Japanese Trainers Magazine Promos — every card, ranked by upside
Every Japanese Trainers Magazine Promos card, all printings ranked together — 5 cards in total, priced raw and at PSA 7, 8, 9 and 10, and sorted by what a raw copy could be worth in a PSA 10 once you pay to grade it. The printing is named on every row, because on these sets it is most of what a card is worth. 5 carry a rank.
Prices: PriceCharting sold-comp data, November 5, 2026 — refreshed monthly. The cost basis includes $59.99 to grade (PSA Standard, the cheapest tier you can buy). Populations are PSA-graded copies only — CGC is excluded so every share has one denominator.
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The Ranking
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Bilingual Exeggutor — Japanese Trainers Magazine Promos
PSA 7no PSA census published for this printing−$140loss5 sales
PSA 8no PSA census published for this printing−$59loss5 sales
PSA 9no PSA census published for this printing+$283profit5 sales
PSA 10no PSA census published for this printing+$4,877profit5 sales
CGC 102 recorded sales on PriceCharting+$35profit2 sales
CGC 10 (Pristine)1 recorded sale on PriceCharting+$452profit1 sale
- 10 Jul 25eBay · sold$900.00listing
CGC 8.53 recorded sales on PriceCharting−$179loss3 sales
CGC 86 recorded sales on PriceCharting−$240loss5 sales
CGC 7.51 recorded sale on PriceCharting+$9,552profit1 sale
- 26 Sep 26eBay · sold$9,999.99listing
Raw copies cost $388.00 and a PSA 10 has sold for $5,325.40 — +$4,877 over the cost of buying one raw and grading it. The 9 clears the fee (+$283) but the 8 does not. PriceCharting records no PSA census for this printing, so there are no odds to quote — the figure above comes from its sold-comp data alone.
Steelix — Japanese Trainers Magazine Promos
PSA 7no PSA census published for this printing−$281loss2 sales
PSA 8no PSA census published for this printing−$40loss5 sales
PSA 9no PSA census published for this printing+$157profit5 sales
PSA 10no PSA census published for this printing+$2,855profit5 sales
CGC 106 recorded sales on PriceCharting−$44loss5 sales
CGC 10 (Pristine)2 recorded sales on PriceCharting+$86profit2 sales
CGC 9.52 recorded sales on PriceCharting−$221loss2 sales
CGC 92 recorded sales on PriceCharting−$94loss2 sales
CGC 8.54 recorded sales on PriceCharting−$251loss4 sales
CGC 81 recorded sale on PriceCharting−$289loss1 sale
- 13 Mar 26eBay · sold$65.00listing
CGC 71 recorded sale on PriceCharting−$340loss1 sale
- 4 Apr 24eBay · sold$13.50listing
Raw copies cost $293.60 and a PSA 10 has sold for $3,208.85 — +$2,855 over the cost of buying one raw and grading it. The 9 clears the fee (+$157) but the 8 does not. PriceCharting records no PSA census for this printing, so there are no odds to quote — the figure above comes from its sold-comp data alone.
Murkrow — Trainer Mag Promo Japanese Trainers Magazine Promos
PSA 7no PSA census published for this printing−$119loss1 sale
- 8 Feb 25eBay · sold$10.49listing
PSA 8no PSA census published for this printing−$37loss2 sales
PSA 9no PSA census published for this printing+$115profit5 sales
PSA 10no PSA census published for this printing+$734profit4 sales
CGC 101 recorded sale on PriceCharting+$160profit1 sale
- 26 Feb 26eBay · sold$289.99listing
CGC 91 recorded sale on PriceCharting+$13profit1 sale
- 3 Oct 26eBay · sold$142.50listing
Raw copies cost $69.79 and a PSA 10 has sold for $863.77 — +$734 over the cost of buying one raw and grading it. The 9 clears the fee (+$115) but the 8 does not. PriceCharting records no PSA census for this printing, so there are no odds to quote — the figure above comes from its sold-comp data alone.
Misdreavus — Trainer Magazine Japanese Trainers Magazine Promos
PSA 7no PSA census published for this printing−$64loss2 sales
PSA 8no PSA census published for this printing−$78loss2 sales
PSA 9no PSA census published for this printing+$2profit5 sales
PSA 10no PSA census published for this printing+$68profit5 sales
CGC 101 recorded sale on PriceCharting+$101profit1 sale
- 27 Aug 26eBay · sold$190.00listing
CGC 91 recorded sale on PriceCharting−$29loss1 sale
- 30 Jul 26eBay · sold$59.99listing
Raw copies cost $29.40 and a PSA 10 has sold for $157.75 — +$68 over the cost of buying one raw and grading it. The 9 clears the fee (+$2) but the 8 does not. PriceCharting records no PSA census for this printing, so there are no odds to quote — the figure above comes from its sold-comp data alone.
Darkness Energy — Trainer Mag Promo Japanese Trainers Magazine Promos
PSA 7no PSA census published for this printing−$47loss1 sale
- 18 Apr 26eBay · sold$19.00listing
PSA 8no PSA census published for this printing−$61loss1 sale
- 17 Feb 25eBay · sold$4.25listing
PSA 9no PSA census published for this printing−$32loss2 sales
PSA 10no PSA census published for this printing+$10profit1 sale
- 6 Sep 26eBay · sold$76.00listing
CGC 91 recorded sale on PriceCharting−$58loss1 sale
- 24 Aug 25eBay · sold$7.51listing
Raw copies cost $5.64 and a PSA 10 has sold for $76.00 — +$10 over the cost of buying one raw and grading it. Every grade below a 10 loses money at today's prices (−$47 at a 7, −$61 at an 8, −$32 at a 9), so the whole case rests on the gem. PriceCharting records no PSA census for this printing, so there are no odds to quote — the figure above comes from its sold-comp data alone.
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How to read this list — and why I built it this way
The ranking is by potential value — a card’s PSA 10 price minus what it costs to buy it raw and grade it. That is the size of the best-case prize, and it is deliberately simple. Set a price range and the list re-reads for your budget, so you are comparing the cards you could actually buy against each other instead of against the biggest card in the era.
Then read the odds. Every card shows its real chance of each grade, drawn from its own population rather than a rule of thumb, beside the profit at that grade. They will not sum to 100%: the rest of a card’s graded population sits at grade 6 or below, and that line is shown too, because a card that often lands there is a different proposition from one that does not. Read the two together — a large prize with poor odds is a lottery ticket, a smaller prize with good odds is a decision. Judging population and price side by side, on the cards your budget actually reaches, is how you work out what is worth chasing and what you want to collect.
Why potential value, and not a single blended return figure. A blended number hides both the size of the prize and the risk in it, so every card shows the odds of each grade right beside the profit at that grade, and you weigh the prize against the likelihood yourself. The population basis is PSA only for the same reason: one denominator, measured the same way on every card. CGC and BGS figures are real, but mixing three grading companies into one share makes the odds mean less. Shipping and insurance are excluded from the cost basis on purpose — they vary by where you live and how many cards you send, and consistency matters more here than completeness.
There is one catch, and it is the whole game: condition. To use this list well you have to be able to look at a raw card and estimate, roughly, what it would grade — and understand why graders penalize what they penalize. A card bought at a PSA 9 price in PSA 6 condition is a loss no matter how good its rank looks here. If that skill is new to you, the grading ROI guide covers the cost math and the pre-screen check; a dedicated condition guide is coming.
This is my perspective as a collector, not a promise of returns. Every figure on the page is a decision input, not a forecast.
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