Best Snivy Cards to Grade
The Snivy 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: Venusaur & Snivy-GX (SM Black Star Promos) at an expected +$147.
Ranked by expected profit 5
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expected +$147 per submission: 46.3% of 4,377 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($615), and only a PSA 10 covers the $207 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $121 | $135 | $615 | $86 | +$408 | 46.3% | +$147 | 4,377 high |
| 2 | Expected +$62 per submission: 42.4% of 1,012 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($350), and only a PSA 10 covers the $123 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $40 | $75 | $350 | $83 | +$227 | 42.4% | +$62 | 1,012 high |
| 3 | Expected +$34 per submission: 50.6% of 1,355 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($279), and only a PSA 10 covers the $148 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $65 | $95 | $279 | $83 | +$131 | 50.6% | +$34 | 1,355 high |
| 4 | Expected +$16 per submission: 34.9% of 3,272 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($271), and only a PSA 10 covers the $109 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $26 | $50 | $271 | $83 | +$162 | 34.9% | +$16 | 3,272 high |
| 5 | Expected loss −$3 per submission: 11.4% of 1,017 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($715), and only a PSA 10 covers the $119 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $32 | $40 | $715 | $87 | +$596 | 11.4% | −$3 | 1,017 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.
How to read the Snivy ranking
Every Snivy card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 5 Snivy 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 Venusaur & Snivy-GX from SM Black Star Promos, gems 46.3% of the time across 4,377 graded copies: +$147 is what a long run of submissions would average, $408 is what one lucky copy returns.
The median gem rate across the sampled Snivy cards is 42.4%. Roughly one submitted copy in 2 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 5 ranked cards, 5 need a 10 to break even and 1 loses money on expectation. 5 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.
Before you submit a Snivy 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 Snivy card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.