The Prismatic Evolutions card that rewards a trip to PSA most is the one everybody already wanted. A PSA 10 Umbreon ex #161 sells for $5,040.00, and a raw copy was marked at $1,178.25 on November 10, after thirty days of giving up more money than any other card in the set. PSA has handed a 10 to 29.2% of the 23,326 Umbreons it has graded, which sounds stingy until you notice that the misses still sell for $1,299.00 as a 9. Blend the tens and the nines and a raw Umbreon sent to PSA is worth $1,228.65 on average, enough to come out ahead after fees.
Then there's Vaporeon ex #149, the chase card PSA is hardest on, with 26.4% of the 11,678 copies it has graded coming back as a 10. The tens that do come back sell for 4.5x the raw card, the fattest premium of any card here, and a gem that's both that rare and that well paid is what a grading bet is supposed to look like. Leafeon ex #144 runs the other way round. It gems more easily than anything else in the group, at 34.0% of 13,724 copies. The market seems to have noticed, because a PSA 10 Leafeon goes for $749.99, a premium of just 2.6x, which is about what you'd expect for a card that gems this readily. Espeon ex #155 lands in between, a $990.00 slab on a card that cost $252.98 raw, and it's the one in the middle I'd look at twice.
Grade it or keep it raw: the ledger, as of November 10, 2026
| Card | Raw | PSA 10 | PSA 9 | Gem rate | Graded, after fees | Raw, less eBay fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umbreon ex #161 | $1,178.25 | $5,040.00 | $1,299.00 | 29.2% | $1,228.65 | $1,021.73 |
| Sylveon ex #156 | $377.94 | $1,325.00 | $407.50 | 30.0% | $444.93 | $327.46 |
| Leafeon ex #144 | $283.18 | $749.99 | $282.00 | 34.0% | $283.86 | $245.26 |
| Espeon ex #155 | $252.98 | $990.00 | $254.84 | 29.1% | $310.89 | $219.06 |
| Glaceon ex #150 | $241.37 | $699.99 | $215.00 | 32.1% | $233.34 | $208.99 |
| Vaporeon ex #149 | $209.87 | $940.00 | $235.00 | 26.4% | $266.18 | $181.66 |
| Flareon ex #146 | $165.53 | $605.98 | $180.00 | 32.4% | $191.76 | $143.20 |
| Jolteon ex #153 | $154.10 | $600.00 | $169.99 | 29.0% | $163.65 | $133.28 |
| Eevee ex #167 | $153.12 | $479.50 | $145.99 | 32.5% | $140.07 | $132.43 |
| Roaring Moon ex #162 | $148.79 | $630.00 | $141.50 | 32.0% | $175.72 | $128.68 |
Most people who send a card in are hoping for a 10 and quietly budgeting for a 9, and on some of these cards that budget is wrong. A PSA 9 Glaceon ex #150 sells for $215.00, while a raw one was going for $241.37 on November 10, which means the slab that comes back with a 9 on the label is worth less than the loose card you mailed off, before the grading fee has even been counted. Eevee ex #167 has the same problem on a smaller scale, with its 9 at $145.99 under a raw price of $153.12, and so does Roaring Moon ex #162. Even Leafeon's 9, at $282.00, lands just below its own raw price. Vaporeon is cushioned. Its 9 sells for $235.00 on a card that was $209.87 raw, so a near miss there still leaves you a little ahead of where you started, before fees.
Cheaper raw cards change the bet
Most money lost per card
- 1
Umbreon ex #161$1,301.12 to $1,178.25fell over the window, but 44% of the move came on October 29-9.4% - 2
Sylveon ex #156$473.49 to $377.94fell over the window, but 50% of the move came on October 20-20.2% - 3
Vaporeon ex #149$266.97 to $209.87slid steadily; no single day carried more than 16% of the move-21.4% - 4
Espeon ex #155$295.73 to $252.98slid steadily; no single day carried more than 17% of the move-14.5% - 5
Leafeon ex #144$315.40 to $283.18slid steadily; no single day carried more than 28% of the move-10.2%
On TCGplayer market prices, the raw side of the bet got cheaper all month. Of the 34 cards in the set that cost $20 or more on October 12, 33 were cheaper by November 10. The typical one fell 9.1%, and the only price band where the typical card got dearer was the bulk under $1, up 4.7%. That leaves the losses sitting where the money is, since the five priciest cards account for 51.1% of what a full set costs. Vaporeon lost 21.4% in a slow slide, and Sylveon ex #156 lost 20.2% with 50% of it landing on October 20. Umbreon's drop was lopsided too, and 44% of it came on October 29. If you're holding a raw copy, a cheaper card is a smaller stake to put on the line at PSA, and if you're buying raw to submit, the ticket into the gem lottery now costs less than it did on October 12.
Of the cards here, Vaporeon makes the best case for a trip to PSA. Its tens are hard to get and sell at the biggest markup of the group, and a near miss at 9 still beats the raw price. Averaged over every grade it might get, each raw Vaporeon sent in is worth $266.18. Umbreon follows on the simple grounds that $5,040.00 is a lot of money for a slab, with Sylveon and Espeon after it, since their 9s hold the raw price too. Glaceon stays in its toploader. Its PSA 10 sells for $699.99, about as unexciting as a gem gets in this set, and a Glaceon that comes back a 9 is a $215.00 card sitting in the binder slot where a $241.37 card used to be.
Population: Prismatic Evolutions, 343 English cards with a TCGplayer market price on both October 12, 2026 and November 10, 2026. Every move compares a card to itself on the same TCGplayer product, first day against last, before anything is ranked or summed; a set total is never compared across days. Prices are TCGplayer market prices for the flagship printing, read from our daily price file. Graded figures are sold medians from our graded comps, PSA population counts come from our daily registry snapshot, and the expected value counts the PSA 9 outcome as well as the PSA 10, net of the grading fee and selling costs. The expected value sits beside the raw price less the same eBay selling fee, so the two compare like with like. It counts copies that grade below a 9 at nothing and leaves out shipping to PSA and back. Angle: whether grading pays: PSA 10 and PSA 9 sale prices against the raw card, the gem rate, and the expected value after fees.