Best Swampert Cards to Grade
The Swampert 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: Swampert ex (Crystal Guardians) at an expected +$2,083.
Ranked by expected profit 7
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Swampert exCrystal Guardians #98 · Classic (2004–2010)Expected +$2,083 per submission: 6.8% of 1,096 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($28,200), and a PSA 9 ($1,850) still clears the $2,536 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $235 | $1,850 | $28,200 | $2,301 | +$25,664 | 6.8% | +$2,083 | 1,096 high |
| 2 |  SwampertGreat Encounters #9 · Classic (2004–2010)Expected +$1,851 per submission: 30% of 310 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($6,660), and a PSA 9 ($396) still clears the $734 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $48 | $396 | $6,660 | $686 | +$5,926 | 30% | +$1,851 | 310 high |
| 3 |  SwampertEmerald #11 · Classic (2004–2010)Expected +$803 per submission: 6.3% of 410 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($13,000), and a PSA 9 ($343) still clears the $1,205 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $56 | $343 | $13,000 | $1,149 | +$11,795 | 6.3% | +$803 | 410 high |
| 4 |  Swampert exTeam Magma vs Team Aqua #95 · Classic (2004–2010)Expected +$799 per submission: 5.7% of 789 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($8,500), and a PSA 9 ($2,067) still clears the $1,004 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $300 | $2,067 | $8,500 | $704 | +$7,496 | 5.7% | +$799 | 789 high |
| 5 |  SwampertRuby & Sapphire #13 · Vintage (1999–2003)Expected +$522 per submission: 4.7% of 838 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($6,000), and a PSA 9 ($1,263) still clears the $784 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $105 | $1,263 | $6,000 | $679 | +$5,216 | 4.7% | +$522 | 838 high |
| 6 |  SwampertPOP Series 1 #5 · Classic (2004–2010)Expected +$210 per submission: 3.3% of 419 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($1,550), and a PSA 9 ($871) still clears the $255 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $20 | $871 | $1,550 | $235 | +$1,296 | 3.3% | +$210 | 419 high |
| 7 |  SwampertPrimal Clash #36 · Modern (2011–2019)Expected +$179 per submission: 5.2% of 211 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($4,500), and only a PSA 10 covers the $444 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $30 | $108 | $4,500 | $414 | +$4,056 | 5.2% | +$179 | 211 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 15
Every Swampert 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 15
The most-submitted cards, by total PSA graded.
| # | Card | Graded | PSA 10s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swampert ex Crystal Guardians #98 | 1,096 | 74 |
| 2 | Swampert Ruby & Sapphire #13 | 838 | 39 |
| 3 | Swampert ex Team Magma vs Team Aqua #95 | 789 | 45 |
| 4 | M Swampert-EX XY Black Star Promos #XY87 | 442 | 1 |
| 5 | Swampert POP Series 1 #5 | 419 | 14 |
| 6 | Swampert Emerald #11 | 410 | 26 |
| 7 | Swampert Great Encounters #9 | 310 | 93 |
| 8 | Swampert Primal Clash #36 | 211 | 11 |
| 9 | Swampert Ruby & Sapphire #23 | 193 | 27 |
| 10 | Swampert-EX XY Black Star Promos #XY55 | 184 | 21 |
Show the next 5
| # | Card | Graded | PSA 10s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Swampert Supreme Victors #12 | 178 | 11 |
| 12 | Swampert Fusion Strike #64 | 124 | 14 |
| 13 | Swampert Crystal Guardians #27 | 50 | 5 |
| 14 | Swampert Primal Clash #35 | 12 | 1 |
| 15 | Swampert Celestial Storm #35 | 4 | 3 |
Fewest PSA 10s 13
The smallest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M Swampert-EX XY Black Star Promos #XY87 | 1 | 442 |
| 2 | Swampert Crystal Guardians #27 | 5 | 50 |
| 3 | Swampert Primal Clash #36 | 11 | 211 |
| 4 | Swampert Supreme Victors #12 | 11 | 178 |
