Best Noble Victories Cards to Grade
The Noble Victories 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: Victini at an expected +$1,375.
Ranked by expected profit 9
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expected +$1,375 per submission: 10.6% of 104 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($10,000), and a PSA 9 ($2,000) still clears the $857 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $138 | $2,000 | $10,000 | $719 | +$9,143 | 10.6% | +$1,375 | 104 high |
| 2 | Expected +$1,287 per submission: 10.6% of 66 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($13,800), and a PSA 9 ($185) still clears the $1,217 you have in it. Confidence medium on that sample. | $60 | $185 | $13,800 | $1,157 | +$12,583 | 10.6% | +$1,287 | 66 medium |
| 3 | Expected +$1,010 per submission: 14.5% of 83 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($8,000), and a PSA 9 ($222) still clears the $726 you have in it. Confidence medium on that sample. | $27 | $222 | $8,000 | $699 | +$7,274 | 14.5% | +$1,010 | 83 medium |
| 4 | Expected +$753 per submission: 13.9% of 518 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($5,000), and a PSA 9 ($596) still clears the $517 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $98 | $596 | $5,000 | $419 | +$4,483 | 13.9% | +$753 | 518 high |
| 5 | Expected +$300 per submission: 8.1% of 111 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($5,000), and a PSA 9 ($475) still clears the $632 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $213 | $475 | $5,000 | $419 | +$4,368 | 8.1% | +$300 | 111 high |
| 6 | Expected +$174 per submission: 9.3% of 75 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($2,507), and a PSA 9 ($215) still clears the $426 you have in it. Confidence medium on that sample. | $32 | $215 | $2,507 | $394 | +$2,082 | 9.3% | +$174 | 75 medium |
| 7 | Expected +$19 per submission: 10% of 40 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($375), and a PSA 9 ($150) still clears the $97 you have in it. Confidence medium on that sample. | $13 | $150 | $375 | $84 | +$278 | 10% | +$19 | 40 medium |
| 8 | Expected loss −$53 per submission: 0.6% of 173 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($300), and a PSA 9 ($120) still clears the $93 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $10 | $120 | $300 | $83 | +$207 | 0.6% | −$53 | 173 high |
| 9 | Expected loss −$58 per submission: 15.2% of 33 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($114), and only a PSA 10 covers the $88 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample. | $7 | $15 | $114 | $81 | +$26 | 15.2% | −$58 | 33 medium |
Best case only — no gem-rate evidence 3
Fewer than 10 graded copies in the PSA and CGC population reports. They clear the grading cost if they gem — that is all the numbers support.
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | $10 | — | $166 | $82 | +$74 | — | — | none <10 | |
| 11 | $12 | — | $157 | $82 | +$63 | — | — | none <10 | |
| 12 | $5 | — | $87 | $81 | +$0 | — | — | none <10 |
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 Noble Victories ranking
Every Noble Victories card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 12 cards from the set pass. 9 of them (75%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 7 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 Victini from Noble Victories, gems 10.6% of the time across 104 graded copies: +$1,375 is what a long run of submissions would average, $9,143 is what one lucky copy returns.
The median gem rate across the sampled Noble Victories cards is 10.6%. Roughly one submitted copy in 9 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 9 ranked cards, 8 still cover raw price plus fee at PSA 9, 1 needs a 10 to break even and 2 lose money on expectation. 4 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.
3 cards sit below the ranking with a best case only, fewer than ten graded copies. The largest best case among them is the Chandelure from Noble Victories at +$74.
Before you submit a Noble Victories 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 Noble Victories card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.