ADC's quest for 079 PCG-P in a PSA 10

ADC’s quest for 079 PCG-P in a PSA 10:

image

Hey guys, I am genuinley going insane trying to find this card in a PSA 10, I have exhausted all avenues and I am going CRAZY! This card is a grail card for me because it is my favourite Lucario art of all time and I have been hunting it for numerous years now. When I first set out on my journey for to collect all Lucarios in a PSA 10, this was one of the first cards I began to search for and I have had constant alerts setup on multiple sites, yet after many years I have had no luck… Did I mention there are only three PSA 10s…

image

I have the entire movie set of Aura’s Lucario in a PSA 10 apart from the 079/PCG-P!!! I am so close!!!

To this date I have spent a silly amount of money buying raw product to open and I now have a graveyard of the deckboxes this card came in. I also have a graveyard of PSA 9s that never seem to PSA 10. So why is this card unobtainable in a 10, simply because the packaging on this card was attrocious and comparable to a typical English release, it was lazily slapped without any stabilisation into a loose celophane package which would have the card wildly slide around and get damaged. Worse yet nearly every version of this card seems to be off centred and I have spent many hours using edge grading and coping about cards that were off-centred.

image

A sealed and graded copy of Aura’s Lucario 079/PCG-P.

These are the only two copies of this card I have ever been able to track down in a PSA 10. The first one sold on eBay back in 2019, as far as I know. The second belongs to my friend Justin, who somehow owns one in a 10. That basically means there are only two known copies out there, and I have no idea where the owners of one of them is.

image

To make things worse, there do not seem to be any sealed copies of this card left on the market either, so I cannot even pretend to justify my degenerate gambling tendencies anymore.

I am offering $1500 for this card in a PSA 10, or a smaller cash reward (TBC) for a raw copy that genuinely looks mint. I am completely out of ideas at this point, so if anyone has any leads, or knows someone I could talk to privately, I would be eternally grateful.

14 Likes

Been following your quest for more than a year now, I really hope you are able to get your 079 PCG-P grail or someone finds a mint copy for you to grade!

5 Likes

Oh one other thought - have you tried having anyone look around card shops in Japan for minty copies? I know you’ve looked at stuff on Mercari Japan, but maybe there are some clean copies there as well

Sadly I don’t have anyone who is able to help me with that :frowning: