Pokémon Collection Guides on Theo TCG

Should You Grade Your Pokémon Cards Before Selling?

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0600

Grading gets recommended far too casually. Sending a card to PSA, CGC, or Beckett costs money and months, and it only pays off under conditions that most cards don’t meet.

The question isn’t “does grading add value” — sometimes it does. The question is whether it adds more value than it costs on your specific card.

What Is My Pokémon Card Collection Worth?

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0600

Almost every collection we’re sent follows the same shape: a few hundred to a few thousand cards, most of them worth cents, and somewhere in there between one and five cards holding 80% of the total value. The job of valuing a collection is really the job of finding those few cards and grading them honestly.

Base Set Shadowless vs Unlimited: How to Tell Them Apart

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0600

English Base Set was printed three times in 1999, and the three printings are worth wildly different amounts. People routinely sell shadowless cards for unlimited prices because nobody told them there was a difference.