Best Minun Cards to Grade
The Minun 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: Minun (POP Series 3) at an expected +$2,936.
Ranked by expected profit 11
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expected +$2,936 per submission: 31.6% of 19 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($10,000), and a PSA 9 ($225) still clears the $753 you have in it. Confidence low on that sample. | $34 | $225 | $10,000 | $719 | +$9,247 | 31.6% | +$2,936 | 19 low |
| 2 | Expected +$393 per submission: 13.8% of 319 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($1,764), and a PSA 9 ($750) still clears the $343 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $106 | $750 | $1,764 | $237 | +$1,421 | 13.8% | +$393 | 319 high |
| 3 | Expected +$34 per submission: 23.8% of 21 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($500), and only a PSA 10 covers the $98 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence low on that sample. | $13 | $15 | $500 | $85 | +$402 | 23.8% | +$34 | 21 low |
| 4 | Expected +$34 per submission: 41.7% of 12 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($198), and only a PSA 10 covers the $89 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence low on that sample. | $7 | $79 | $198 | $82 | +$109 | 41.7% | +$34 | 12 low |
| 5 | Expected +$20 per submission: 37.8% of 2,359 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($300), and only a PSA 10 covers the $123 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $40 | $51 | $300 | $83 | +$177 | 37.8% | +$20 | 2,359 high |
| 6 | Expected +$6 per submission: 19.8% of 81 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($243), and a PSA 9 ($153) still clears the $110 you have in it. Confidence medium on that sample. | $28 | $153 | $243 | $82 | +$132 | 19.8% | +$6 | 81 medium |
| 7 | Expected +$1 per submission: 23.9% of 67 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($180), and only a PSA 10 covers the $87 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample. | $5 | $75 | $180 | $82 | +$93 | 23.9% | +$1 | 67 medium |
| 8 | Expected loss −$29 per submission: 2% of 148 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($320), and a PSA 9 ($192) still clears the $101 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $18 | $192 | $320 | $83 | +$219 | 2% | −$29 | 148 high |
| 9 | Expected loss −$54 per submission: 0% of 25 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($141), and a PSA 9 ($117) still clears the $101 you have in it. Confidence low on that sample. | $20 | $117 | $141 | $81 | +$40 | 0% | −$54 | 25 low |
| 10 | Expected loss −$57 per submission: 13.3% of 15 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($96), and only a PSA 10 covers the $88 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence low on that sample. | $7 | $35 | $96 | $81 | +$7 | 13.3% | −$57 | 15 low |
| 11 | Expected loss −$66 per submission: 2.2% of 45 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($100), and only a PSA 10 covers the $86 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample. | $5 | $35 | $100 | $81 | +$13 | 2.2% | −$66 | 45 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.
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | $6 | — | $115 | $81 | +$28 | — | — | none <10 |
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 Minun ranking
Every Minun card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 12 Minun printings pass. 11 of them (92%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 7 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 Minun from POP Series 3, gems 31.6% of the time across 19 graded copies: +$2,936 is what a long run of submissions would average, $9,247 is what one lucky copy returns.
The median gem rate across the sampled Minun cards is 19.8%. Roughly one submitted copy in 5 came back PSA 10, and most rows here need that PSA 10 to cover raw price plus fee, so the gem rate decides whether a submission pays. Of the 11 ranked cards, 5 still cover raw price plus fee at PSA 9, 6 need a 10 to break even and 4 lose money on expectation. 3 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 Minun from HS—Unleashed at +$28.
Before you submit a Minun 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 Minun card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.