Best Zygarde Cards to Grade
The Zygarde 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: Zygarde-GX (Forbidden Light) at an expected +$197.
Ranked by expected profit 8
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expected +$197 per submission: 43.8% of 226 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($660), and only a PSA 10 covers the $144 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $57 | $106 | $660 | $87 | +$517 | 43.8% | +$197 | 226 high |
| 2 | Expected +$122 per submission: 20% of 100 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($900), and a PSA 9 ($99) still clears the $95 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $6 | $99 | $900 | $89 | +$805 | 20% | +$122 | 100 high |
| 3 | Expected +$70 per submission: 34.9% of 418 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($456), and only a PSA 10 covers the $210 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $125 | $201 | $456 | $85 | +$246 | 34.9% | +$70 | 418 high |
| 4 | Expected +$54 per submission: 49.4% of 231 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($264), and only a PSA 10 covers the $108 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $25 | $68 | $264 | $83 | +$156 | 49.4% | +$54 | 231 high |
| 5 | Expected +$18 per submission: 16% of 332 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($585), and only a PSA 10 covers the $116 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $30 | $59 | $585 | $86 | +$469 | 16% | +$18 | 332 high |
| 6 | Expected loss −$13 per submission: 79.3% of 512 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($137), and only a PSA 10 covers the $136 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $55 | $75 | $137 | $81 | +$1 | 79.3% | −$13 | 512 high |
| 7 | Expected loss −$21 per submission: 61.2% of 3,750 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($130), and only a PSA 10 covers the $116 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $35 | $42 | $130 | $81 | +$14 | 61.2% | −$21 | 3,750 high |
| 8 | Expected loss −$27 per submission: 50.9% of 161 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($114), and only a PSA 10 covers the $93 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $12 | $19 | $114 | $81 | +$21 | 50.9% | −$27 | 161 high |
Best case only — no gem-rate evidence 1
Fewer than 10 graded copies in the PSA and CGC population reports. They clear the grading cost if they gem — that is all the numbers support.
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | $18 | — | $223 | $82 | +$123 | — | — | none <10 |
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 Zygarde ranking
Every Zygarde card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 9 Zygarde printings pass. 8 of them (89%) 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 Zygarde-GX from Forbidden Light, gems 43.8% of the time across 226 graded copies: +$197 is what a long run of submissions would average, $517 is what one lucky copy returns.
The median gem rate across the sampled Zygarde cards is 49.4%. Roughly one submitted copy in 2 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 8 ranked cards, 1 still covers raw price plus fee at PSA 9, 7 need a 10 to break even and 3 lose money on expectation. 8 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.
1 card sits below the ranking with a best case only, fewer than ten graded copies. The largest best case among them is the Zygarde from SM Black Star Promos at +$123.
Before you submit a Zygarde 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 Zygarde card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.