Is it worth grading Articuno [Master Ball]?

JP: Scarlet & Violet 151 · 144

Yes — if it grades 10. A 9 loses money at current prices. You need the 10. 9s are pooled across graders here — PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure.
RAW NOW$18.99TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$88.2310 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$29.506 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$44after $25 fee

A raw Articuno [Master Ball] from JP: Scarlet & Violet 151 currently sells for about $18.99. Across 10 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $88.23. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $44.24. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $29.50 across 6 sales — which works out to −$14.49 after fees. A 9 loses money at current prices. You need the 10. 9s are pooled across graders here — PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure.

Every grade, with the sales behind it

GRADEMEDIANSALES ON RECORD
PSA10$88.2310 sales
CGC10P$60.498 sales
CGC10$36.098 sales
TAG10$30.005 sales
GRADE9$29.506 sales

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Every figure on this page is an observed number. Raw prices come from TCGplayer; graded medians are completed eBay sales, shown with the sale count behind each one. We don't estimate, model, or fill in gaps — if a grade has no sales on record, it isn't listed. Grading outcomes are not guaranteed: most raw cards do not come back a 10, which is exactly why the 9-grade number is on this page. Where PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure we show its pooled 9 — PSA, BGS, CGC and SGC together — and label it as such rather than call it a PSA 9.