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Best Omanyte Cards to Grade

The Omanyte 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: Omanyte (Skyridge) at an expected −$9.

Worth grading3
With a gem-rate sample3100%
Positive expected value0
Median gem rate32.7%
PSA fees as of2026-09-26

Ranked by expected profit 3

Omanyte cards worth grading, ranked by expected grading profit
#CardRawPSA 9PSA 10CostBest caseGem rateExpectedSample
1OmanyteOmanyteSkyridge #41 · Vintage (1999–2003)
Expected loss −$9 per submission: 34.1% of 91 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($200), and only a PSA 10 covers the $103 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample.
$21$50$200$82+$9734.1%−$991
medium
2Dark OmanyteDark OmanyteNeo Destiny #37 · Vintage (1999–2003)
Expected loss −$17 per submission: 32.7% of 49 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($177), and only a PSA 10 covers the $91 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample.
$9$29$177$82+$8732.7%−$1749
medium
3OmanyteOmanyte151 #180 · Current (2020–)
Expected loss −$34 per submission: 31% of 5,127 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($142), and only a PSA 10 covers the $95 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample.
$14$27$142$81+$4731%−$345,127
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 16

Every Omanyte 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 22 Oct 2026. How population is measured.

Most graded 16

The most-submitted cards, by total PSA graded.

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Fewest PSA 10s 9

The smallest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.

Most PSA 10s 9

The largest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.

Hardest to gem 9

The lowest historical PSA 10 rates among cards with at least 20 graded.

Omanyte cards with the lowest historical PSA 10 rate
#CardHistorical PSA 10 rateGraded
1Omanyte δ Holon Phantoms #7421%47
2Omanyte Fossil #5223%615
3Omanyte Legend Maker #6027%49
4Omanyte Neo Discovery #6028%80
5Omanyte 151 #18031%5,127
6Omanyte Sandstorm #7032%44
7Dark Omanyte Neo Destiny #3733%49
8Omanyte Skyridge #4134%91
9Omanyte Legendary Collection #5739%62

Fastest growing 9

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.

How to read the Omanyte ranking

Every Omanyte card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 3 Omanyte printings pass. 3 of them (100%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 0 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 Omanyte from Skyridge, gems 34.1% of the time across 91 graded copies: −$9 is what a long run of submissions would average, $97 is what one lucky copy returns.

The median gem rate across the sampled Omanyte cards is 32.7%. Roughly one submitted copy in 3 came back PSA 10, and no row here covers raw price plus fee at PSA 9, so the gem rate decides whether a submission pays. Of the 3 ranked cards, 3 need a 10 to break even and 3 lose money on expectation. 1 rests on a hundred or more graded copies.

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

Omanyte grading questions

Which Omanyte card is the best to grade?
On current numbers the Omanyte (Skyridge #41): 34.1% of 91 graded copies came back PSA 10, an expected loss of $9 per submission after the $82 grading cost, against a best case of $97 if it gems.
How many Omanyte cards are worth grading?
0 keep a positive expected value after the fee, out of the 3 with a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies. 3 cards on this page have a PSA 10 price that beats the raw price by more than the grading fee.
What gem rate do Omanyte cards get at PSA?
The median across the 3 sampled Omanyte cards is 32.7%, so about one in 3 of the copies collectors chose to submit came back PSA 10. The strongest rate with a sample of thirty or more is the Omanyte (Skyridge #41) at 34.1% of 91.
Does the Omanyte 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.