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Sceptile 8/106

Set: Great Encounters Released: Feb 1, 2008
Pokémon: Sceptile Grass Type Rare Holo Illustrator: Masakazu Fukuda Pull Rate:1 in 36 packs (2.8%) Evolves From: Grovyle

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Sceptile #8/106 FAQs: Price, Grading & Collecting

Answers about Sceptile #8/106 from Great Encounters — live market value, pull rates, PSA grading returns and tournament legality.

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Sceptile has moved up 18.5% to $27.62. PSA 10 copies are up 81.5% over the same period.

Sceptile #8/106 appears roughly 1 in 36 packs, which works out at 2.8% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Great Encounters.

Sceptile #8/106 is a Rare, one of the higher rarity tiers in Great Encounters.

At $27.62 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $3,797.06, giving a net return of +$3,247.82 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$235.09 and PSA 8 returns +$10.20, so PSA 8, 9 and 10 can all return a profit on this card.

PSA have graded 329 copies of Sceptile #8/106, of which 82 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 24.9%, or roughly 1 in 4.0 graded copies.

No. At a 24.9% gem rate, Sceptile grades better than the Great Encounters average by 2.4 points. Most submitted copies come back clean.

Sceptile #8/106 was illustrated by Masakazu Fukuda, who has illustrated 903 Pokémon cards in total.

Sceptile #8/106 was released on 1 February 2008 as part of Great Encounters. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 3 Pokémon from the Hoenn region.