Birds of Paradise

Birds of Paradise sits in Seventh Edition. Raw spot is $1,750 per the most recent manually verified value, last refreshed Jul 13, 2026.

I'm scoring this a 72/100 — PLAY. The math: $3,421 expected value at PSA Regular tier, less raw cost $1,750, less $25 grading fee, less $12 return shipping, less $454 eBay fee = +$1,181 net per copy. ROI works out to 67% on the raw cost basis.

PSA Regular tier turnaround runs about 65 days. Annualized for capital velocity, that's roughly +379% APR — useful framing if you're thinking about this as a capital allocation, not a one-shot trade.

Pop is growing modestly — +13% 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: high-end card. Don't buy without seeing high-resolution scans of every edge and the surface. Comp $1,750 is your ceiling — bid below it to leave room for grading risk. Auction houses (PWCC, Goldin) sell raw copies of cards in this range with provenance.

Risk to size: grading is one-way. Grading fees aren't refundable, the round-trip eats 65 days of capital, and the comp data lags real-time market shifts. For comparable plays in the same era, look at Torchic ★ and Charizard ★ δ. Numbers above pull from PSA POP Report, recent eBay sold listings, and live TCGplayer market prices.