Best Politoed Cards to Grade
The Politoed 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: Politoed (Skyridge) at an expected +$5,726.
Ranked by expected profit 5
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  PolitoedSkyridge #H23 · Vintage (1999–2003)Expected +$5,726 per submission: 23% of 683 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($24,000), and a PSA 9 ($2,800) still clears the $1,838 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $579 | $2,800 | $24,000 | $1,259 | +$22,162 | 23% | +$5,726 | 683 high |
| 2 |  Politoed exUnseen Forces #107 · Classic (2004–2010)Expected +$1,213 per submission: 6.5% of 538 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($17,324), and a PSA 9 ($1,700) still clears the $1,430 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $238 | $1,700 | $17,324 | $1,192 | +$15,894 | 6.5% | +$1,213 | 538 high |
| 3 |  PolitoedHS—Unleashed #7 · Classic (2004–2010)Expected +$151 per submission: 7.1% of 127 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($2,800), and a PSA 9 ($150) still clears the $414 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $17 | $150 | $2,800 | $397 | +$2,386 | 7.1% | +$151 | 127 high |
| 4 | Expected +$12 per submission: 1.5% of 1,364 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($1,700), and a PSA 9 ($300) still clears the $303 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $67 | $300 | $1,700 | $236 | +$1,397 | 1.5% | +$12 | 1,364 high |
| 5 | Expected loss −$50 per submission: 21.1% of 128 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($100), and only a PSA 10 covers the $97 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $16 | $48 | $100 | $81 | +$4 | 21.1% | −$50 | 128 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 10
Every Politoed 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 15 Oct 2026. How population is measured.
Most graded 10
The most-submitted cards, by total PSA graded.
| # | Card | Graded | PSA 10s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Politoed Neo Discovery #8 | 1,364 | 20 |
| 2 | Politoed Skyridge #H23 | 683 | 157 |
| 3 | Politoed ex Unseen Forces #107 | 538 | 35 |
| 4 | Politoed Legends Awakened #12 | 155 | 1 |
| 5 | Politoed Skyridge #25 | 149 | 67 |
| 6 | Politoed Neo Discovery #27 | 128 | 27 |
| 7 | Politoed HS—Unleashed #7 | 127 | 9 |
| 8 | Politoed Guardians Rising #25 | 38 | 4 |
| 9 | Politoed Furious Fists #18 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | Politoed Lost Origin #32 | 2 | 1 |
Fewest PSA 10s 8
The smallest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Politoed Legends Awakened #12 | 1 | 155 |
| 2 | Politoed Guardians Rising #25 | 4 | 38 |
| 3 | Politoed HS—Unleashed #7 | 9 | 127 |
| 4 | Politoed Neo Discovery #8 | 20 | 1,364 |
| 5 | Politoed Neo Discovery #27 | 27 | 128 |
| 6 | Politoed ex Unseen Forces #107 | 35 | 538 |
| 7 | Politoed Skyridge #25 | 67 | 149 |
| 8 | Politoed Skyridge #H23 | 157 | 683 |
Most PSA 10s 8
The largest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Politoed Skyridge #H23 | 157 | 683 |
| 2 | Politoed Skyridge #25 | 67 | 149 |
| 3 | Politoed ex Unseen Forces #107 | 35 | 538 |
| 4 | Politoed Neo Discovery #27 | 27 | 128 |
| 5 | Politoed Neo Discovery #8 | 20 | 1,364 |
| 6 | Politoed HS—Unleashed #7 | 9 | 127 |
| 7 | Politoed Guardians Rising #25 | 4 | 38 |
| 8 | Politoed Legends Awakened #12 | 1 | 155 |
Hardest to gem 8
The lowest historical PSA 10 rates among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | Historical PSA 10 rate | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Politoed Legends Awakened #12 | 0.6% | 155 |
| 2 | Politoed Neo Discovery #8 | 1.5% | 1,364 |
| 3 | Politoed ex Unseen Forces #107 | 6.5% | 538 |
| 4 | Politoed HS—Unleashed #7 | 7.1% | 127 |
| 5 | Politoed Guardians Rising #25 | 11% | 38 |
| 6 | Politoed Neo Discovery #27 | 21% | 128 |
| 7 | Politoed Skyridge #H23 | 23% | 683 |
| 8 | Politoed Skyridge #25 | 45% | 149 |
Fastest growing 6
The most copies newly PSA graded over 30 days, between our readings of 24 Aug 2026 and 28 Sept 2026 — weekly readings, never interpolated between.
| # | Card | New graded | PSA 10s change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Politoed Neo Discovery #8 | +36 | 0 |
| 2 | Politoed Skyridge #H23 | +18 | 0 |
| 3 | Politoed ex Unseen Forces #107 | +11 | 0 |
| 4 | Politoed Skyridge #25 | +8 | +2 |
| 5 | Politoed Neo Discovery #27 | +3 | 0 |
| 6 | Politoed HS—Unleashed #7 | +3 | 0 |
How to read the Politoed ranking
Every Politoed card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 5 Politoed printings pass. 5 of them (100%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 4 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 Politoed from Skyridge, gems 23% of the time across 683 graded copies: +$5,726 is what a long run of submissions would average, $22,162 is what one lucky copy returns.
The median gem rate across the sampled Politoed cards is 7.1%. Roughly one submitted copy in 14 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, 4 still cover raw price plus fee at PSA 9, 1 needs a 10 to break even and 1 loses money on expectation. 5 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.
Before you submit a Politoed 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 Politoed card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.