Best Shining Fates Shiny Vault Cards to Grade
The Shining Fates Shiny Vault 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: Koffing at an expected +$55.
Ranked by expected profit 13
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expected +$55 per submission: 54.7% of 150 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($250), and only a PSA 10 covers the $91 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $9 | $20 | $250 | $82 | +$159 | 54.7% | +$55 | 150 high |
| 2 | Expected +$20 per submission: 75% of 47,204 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($243), and only a PSA 10 covers the $190 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $108 | $112 | $243 | $82 | +$53 | 75% | +$20 | 47,204 high |
| 3 | Expected +$5 per submission: 53.6% of 235 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($150), and only a PSA 10 covers the $87 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $6 | $25 | $150 | $81 | +$63 | 53.6% | +$5 | 235 high |
| 4 | Expected +$3 per submission: 76.3% of 2,295 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($124), and only a PSA 10 covers the $96 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $15 | $22 | $124 | $81 | +$28 | 76.3% | +$3 | 2,295 high |
| 5 | Expected +$1 per submission: 69.8% of 2,128 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($120), and only a PSA 10 covers the $90 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $9 | $27 | $120 | $81 | +$30 | 69.8% | +$1 | 2,128 high |
| 6 | Expected loss −$4 per submission: 42.6% of 1,398 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($173), and only a PSA 10 covers the $98 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $16 | $37 | $173 | $82 | +$75 | 42.6% | −$4 | 1,398 high |
| 7 | Expected loss −$6 per submission: 45.7% of 140 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($150), and only a PSA 10 covers the $97 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $16 | $47 | $150 | $81 | +$53 | 45.7% | −$6 | 140 high |
| 8 | Expected loss −$19 per submission: 46% of 265 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($125), and only a PSA 10 covers the $87 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $6 | $19 | $125 | $81 | +$38 | 46% | −$19 | 265 high |
| 9 | Expected loss −$19 per submission: 52.8% of 161 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($101), and only a PSA 10 covers the $87 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $6 | $36 | $101 | $81 | +$14 | 52.8% | −$19 | 161 high |
| 10 | Expected loss −$22 per submission: 53.1% of 113 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($109), and only a PSA 10 covers the $87 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $6 | $15 | $109 | $81 | +$22 | 53.1% | −$22 | 113 high |
| 11 | Expected loss −$23 per submission: 54.5% of 121 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($109), and only a PSA 10 covers the $89 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $8 | $14 | $109 | $81 | +$20 | 54.5% | −$23 | 121 high |
| 12 | Expected loss −$37 per submission: 31.8% of 88 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($153), and only a PSA 10 covers the $95 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample. | $13 | $15 | $153 | $82 | +$58 | 31.8% | −$37 | 88 medium |
| 13 | Expected loss −$37 per submission: 32.3% of 127 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($90), and only a PSA 10 covers the $88 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $7 | $35 | $90 | $81 | +$2 | 32.3% | −$37 | 127 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 Shining Fates Shiny Vault ranking
Every Shining Fates Shiny Vault card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 13 cards from the set pass. 13 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 Koffing from Shining Fates Shiny Vault, gems 54.7% of the time across 150 graded copies: +$55 is what a long run of submissions would average, $159 is what one lucky copy returns.
The median gem rate across the sampled Shining Fates Shiny Vault cards is 53.1%. 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 13 ranked cards, 13 need a 10 to break even and 8 lose money on expectation. 12 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.
Before you submit a Shining Fates Shiny Vault 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 Shining Fates Shiny Vault card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.