Special Illustration RareParadox Rift256/1822023PSA 9
Professor Sada's Vitality 256/182 · Paradox Rift PSA 9 price
PSA 9 · mint slab
$15
Fair buy $15 · sell $231.7× rawUpdated
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- PSA 9 sales
- 6
- 6 cert-verified
- Last 90 days
- 1
- rare
- Confidence
- Low
- Only 1 sale in the last 90 days.
- Latest sale
- 30 Sept 2026
- one every ~17d
Our published graded price for this card, checked against every cert-verified sale below. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →
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PSA 9 slabs for sale right now
Live asks for a PSA 9 of this exact card. A raw copy or a reverse holo is a different product and is not in this list.
No live listings in our latest snapshot for this grade — the marketplaces above search it directly.
Stock as of .
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Why $15? Every PSA 9 sale we can show you
Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. A cert number means PSA tied the sale to a specific slab: click it to check the card, grade and serial on psacard.com. We hold 6 PSA 9 sales with a median of $16; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 2 PSA 9 sales, 0 in the last 90 days.
1–8 of 12 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.
2 of 6 cert-verified sales were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 2 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 17 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.
PSA 9 price history
Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 18 sales across 9 months, Apr 2025 to Oct 2026.
PSA 9 · index · latest
$15.00▲ 25%over 366 days
2025-10-24 → 2026-10-25
Latest $15 (Oct 2026, 1 sale) · ▼ 6% since Apr 2025
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
509
53.5% of 951 graded
Graded higher
306
PSA 10s above this grade
Total PSA graded
951
every grade, all time
| Grader | 9s | 9.5s | Graded | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 509 | — | 951 | 53.5% |
| CGC | 61 | 35 | 251 | 24.3% |
| BGS | 8 | 9 | 19 | 42.1% |
| SGC | 4 | 8 | 35 | 11.4% |
| TAG | 13 | 0 | 20 | 65.0% |
Share is each grader’s 9s out of everything it has graded. A 9.5 sits between a 9 and a 10; PSA does not give one. Another grader’s slab is its own market and is not in the price above. Totals include slabs graded authentic only.
Is the PSA 9 supply growing?
New PSA 9 slabs from PSA’s weekly counts, each change measured between the two report days shown; the weekly counts end on 19 Oct 2026, so the population above, PSA’s newest reading, can run ahead of them. Resubmissions count as new slabs, so this is the supply that reaches the market, not new copies of the card.
New PSA 9s over 4 weeks
+1
508 → 509, 21 Sept 2026 – 19 Oct 2026
New PSA 9s over 90 days
+5
504 → 509, 27 Jul 2026 – 19 Oct 2026
New slabs against sales: about 1.8 new PSA 9 slabs a month (27 Jul 2026 – 19 Oct 2026) against about 0.3 PSA 9 sales a month that we recorded over the last 90 days: 6.0 new slabs for every recorded sale. Our record holds the sales we can see (eBay, PSA’s cert-verified sales and the auction houses we read), not every sale, and most slabs graded are never sold.
PSA 9 price against PSA’s PSA 9 count
Both lines on PSA’s weekly report days for Professor Sada's Vitality. Side by side, not cause and effect.
Stepping up to a PSA 10
One grade apart, one Professor Sada's Vitality. Today’s prices are each page’s headline; the line over time is our recorded price index for both grades.
A PSA 10 sells for $80 against $15 for a PSA 9: $65 more, or 5.3× the price of a 9.
On the index a PSA 10 was 5.3× a 9 on 25 Oct 2026, 5.3× on 24 Jul 2026, and 4.7× on 24 Oct 2025. A wider gap means the 10 has pulled further ahead of the 9.
Is Professor Sada's Vitality 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
$-55
after fees, all grades
Comes back PSA 9
53.5%
of submissions, by the census
PSA 9 outcome
$-74
PSA 9 net of raw and fee
Grading cost
$80
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.
- 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 23 graded sales and a population of 5,111,817 · fees as of 2026-10-03.
More Professor Sada's Vitality and more from Paradox Rift
Prices are raw near mint; PSA 10 shown where we have one.
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Frequently asked questions
How much is a PSA 9 Professor Sada's Vitality (Paradox Rift #256) worth?
As of 25 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Professor Sada's Vitality from Paradox Rift is worth approximately $15, with a fair range of $15 to $23 — about 1.7× the $9 raw near-mint price.
Where does the PSA 9 price come from?
From 6 cert-verified PSA 9 sales, each tied by PSA to a specific slab with a public cert number — 2 at auction, 2 by best offer and 2 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 17 days.
How many PSA 9 Professor Sada's Vitality exist?
PSA has graded 509 copies of Professor Sada's Vitality (Paradox Rift #256) a 9, out of 951 submitted — 53.5% of the population, with 306 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.
Should I grade my Professor Sada's Vitality hoping for a PSA 9?
Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $80 grading fee is about $-55; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 53.5% of the time.
Is a PSA 9 Professor Sada's Vitality a good investment?
CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Professor Sada's Vitality has 6 recorded sales, 1 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.