Best Celebrations Cards to Grade

The Celebrations 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 −$10.

Worth grading2

With a gem-rate sample2100%

Positive expected value0

Median gem rate71.9%

PSA fees as of2026-09-26

Ranked by expected profit 2

Celebrations cards worth grading, ranked by expected grading profit
#	Card	Raw	PSA 9	PSA 10	Cost	Best case	Gem rate	Expected	Sample
1	MewCelebrations #25 · Current (2020–) Expected loss −$10 per submission: 55.1% of 32,298 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($178), and only a PSA 10 covers the $137 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample.	$55	$63	$178	$82	+$42	55.1%	−$10	32,298 high
2	Flying Pikachu VMAXCelebrations #7 · Current (2020–) Expected loss −$15 per submission: 71.9% of 15,130 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($87), and only a PSA 10 covers the $86 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample.	$5	$32	$87	$81	+$1	71.9%	−$15	15,130 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 25

Every Celebrations 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 25

The most-submitted cards, by total PSA graded.

Celebrations cards by total PSA graded
#	Card	Graded	PSA 10s
1	Pikachu #5	50,345	979
2	Mew #25	32,298	17,807
3	Mew #11	17,688	410
4	Flying Pikachu VMAX #7	15,130	10,879
5	Surfing Pikachu VMAX #9	14,784	11,131
6	Surfing Pikachu V #8	7,707	3,251
7	Flying Pikachu V #6	7,692	3,194
8	Lugia #22	5,742	482
9	Kyogre #3	2,991	277
10	Professor's Research (Professor Oak) #24	2,740	1,045

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Celebrations cards by total PSA graded
#	Card	Graded	PSA 10s
11	Ho-Oh #1	2,661	241
12	Groudon #17	2,629	241
13	Zekrom #10	1,823	186
14	Cosmog #13	1,627	159
15	Reshiram #2	1,625	205
16	Xerneas #12	1,568	112
17	Dialga #20	1,487	189
18	Palkia #4	1,446	149
19	Lunala #15	1,383	102
20	Solgaleo #21	1,358	91
21	Cosmoem #14	1,281	124
22	Yveltal #19	1,230	203
23	Zacian V #16	1,155	513
24	Zamazenta V #18	1,103	451
25	Professor's Research (Professor Oak) #23	975	78

Fewest PSA 10s 25

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

Celebrations cards with the fewest PSA 10s
#	Card	PSA 10s	Graded
1	Professor's Research (Professor Oak) #23	78	975
2	Solgaleo #21	91	1,358
3	Lunala #15	102	1,383
4	Xerneas #12	112	1,568
5	Cosmoem #14	124	1,281
6	Palkia #4	149	1,446
7	Cosmog #13	159	1,627
8	Zekrom #10	186	1,823
9	Dialga #20	189	1,487
10	Yveltal #19	203	1,230

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Celebrations cards with the fewest PSA 10s
#	Card	PSA 10s	Graded
11	Reshiram #2	205	1,625
12	Ho-Oh #1	241	2,661
13	Groudon #17	241	2,629
14	Kyogre #3	277	2,991
15	Mew #11	410	17,688
16	Zamazenta V #18	451	1,103
17	Lugia #22	482	5,742
18	Zacian V #16	513	1,155
19	Pikachu #5	979	50,345
20	Professor's Research (Professor Oak) #24	1,045	2,740
21	Flying Pikachu V #6	3,194	7,692
22	Surfing Pikachu V #8	3,251	7,707
23	Flying Pikachu VMAX #7	10,879	15,130
24	Surfing Pikachu VMAX #9	11,131	14,784
25	Mew #25	17,807	32,298

Most PSA 10s 25

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

Celebrations cards with the most PSA 10s
#	Card	PSA 10s	Graded
1	Mew #25	17,807	32,298
2	Surfing Pikachu VMAX #9	11,131	14,784
3	Flying Pikachu VMAX #7	10,879	15,130
4	Surfing Pikachu V #8	3,251	7,707
5	Flying Pikachu V #6	3,194	7,692
6	Professor's Research (Professor Oak) #24	1,045	2,740
7	Pikachu #5	979	50,345
8	Zacian V #16	513	1,155
9	Lugia #22	482	5,742
10	Zamazenta V #18	451	1,103

