Eternatus VMAX — Darkness Ablaze #117, PSA 10

Rare Holo VMAXDarkness Ablaze117/1892020PSA 10

Eternatus VMAX 117/189 · Darkness Ablaze PSA 10 price

PSA 10 · gem mint slab

$36

Fair buy $36 · sell $519.6× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$4
PSA 9$215.6×
PSA 10this page$369.6×

PSA 10 sales: 21; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 15; sells regularly
Confidence: High; 15 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 20d ago; one every ~1d

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PSA 10 slabs for sale right now

Live asks for a PSA 10 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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Why $36? Cert-verified PSA 10 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
2026-09-15	eBay · bestoffer	listing #54578631	$35
2026-09-08	eBay · fixedprice	listing #53245396	$43
2026-09-07	eBay · bestoffer	listing #74392461 sold before	$60
2026-09-06	eBay · auction	listing #51226464	$26
2026-09-06	eBay · auction	listing #50204568	$39
2026-08-23	eBay · auction	listing #51207939	$31

3 of 6 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 1 fixed-price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 1 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 10 price history

Quarterly medians of cert-verified PSA 10 sales — 248 sales across 24 quarters, Q4 2020 to Q3 2026.

PSA 10 · index · latest

$36▼ 11%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

The recorded PSA 10 price index, held at the last cert-verified sale where our record lagged it, 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 $38 (Q3 2026, 14 sales) · ▼ 38% since Q4 2020

Slab history — PSA 10 copies that have sold more than once

25 slabs have sold more than once, across 25 resales — typically 681 days apart, with a median gross price change of +21.6%. That is 25 of the 211 distinct slabs behind 248 cert-linked sales at this grade — 11.8%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#74392461	Jul 2023 $21→Sept 2026 $60	Over a year	+185.7%
#50648689	Sept 2021 $32→Feb 2026 $32	Over a year	+2.2%
#54920721	Feb 2022 $33→Jan 2026 $45	Over a year	+36.3%
#56095731	Jul 2025 $26→Dec 2025 $40	3–6 months	+53.8%
#62901239	Apr 2023 $22→Dec 2025 $35	Over a year	+57.5%
#56654798	Jan 2023 $19→Dec 2025 $21	Over a year	+12.3%
#93487455	Sept 2025 $40→Nov 2025 $41	Under 3 months	+2.5%
#111310258	Jun 2025 $40→Oct 2025 $50	3–6 months	+26.2%
#50284399	Dec 2022 $20→Sept 2025 $30	Over a year	+53.8%
#57583985	Sept 2022 $24→Sept 2025 $30	Over a year	+27.7%

Showing the 10 most recent of 25 slabs with a history. A cert reappearing shows the same physical slab sold again — it identifies no buyer or seller. Gross change is price to price; fees, shipping and the grading cost are not in it.

Every PSA 10 sale we can show you

Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. We hold 21 PSA 10 sales with a median of $44; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 2 PSA 10 sales, 0 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
Pokemon TCG Eternatus VMAX 117/189 Darkness Ablaze Holo Full Art PSA 10 2020	PSA 10	eBay	2026-09-15	—	$44.95
2020 Pokémon Darkness Ablaze Eternatus VMAX 117/189 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-15	54578631	$35.00
2020 Pokémon Darkness Ablaze Eternatus VMAX 117/189 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-08	53245396	$42.99
2020 Pokémon Darkness Ablaze Eternatus VMAX 117/189 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-07	74392461	$59.99
2020 Pokémon Darkness Ablaze Eternatus VMAX 117/189 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayAuction	2026-09-06	50204568	$39.03
2020 Pokémon Darkness Ablaze Eternatus VMAX 117/189 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayAuction	2026-09-06	51226464	$26.02
2020 POKEMON SWORD & SHIELD DARKNESS ABLAZE #117/189 ETERNATUS VMAX PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-09-05	—	$26.02
2020 POKEMON SWORD & SHIELD DARKNESS ABLAZE #117/189 ETERNATUS VMAX PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-09-05	—	$39.03
2020 Pokémon Sword & Shield BSP Full Art ETERNATUS VMAX PREM. COLL. PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-08-29	—	$29.00
Pokemon Darkness Ablaze Eternatus VMAX 117 PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-08-28	—	$54.00
2020 Pokémon Darkness Ablaze Eternatus VMAX 117/189 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayAuction	2026-08-23	51207939	$31.01
2020 POKEMON SWORD & SHIELD DARKNESS ABLAZE #117/189 ETERNATUS VMAX PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-08-22	—	$30.83
2020 Pokemon Sword & Shield Darkness Ablaze Full Art Eternatus VMAX #117 PSA 10	PSA 10	FanaticsAuction	2026-05-11	—	$30.00
2020 Pokemon Sword & Shield Darkness Ablaze Full Art Eternatus VMAX #117 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	FanaticsAuction	2026-02-09	—	$32.40

1–8 of 14 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 10 median ($44) sits above the published price above. The median is every recorded sale weighted equally; the price is the cert-verified market with outliers and qualified slabs removed, and is what the latest sales support.

How many PSA 10 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 10 population

1,220

83% of 1,469 graded

Share of every submission

83%

the census gem rate — a ceiling

Total PSA graded

1,469

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 10: CGC 293 of 589 · TAG 5 of 6. A CGC or BGS 10 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Eternatus VMAX worth grading?

Every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it — the PSA 10 outcome is one leg, not the whole answer.

Verdict

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-51

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 10

8320%

of submissions, by the census

Best case

$-48

PSA 10 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$80

tier fee + shipping

Trader

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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.

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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 30 graded sales and a population of 4,411,014 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 10 Eternatus VMAX (Darkness Ablaze #117) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 10 gem mint Eternatus VMAX from Darkness Ablaze is worth approximately $36, with a fair range of $36 to $51 — about 9.6× the $4 raw near-mint price.

Where does the PSA 10 price come from?

From 6 cert-verified PSA 10 sales, each tied by PSA to a specific slab with a public cert number — 3 at auction, 2 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 10 Eternatus VMAX exist?

PSA has graded 1,220 copies of Eternatus VMAX (Darkness Ablaze #117) a 10, out of 1,469 submitted — 83% of the population. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Eternatus VMAX hoping for a PSA 10?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $80 grading fee is about $-51; this card comes back a PSA 10 about 8320% of the time.

Is a PSA 10 Eternatus VMAX a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 10 Eternatus VMAX has 21 recorded sales, 15 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.