Best Whimsicott Cards to Grade

The Whimsicott 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: Whimsicott-GX (Unbroken Bonds) at an expected +$72.

Worth grading3

With a gem-rate sample3100%

Positive expected value1

Median gem rate54.6%

PSA fees as of2026-09-26

Ranked by expected profit 3

Whimsicott cards worth grading, ranked by expected grading profit
#	Card	Raw	PSA 9	PSA 10	Cost	Best case	Gem rate	Expected	Sample
1	Whimsicott-GXUnbroken Bonds #226 · Modern (2011–2019) Expected +$72 per submission: 44.2% of 265 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($358), and only a PSA 10 covers the $110 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample.	$26	$45	$358	$84	+$248	44.2%	+$72	265 high
2	Whimsicott-GXUnbroken Bonds #206 · Modern (2011–2019) Expected loss −$4 per submission: 56.4% of 188 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($150), and only a PSA 10 covers the $93 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample.	$12	$11	$150	$81	+$57	56.4%	−$4	188 high
3	Whimsicott VSTARBrilliant Stars #175 · Current (2020–) Expected loss −$25 per submission: 54.6% of 537 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($92), and only a PSA 10 covers the $86 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample.	$5	$28	$92	$81	+$6	54.6%	−$25	537 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 23

Every Whimsicott 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 24 Oct 2026. How population is measured.

Most graded 23

The most-submitted cards, by total PSA graded.

Whimsicott cards by total PSA graded
#	Card	Graded	PSA 10s
1	Whimsicott ex White Flare #165	2,053	1,269
2	Whimsicott VSTAR Brilliant Stars #175	537	293
3	Whimsicott ex White Flare #157	394	264
4	Whimsicott-GX Unbroken Bonds #226	265	117
5	Whimsicott VSTAR Brilliant Stars #65	240	125
6	Whimsicott-GX Unbroken Bonds #140	206	108
7	Whimsicott-GX Unbroken Bonds #206	188	106
8	Whimsicott V Brilliant Stars #160	180	88
9	Whimsicott ex White Flare #5	114	47
10	Whimsicott V Brilliant Stars #64	108	34

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Whimsicott cards by total PSA graded
#	Card	Graded	PSA 10s
11	Whimsicott Mega Evolution Black Star Promos #19	101	18
12	Whimsicott Prismatic Evolutions #8	24	7
13	Whimsicott Temporal Forces #15	8	1
14	Whimsicott Vivid Voltage #76	7	4
15	Whimsicott Emerging Powers #12	3	1
16	Whimsicott Sword & Shield #6	3	2
17	Whimsicott Paldean Fates #35	3	0
18	Whimsicott Unified Minds #144	2	1
19	Whimsicott Fates Collide #71	2	0
20	Whimsicott Guardians Rising #91	2	2
21	Whimsicott Cosmic Eclipse #148	1	0
22	Whimsicott Boundaries Crossed #15	1	1
23	Whimsicott Ancient Origins #56	1	0

Fewest PSA 10s 12

The smallest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.

Whimsicott cards with the fewest PSA 10s
#	Card	PSA 10s	Graded
1	Whimsicott Prismatic Evolutions #8	7	24
2	Whimsicott Mega Evolution Black Star Promos #19	18	101
3	Whimsicott V Brilliant Stars #64	34	108
4	Whimsicott ex White Flare #5	47	114
5	Whimsicott V Brilliant Stars #160	88	180
6	Whimsicott-GX Unbroken Bonds #206	106	188
7	Whimsicott-GX Unbroken Bonds #140	108	206
8	Whimsicott-GX Unbroken Bonds #226	117	265
9	Whimsicott VSTAR Brilliant Stars #65	125	240
10	Whimsicott ex White Flare #157	264	394

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Whimsicott cards with the fewest PSA 10s
#	Card	PSA 10s	Graded
11	Whimsicott VSTAR Brilliant Stars #175	293	537
12	Whimsicott ex White Flare #165	1,269	2,053

Most PSA 10s 12

The largest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.

