Scizor VMAX — Darkness Ablaze #193, PSA 9

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Scizor VMAX 193/189 · Darkness Ablaze PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$21

Fair buy $18 · sell $241.7× rawUpdated today

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

Raw NM$12
PSA 9this page$211.7×
PSA 10$715.8×

PSA 9 sales: 2; in our ledger
Last 90 days: 2; rare
Confidence: Low; Only 2 sales in the last 90 days.
Latest sale: 42d ago; psa 9

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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 price history

PSA 9 · index · latest

$21▲ 29%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

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 2 PSA 9 sales with a median of $39; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 0

Item sold		Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
	Pokemon Sword & Shield Darkness Ablaze 193/189 FA Secret Rare Scizor Vmax PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-24	—	$34.99
	2020 Pokemon Darkness Ablaze Scizor VMAX Full Art Secret 193/189 PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-07-28	—	$43.83

1–2 of 2 sales · 0 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($39) 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 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

327

13.1% of 2,504 graded

Graded higher

2,094

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

2,504

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 281 of 746. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Scizor VMAX 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

$-30

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

1280%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-72

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 49 graded sales and a population of 4,412,003 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Scizor VMAX (Darkness Ablaze #193) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Scizor VMAX from Darkness Ablaze is worth approximately $21, with a fair range of $18 to $24 — about 1.7× the $12 raw near-mint price.

How many PSA 9 Scizor VMAX exist?

PSA has graded 327 copies of Scizor VMAX (Darkness Ablaze #193) a 9, out of 2,504 submitted — 13.1% of the population, with 2,094 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Scizor VMAX 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 $-30; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 1280% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Scizor VMAX a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Scizor VMAX has 2 recorded sales, 2 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.