| 5 | Swampert POP Series 1 #5 | 14 | 419 |
| 6 | Swampert Fusion Strike #64 | 14 | 124 |
| 7 | Swampert-EX XY Black Star Promos #XY55 | 21 | 184 |
| 8 | Swampert Emerald #11 | 26 | 410 |
| 9 | Swampert Ruby & Sapphire #23 | 27 | 193 |
| 10 | Swampert Ruby & Sapphire #13 | 39 | 838 |
Show the next 3
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Swampert ex Team Magma vs Team Aqua #95 | 45 | 789 |
| 12 | Swampert ex Crystal Guardians #98 | 74 | 1,096 |
| 13 | Swampert Great Encounters #9 | 93 | 310 |
Most PSA 10s 13
The largest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swampert Great Encounters #9 | 93 | 310 |
| 2 | Swampert ex Crystal Guardians #98 | 74 | 1,096 |
| 3 | Swampert ex Team Magma vs Team Aqua #95 | 45 | 789 |
| 4 | Swampert Ruby & Sapphire #13 | 39 | 838 |
| 5 | Swampert Ruby & Sapphire #23 | 27 | 193 |
| 6 | Swampert Emerald #11 | 26 | 410 |
| 7 | Swampert-EX XY Black Star Promos #XY55 | 21 | 184 |
| 8 | Swampert Fusion Strike #64 | 14 | 124 |
| 9 | Swampert POP Series 1 #5 | 14 | 419 |
| 10 | Swampert Supreme Victors #12 | 11 | 178 |
Show the next 3
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Swampert Primal Clash #36 | 11 | 211 |
| 12 | Swampert Crystal Guardians #27 | 5 | 50 |
| 13 | M Swampert-EX XY Black Star Promos #XY87 | 1 | 442 |
Hardest to gem 13
The lowest historical PSA 10 rates among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | Historical PSA 10 rate | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M Swampert-EX XY Black Star Promos #XY87 | 0.2% | 442 |
| 2 | Swampert POP Series 1 #5 | 3.3% | 419 |
| 3 | Swampert Ruby & Sapphire #13 | 4.7% | 838 |
| 4 | Swampert Primal Clash #36 | 5.2% | 211 |
| 5 | Swampert ex Team Magma vs Team Aqua #95 | 5.7% | 789 |
| 6 | Swampert Supreme Victors #12 | 6.2% | 178 |
| 7 | Swampert Emerald #11 | 6.3% | 410 |
| 8 | Swampert ex Crystal Guardians #98 | 6.8% | 1,096 |
| 9 | Swampert Crystal Guardians #27 | 10% | 50 |
| 10 | Swampert Fusion Strike #64 | 11% | 124 |
Show the next 3
| # | Card | Historical PSA 10 rate | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Swampert-EX XY Black Star Promos #XY55 | 11% | 184 |
| 12 | Swampert Ruby & Sapphire #23 | 14% | 193 |
| 13 | Swampert Great Encounters #9 | 30% | 310 |
Fastest growing 12
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 | Swampert ex Crystal Guardians #98 | +33 | 0 |
| 2 | Swampert Ruby & Sapphire #13 | +25 | +1 |
| 3 | Swampert Emerald #11 | +11 | 0 |
| 4 | Swampert POP Series 1 #5 | +10 | 0 |
| 5 | M Swampert-EX XY Black Star Promos #XY87 | +9 | 0 |
| 6 | Swampert Ruby & Sapphire #23 | +9 | 0 |
| 7 | Swampert Primal Clash #36 | +8 | 0 |
| 8 | Swampert Great Encounters #9 | +7 | 0 |
| 9 | Swampert ex Team Magma vs Team Aqua #95 | +6 | 0 |
| 10 | Swampert Supreme Victors #12 | +4 | 0 |
Show the next 2
| # | Card | New graded | PSA 10s change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Swampert-EX XY Black Star Promos #XY55 | +2 | 0 |
| 12 | Swampert Fusion Strike #64 | +1 | 0 |
How to read the Swampert ranking
Every Swampert card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 7 Swampert printings pass. 7 of them (100%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 7 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 Swampert ex from Crystal Guardians, gems 6.8% of the time across 1,096 graded copies: +$2,083 is what a long run of submissions would average, $25,664 is what one lucky copy returns.
The median gem rate across the sampled Swampert cards is 5.7%. Roughly one submitted copy in 18 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 7 ranked cards, 6 still cover raw price plus fee at PSA 9 and 1 needs a 10 to break even. 7 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.
Before you submit a Swampert 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 Swampert card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.