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Celebrations cards with the most PSA 10s
#	Card	PSA 10s	Graded
11	Mew #11	410	17,688
12	Kyogre #3	277	2,991
13	Groudon #17	241	2,629
14	Ho-Oh #1	241	2,661
15	Reshiram #2	205	1,625
16	Yveltal #19	203	1,230
17	Dialga #20	189	1,487
18	Zekrom #10	186	1,823
19	Cosmog #13	159	1,627
20	Palkia #4	149	1,446
21	Cosmoem #14	124	1,281
22	Xerneas #12	112	1,568
23	Lunala #15	102	1,383
24	Solgaleo #21	91	1,358
25	Professor's Research (Professor Oak) #23	78	975

Hardest to gem 25

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

Celebrations cards with the lowest historical PSA 10 rate
#	Card	Historical PSA 10 rate	Graded
1	Pikachu #5	1.9%	50,345
2	Mew #11	2.3%	17,688
3	Solgaleo #21	6.7%	1,358
4	Xerneas #12	7.1%	1,568
5	Lunala #15	7.4%	1,383
6	Professor's Research (Professor Oak) #23	8.0%	975
7	Lugia #22	8.4%	5,742
8	Ho-Oh #1	9.1%	2,661
9	Groudon #17	9.2%	2,629
10	Kyogre #3	9.3%	2,991

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Celebrations cards with the lowest historical PSA 10 rate
#	Card	Historical PSA 10 rate	Graded
11	Cosmoem #14	9.7%	1,281
12	Cosmog #13	9.8%	1,627
13	Zekrom #10	10%	1,823
14	Palkia #4	10%	1,446
15	Reshiram #2	13%	1,625
16	Dialga #20	13%	1,487
17	Yveltal #19	17%	1,230
18	Professor's Research (Professor Oak) #24	38%	2,740
19	Zamazenta V #18	41%	1,103
20	Flying Pikachu V #6	42%	7,692
21	Surfing Pikachu V #8	42%	7,707
22	Zacian V #16	44%	1,155
23	Mew #25	55%	32,298
24	Flying Pikachu VMAX #7	72%	15,130
25	Surfing Pikachu VMAX #9	75%	14,784

Fastest growing 25

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.

Celebrations cards by PSA copies graded over 30 days
#	Card	New graded	PSA 10s change
1	Pikachu #5	+2,395	+19
2	Mew #11	+1,101	+17
3	Mew #25	+711	+339
4	Flying Pikachu VMAX #7	+614	+429
5	Surfing Pikachu VMAX #9	+601	+440
6	Surfing Pikachu V #8	+320	+109
7	Flying Pikachu V #6	+317	+110
8	Lugia #22	+256	+10
9	Kyogre #3	+140	+6
10	Professor's Research (Professor Oak) #24	+140	+66

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Celebrations cards by PSA copies graded over 30 days
#	Card	New graded	PSA 10s change
11	Ho-Oh #1	+138	+4
12	Groudon #17	+128	+6
13	Cosmog #13	+127	+5
14	Zekrom #10	+109	+3
15	Reshiram #2	+91	+3
16	Palkia #4	+83	+2
17	Cosmoem #14	+82	+5
18	Dialga #20	+80	+4
19	Solgaleo #21	+79	+2
20	Yveltal #19	+79	+8
21	Xerneas #12	+68	+1
22	Professor's Research (Professor Oak) #23	+59	+1
23	Lunala #15	+56	0
24	Zacian V #16	+23	+5
25	Zamazenta V #18	+21	+5

How to read the Celebrations ranking

Every Celebrations card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 2 cards from the set pass. 2 of them (100%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 0 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 Celebrations, gems 55.1% of the time across 32,298 graded copies: −$10 is what a long run of submissions would average, $42 is what one lucky copy returns.

The median gem rate across the sampled Celebrations cards is 71.9%. More than half of submitted copies came back PSA 10, and no row here covers raw price plus fee at PSA 9, so the gem rate decides whether a submission pays. Of the 2 ranked cards, 2 need a 10 to break even and 2 lose money on expectation. 2 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.

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

Celebrations grading questions

Which Celebrations card is the best to grade?

On current numbers the Mew (Celebrations #25): 55.1% of 32,298 graded copies came back PSA 10, an expected loss of $10 per submission after the $82 grading cost, against a best case of $42 if it gems.

How many Celebrations cards are worth grading?

0 keep a positive expected value after the fee, out of the 2 with a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies. 2 cards on this page have a PSA 10 price that beats the raw price by more than the grading fee.

What gem rate do Celebrations cards get at PSA?

The median across the 2 sampled Celebrations cards is 71.9%, so more than half of the copies collectors chose to submit came back PSA 10. The strongest rate with a sample of thirty or more is the Flying Pikachu VMAX (Celebrations #7) at 71.9% of 15,130.

Does the Celebrations 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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