Best Black & White Cards to Grade

The Black & White 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: Pikachu at an expected +$1,693.

Worth grading7

With a gem-rate sample7100%

Positive expected value6

Median gem rate8.8%

PSA fees as of2026-09-26

Ranked by expected profit 7

Black & White cards worth grading, ranked by expected grading profit
#	Card	Raw	PSA 9	PSA 10	Cost	Best case	Gem rate	Expected	Sample
1	PikachuBlack & White #115 · Modern (2011–2019) Expected +$1,693 per submission: 15.1% of 1,393 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($11,100), and a PSA 9 ($800) still clears the $1,262 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.	$132	$800	$11,100	$1,130	+$9,838	15.1%	+$1,693	1,393 high
2	ReshiramBlack & White #113 · Modern (2011–2019) Expected +$699 per submission: 6.8% of 3,926 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($11,400), and a PSA 9 ($340) still clears the $1,233 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.	$100	$340	$11,400	$1,133	+$10,167	6.8%	+$699	3,926 high
3	SamurottBlack & White #31 · Modern (2011–2019) Expected +$524 per submission: 15% of 153 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($4,320), and only a PSA 10 covers the $419 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample.	$7	$15	$4,320	$412	+$3,901	15%	+$524	153 high
4	ZekromBlack & White #114 · Modern (2011–2019) Expected +$493 per submission: 2.1% of 1,926 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($15,560), and a PSA 9 ($1,060) still clears the $1,304 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.	$129	$1,060	$15,560	$1,175	+$14,257	2.1%	+$493	1,926 high
5	ReshiramBlack & White #26 · Modern (2011–2019) Expected +$315 per submission: 8.8% of 294 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($4,200), and a PSA 9 ($100) still clears the $421 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.	$10	$100	$4,200	$411	+$3,779	8.8%	+$315	294 high
6	ZekromBlack & White #47 · Modern (2011–2019) Expected +$270 per submission: 10.6% of 301 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($2,000), and a PSA 9 ($300) still clears the $248 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.	$9	$300	$2,000	$239	+$1,752	10.6%	+$270	301 high
7	SawsbuckBlack & White #14 · Modern (2011–2019) Expected loss −$65 per submission: 0% of 13 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($89), and only a PSA 10 covers the $88 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence low on that sample.	$7	$35	$89	$81	+$0	0%	−$65	13 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 111

Every Black & White 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 22 Oct 2026. How population is measured.

Most graded 111

The most-submitted cards, by total PSA graded.

Black & White cards by total PSA graded
#	Card	Graded	PSA 10s
1	Reshiram #113	3,926	267
2	Zekrom #114	1,926	41
3	Pikachu #115	1,393	210
4	Duosion #56	699	195
5	Zoroark #71	303	25
6	Zekrom #47	301	32
7	Reshiram #26	294	26
8	Serperior #6	255	17
9	Samurott #32	221	24
10	Serperior #5	166	19

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Black & White cards by total PSA graded
#	Card	Graded	PSA 10s
11	Emboar #20	154	23
12	Samurott #31	153	23
13	Krookodile #65	108	20
14	Emboar #19	107	10
15	Klinklang #76	96	4
16	Reuniclus #57	95	13
17	Krokorok #64	80	3
18	Snivy #1	13	3
19	Liepard #67	10	1
20	Fire Energy #106	9	0
21	Oshawott #27	9	0
22	Pidove #84	9	0
23	Tepig #15	8	2
24	Psychic Energy #109	7	1
25	Snivy #2	7	1

Fewest PSA 10s 17

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

Black & White cards with the fewest PSA 10s
#	Card	PSA 10s	Graded
1	Krokorok #64	3	80
2	Klinklang #76	4	96
3	Emboar #19	10	107
4	Reuniclus #57	13	95
5	Serperior #6	17	255
6	Serperior #5	19	166
7	Krookodile #65	20	108
8	Emboar #20	23	154
9	Samurott #31	23	153
10	Samurott #32	24	221

