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Best Plusle Cards to Grade

The Plusle 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: Plusle (Dragon) at an expected +$1,030.

Worth grading10
With a gem-rate sample10100%
Positive expected value6
Median gem rate16%
PSA fees as of2026-09-26

Ranked by expected profit 10

Plusle cards worth grading, ranked by expected grading profit
#CardRawPSA 9PSA 10CostBest caseGem rateExpectedSample
1PluslePlusleDragon #8 · Vintage (1999–2003)
Expected +$1,030 per submission: 13.3% of 360 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($7,700), and a PSA 9 ($576) still clears the $796 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.
$100$576$7,700$696+$6,90413.3%+$1,030360
high
2PluslePluslePOP Series 3 #5 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected +$729 per submission: 15.7% of 172 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($4,920), and a PSA 9 ($276) still clears the $449 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.
$31$276$4,920$418+$4,47115.7%+$729172
high
3PluslePlusleHidden Legends #69 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected +$675 per submission: 16% of 144 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($4,650), and a PSA 9 ($200) still clears the $445 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.
$29$200$4,650$416+$4,20516%+$675144
high
4PluslePlusleEX Trainer Kit 2 Plusle #6 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected +$359 per submission: 2.1% of 144 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($15,000), and a PSA 9 ($1,150) still clears the $1,185 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.
$16$1,150$15,000$1,169+$13,8152.1%+$359144
high
5PluslePlusleEmerald #39 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected +$53 per submission: 42.9% of 14 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($206), and a PSA 9 ($172) still clears the $87 you have in it. Confidence low on that sample.
$5$172$206$82+$11942.9%+$5314
low
6PluslePlusleParadox Rift #193 · Current (2020–)
Expected +$11 per submission: 33.9% of 2,353 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($305), and only a PSA 10 covers the $123 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample.
$40$46$305$83+$18233.9%+$112,353
high
7PluslePlusleSupreme Victors #76 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected loss −$24 per submission: 11.5% of 26 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($310), and a PSA 9 ($117) still clears the $102 you have in it. Confidence low on that sample.
$19$117$310$83+$20711.5%−$2426
low
8PluslePlusleDeoxys #44 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected loss −$40 per submission: 33.3% of 21 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($100), and only a PSA 10 covers the $90 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence low on that sample.
$9$37$100$81+$1033.3%−$4021
low
9PluslePluslePOP Series 1 #13 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected loss −$52 per submission: 20.2% of 89 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($100), and only a PSA 10 covers the $87 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample.
$6$21$100$81+$1320.2%−$5289
medium
10PluslePlusleDark Explorers #39 · Modern (2011–2019)
Expected loss −$66 per submission: 0% of 22 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($111), and only a PSA 10 covers the $92 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence low on that sample.
$11$45$111$81+$180%−$6622
low

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 Plusle ranking

Every Plusle card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 10 Plusle printings pass. 10 of them (100%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 6 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 Plusle from Dragon, gems 13.3% of the time across 360 graded copies: +$1,030 is what a long run of submissions would average, $6,904 is what one lucky copy returns.

The median gem rate across the sampled Plusle cards is 16%. 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 10 ranked cards, 6 still cover raw price plus fee at PSA 9, 4 need a 10 to break even and 4 lose money on expectation. 5 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.

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

Plusle grading questions

Which Plusle card is the best to grade?
On current numbers the Plusle (Dragon #8): 13.3% of 360 graded copies came back PSA 10, an expected profit of $1,030 per submission after the $696 grading cost, against a best case of $6,904 if it gems.
How many Plusle cards are worth grading?
6 keep a positive expected value after the fee, out of the 10 with a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies. 10 cards on this page have a PSA 10 price that beats the raw price by more than the grading fee.
What gem rate do Plusle cards get at PSA?
The median across the 10 sampled Plusle cards is 16%, so about one in 6 of the copies collectors chose to submit came back PSA 10. The strongest rate with a sample of thirty or more is the Plusle (Paradox Rift #193) at 33.9% of 2,353.
Does the Plusle 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.