Is it worth grading Zekrom ex - 172/086?

SV: Black Bolt · 172/086

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$607.54TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$1439.9927 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$589.9923 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$807after $25 fee

A raw Zekrom ex - 172/086 from SV: Black Bolt currently sells for about $607.54. Across 27 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $1439.99. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $807.45. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $589.99 across 23 sales — which works out to −$42.55 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$1439.9927 sales
CGC10P$2000.005 sales
CGC10$610.009 sales
TAG10$1325.0011 sales
ACE10$870.508 sales
GRADE9.5$730.008 sales
GRADE9$589.9923 sales
GRADE8$515.008 sales
GRADE7$316.508 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.