Tropical Tidal Wave — Nintendo Black Star Promos #36, PSA 9

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Tropical Tidal Wave PR-NP 36 · Nintendo Black Star Promos PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$1,000

Fair buy $1,000 · sell $1,8434.5× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$223
PSA 9this page$1,0004.5×
PSA 10$7,90035×

PSA 9 sales: 6; 4 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 4; occasional
Confidence: Medium; 4 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale: 18d ago; one every ~115d

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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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Why $1,000? 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
2026-03-22	eBay · auction	listing #66013764	$1,000
2026-03-02	eBay · auction	listing #103213828	$797
2025-09-01	eBay · auction	listing #42164369	$710
2025-05-09	eBay · bestoffer	listing #98319748	$700

3 of 4 were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 0 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 115 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

PSA 9 · index · latest

$1,000▲ 0%over 75 days

2026-07-22 → 2026-10-05

The recorded PSA 9 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.

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 6 PSA 9 sales with a median of $1,550; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 4

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2006 POKEMON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS PROMO TOP SIXTEEN #36 TROPICAL TIDAL WAVE PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-17	—	$3,500
Pokemon Tropical Tidal Wave World Championships Promo 36 Staff PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-13	—	$1,713
Pokemon Tropical Tidal Wave World Championships Promo 36 Staff PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-30	—	$1,575
2006 POKEMON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS PROMO STAFF #36 TROPICAL TIDAL WAVE PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-07	—	$1,525
2003 Pokémon Nintendo Black Star Promos Tropical Tidal Wave PR-NP 36 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-03-22	66013764	$1,000
2003 Pokémon Nintendo Black Star Promos Tropical Tidal Wave PR-NP 36 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-03-02	103213828	$797
2003 Pokémon Nintendo Black Star Promos Tropical Tidal Wave PR-NP 36 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2025-09-01	42164369	$710
2003 Pokémon Nintendo Black Star Promos Tropical Tidal Wave PR-NP 36 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2025-05-09	98319748	$700

1–8 of 8 sales · 4 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($1,550) 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.

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Ask vs sold — what the live listings want, against what copies have really closed at.
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Built on 15 graded sales and a population of 1,889,841 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Tropical Tidal Wave (Nintendo Black Star Promos #36) worth?

As of 5 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Tropical Tidal Wave from Nintendo Black Star Promos is worth approximately $1,000, with a fair range of $1,000 to $1,843 — about 4.5× the $223 raw near-mint price.

Where does the PSA 9 price come from?

From 4 cert-verified PSA 9 sales, each tied by PSA to a specific slab with a public cert number — 3 at auction, 1 by best offer and 0 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 115 days.

Is a PSA 9 Tropical Tidal Wave a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Tropical Tidal Wave has 6 recorded sales, 4 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.