Everybody wants a 10 of their favorite. Most people looking for one end up scrolling past five-figure slabs, so we went the other way. For ten fan favorites we found the cheapest English PSA 10 with at least 20 verified sales behind its price, counted how often it sells, and set it against that Pokemon's dear slabs. A Charizard 10 costs $65.
Cheapest English, with at least 20 sales behind it
When this piece says cheapest, it means the cheapest English PSA 10 we track with at least 20 verified sales behind the price shown. Where it means Japanese, it says so. A verified sale is a sold listing we matched to that exact card, number and all. Twenty is stricter than the ten our card pages need before they'll show a graded price at all.
Pick the lowest price out of sixty and you'll often get the one that came in low by luck. When we checked 18 graded prices against an outside source, the 7 resting on fewer than ten sales were off by 30.7% on average. The 9 on twenty or more were off by 8.4%. It was a small check, and the gap was close to fourfold.
We also asked that each figure was read in the last 30 days and that we can date its recent sales, so every slab below comes with how often it sells.
The cheapest English PSA 10 of each, with 20 or more verified sales
The cheap slab, the Japanese one, and the dear one
Cheapest English PSA 10 with at least 20 verified sales, against the Japanese one and the dearest with at least 100
Every one of the ten comes from a Sword & Shield set or newer. Five are ex cards, four are VMAX or VSTAR cards and one is a V. Nine of them sell at least twice a week, so you can sell one again without waiting long for a buyer.
Charizard is the easy one. The Mega Charizard X ex promo at $65 sold 472 times in 90 days, and the Phantasmal Flames Mega Charizard X ex is right behind it at $68 on 319. Either works. If you'd rather own a Charizard that isn't a Mega, the cheapest English one we track at 20 or more sales is the Charizard V promo at $89 on 270. For the rarer Charizards, How Many PSA 10 Charizards Are There? and Every Charizard's PSA 10 Premium, Ranked pick up where this stops.
Gardevoir is the cheapest pick on the list and the slowest. Its $33.26 is the median of 60 sales over a longer stretch. Only 8 sold in the last 90 days, under one a week, and those went for a median $40.50. If you want something you can sell quickly, the Mega Gardevoir ex promo costs $51.01 and sold 649 times in its own last 90 days. That's $17.75 more for a slab that sells several times a day.
Three picks have run up. Mew V sold for a median $154.89 over the last 90 days against $90.50 across the 122 sales we hold for it. Lugia VSTAR is $129.99 recently against $79.99 across 230. Both are still the cheapest English slab of their Pokemon at 20 or more sales. Mew V is 71% above its longer-run figure and Lugia VSTAR is 63% above. Rayquaza VMAX from Crown Zenith sits at $150 recently against $100 over the longer run, a jump of exactly half.
The Japanese 10 costs less for nine of the ten
Apply the same rule to Japanese cards and the slab gets cheaper for every Pokemon except Gardevoir. A Japanese Charizard ex from the Terastal Charizard ex Battle Master Deck is $40, a Mewtwo ex from the Terastal Starter Set is $41, and a Japanese Umbreon ex is $49.99 against $110 for the English one. Four of the nine cheaper ones come from ready-made decks: the Charizard, the Mewtwo, the Mega Gengar ex and the Pikachu ex.
Some of them sell slowly, and their newest sales run above the price in the table. The Japanese Charizard sold 8 times in 180 days at a median $56.50, against $40 over its longer run. The Japanese Mewtwo ex sold 4 times in 90 days at $59, against $41. The Japanese and English versions are also separate cards with separate buyers. If you'll want to sell it later to someone who collects English, the English slab is the one they'll be searching for. Two Japanese slabs with 20 or more sales are cheaper still, but we can't date their recent sales, so we can't say how often they sell and left them off: the CP6 Pikachu 033/087 at $34.30 on 24 and the Great Detective Pikachu Mewtwo 016/024 at $27.60 on 43.
Cheap-looking slabs, and which to skip
For 17 English PSA 10s that fail the rule, we hold some figure, ours or our data provider's, that sits below the pick. None of them clears the rule, and the reasons will catch you on any card. One is close enough that we'd buy it anyway.
