Question 1

Is Ninetales worth grading?

Accepted Answer

So is Ninetales worth grading? It depends on what you're holding and how honest you can be about its condition. A raw copy is worth $200, but a PSA 10 is sitting at $33,433, which works out to roughly 167.2 times the raw price. That's a massive gap, and it's exactly why grading tempts so many collectors. The catch is that gem mint is a genuinely hard bar to clear on a card this old, surface wear and centering issues creep in more than people expect, and grading costs money and time regardless of what comes back. A Grade 9 still nets you $1,107, which is a healthy return, but that jump from a 9 to a 10 is where most of the value and most of the risk live. If your copy looks clean under a loupe and the centering is tight, it might genuinely be worth the gamble. If you're not sure, it's worth getting a second opinion before you send it off.

Question 2

How rare is Ninetales?

Accepted Answer

Across every grading company combined, there are 762 total graded copies of this Ninetales on record, and only 36 of those have earned a PSA 10. That's a tiny sliver of an already modest population. When gem mint copies are that scarce relative to the overall pool, it explains a lot about why the PSA 10 price sits so far above everything else. Scarcity at the top end does a lot of the heavy lifting here, it's not that Ninetales is rare overall, it's that flawless copies of it are genuinely hard to come by.

Question 3

Where can you pull Ninetales?

Accepted Answer

Here's where we can be upfront with you: PackSpy hasn't recorded a single pull of this Ninetales across any of the pack sites we track, and that tells its own story. Dragon Frontiers is an older set that simply isn't circulating through modern pack breaks the way newer releases are, so if you're chasing this one, you're far more likely to find it through singles sellers or auction listings than inside a pack rip. We log real pulls across tracked sites as they happen, and the absence of this card in that data is itself useful information, it means the realistic path to owning one is the secondary market, not the pack aisle.

Question 4

How much is Ninetales worth?

Accepted Answer

A raw, ungraded Ninetales from Dragon Frontiers is worth around $200. Once graded, the value climbs fast, a Grade 9 comes in at $1,107, and a PSA 10 reaches $33,433. The grade you land genuinely changes everything about what this card is worth.

Question 5

Is Ninetales worth grading?

Accepted Answer

It can be, especially since a PSA 10 is worth about 167.2 times the raw price. But gem mint copies are rare, only 36 out of 762 total graded copies have hit that PSA 10 mark, so grading is a real gamble unless your card is in excellent shape to begin with.

Question 6

Why is the Ninetales Reverse Holo #8 print worth more than the standard one?

Accepted Answer

Reverse holo prints flip the usual holo pattern onto the card's background instead of the artwork, which makes them visually distinct and generally scarcer within a set. Collectors tend to pay a premium for that scarcity and the different look, which is part of why this version holds the value it does.

Grade	Value	Population	PSA / CGC
PSA 10 (Gem Mint)	$33k	36	18 / 18
PSA 9	$1.1k	180	148 / 32
PSA 8	$553	248	180 / 68
PSA 7	$304	127	99 / 28
PSA 6	$188	91	77 / 14
PSA 5	$112	49	39 / 10
PSA 4	$95	14	14 / -
PSA 3	$81	2	2 / -
PSA 2	$73	2	2 / -
PSA 1	$115	13	13 / -
Raw / Ungraded	$225	-	-

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