Vaporeon ★

Vaporeon ★ sits in Power Keepers, part of the EX Era era on Cardboard Assets. Raw spot is $840 per the most recent manual seed value, last refreshed May 7, 2026.

I'm scoring this a 64/100 — PLAY. The math: $1,538 expected value at CGC Standard tier, less raw cost $840, less $25 grading fee, less $10 return shipping, less $204 eBay fee = +$459 net per copy. ROI works out to 55% on the raw cost basis.

CGC Standard tier turnaround runs about 30 days. Annualized for capital velocity, that's roughly +665% APR — useful framing if you're thinking about this as a capital allocation, not a one-shot trade.

Pop is growing modestly — +11% Grade 10s in the last 30 days. Not a saturation alarm, but worth tracking. Honestly, the call gets clearer with another month of pop data.

Sourcing raw: at $840, source on TCGplayer near-mint listings or eBay BIN. Pictures matter — request high-res scans of corners and edges before buying. Anything obviously off-center isn't a Grade 10 candidate.

Risk to size: grading is one-way. Grading fees aren't refundable, the round-trip eats 30 days of capital, and the comp data lags real-time market shifts. For comparable plays in the same era, look at Flareon ★ and Jolteon ★. Numbers above pull from PSA POP Report, recent eBay sold listings, and PriceCharting comps as of 2026-05-04.