Best 30th Celebration Cards to Grade
The 30th Celebration 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: Mew at an expected +$1,670.
Ranked by expected profit 6
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Mew30th Celebration #G · Current (2020–)Expected +$1,670 per submission: 42.1% of 76 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($9,300), and only a PSA 10 covers the $4,451 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample. | $3,739 | $3,500 | $9,300 | $712 | +$4,849 | 42.1% | +$1,670 | 76 medium |
| 2 |  Pikachu ex30th Celebration #150 · Current (2020–)Expected +$886 per submission: 77.4% of 31 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($1,225), and a PSA 9 ($490) still clears the $179 you have in it. Confidence medium on that sample. | $67 | $490 | $1,225 | $112 | +$1,046 | 77.4% | +$886 | 31 medium |
| 3 |  Mew ex30th Celebration #152 · Current (2020–)Expected +$780 per submission: 90.4% of 52 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($1,050), and a PSA 9 ($420) still clears the $205 you have in it. Confidence medium on that sample. | $95 | $420 | $1,050 | $110 | +$844 | 90.4% | +$780 | 52 medium |
| 4 |  Mew ex30th Celebration #158 · Current (2020–)Expected +$469 per submission: 89.9% of 69 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($661), and a PSA 9 ($264) still clears the $150 you have in it. Confidence medium on that sample. | $63 | $264 | $661 | $87 | +$511 | 89.9% | +$469 | 69 medium |
| 5 |  Mewtwo ex30th Celebration #157 · Current (2020–)Expected +$338 per submission: 77.4% of 53 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($554), and a PSA 9 ($222) still clears the $136 you have in it. Confidence medium on that sample. | $50 | $222 | $554 | $86 | +$418 | 77.4% | +$338 | 53 medium |
| 6 |  Jirachi ex30th Celebration #155 · Current (2020–)Expected +$38 per submission: 94.1% of 17 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($176), and only a PSA 10 covers the $132 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence low on that sample. | $50 | $70 | $176 | $82 | +$44 | 94.1% | +$38 | 17 low |
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 20
Every 30th Celebration 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 20
The most-submitted cards, by total PSA graded.
| # | Card | Graded | PSA 10s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mew #G | 76 | 32 |
| 2 | Mew ex #158 | 69 | 62 |
| 3 | Mewtwo ex #157 | 53 | 41 |
| 4 | Mew ex #152 | 52 | 47 |
| 5 | Gengar ex #154 | 40 | 36 |
| 6 | Mewtwo ex #151 | 39 | 30 |
| 7 | Pikachu ex #149 | 34 | 24 |
| 8 | Pikachu ex #150 | 31 | 24 |
| 9 | Jirachi ex #155 | 17 | 16 |
| 10 | Sylveon ex #153 | 14 | 11 |
Show the next 10
| # | Card | Graded | PSA 10s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Lapras #131 | 7 | 6 |
| 12 | Alolan Meowth #139 | 4 | 3 |
| 13 | Maushold #146 | 3 | 2 |
| 14 | Meowth #144 | 3 | 3 |
| 15 | Mewtwo #63 | 3 | 1 |
| 16 | Greninja ex #21 | 2 | 1 |
| 17 | Pikachu #40 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | Pikachu #36 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | Espeon ex #70 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | Pikachu #25 | 1 | 0 |
Fewest PSA 10s 8
The smallest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pikachu ex #149 | 24 | 34 |
| 2 | Pikachu ex #150 | 24 | 31 |
| 3 | Mewtwo ex #151 | 30 | 39 |
| 4 | Mew #G | 32 | 76 |
| 5 | Gengar ex #154 | 36 | 40 |
| 6 | Mewtwo ex #157 | 41 | 53 |
| 7 | Mew ex #152 | 47 | 52 |
| 8 | Mew ex #158 | 62 | 69 |
Most PSA 10s 8
The largest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mew ex #158 | 62 | 69 |
| 2 | Mew ex #152 | 47 | 52 |
| 3 | Mewtwo ex #157 | 41 | 53 |
| 4 | Gengar ex #154 | 36 | 40 |
| 5 | Mew #G | 32 | 76 |
| 6 | Mewtwo ex #151 | 30 | 39 |
| 7 | Pikachu ex #150 | 24 | 31 |
| 8 | Pikachu ex #149 | 24 | 34 |
Hardest to gem 8
The lowest historical PSA 10 rates among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | Historical PSA 10 rate | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mew #G | 42% | 76 |
| 2 | Pikachu ex #149 | 71% | 34 |
| 3 | Mewtwo ex #151 | 77% | 39 |
| 4 | Mewtwo ex #157 | 77% | 53 |
| 5 | Pikachu ex #150 | 77% | 31 |
| 6 | Mew ex #158 | 90% | 69 |
| 7 | Gengar ex #154 | 90% | 40 |
| 8 | Mew ex #152 | 90% | 52 |
Fastest growing
Not yet measurable. Growth is read between two of our weekly PSA population readings and is shown only once the series covers the whole window for these cards — it is never estimated in between.
How to read the 30th Celebration ranking
Every 30th Celebration card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 6 cards from the set pass. 6 of them (100%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 6 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 Mew from 30th Celebration, gems 42.1% of the time across 76 graded copies: +$1,670 is what a long run of submissions would average, $4,849 is what one lucky copy returns.
The median gem rate across the sampled 30th Celebration cards is 89.9%. More than half of submitted copies 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 6 ranked cards, 4 still cover raw price plus fee at PSA 9 and 2 need a 10 to break even.
Before you submit a 30th Celebration 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 30th Celebration card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.