Whimsicott cards with the most PSA 10s
#	Card	PSA 10s	Graded
1	Whimsicott ex White Flare #165	1,269	2,053
2	Whimsicott VSTAR Brilliant Stars #175	293	537
3	Whimsicott ex White Flare #157	264	394
4	Whimsicott VSTAR Brilliant Stars #65	125	240
5	Whimsicott-GX Unbroken Bonds #226	117	265
6	Whimsicott-GX Unbroken Bonds #140	108	206
7	Whimsicott-GX Unbroken Bonds #206	106	188
8	Whimsicott V Brilliant Stars #160	88	180
9	Whimsicott ex White Flare #5	47	114
10	Whimsicott V Brilliant Stars #64	34	108

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Whimsicott cards with the most PSA 10s
#	Card	PSA 10s	Graded
11	Whimsicott Mega Evolution Black Star Promos #19	18	101
12	Whimsicott Prismatic Evolutions #8	7	24

Hardest to gem 12

The lowest historical PSA 10 rates among cards with at least 20 graded.

Whimsicott cards with the lowest historical PSA 10 rate
#	Card	Historical PSA 10 rate	Graded
1	Whimsicott Mega Evolution Black Star Promos #19	18%	101
2	Whimsicott Prismatic Evolutions #8	29%	24
3	Whimsicott V Brilliant Stars #64	31%	108
4	Whimsicott ex White Flare #5	41%	114
5	Whimsicott-GX Unbroken Bonds #226	44%	265
6	Whimsicott V Brilliant Stars #160	49%	180
7	Whimsicott VSTAR Brilliant Stars #65	52%	240
8	Whimsicott-GX Unbroken Bonds #140	52%	206
9	Whimsicott VSTAR Brilliant Stars #175	55%	537
10	Whimsicott-GX Unbroken Bonds #206	56%	188

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Whimsicott cards with the lowest historical PSA 10 rate
#	Card	Historical PSA 10 rate	Graded
11	Whimsicott ex White Flare #165	62%	2,053
12	Whimsicott ex White Flare #157	67%	394

Fastest growing 10

The most copies newly PSA graded over 30 days, between our readings of 14 Sept 2026 and 19 Oct 2026 — weekly readings, never interpolated between.

Whimsicott cards by PSA copies graded over 30 days
#	Card	New graded	PSA 10s change
1	Whimsicott ex White Flare #165	+48	+28
2	Whimsicott ex White Flare #157	+14	+8
3	Whimsicott Mega Evolution Black Star Promos #19	+10	+1
4	Whimsicott VSTAR Brilliant Stars #175	+5	+4
5	Whimsicott VSTAR Brilliant Stars #65	+4	+2
6	Whimsicott-GX Unbroken Bonds #226	+3	+2
7	Whimsicott-GX Unbroken Bonds #206	+3	+2
8	Whimsicott ex White Flare #5	+3	+2
9	Whimsicott V Brilliant Stars #64	+2	0
10	Whimsicott-GX Unbroken Bonds #140	+1	0

How to read the Whimsicott ranking

Every Whimsicott card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 3 Whimsicott printings pass. 3 of them (100%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 1 of those keeps 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 Whimsicott-GX from Unbroken Bonds, gems 44.2% of the time across 265 graded copies: +$72 is what a long run of submissions would average, $248 is what one lucky copy returns.

The median gem rate across the sampled Whimsicott cards is 54.6%. More than half of submitted copies 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 3 ranked cards, 3 need a 10 to break even and 2 lose money on expectation. 3 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.

Before you submit a Whimsicott 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 Whimsicott card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.

Whimsicott grading questions

Which Whimsicott card is the best to grade?

On current numbers the Whimsicott-GX (Unbroken Bonds #226): 44.2% of 265 graded copies came back PSA 10, an expected profit of $72 per submission after the $84 grading cost, against a best case of $248 if it gems.

How many Whimsicott cards are worth grading?

1 keeps a positive expected value after the fee, out of the 3 with a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies. 3 cards on this page have a PSA 10 price that beats the raw price by more than the grading fee.

What gem rate do Whimsicott cards get at PSA?

The median across the 3 sampled Whimsicott cards is 54.6%, so more than half of the copies collectors chose to submit came back PSA 10. The strongest rate with a sample of thirty or more is the Whimsicott-GX (Unbroken Bonds #206) at 56.4% of 188.

Does the Whimsicott ranking apply to CGC or Beckett?

Not directly. The cost column is PSA's fee as of 2026-09-26 and the graded columns are PSA slab prices; the gem-rate sample falls back to CGC's population only when PSA has fewer than ten copies. A CGC or Beckett submission has its own fee and resale price.

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