Best Best of Game Cards to Grade
The Best of Game 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: Rocket's Mewtwo at an expected +$1,060.
Ranked by expected profit 5
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Rocket's MewtwoBest of Game #8 · Vintage (1999–2003)Expected +$1,060 per submission: 3.1% of 1,485 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($24,999), and a PSA 9 ($2,557) still clears the $2,027 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $758 | $2,557 | $24,999 | $1,269 | +$22,972 | 3.1% | +$1,060 | 1,485 high |
| 2 |  Dark VenusaurBest of Game #7 · Vintage (1999–2003)Expected +$172 per submission: 24.3% of 778 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($883), and a PSA 9 ($333) still clears the $244 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $155 | $333 | $883 | $89 | +$639 | 24.3% | +$172 | 778 high |
| 3 |  Rocket's ScizorBest of Game #4 · Vintage (1999–2003)Expected +$144 per submission: 40.1% of 710 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($499), and a PSA 9 ($137) still clears the $125 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $40 | $137 | $499 | $85 | +$374 | 40.1% | +$144 | 710 high |
| 4 |  Dark IvysaurBest of Game #6 · Vintage (1999–2003)Expected +$114 per submission: 40.8% of 804 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($476), and only a PSA 10 covers the $155 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $70 | $150 | $476 | $85 | +$321 | 40.8% | +$114 | 804 high |
| 5 |  Rocket's SneaselBest of Game #5 · Vintage (1999–2003)Expected +$63 per submission: 39.7% of 532 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($348), and only a PSA 10 covers the $108 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $25 | $63 | $348 | $83 | +$239 | 39.7% | +$63 | 532 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 9
Every Best of Game 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 15 Oct 2026. How population is measured.
Most graded 9
The most-submitted cards, by total PSA graded.
| # | Card | Graded | PSA 10s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rocket's Mewtwo #8 | 1,485 | 46 |
| 2 | Professor Elm #3 | 806 | 13 |
| 3 | Dark Ivysaur #6 | 804 | 328 |
| 4 | Dark Venusaur #7 | 778 | 189 |
| 5 | Rocket's Scizor #4 | 710 | 285 |
| 6 | Rocket's Hitmonchan #9 | 544 | 12 |
| 7 | Rocket's Sneasel #5 | 532 | 211 |
| 8 | Hitmonchan #2 | 13 | 4 |
| 9 | Electabuzz #1 | 10 | 1 |
Fewest PSA 10s 7
The smallest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rocket's Hitmonchan #9 | 12 | 544 |
| 2 | Professor Elm #3 | 13 | 806 |
| 3 | Rocket's Mewtwo #8 | 46 | 1,485 |
| 4 | Dark Venusaur #7 | 189 | 778 |
| 5 | Rocket's Sneasel #5 | 211 | 532 |
| 6 | Rocket's Scizor #4 | 285 | 710 |
| 7 | Dark Ivysaur #6 | 328 | 804 |
Most PSA 10s 7
The largest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dark Ivysaur #6 | 328 | 804 |
| 2 | Rocket's Scizor #4 | 285 | 710 |
| 3 | Rocket's Sneasel #5 | 211 | 532 |
| 4 | Dark Venusaur #7 | 189 | 778 |
| 5 | Rocket's Mewtwo #8 | 46 | 1,485 |
| 6 | Professor Elm #3 | 13 | 806 |
| 7 | Rocket's Hitmonchan #9 | 12 | 544 |
Hardest to gem 7
The lowest historical PSA 10 rates among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | Historical PSA 10 rate | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Professor Elm #3 | 1.6% | 806 |
| 2 | Rocket's Hitmonchan #9 | 2.2% | 544 |
| 3 | Rocket's Mewtwo #8 | 3.1% | 1,485 |
| 4 | Dark Venusaur #7 | 24% | 778 |
| 5 | Rocket's Sneasel #5 | 40% | 532 |
| 6 | Rocket's Scizor #4 | 40% | 710 |
| 7 | Dark Ivysaur #6 | 41% | 804 |
Fastest growing 7
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 | Dark Venusaur #7 | +33 | +1 |
| 2 | Rocket's Mewtwo #8 | +25 | 0 |
| 3 | Dark Ivysaur #6 | +24 | 0 |
| 4 | Rocket's Scizor #4 | +20 | +2 |
| 5 | Rocket's Sneasel #5 | +15 | +1 |
| 6 | Rocket's Hitmonchan #9 | +9 | 0 |
| 7 | Professor Elm #3 | +7 | 0 |
How to read the Best of Game ranking
Every Best of Game card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 5 cards from the set pass. 5 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 Rocket's Mewtwo from Best of Game, gems 3.1% of the time across 1,485 graded copies: +$1,060 is what a long run of submissions would average, $22,972 is what one lucky copy returns.
The median gem rate across the sampled Best of Game cards is 39.7%. Roughly one submitted copy in 3 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 5 ranked cards, 3 still cover raw price plus fee at PSA 9 and 2 need a 10 to break even. 5 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.
Before you submit a Best of Game 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 Best of Game card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.