Best Slaking Cards to Grade
The Slaking 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: Slaking (Power Keepers) at an expected +$372.
Ranked by expected profit 4
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  SlakingPower Keepers #13 · Classic (2004–2010)Expected +$372 per submission: 21.5% of 237 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($2,000), and a PSA 9 ($126) still clears the $247 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $8 | $126 | $2,000 | $239 | +$1,753 | 21.5% | +$372 | 237 high |
| 2 |  SlakingRuby & Sapphire #12 · Vintage (1999–2003)Expected +$264 per submission: 10.2% of 295 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($3,025), and a PSA 9 ($200) still clears the $419 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $20 | $200 | $3,025 | $399 | +$2,606 | 10.2% | +$264 | 295 high |
| 3 |  SlakingDeoxys #15 · Classic (2004–2010)Expected +$185 per submission: 12.3% of 155 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($2,000), and a PSA 9 ($100) still clears the $256 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $17 | $100 | $2,000 | $239 | +$1,744 | 12.3% | +$185 | 155 high |
| 4 |  SlakingCelestial Storm #115 · Modern (2011–2019)Expected loss −$61 per submission: 23.1% of 13 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($100), and only a PSA 10 covers the $87 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence low on that sample. | $6 | $2 | $100 | $81 | +$13 | 23.1% | −$61 | 13 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.
PSA population 16
Every Slaking 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 16 Oct 2026. How population is measured.
Most graded 16
The most-submitted cards, by total PSA graded.
| # | Card | Graded | PSA 10s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slaking ex Surging Sparks #227 | 498 | 145 |
| 2 | Slaking Detective Pikachu #18 | 299 | 53 |
| 3 | Slaking Ruby & Sapphire #12 | 295 | 30 |
| 4 | Slaking ex Surging Sparks #147 | 243 | 60 |
| 5 | Slaking Power Keepers #13 | 237 | 51 |
| 6 | Slaking V Pokémon GO #77 | 223 | 116 |
| 7 | Slaking Deoxys #15 | 155 | 19 |
| 8 | Slaking V Pokémon GO #58 | 145 | 56 |
| 9 | Slaking Dragons Exalted #103 | 85 | 22 |
| 10 | Slaking Platinum #16 | 63 | 6 |
Show the next 6
| # | Card | Graded | PSA 10s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Slaking Paldea Evolved #162 | 37 | 4 |
| 12 | Slaking Unified Minds #170 | 28 | 8 |
| 13 | Slaking Evolving Skies #131 | 16 | 6 |
| 14 | Slaking Celestial Storm #115 | 13 | 3 |
| 15 | Slaking Furious Fists #83 | 12 | 2 |
| 16 | Slaking Mysterious Treasures #34 | 8 | 1 |
Fewest PSA 10s 12
The smallest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slaking Paldea Evolved #162 | 4 | 37 |
| 2 | Slaking Platinum #16 | 6 | 63 |
| 3 | Slaking Unified Minds #170 | 8 | 28 |
| 4 | Slaking Deoxys #15 | 19 | 155 |
| 5 | Slaking Dragons Exalted #103 | 22 | 85 |
| 6 | Slaking Ruby & Sapphire #12 | 30 | 295 |
| 7 | Slaking Power Keepers #13 | 51 | 237 |
| 8 | Slaking Detective Pikachu #18 | 53 | 299 |
| 9 | Slaking V Pokémon GO #58 | 56 | 145 |
| 10 | Slaking ex Surging Sparks #147 | 60 | 243 |
Show the next 2
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Slaking V Pokémon GO #77 | 116 | 223 |
| 12 | Slaking ex Surging Sparks #227 | 145 | 498 |
Most PSA 10s 12
The largest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slaking ex Surging Sparks #227 | 145 | 498 |
| 2 | Slaking V Pokémon GO #77 | 116 | 223 |
| 3 | Slaking ex Surging Sparks #147 | 60 | 243 |
| 4 | Slaking V Pokémon GO #58 | 56 | 145 |
| 5 | Slaking Detective Pikachu #18 | 53 | 299 |
| 6 | Slaking Power Keepers #13 | 51 | 237 |
| 7 | Slaking Ruby & Sapphire #12 | 30 | 295 |
| 8 | Slaking Dragons Exalted #103 | 22 | 85 |
| 9 | Slaking Deoxys #15 | 19 | 155 |
| 10 | Slaking Unified Minds #170 | 8 | 28 |
Show the next 2
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Slaking Platinum #16 | 6 | 63 |
| 12 | Slaking Paldea Evolved #162 | 4 | 37 |
Hardest to gem 12
The lowest historical PSA 10 rates among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | Historical PSA 10 rate | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slaking Platinum #16 | 9.5% | 63 |
| 2 | Slaking Ruby & Sapphire #12 | 10% | 295 |
| 3 | Slaking Paldea Evolved #162 | 11% | 37 |
| 4 | Slaking Deoxys #15 | 12% | 155 |
| 5 | Slaking Detective Pikachu #18 | 18% | 299 |
| 6 | Slaking Power Keepers #13 | 22% | 237 |
| 7 | Slaking ex Surging Sparks #147 | 25% | 243 |
| 8 | Slaking Dragons Exalted #103 | 26% | 85 |
| 9 | Slaking Unified Minds #170 | 29% | 28 |
| 10 | Slaking ex Surging Sparks #227 | 29% | 498 |
Show the next 2
| # | Card | Historical PSA 10 rate | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Slaking V Pokémon GO #58 | 39% | 145 |
| 12 | Slaking V Pokémon GO #77 | 52% | 223 |
Fastest growing 9
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 | Slaking Ruby & Sapphire #12 | +11 | +1 |
| 2 | Slaking ex Surging Sparks #227 | +8 | +4 |
| 3 | Slaking Power Keepers #13 | +4 | 0 |
| 4 | Slaking Deoxys #15 | +4 | 0 |
| 5 | Slaking V Pokémon GO #77 | +3 | +1 |
| 6 | Slaking Dragons Exalted #103 | +3 | 0 |
| 7 | Slaking ex Surging Sparks #147 | +2 | 0 |
| 8 | Slaking V Pokémon GO #58 | +2 | +1 |
| 9 | Slaking Evolving Skies #131 | +1 | 0 |
How to read the Slaking ranking
Every Slaking card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 4 Slaking printings pass. 4 of them (100%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 3 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 Slaking from Power Keepers, gems 21.5% of the time across 237 graded copies: +$372 is what a long run of submissions would average, $1,753 is what one lucky copy returns.
The median gem rate across the sampled Slaking cards is 21.5%. Roughly one submitted copy in 5 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 4 ranked cards, 3 still cover raw price plus fee at PSA 9, 1 needs a 10 to break even and 1 loses money on expectation. 3 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.
Before you submit a Slaking 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 Slaking card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.