Basic Water Energy — Paldea Evolved #279, PSA 9

Hyper RarePaldea Evolved279/1932023PSA 9

Basic Water Energy 279/193 · Paldea Evolved PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$15

Fair buy $12 · sell $171.3× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$11
PSA 9this page$151.3×
PSA 10$474.3×

PSA 9 sales: 2; 5 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 0; rare
Confidence: Low; Only 0 sales in the last 90 days.
Latest sale: 130d ago; one every ~44d

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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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Why $15? 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
2026-05-29	eBay · auction	listing #101647986	$15
2026-04-10	eBay · auction	listing #105868811	$12
2026-02-27	eBay · auction	listing #142873798	$15
2026-02-19	eBay · auction	listing #110196117	$15
2026-01-06	eBay · fixedprice	listing #103353632	$25

4 of 5 were competitive auctions; 0 best offers and 1 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 44 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

PSA 9 · index · latest

$15▲ 4%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

The recorded PSA 9 price index, held at the last cert-verified sale where our record lagged it, closing on the figure above. 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 $11; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 5

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2023 Pokémon Paldea Evolved Basic Water Energy 279/193 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-05-29	101647986	$14.50
7986 Basic Water Energy 2023 Pokemon S&V Paldea Evolved #279 Hyper Rare PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-05-28	—	$14.50
2023 Pokémon Paldea Evolved Basic Water Energy 279/193 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-04-10	105868811	$12.00
2023 Pokémon Paldea Evolved Basic Water Energy 279/193 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-02-27	142873798	$14.50
2023 Pokémon Paldea Evolved Basic Water Energy 279/193 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-02-19	110196117	$14.50
2023 Pokémon Paldea Evolved Basic Water Energy 279/193 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-01-06	103353632	$24.99
2023 Pokemon Pal En-Paldea Evolved Hyper Rare 279 Basic Water Energy – PSA MINT	PSA 9	Goldin	2023-10-06	—	$7.00

1–7 of 7 sales · 5 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($11) sits below 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

145

36.3% of 399 graded

Graded higher

211

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

399

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: TAG 5 of 9. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

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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.
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Built on 15 graded sales and a population of 5,110,886 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Basic Water Energy (Paldea Evolved #279) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Basic Water Energy from Paldea Evolved is worth approximately $15, with a fair range of $12 to $17 — about 1.3× the $11 raw near-mint price.

Where does the PSA 9 price come from?

From 5 cert-verified PSA 9 sales, each tied by PSA to a specific slab with a public cert number — 4 at auction, 0 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 44 days.

How many PSA 9 Basic Water Energy exist?

PSA has graded 145 copies of Basic Water Energy (Paldea Evolved #279) a 9, out of 399 submitted — 36.3% of the population, with 211 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Is a PSA 9 Basic Water Energy a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Basic Water Energy has 2 recorded sales, and the slab-history table above shows what happened to copies that sold twice. Read those before you read anyone's forecast.