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Best Wooper Cards to Grade

The Wooper 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: Wooper (Aquapolis) at an expected +$299.

Worth grading7
With a gem-rate sample7100%
Positive expected value5
Median gem rate23.9%
PSA fees as of2026-09-26

Ranked by expected profit 7

Wooper cards worth grading, ranked by expected grading profit
#CardRawPSA 9PSA 10CostBest caseGem rateExpectedSample
1WooperWooperAquapolis #117 · Vintage (1999–2003)
Expected +$299 per submission: 20.9% of 134 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($1,325), and a PSA 9 ($300) still clears the $173 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.
$60$300$1,325$113+$1,15220.9%+$299134
high
2WooperWooperTeam Rocket Returns #81 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected +$156 per submission: 51.3% of 39 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($450), and only a PSA 10 covers the $89 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample.
$5$46$450$84+$36051.3%+$15639
medium
3Wooper δWooper δDragon Frontiers #71 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected +$139 per submission: 23.9% of 46 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($900), and only a PSA 10 covers the $99 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample.
$10$33$900$89+$80123.9%+$13946
medium
4Paldean WooperPaldean WooperPaldean Fates #180 · Current (2020–)
Expected +$110 per submission: 61.9% of 160 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($275), and a PSA 9 ($100) still clears the $96 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.
$13$100$275$83+$17961.9%+$110160
high
5WooperWooperHidden Fates Shiny Vault #SV9 · Modern (2011–2019)
Expected +$10 per submission: 53.7% of 1,588 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($179), and only a PSA 10 covers the $102 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample.
$20$36$179$82+$7753.7%+$101,588
high
6Paldean WooperPaldean WooperPaldea Evolved #221 · Current (2020–)
Expected loss −$22 per submission: 19% of 1,502 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($290), and only a PSA 10 covers the $98 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample.
$15$27$290$83+$19219%−$221,502
high
7WooperWooperAquapolis #66 · Vintage (1999–2003)
Expected loss −$37 per submission: 22% of 59 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($292), and only a PSA 10 covers the $174 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample.
$91$140$292$83+$11822%−$3759
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 Wooper ranking

Every Wooper card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 7 Wooper printings pass. 7 of them (100%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 5 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 Wooper from Aquapolis, gems 20.9% of the time across 134 graded copies: +$299 is what a long run of submissions would average, $1,152 is what one lucky copy returns.

The median gem rate across the sampled Wooper cards is 23.9%. Roughly one submitted copy in 4 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 7 ranked cards, 2 still cover raw price plus fee at PSA 9, 5 need a 10 to break even and 2 lose money on expectation. 4 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.

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

Wooper grading questions

Which Wooper card is the best to grade?
On current numbers the Wooper (Aquapolis #117): 20.9% of 134 graded copies came back PSA 10, an expected profit of $299 per submission after the $113 grading cost, against a best case of $1,152 if it gems.
How many Wooper cards are worth grading?
5 keep a positive expected value after the fee, out of the 7 with a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies. 7 cards on this page have a PSA 10 price that beats the raw price by more than the grading fee.
What gem rate do Wooper cards get at PSA?
The median across the 7 sampled Wooper cards is 23.9%, so about one in 4 of the copies collectors chose to submit came back PSA 10. The strongest rate with a sample of thirty or more is the Paldean Wooper (Paldean Fates #180) at 61.9% of 160.
Does the Wooper 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.