Dragon Ball Graded Cards: PSA Populations, Gem Rates & Black Label Premiums (August 2026)

Live PSA, BGS and CGC population data for Dragon Ball: 191,399 slabs, an 84.3% PSA 10 rate, 3,274 BGS Black Labels, and where grading actually pays.

Dragon Ball has 191,399 cards sitting in graded holders — 138,649 at PSA, 50,302 at BGS, 2,259 at CGC and 189 at SGC — across the 1,505 distinct printings Cardlogs tracks population for, as of August 25, 2026. According to Cardlogs population data, 84.3% of every PSA-graded Dragon Ball card comes back a PSA 10, and the population grew 7.1% in the 30 days to August 25, 2026 on a same-card basis.

How many Dragon Ball cards have been graded?

191,399 across all four graders, as of August 25, 2026. The split:

PSA holds 72% of the graded Dragon Ball market. What stands out is BGS at 26% — nearly double the share it holds in Riftbound. Dragon Ball's chase cards are serialized promos and gold Energy Markers, exactly the material where a Beckett subgrade breakdown and a shot at a Black Label are worth the slower turnaround.

That total is small in absolute terms. Dragon Ball's entire graded population is roughly what a single vintage Pokémon chase card can carry:

Why do Fusion World cards gem so much better than older Dragon Ball cards?

Because the older cards have been handled for up to nine years. Split the same population by era and the gem rate moves 15.6 points:

According to Cardlogs population data, a Dragon Ball Super Card Game Fusion World card submitted to PSA returns a 10 in 93.9% of cases, against 78.3% for the classic Dragon Ball Super Card Game, as of August 25, 2026.

This is the single most useful number in this report for anyone deciding what to submit. A 93.9% gem rate means a raw Fusion World chase card is priced almost as if it were already a 10 — there is very little grading risk left to be paid for. A 78.3% gem rate on older stock means roughly one submission in five comes back a 9 or worse, and that risk is real money at these prices.

The older sets are also where the biggest single populations sit. Jiren, Fist of Justice (BT2-029) from Union Force has 4,440 PSA slabs and only 16.1% of them are 10s — the worst gem rate of any heavily-graded Dragon Ball card we track.

How fast is the Dragon Ball graded population growing?

7.1% in 30 days, measured on the same cards on both dates.

That comparison covers the 729 printings that had a population record on both dates. It matters that we say so: a naive month-over-month total for Dragon Ball would have read +65.7%, because our own coverage nearly doubled over the same month. Almost none of that was grading — it was us tracking more cards. Population growth and coverage growth look identical in a raw sum, and only a matched-pair comparison separates them.

The cards driving real growth are all recent Fusion World Son Goku and Son Gohan alternate arts: FB07-104 Son Goku added 135 PSA slabs in the month, the Japanese E-32 Energy Marker 127, and the Japanese FB01-140 Son Gohan: Childhood alternate art 93.

What are the most valuable Dragon Ball PSA 10 cards?

As of August 26, 2026, these five hold the highest PSA 10 market prices, each corroborated against at least one eBay sold listing:

Two honest caveats on that table. The top card's comps are both from February 2026 and it carries no PSA population record at all in our data — the sold listings prove the slabs exist, our population source simply has not caught them. And the fifth card's fourteen recorded PSA 10 sales run from $6,250 to $14,000; at that dispersion the $12,111 headline is the top of a wide band, not a clearing price.

The pattern underneath is consistent: every card in Dragon Ball's graded top five is either serialized or a gold Energy Marker. No regular-rarity card comes close.

Which Energy Markers are worth the most in PSA 10?

Gold Energy Markers are Dragon Ball's oddest asset class — a token, not a playable card, printed at chase-card rarity in the Fusion World Manga Boosters. These are the five most valuable English gold markers in a PSA 10, as of August 26, 2026:

E-42 is the outlier of the group in every direction: 81 PSA 10s in existence, a raw copy at $449.98, and a graded copy at 27.8x that. Its recorded PSA 10 sales run from $12,407.40 to $18,000 across fifteen listings, which is the deepest sold record any Dragon Ball card above $10,000 has.

Is a BGS Black Label worth more than a PSA 10?

On the gold Energy Markers, yes, by roughly 2x. Elsewhere, no.

Two of the three most-Black-Labelled Energy Markers clear roughly double their PSA 10, and both have fewer than five Black Labels in existence. FP-001 inverts it completely: 18 Black Labels against a PSA 10 population of 160, and the PSA 10 is worth three times the Black Label.

The read is that a Black Label premium is a scarcity premium, not a grader premium. Where four exist, it prints. Where eighteen do, the PSA 10 stays the liquid asset.

We excluded one card from this comparison. FB05-119 (English) carries a stored Black Label price of $23,180, but its only recorded Black Label sale is $4,500 from March 7, 2026. We are not willing to stand behind either number as that card's Black Label value, so we publish neither.

Is it worth grading a Dragon Ball card?

The median PSA 10 sells for 2.43x the raw card. That is measured across the 487 Dragon Ball cards that have both a PSA 10 price and a raw TCGplayer price of $25 or more, as of August 26, 2026. The middle half runs 1.73x to 3.61x.

At $20–30 per card in grading and shipping, a 2.43x multiple only clears the cost on a card already worth roughly $40 or more raw — and that is before the 78.3% gem rate on older stock takes a bite. 24 of those 487 cards (4.9%) are currently worth less in a PSA 10 than raw, which happens when a card's raw price has run ahead of a graded market that has not re-priced yet.

The extreme cases are the silver Energy Markers, where grading multiplies rather than adds: E-47 trades at $25.98 raw against a $2,999.98 PSA 10, a 115x multiple. Those are not investment advice so much as a warning that the raw and graded markets for Dragon Ball promos are barely connected to each other.

What about BT31-147 and the newest set?

Nothing is graded yet. SSB Vegito, Ultimate Warrior (BT31-147) from Dragon Ball Super: Impact Beyond Dimensions is the most-searched graded Dragon Ball query we see, and the honest answer is that no PSA 10 sale has been recorded for it and Cardlogs holds no PSA population for the card at all as of August 26, 2026. Its entire graded record is two BGS 9.5 copies.

It trades at $24.00 on TCGplayer and €19.10 on Cardmarket. At that price a $25 submission fee is most of the card's value, which is exactly why nobody has sent one in. Grading populations for a new set typically start appearing two to three months after release; expect the first BT31 numbers late in 2026.

Where this data comes from

Cardlogs aggregates prices nightly from TCGplayer, Cardmarket and eBay sold listings (via PriceCharting) across 14,053 tracked Dragon Ball cards, plus PSA, BGS, CGC and SGC population data and per-grade graded prices for every card where a grader has recorded one. Population figures in this article are from the August 25, 2026 snapshot; prices and sold listings are from August 26, 2026.

One methodological note, because it changes the totals. A single card number can exist in our catalog as several printings — a base foil, an alternate art and a super alternate art often share one population record. Summing every row would count the same slabs two or three times. Every population figure in this report is deduplicated to one row per card number, set and language: 1,788 rows collapse to 1,505 distinct printings, and the PSA total falls from 164,579 to 138,649. Our earlier population reports for Riftbound and One Piece used the per-row sum, so their headline numbers read higher than the same games do in the table above. This report's method is the stricter one.

We publish population data, not grading advice, and we do not sell slabs.

Track Dragon Ball graded prices live

Every card in this article has a live page on Cardlogs with its full PSA and BGS population ladder, per-grade prices and eBay sold history — free, on web, iOS and Android. If you want the raw-market side instead, the Fusion World price tracker and most expensive Fusion World cards cover it.