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Best Mesprit Cards to Grade

The Mesprit 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: Mesprit LV.X (Legends Awakened) at an expected +$1,351.

Worth grading4
With a gem-rate sample4100%
Positive expected value2
Median gem rate5.1%
PSA fees as of2026-09-26

Ranked by expected profit 4

Mesprit cards worth grading, ranked by expected grading profit
#CardRawPSA 9PSA 10CostBest caseGem rateExpectedSample
1Mesprit LV.XMesprit LV.XLegends Awakened #143 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected +$1,351 per submission: 2.9% of 280 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($42,600), and a PSA 9 ($1,006) still clears the $2,527 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.
$82$1,006$42,600$2,445+$40,0732.9%+$1,351280
high
2MespritMespritMysterious Treasures #14 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected +$528 per submission: 3.9% of 204 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($3,960), and a PSA 9 ($1,000) still clears the $428 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.
$19$1,000$3,960$409+$3,5323.9%+$528204
high
3MespritMespritSurging Sparks #204 · Current (2020–)
Expected loss −$40 per submission: 32.5% of 5,999 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($121), and only a PSA 10 covers the $95 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample.
$14$24$121$81+$2632.5%−$405,999
high
4MespritMespritLegends Awakened #34 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected loss −$61 per submission: 5.1% of 39 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($184), and only a PSA 10 covers the $92 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample.
$10$66$184$82+$925.1%−$6139
medium

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 Mesprit ranking

Every Mesprit card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 4 Mesprit printings pass. 4 of them (100%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 2 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 Mesprit LV.X from Legends Awakened, gems 2.9% of the time across 280 graded copies: +$1,351 is what a long run of submissions would average, $40,073 is what one lucky copy returns.

The median gem rate across the sampled Mesprit cards is 5.1%. Roughly one submitted copy in 20 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 4 ranked cards, 2 still cover raw price plus fee at PSA 9, 2 need a 10 to break even and 2 lose money on expectation. 3 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.

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

Mesprit grading questions

Which Mesprit card is the best to grade?
On current numbers the Mesprit LV.X (Legends Awakened #143): 2.9% of 280 graded copies came back PSA 10, an expected profit of $1,351 per submission after the $2,445 grading cost, against a best case of $40,073 if it gems.
How many Mesprit cards are worth grading?
2 keep a positive expected value after the fee, out of the 4 with a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies. 4 cards on this page have a PSA 10 price that beats the raw price by more than the grading fee.
What gem rate do Mesprit cards get at PSA?
The median across the 4 sampled Mesprit cards is 5.1%, so about one in 20 of the copies collectors chose to submit came back PSA 10. The strongest rate with a sample of thirty or more is the Mesprit (Surging Sparks #204) at 32.5% of 5,999.
Does the Mesprit 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.