Best Fusion Strike Cards to Grade
The Fusion Strike 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: Gengar VMAX at an expected +$560.
Ranked by expected profit 11
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expected +$560 per submission: 53.4% of 26,533 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($2,130), and a PSA 9 ($900) still clears the $1,050 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $810 | $900 | $2,130 | $240 | +$1,080 | 53.4% | +$560 | 26,533 high |
| 2 | Expected +$137 per submission: 60.1% of 20,294 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($630), and only a PSA 10 covers the $356 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $270 | $294 | $630 | $86 | +$274 | 60.1% | +$137 | 20,294 high |
| 3 | Expected +$74 per submission: 63% of 12,880 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($414), and only a PSA 10 covers the $267 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $183 | $225 | $414 | $84 | +$147 | 63% | +$74 | 12,880 high |
| 4 | Expected +$53 per submission: 63.6% of 5,620 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($318), and only a PSA 10 covers the $178 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $95 | $88 | $318 | $83 | +$140 | 63.6% | +$53 | 5,620 high |
| 5 | Expected +$51 per submission: 43.6% of 14,072 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($390), and only a PSA 10 covers the $179 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $95 | $110 | $390 | $84 | +$211 | 43.6% | +$51 | 14,072 high |
| 6 | Expected +$37 per submission: 43.7% of 19,661 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($352), and only a PSA 10 covers the $164 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $80 | $84 | $352 | $84 | +$188 | 43.7% | +$37 | 19,661 high |
| 7 | Expected +$29 per submission: 59.5% of 14,520 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($222), and only a PSA 10 covers the $126 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $44 | $60 | $222 | $82 | +$96 | 59.5% | +$29 | 14,520 high |
| 8 | Expected +$23 per submission: 50% of 2,670 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($220), and only a PSA 10 covers the $112 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $30 | $56 | $220 | $82 | +$108 | 50% | +$23 | 2,670 high |
| 9 | Expected +$17 per submission: 40.7% of 1,209 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($222), and only a PSA 10 covers the $93 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $11 | $45 | $222 | $82 | +$129 | 40.7% | +$17 | 1,209 high |
| 10 | Expected +$8 per submission: 55.5% of 7,535 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($165), and only a PSA 10 covers the $99 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $17 | $35 | $165 | $82 | +$67 | 55.5% | +$8 | 7,535 high |
| 11 | Expected loss −$31 per submission: 46.1% of 5,333 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($130), and only a PSA 10 covers the $110 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $29 | $39 | $130 | $81 | +$20 | 46.1% | −$31 | 5,333 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.
How to read the Fusion Strike ranking
Every Fusion Strike card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 11 cards from the set pass. 11 of them (100%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 10 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 Gengar VMAX from Fusion Strike, gems 53.4% of the time across 26,533 graded copies: +$560 is what a long run of submissions would average, $1,080 is what one lucky copy returns.
The median gem rate across the sampled Fusion Strike cards is 53.4%. More than half of submitted copies 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 11 ranked cards, 1 still covers raw price plus fee at PSA 9, 10 need a 10 to break even and 1 loses money on expectation. 11 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.
Before you submit a Fusion Strike 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 Fusion Strike card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.