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Black & White cards with the fewest PSA 10s
#	Card	PSA 10s	Graded
11	Zoroark #71	25	303
12	Reshiram #26	26	294
13	Zekrom #47	32	301
14	Zekrom #114	41	1,926
15	Duosion #56	195	699
16	Pikachu #115	210	1,393
17	Reshiram #113	267	3,926

Most PSA 10s 17

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

Black & White cards with the most PSA 10s
#	Card	PSA 10s	Graded
1	Reshiram #113	267	3,926
2	Pikachu #115	210	1,393
3	Duosion #56	195	699
4	Zekrom #114	41	1,926
5	Zekrom #47	32	301
6	Reshiram #26	26	294
7	Zoroark #71	25	303
8	Samurott #32	24	221
9	Samurott #31	23	153
10	Emboar #20	23	154

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Black & White cards with the most PSA 10s
#	Card	PSA 10s	Graded
11	Krookodile #65	20	108
12	Serperior #5	19	166
13	Serperior #6	17	255
14	Reuniclus #57	13	95
15	Emboar #19	10	107
16	Klinklang #76	4	96
17	Krokorok #64	3	80

Hardest to gem 17

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

Black & White cards with the lowest historical PSA 10 rate
#	Card	Historical PSA 10 rate	Graded
1	Zekrom #114	2.1%	1,926
2	Krokorok #64	3.8%	80
3	Klinklang #76	4.2%	96
4	Serperior #6	6.7%	255
5	Reshiram #113	6.8%	3,926
6	Zoroark #71	8.3%	303
7	Reshiram #26	8.8%	294
8	Emboar #19	9.3%	107
9	Zekrom #47	11%	301
10	Samurott #32	11%	221

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Black & White cards with the lowest historical PSA 10 rate
#	Card	Historical PSA 10 rate	Graded
11	Serperior #5	11%	166
12	Reuniclus #57	14%	95
13	Emboar #20	15%	154
14	Samurott #31	15%	153
15	Pikachu #115	15%	1,393
16	Krookodile #65	19%	108
17	Duosion #56	28%	699

Fastest growing 22

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.

Black & White cards by PSA copies graded over 30 days
#	Card	New graded	PSA 10s change
1	Reshiram #113	+111	0
2	Zekrom #114	+70	+2
3	Pikachu #115	+38	0
4	Reshiram #26	+6	0
5	Zekrom #47	+4	0
6	Serperior #6	+4	0
7	Serperior #5	+3	0
8	Emboar #20	+3	0
9	Samurott #31	+3	0
10	Reuniclus #57	+3	0

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Black & White cards by PSA copies graded over 30 days
#	Card	New graded
11	Psychic Energy #109	+3
12	Zoroark #71	+2
13	Krookodile #65	+2
14	Snivy #2	+2
15	Samurott #32	+1
16	Oshawott #27	+1
17	Oshawott #28	+1
18	Water Energy #107	+1
19	Grass Energy #105	+1
20	Metal Energy #112	+1
21	Lightning Energy #108	+1
22	Musharna #49	+1

How to read the Black & White ranking

Every Black & White card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 7 cards from the set pass. 7 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 Pikachu from Black & White, gems 15.1% of the time across 1,393 graded copies: +$1,693 is what a long run of submissions would average, $9,838 is what one lucky copy returns.

The median gem rate across the sampled Black & White cards is 8.8%. Roughly one submitted copy in 11 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 7 ranked cards, 5 still cover raw price plus fee at PSA 9, 2 need a 10 to break even and 1 loses money on expectation. 6 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.

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

Black & White grading questions

Which Black & White card is the best to grade?

On current numbers the Pikachu (Black & White #115): 15.1% of 1,393 graded copies came back PSA 10, an expected profit of $1,693 per submission after the $1,130 grading cost, against a best case of $9,838 if it gems.

How many Black & White cards are worth grading?

6 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 Black & White cards get at PSA?

The median across the 7 sampled Black & White cards is 8.8%, so about one in 11 of the copies collectors chose to submit came back PSA 10. The strongest rate with a sample of thirty or more is the Pikachu (Black & White #115) at 15.1% of 1,393.

Does the Black & White 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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