Magikarp — XY Black Star Promos #XY143, PSA 9

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Magikarp PR-XY XY143 · XY Black Star Promos PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$241

Fair buy $185 · sell $2502.4× rawUpdated today

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

Raw NM$101
PSA 9this page$2412.4×
PSA 10$2,59926×

PSA 9 sales: 20; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 15; sells regularly
Confidence: High; 15 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 9d ago; one every ~1d

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Our published graded price for this card, checked against every cert-verified sale below. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

PSA’s own estimate for a PSA 9: $255 (range $217–$300, high confidence, from cert #155861086, checked Sept 2026). Our price sits inside PSA’s range. PSA builds it from the same auction records we track, so it is a cross-check, not a second source.

Checked against PSAInside PSA’s range

PSA $255

Ours $241

PSA low $217PSA high $300

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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 · buy now

Cheapest ask $250 — 4% above our PSA 9 estimate of $241

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Why $241? 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
2026-09-26	eBay · bestoffer	listing #162369412	$210
2026-09-21	Fanatics · auction	#154027269 sold before	$186
2026-09-21	Fanatics · auction	#154027267 sold before	$180
2026-09-21	eBay · auction	listing #101664460	$203
2026-09-18	eBay · auction	listing #156905243	$228
2026-09-18	eBay · auction	listing #170753540	$317

5 of 6 were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 0 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 72 sales across 5 months, May 2026 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$241▲ 47%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.

Latest $229 (Sep 2026, 16 sales) · ▼ 8% since May 2026

Slab history — PSA 9 copies that have sold more than once

4 slabs have sold more than once, across 4 resales — typically 115 days apart, with a median gross price change of +0.2%. That is 4 of the 63 distinct slabs behind 72 cert-linked sales at this grade — 6.3%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#154027269	May 2026 $239→Sept 2026 $186	3–6 months	-22.2%
#154027267	May 2026 $239→Sept 2026 $180	3–6 months	-24.7%
#150338852	Jun 2026 $264→Sept 2026 $275	Under 3 months	+4.2%
#132954291	May 2026 $293→Sept 2026 $293	3–6 months	+0.2%

A cert reappearing shows the same physical slab sold again — it identifies no buyer or seller. Gross change is price to price; fees, shipping and the grading cost are not in it.

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 20 PSA 9 sales with a median of $262; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
The Pokémon Company Magikarp XY143 XY Holo Promo English 2016 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-26	—	$260
2013 Pokémon XY Black Star Promos Magikarp PR-XY XY143 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-26	162369412	$210
2013 Pokémon XY Black Star Promos Magikarp PR-XY XY143 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-21	101664460	$203
2013 Pokémon XY Black Star Promos Magikarp PR-XY XY143 · PSA 9	PSA 9	Fanatics CollectAuction	2026-09-21	154027267	$180
2013 Pokémon XY Black Star Promos Magikarp PR-XY XY143 · PSA 9	PSA 9	Fanatics CollectAuction	2026-09-21	154027269	$186
2013 Pokémon XY Black Star Promos Magikarp PR-XY XY143 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-18	170753540	$317
2013 Pokémon XY Black Star Promos Magikarp PR-XY XY143 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-18	156905243	$228
2016 Pokemon XY Promos XY143 Magikarp Holo PSA 9 156905243	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-17	—	$228
2016 Pokémon XY Black Star Magikarp XY143 Holo Promo PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-15	—	$251
2016 Pokemon XY Promos XY143 Magikarp Blackstar Peomo Holo PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-07	—	$350
2016 Pokemon XY Promos XY143 Magikarp Holo PSA 9 156905243	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-03	—	$321
2016 Pokémon XY Black Star Magikarp XY143 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-31	—	$245
2016 Pokémon XY Black Star Promos Magikarp Holo Promo XY143 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-30	—	$250
The Pokémon Company Magikarp XY143 XY Black Star Promo Holo EN PSA 9 2016	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-24	—	$270

1–8 of 14 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

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

2,789

43.6% of 6,399 graded

Graded higher

574

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

6,399

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: TAG 34 of 115. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Magikarp 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

Worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$196

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

4530%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$28

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$112

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 61 graded sales and a population of 1,311,799 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Magikarp (XY Black Star Promos #XY143) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Magikarp from XY Black Star Promos is worth approximately $241, with a fair range of $185 to $250 — about 2.4× the $101 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 — 5 at auction, 1 by best offer and 0 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 9 Magikarp exist?

PSA has graded 2,789 copies of Magikarp (XY Black Star Promos #XY143) a 9, out of 6,399 submitted — 43.6% of the population, with 574 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Magikarp hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $112 grading fee is about $196; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 4530% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Magikarp a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Magikarp has 20 recorded sales, 15 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.