Aether Foundation EmployeeSV81/SV94 · Hidden Fates Shiny Vault Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint
Pack fresh $16est.
- PSA 9$183 sold · 90d · pop 443
- PSA 10$503 sold · 90d · pop 1,040
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Hidden Fates Shiny Vault #SV81/SV94, 2019. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.
The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.
What's your copy worth?
Estimated. This card has enough sales to price the top 15% but not the top 5%, so pack-fresh is projected from the gap we measure between those two tiers on cards that do — about 1.4x on vintage, 1.2x on modern. $16.96. That's about +60% over a typical Near Mint copy.
ⓘ How do we work this out?
We take every real sale of this exact card over the last 12 months (26 sales), sort them by price, and read off the top 15% and top 5%. No multipliers, no guesses — the prices cleaner copies actually fetched.
Why cleaner copies cost more: buyers can see condition in the photos and pay for it. Listings sellers describe as pack fresh or gem mint land in this top band 1.7× more often than ordinary ones — the premium follows the card, not the hype.
Copies in this band are also the ones collectors send to grading: far more likely than a typical binder copy to be submitted at all — and to come back with the strong grade that carries the PSA prices shown on this page. That prospect is part of what buyers are paying for here.
These are read straight off this card's own completed sales — sort them by price and take the top 15% and top 5%. Whether your copy qualifies is a judgment made by looking at the card.
✨ Is it worth it?
An AI market read of this card — value, momentum, grading economics, liquidity. It lays out the data; you decide.
Aether Foundation Employee is a Rare Ultra Pokémon card from Hidden Fates Shiny Vault (#SV81, released 2019), illustrated by take. It's a Supporter Trainer card. It's listed among our full-art cards. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 15 September 2026.
Aether Foundation Employee price history & recent sales
Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
High confidence27 sales in 90 days, closely clustered. · Very liquid — Sells often
Real completed eBay sales, refreshed periodically. Grade read from the listing title. Implausibly priced listings (lots, proxies, empty slabs) and wrong-variant sales are filtered out. Links to eBay are affiliate links — we may earn a commission.
By grade
- Raw$10.0738 sales · 27 in 90d, sells often
- PSA 10$49.959 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 9$15.994 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 10$28.902 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- TAG 10$49.991 sale
- PSA 8$18.001 sale · 1 in 90d, rare
- CGC 9.5$22.001 sale · 1 in 90d, rare
- CGC 0.5$9.001 sale
Is Aether Foundation Employee worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 10 — worth $50 against the $81 you put in, a $31 loss. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $18–$50. Averaged over every outcome that is −$42 a card.
That is the average submitted copy. Tell us about yours and the verdict re-prices — most cards stop being worth grading here. Not sure? Grade it from a photo →
These are set to a flawless copy — the answer above. Change any of them to re-price it for the card in your hand.
Compare graders, and the live market
The verdict above is PSA's — the grader the population report, the ROI table and the price ladder on this page all use. Trader prices all three graders against each other and adds what the asking market is doing right now.
- PSA, CGC and Beckett side by side — each on its own population and its own fees, with Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market actually 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.
The odds
Aether Foundation Employee is a Ultra Rare in Hidden Fates Shiny Vault — the pack's hit slot lands on Ultra Rare 10% of the time, split across 6 ultra rare cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 60 packs.
Estimates only. Pack odds come from CardTrack's pack model (the same one behind the pack simulator) — not an official rate. Grading odds are the real cumulative PSA population, which skews toward nicer, resubmitted copies, so it overstates the true first-submission gem rate. Full grade-by-grade breakdown below.
Grade-by-grade ROI & risk-adjusted outcomesNet vs raw per target grade, plus the probability-weighted distribution
| Target grade | Est. value | Grading fee | Net vs raw | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | $49.95 | $70 | −$31 | 4.7× |
| PSA 9 | $17.99 | $70 | −$63 | 1.7× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 1,555 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 — typical | 66.7% | $49.95 |
| PSA 9 | 28.3% | $17.99 |
| PSA 8 | 4.4% | $17.99 † |
| PSA 7 | 0.5% | $10.59 |
| PSA 6 | 0.2% | $10.59 |
† Priced from PriceCharting's graded ladder — we hold no completed sale of our own at that grade. Every other row is our own sold data.
Net = graded value − raw value − grading cost (tier fee + ~$20 round-trip shipping), using PSA fees as of 2026-08-26; the paused PSA Value tier is excluded so this isn't overstated. Gem rate is estimated from cumulative PSA population, which skews toward nicer, resubmitted copies — so it overstates the true grade rate. Treat it as a guide, not a guarantee.
Population across gradersPSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — every grade, with gem rates
1,040 of the 1,562 PSA-graded Aether Foundation Employee copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 67%. The rest graded lower.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 1,562.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Aether Foundation Employee 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Aether Foundation Employee SV81 - Pokémon Hidden Fates Shiny Vault TrainerRaw · eBay$9.99
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Aether Foundation Employee SV81/SV94 Hidden Fates: Shiny Vault HoloRaw · eBay$10.00
Aether Foundation Employee SV81/SV94 Hidden Fates: Shiny Vault HoloRaw · eBay$10.00
Aether Foundation Employee SV81/SV94 Hidden Fates: Shiny Vault Holo Pokemon NMRaw · eBay$10.00Cheapest raw copy $9.99 — 6% below our near-mint estimate of $11
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 1,040 | $50$42–$57 | |
| PSA 9pop 443 | $18$15–$21 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
A typical Near Mint copy sells for $10.59. Grading-candidate copies — the cleanest 15% of sales — typically fetch $14.02 (+32%). Pack-fresh examples — the top 5% — work out at about $16.96, estimated from the grading-candidate gap rather than counted.
From 26 sales in the last 12 months. These describe the market — whether a specific copy is a grading candidate is a judgment made by looking at it.
Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz
Cross-market prices
2% spreadCurrently 2% cheaper on PriceCharting than TCGplayer. These are independent market prices for the same card — a wide gap can mean a buying opportunity. Informational only, not arbitrage advice.
Market signal
Derived from this card's 90-day price history, recent trend and cross-market price gap. Informational, not advice.
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Aether Foundation Employee (Hidden Fates Shiny Vault #SV81) worth?
As of 15 September 2026, Aether Foundation Employee from Hidden Fates Shiny Vault is worth approximately $10.59 ungraded (near-mint), and around $50 in PSA 10 gem mint. Values are blended from real Cardmarket, eBay sold and TCGplayer prices and update daily.
What is the PSA 10 price for Aether Foundation Employee?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Aether Foundation Employee from Hidden Fates Shiny Vault is worth around $50 — roughly 5× the raw ungraded value of $10.59.
Should I grade my Aether Foundation Employee?
Grading is worth it when the PSA 10 premium comfortably beats the grading fee and the card is clean enough to have a real shot at a 10 — the "Should you grade it?" estimate above works that out per grade, net of the current fee.
Is Aether Foundation Employee rare?
Aether Foundation Employee is a Rare Ultra card from Hidden Fates Shiny Vault (card #SV81).
How do I know if my Aether Foundation Employee is Holofoil?
The illustration window: The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.
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