Best Grumpig Cards to Grade
The Grumpig cards worth grading, ranked by expected profit per submission — every grade outcome weighted by how often the card actually receives it — after current grading fees. The PSA 10 best case is shown on every row but does not decide the order. Top pick: Grumpig (Dragon) at an expected +$125.
Ranked by expected profit 1
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  GrumpigDragon #6 · Vintage (1999–2003)Expected +$125 per submission: 16.4% of 220 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($1,000), and a PSA 9 ($100) still clears the $109 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $19 | $100 | $1,000 | $90 | +$892 | 16.4% | +$125 | 220 high |
Expected = every grade outcome weighted by its share of the card's graded population, minus the raw price and the grading cost (PSA tier fee for the graded value plus ~$20 round-trip shipping, fees as of 2026-09-26). Best case is the PSA 10 leg alone. Gem rates come from a self-selected population — collectors grade their cleanest copies — so read them as an upper bound. Raw is a blended market price, not a sale of your copy. Full method and filters on the grading index.
PSA population 14
Every Grumpig card with a PSA population reading, ranked five ways. A historical PSA 10 rate is the share of graded copies that came back a 10 — how hard a 10 has been to earn, not the chance your copy earns one — and it is only quoted on cards with at least 20 graded copies; the PSA 10 tables use the same floor. PSA counts as of 24 Oct 2026. How population is measured.
Most graded 14
The most-submitted cards, by total PSA graded.
| # | Card | Graded | PSA 10s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grumpig Dragon #6 | 220 | 36 |
| 2 | Grumpig Crystal Guardians #20 | 21 | 5 |
| 3 | Grumpig Legends Awakened #56 | 11 | 0 |
| 4 | Grumpig Deoxys #32 | 10 | 3 |
| 5 | Grumpig Emerald #30 | 7 | 3 |
| 6 | Grumpig Emerald #29 | 6 | 4 |
| 7 | Grumpig XY #50 | 6 | 2 |
| 8 | Grumpig Battle Styles #56 | 5 | 1 |
| 9 | Grumpig HS—Triumphant #23 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | Grumpig EX Trainer Kit 2 Plusle #3 | 1 | 1 |
Show the next 4
| # | Card | Graded | PSA 10s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Grumpig Fates Collide #31 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | Grumpig Celestial Storm #60 | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | Grumpig Crimson Invasion #42 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | Grumpig Obsidian Flames #91 | 1 | 1 |
Fewest PSA 10s 2
The smallest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grumpig Crystal Guardians #20 | 5 | 21 |
| 2 | Grumpig Dragon #6 | 36 | 220 |
Most PSA 10s 2
The largest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grumpig Dragon #6 | 36 | 220 |
| 2 | Grumpig Crystal Guardians #20 | 5 | 21 |
Hardest to gem 2
The lowest historical PSA 10 rates among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | Historical PSA 10 rate | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grumpig Dragon #6 | 16% | 220 |
| 2 | Grumpig Crystal Guardians #20 | 24% | 21 |
Fastest growing 2
The most copies newly PSA graded over 30 days, between our readings of 14 Sept 2026 and 19 Oct 2026 — weekly readings, never interpolated between.
| # | Card | New graded | PSA 10s change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grumpig Dragon #6 | +6 | 0 |
| 2 | Grumpig Emerald #30 | +1 | 0 |
How to read the Grumpig ranking
Every Grumpig card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 1 Grumpig printings pass. 1 of them (100%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 1 of those keeps a positive expected value once every grade outcome is weighted by how often the card actually receives it.
The order is expected profit, not the PSA 10 best case, which rewards the widest raw-to-gem gap whether the card gems one time in two or one in fifty. Here the top row, the Grumpig from Dragon, gems 16.4% of the time across 220 graded copies: +$125 is what a long run of submissions would average, $892 is what one lucky copy returns.
The median gem rate across the sampled Grumpig cards is 16.4%. Roughly one submitted copy in 6 came back PSA 10, and most rows here still cover raw price plus fee at PSA 9, so the PSA 9 price does most of the work. Of the 1 ranked card, 1 still covers raw price plus fee at PSA 9. 1 rests on a hundred or more graded copies.
Before you submit a Grumpig card
Grading pays on condition. The four things every grader scores — centering, corners, edges and surface — can be checked at home before paying a fee, and a copy that is visibly off-centre or has a whitened corner will not gem whatever the population says. Those gem rates come from a self-selected population of clean copies, so a random copy does worse.
The cost column assumes a PSA submission at the tier covering the card's PSA 10 value, fees as of 2026-09-26, and raw is CardTrack's blended near-mint price, not a sale of your copy: pay more, or hold a lighter copy, and the break-even moves against you. Test a card with your own numbers in the ROI calculator, see the printings that fail the bar on the Grumpig card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.