sales and a population of 5,111,424 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Mega Emboar ex (Ascended Heroes #273) worth?

As of 5 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Mega Emboar ex from Ascended Heroes is worth approximately $47, with a fair range of $47 to $86 — about 1.0× the $48 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 — 3 at auction, 3 by best offer and 0 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 2 days.

How many PSA 9 Mega Emboar ex exist?

PSA has graded 812 copies of Mega Emboar ex (Ascended Heroes #273) a 9, out of 2,724 submitted — 29.8% of the population, with 1,849 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Mega Emboar ex hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $81 grading fee is about $-37; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 2970% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Mega Emboar ex a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Mega Emboar ex has 27 recorded sales, 26 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.