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Best Marowak Cards to Grade

The Marowak 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: Marowak δ (Delta Species) at an expected +$611.

Worth grading6
With a gem-rate sample583%
Positive expected value5
Median gem rate20.4%
PSA fees as of2026-09-26

Ranked by expected profit 5

Marowak cards worth grading, ranked by expected grading profit
#CardRawPSA 9PSA 10CostBest caseGem rateExpectedSample
1Marowak δMarowak δDelta Species #10 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected +$611 per submission: 18.1% of 270 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($3,600), and a PSA 9 ($275) still clears the $449 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.
$44$275$3,600$405+$3,15118.1%+$611270
high
2Dark MarowakDark MarowakTeam Rocket Returns #7 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected +$357 per submission: 11.7% of 369 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($3,000), and a PSA 9 ($344) still clears the $499 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.
$100$344$3,000$399+$2,50111.7%+$357369
high
3MarowakMarowakFireRed & LeafGreen #7 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected +$79 per submission: 20.4% of 329 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($408), and a PSA 9 ($222) still clears the $125 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.
$41$222$408$84+$28320.4%+$79329
high
4Marowak BREAKMarowak BREAKBREAKthrough #79 · Modern (2011–2019)
Expected +$71 per submission: 33.5% of 176 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($400), and only a PSA 10 covers the $90 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample.
$6$55$400$84+$31033.5%+$71176
high
5MarowakMarowakAquapolis #54 · Vintage (1999–2003)
Expected +$8 per submission: 35.8% of 67 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($222), and only a PSA 10 covers the $92 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample.
$10$33$222$82+$13035.8%+$867
medium

Best case only — no gem-rate evidence 1

Fewer than 10 graded copies in the PSA and CGC population reports. They clear the grading cost if they gem — that is all the numbers support.

Marowak cards that clear the grading cost at PSA 10 but have no measurable gem rate
#CardRawPSA 9PSA 10CostBest caseGem rateExpectedSample
6Alolan Marowak-GXAlolan Marowak-GXSM Black Star Promos #SM187 · Modern (2011–2019)$23—$255$83+$149——none
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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.

How to read the Marowak ranking

Every Marowak card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 6 Marowak printings pass. 5 of them (83%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 5 of those keep 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 Marowak δ from Delta Species, gems 18.1% of the time across 270 graded copies: +$611 is what a long run of submissions would average, $3,151 is what one lucky copy returns.

The median gem rate across the sampled Marowak cards is 20.4%. Roughly one submitted copy in 5 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 5 ranked cards, 3 still cover raw price plus fee at PSA 9 and 2 need a 10 to break even. 4 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.

1 card sits below the ranking with a best case only, fewer than ten graded copies. The largest best case among them is the Alolan Marowak-GX from SM Black Star Promos at +$149.

Before you submit a Marowak 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 Marowak card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.

Marowak grading questions

Which Marowak card is the best to grade?
On current numbers the Marowak δ (Delta Species #10): 18.1% of 270 graded copies came back PSA 10, an expected profit of $611 per submission after the $405 grading cost, against a best case of $3,151 if it gems.
How many Marowak cards are worth grading?
5 keep a positive expected value after the fee, out of the 5 with a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies. The best case is broader: 6 cards on this page have a PSA 10 price that beats the raw price by more than the grading fee. The other 1 is best case only.
What gem rate do Marowak cards get at PSA?
The median across the 5 sampled Marowak cards is 20.4%, so about one in 5 of the copies collectors chose to submit came back PSA 10. The strongest rate with a sample of thirty or more is the Marowak (Aquapolis #54) at 35.8% of 67.
Does the Marowak ranking apply to CGC or Beckett?
Not directly. The cost column is PSA's fee as of 2026-09-26 and the graded columns are PSA slab prices; the gem-rate sample falls back to CGC's population only when PSA has fewer than ten copies. A CGC or Beckett submission has its own fee and resale price.