Every English PSA 10 that fails the rule but where any figure we hold, ours or our data provider's, sits below its Pokemon's pick
| Slab | Lowest figure | Whose figure, and what's behind it | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pikachu ex, Paldea Evolved 063/193 | $72.49 | Ours, over a longer run of 54 sales. The newest 12 went for a median $144.25, which is the price its page shows | Skip. The price has doubled and now sits above the pick |
| Pikachu ex (Holiday Calendar), Miscellaneous Cards & Products 063/193 | $78.00 | Ours, on 4 sales. Our data provider's is $231.25 on 6 | Skip. Too few sales |
| Pikachu (Cracked Ice Holo), Deck Exclusives 35/108 | $85.20 | Ours, on 4 sales. Our data provider's is $108.20 on 5 | Skip. Too few sales |
| Pikachu, Base Set 58/102 | $86.40 | Ours, over a longer run of 85 sales. The newest 3 went for a median $450 | Skip: our long-run and newest sales disagree by more than half |
| Umbreon (Poke Ball Pattern), Prismatic Evolutions 059/131 | $84.00 | Our data provider's, on 45 sales. Ours is $109.03 on 17 recent sales and $89 on 44 over a longer run | Skip. It saves 97 cents on the Umbreon ex, which has 220 |
| Mew, Hidden Fates 32/68 | $59.99 | Ours, over a longer run of 25 sales. The newest 4 went for a median $150.50 | Skip: our long-run and newest sales disagree by more than half |
| Mew 105 (30th Celebration), ME: Mega Evolution Promo | $77.99 | Our data provider's, on 5 sales. The 3 we could match to this card went for $128 | Skip. Too few sales |
| Mew (Mewtwo Stamped), Battle Academy 32/68 | $99.20 | Our data provider's, on 6 sales. The 6 we matched ran at $109.75, the newest 3 at $160 | Skip. Too few sales |
| Mew ex, Celebrations Classic Collection CC013 | $101.43 | Our data provider's, on 861 sales pooled by name. Ours is $126.75 on 14 recent sales, and the 54 over a longer run agree at $122.97 | Close call, and cheaper than the Mew V that has run up. The one we'd buy anyway |
| Mew VMAX, 30th Classic Collection 026 | $104.00 | Our data provider's, on 3 sales, last read September 18, 2026. We hold no sales matched to this card | Skip. Too few sales |
| Mew ex, 151 151/165 | $134.13 | Our data provider's, on 115 sales. Ours is $162.50 on 16 recent sales and $147.50 on 48 over a longer run | Skip. Our recent sales put it above the Mew V |
| Mewtwo ex, Paradox Rift 058/182 | $69.99 | Ours, over a longer run of 35 sales. The newest 5 went for a median $105 | Skip: our long-run and newest sales disagree by more than half |
| Eevee, SWSH Black Star Promos SWSH095 | $43.06 | Our data provider's, which pools every sale with that name: 4 sales at $43.06. A separate count of 4 sales we matched to this exact card ran at a median $749.99 | Skip. The two records disagree too much for either to be a price |
| Lugia ex, Trading Card Game Classic 017/034 | $40.00 | Our data provider's, on 27 sales. Ours is $52 on 18 sales in all, and the newest 5 went for a median $75 | Skip. Take the Japanese Lugia at $51.00 on 64 recent sales instead |
| Rayquaza V, Crown Zenith 100/159 | $95.00 | Ours, over a longer run of 89 sales. The newest 13 went for a median $150, which is the price its page shows | Skip. Same $150 as the pick on fewer recent sales |
| Gardevoir V, Champion's Path 070/073 | $22.80 | Ours, over a longer run of 38 sales. The newest 5 went for a median $40 | Skip: our long-run and newest sales disagree by more than half |
| Gardevoir V, Champion's Path 016/073 | $24.00 | Ours, over a longer run of 31 sales. The newest 7 went for a median $40 | Skip: our long-run and newest sales disagree by more than half |
A price that rests on a few sales can sit far from where the next one sells. A price that pools every sale with the same name can mix in other cards. And a long-run median can sit well below what a card sells for now. Seven of these have 20 or more sales over the longer run while their newest sales run more than half above it. Our card pages won't print the long-run price for any of them: five show no PSA 10 price, and two show the newer one. The Lugia ex shows the first problem plainly: at $52 it would be the cheapest English Lugia 10 by a long way, but its newest sales are running 44% above that figure.
Mixed versions are harder to spot. The Japanese Pikachu from Start Deck 100 Battle Collection 225/742 comes as a plain card and a Mirror Holo, and our records hold the same $45 on the same 64 sales for both. That's one pile of sales filed under both versions, so the $45 can't be said to belong to either one. We left both off the Japanese list. Two 2019 World Championship Decks Mew cards, the Haruki Miyamoto and the Shintaro Ito, share 12 sales the same way, though at 12 they're under 20 anyway.
Where the famous old ones stand
The famous vintage cards are a different market, and two famous ones don't have a usable PSA 10 price at all. The Unlimited Base Set Charizard has 34 PSA 10 sales on record with a median of $9,979.50, but the 3 in the last 180 days went for a median $23,400. Our card page won't print either number as the price while they disagree that much. Neo Genesis Lugia is thinner still: no PSA 10 sale of the Unlimited card on record with us, and 5 of the 1st Edition, too few to call a price.
