Question 1

Is Dark Wartortle worth grading?

Accepted Answer

Here's the honest answer on Dark Wartortle price when it comes to grading: a raw copy sits around $10, a Grade 9 jumps to $1,463, and a PSA 10 lands at $454, which works out to about 45.9 times the raw value once it comes back gem mint. That's a real jump, but getting a 9 to flip into a true PSA 10 is genuinely hard, corners and centering on a card like this can trip up even careful collectors, and grading fees plus shipping and the wait time all eat into any potential gain. If you've got a copy that looks sharp under a light and you're not in a rush, it can be worth sending in, but if it's got soft corners or edge wear, you're often better off enjoying it raw or selling it as is.

Question 2

How rare is Dark Wartortle?

Accepted Answer

Across every grading company combined, there are 4,781 total graded copies of Dark Wartortle out there, and only 604 of those have earned a PSA 10. That means gem mint copies make up a fairly small slice of the total population, which helps explain why the PSA 10 price sits so far above the raw and even above a Grade 9 in some ways. When a card has been around since 2000, population numbers like these tell you a lot about how many copies survived decades of shoeboxes and binders in top shape, and it's simply not that many.

Question 3

Where can you pull Dark Wartortle?

Accepted Answer

We've tracked Dark Wartortle showing up 200 or more times across pack sites we monitor, including courtyard, mnstr, collector-crypt, tilt-rips, and general packs, so this isn't a card that's vanished from circulation entirely. It's turned up in products like the Pokémon Starter Pack, Pack 5, Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack, Pokemon Dime Pack, and Legendary Pokémon Gacha Pack, with the biggest recorded pull hitting $440. That's the kind of real, on-the-ground data most price guides simply don't have, and it's worth remembering that pack pulls are always a gamble where most openings don't come close to that number, so pull for fun first and treat any big hit as a bonus.

Question 4

How much is Dark Wartortle worth?

Accepted Answer

A raw or ungraded Dark Wartortle is worth around $10 right now. Graded copies climb from there, with a Grade 9 at $1,463 and a PSA 10 reaching $454, so condition really does drive the price on this one.

Question 5

Is Dark Wartortle worth grading?

Accepted Answer

It can be, since a PSA 10 sells for about 45.9 times what a raw copy goes for. Just know that gem mint copies are genuinely hard to pull off, and with only 604 PSA 10s out of 4,781 total graded copies, most submissions won't land at the very top grade.

Question 6

Why is the Dark Wartortle 1st Edition #46 print worth more than the standard one?

Accepted Answer

1st Edition cards from this era generally had smaller print runs than their standard counterparts, which makes them scarcer and more sought after by collectors chasing early Team Rocket set prints. That extra demand against a tighter supply is usually what pushes the 1st Edition price above the standard version.

Grade	Value	Population	PSA / CGC
PSA 10 (Gem Mint)	$340	606	454 / 152
PSA 9	$57	1,905	1,463 / 442
PSA 8	$33	1,521	946 / 575
PSA 7	$30	429	307 / 122
PSA 6	$16	180	139 / 41
PSA 5	$13	107	80 / 27
PSA 4	$11	41	34 / 7
PSA 3	$9.00	11	9 / 2
PSA 2	$8.00	3	3 / -
PSA 1	-	4	4 / -
Raw / Ungraded	$13	-	-

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