Best Skarmory Cards to Grade
The Skarmory 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: Skarmory (Expedition Base Set) at an expected +$1,512.
Ranked by expected profit 8
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expected +$1,512 per submission: 1.1% of 938 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($115,000), and a PSA 9 ($2,195) still clears the $6,369 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $200 | $2,195 | $115,000 | $6,169 | +$108,631 | 1.1% | +$1,512 | 938 high |
| 2 | Expected +$1,123 per submission: 8% of 893 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($15,000), and a PSA 9 ($351) still clears the $1,261 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $92 | $351 | $15,000 | $1,169 | +$13,739 | 8% | +$1,123 | 893 high |
| 3 | Expected +$39 per submission: 44.4% of 135 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($262), and only a PSA 10 covers the $102 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $19 | $46 | $262 | $83 | +$160 | 44.4% | +$39 | 135 high |
| 4 | Expected +$20 per submission: 44.7% of 141 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($210), and only a PSA 10 covers the $93 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $11 | $44 | $210 | $82 | +$117 | 44.7% | +$20 | 141 high |
| 5 | Expected loss −$10 per submission: 1.3% of 1,836 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($2,500), and a PSA 9 ($138) still clears the $269 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $25 | $138 | $2,500 | $244 | +$2,231 | 1.3% | −$10 | 1,836 high |
| 6 | Expected loss −$23 per submission: 18.9% of 143 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($264), and only a PSA 10 covers the $96 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $13 | $35 | $264 | $83 | +$168 | 18.9% | −$23 | 143 high |
| 7 | Expected loss −$42 per submission: 29.4% of 8,077 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($112), and only a PSA 10 covers the $90 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $9 | $22 | $112 | $81 | +$22 | 29.4% | −$42 | 8,077 high |
| 8 | Expected loss −$46 per submission: 16.4% of 73 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($150), and only a PSA 10 covers the $86 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample. | $5 | $26 | $150 | $81 | +$63 | 16.4% | −$46 | 73 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 Skarmory ranking
Every Skarmory card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 8 Skarmory printings pass. 8 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 Skarmory from Expedition Base Set, gems 1.1% of the time across 938 graded copies: +$1,512 is what a long run of submissions would average, $108,631 is what one lucky copy returns.
The median gem rate across the sampled Skarmory cards is 18.9%. 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 8 ranked cards, 3 still cover raw price plus fee at PSA 9, 5 need a 10 to break even and 4 lose money on expectation. 7 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.
Before you submit a Skarmory 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 Skarmory card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.