One slab per Pokemon
For an English 10 that's cheap and easy to sell again, take the pick in the table. The $65 Mega Charizard X ex, the $88 Pikachu ex, the $110 Umbreon ex, the $64.99 Mega Gengar ex, the $77 Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex and the $77 Eevee VMAX all sell at least three times a week. For Lugia the cheapest English slab with 20 or more sales has climbed well above its longer-run price, so the Japanese Lugia is the budget answer if you don't mind the language. For Mew, the Celebrations Classic Collection Mew ex at $126.75 is a better buy than the Mew V, even with fewer recent sales. For Gardevoir, pay the extra $17.75 for the Mega Gardevoir ex promo unless you're keeping it. For Pikachu specifically, The Best Pikachu Cards to Buy Right Now covers more than the cheapest English one.
None of these numbers predicts a price.
Sources. Every PSA 10 price is a median of our recorded PSA 10 sales, frozen on November 15, 2026. Each card's latest price was read between October 16 and November 15, 2026, and the date on each tile is that card's own. The price is the one our card pages print, worked out the same way: the 90-day median of sales we matched to the card when that window has at least 10 sales, otherwise the median of every sale we matched to it, and never our data provider's own figure, which pools sales by name. A long-run median is also held back when a lower grade's newer 90-day price sits above it, and when newer sales disagree with it by more than half. Every pick and every dear slab was checked against its live card page. Four dear slabs had moved by less than 1.2% since the freeze. WHO IS IN IT. Every card in our catalog whose own name names exactly one of the ten Pokemon, in English or Japanese script, counting forms and owners (Mega, Team Rocket's, Radiant, Shining, Dark, a trainer's Pokemon). Cards with two Pokemon on them (TAG TEAM, LEGEND), Energy and Trainer cards that only carry a Pokemon stamp, Spirit Link and metal cards, jumbo and oversize cards and V-UNION pieces are out. So are cards filed under a jumbo set. A Pokemon card named for its pattern, like Pikachu (Energy Symbol Pattern), stays in. 1st Edition and Shadowless sales of vintage cards are recorded separately because they price a different printing, and they're outside this population. The vintage paragraph reads them on their own. Sixteen catalog cards named "MCharizard EX" with no set and no TCGplayer product are left out too. That's 2,463 catalog cards and 2,269 products once cards sharing one TCGplayer product are counted once, and 1,228 of those products have PSA 10 sales on record with us or our data provider. THE RULE FOR CHEAPEST. Four tests. At least 20 sales behind the price. Read on or after October 16, 2026. A dated window of recent sales, so we can say how often it sells. And not one of two products showing an identical price on identical sale counts. The 20 counts the sales behind the price shown, which is the 90-day median when that window has 10 or more sales and the longer run otherwise. So the Gardevoir VMAX qualifies on its 60-sale longer run, while the Celebrations Classic Collection Mew ex, whose 90-day window holds 14, does not, although its longer run holds 54. 519 products pass, 253 English and 266 Japanese. The 30-day rule removed one English product. The dated-window rule removed eight Japanese and no English ones, two of them cheaper than the Japanese pick (the CP6 Pikachu and the Great Detective Pikachu Mewtwo, named above). The twin rule removed one pair that would have qualified, the Start Deck 100 Pikachu 225/742. The other pair it catches, two 2019 World Championship Deck Mews, has 12 sales and is under 20 anyway. AT 10 SALES INSTEAD OF 20, four English picks change: Umbreon (Poke Ball Pattern) Prismatic Evolutions at $109.03 on 17, Mew ex Celebrations Classic Collection at $126.75 on 14, Lugia ex Trading Card Game Classic at $52.00 on 18, and Rayquaza V Crown Zenith at $150.00 on 13, which ties the Rayquaza VMAX. The other six stay. Three Japanese picks change: Pikachu ex Start Deck 100 Battle Collection 006/023 at $45.00 on 13, Lugia ex Generations Start Decks at $45.44 on 13, and Rayquaza VMAX from the Charizard VSTAR vs Rayquaza VMAX Special Deck Set at $44.00 on 17. The 30.7% and 8.4% come from a check of 18 graded prices against an outside source, 7 of them under 10 sales and 9 at 20 or more. THE DEAR SLAB is the dearest English PSA 10 of the Pokemon with at least 100 sales, read in the same 30 days, picked by that rule. "Cheap slabs one dear one buys" is the dear price divided by the cheap one, rounded down. RECENT SALES are the count inside the dated window, 90 days for every pick and 180 for the Japanese Charizard. DATES on each tile are the day that price was last read, and a slab's price on its card page can move after that. The Japanese column uses the same rule over Japanese cards, labeled with the English set names. WHAT THIS DOES NOT CLAIM: that these are the cheapest PSA 10s that exist (a card with fewer than 20 sales can be cheaper, and the table of checked slabs shows 17 cards with a lower figure), anything about CGC, BGS or other graders, that a slab's price is what it will be worth, or anything about raw cards, whose prices are asking prices. Not financial advice.