You may have started building up a sizable collection of NBA 2K22 MyTEAM Player Cards. But the question many people ask is if it's worth having your cards sent to be graded. Here's everything you need to know about NBA 2K22 MyTEAM Authentic Card Grading Service.
Which cards can I have graded in NBA 2K22?
First off, not all cards can be graded. While that sounds disappointing, think about how card collections also work in real life. You only really have cards graded when you have plans to auction the cards off. It takes money to have cards graded, so grading without the intent of selling might be a waste of resources. The same applies in NBA 2K22 MyTEAM. You can only have cards that you can sell in the auction house graded. As for the exceptions to the rule, these include:
- Starter Cards
- Ascension Reward Cards
- Collector Reward Cards
- Colossal Reward Cards
- Cover Event Reward Cards
- Domination Reward Cards
- Draft Reward Cards
- Exchange Reward Cards
- Lifetime Reward Cards
- Limited Reward Cards
- Season 1 Reward Cards
- Lvl 40 Season Reward Cards
- Token Reward Cards
- Triple Threat Offline Reward Cards
- Triple Thread Online Reward Cards
- Unlimited Rewards Cards
That leaves the base set and any cards you can get from a booster pack as cards that you can send to NBA 2K22‘s MyTEAM Authentic Card Grading Service.
What's the purpose of NBA 2K22 MyTEAM Authentic Card Grading Service?
There are a few benefits to having your cards graded, but there are also a few drawbacks. Apart from getting to see your cards in pristine plastic covers, you also get to collect MT coins when you grade these cards. For every graded card in your lineup, the more MT coins you get after playing a game, with higher graded cards earning you more currency. Highly-graded cards also fetch a higher price in the market, as they are seen as rarer cards in general.
Meanwhile, there's one big drawback to having your cards graded. A card can lose value if it gets graded and only gets a 7.0 to 8.0 rating. An ungraded card can fetch a good price in the auction house, only because its card quality hasn't been determined yet, and has the potential to be a Grade 10 card, the highest possible. But if a card already has a low rating, then it's already locked into that quality, with no chance of ever getting a higher quality ever. This lowers their value in the second-hand market, albeit they function essentially the same in matches.
It also costs to send your cards to the MyTEAM Authentic Card Grading Service, you might not want to send all your cards right away. The best time to grade cards is when you can send away ten of your cards at a time. There's a huge discount when you have cards graded this way, and they get returned to you at a faster rate than when you would rate cards individually.
I just got a card with a high OVR score from a booster pack! Should I have it graded?
It's entirely up to you. The card's functionality as a player in matches is not affected by its grade. Instead, grading wholly exists to determine a card's value in the second-hand market. If you're not planning to sell the card anytime soon, then feel free not to have it graded at all. Meanwhile, if you're feeling lucky and want to gamble away an Amethyst for the potential for a higher buck, then you can also do so.
Grading a card can increase its value. Hence, some people would buy off ungraded cards from the auction market, have them graded, and sell the cards back to the auction house, hoping for a profit. This is, again, a gamble. You could lose money from this method not only if the card's grade turns out to be horrible. You can also lose out if you end up not earning enough profit thanks to the auction house's 10% commission. Before setting out, go to the auction house first and compare the prices of cards already in the market. Use those as your basis in deciding whether or not grading a card is worth the risk.
And that does it for our NBA 2K22 MyTEAM Authentic Card Grading Service guide. For more NBA 2K22 guides, check out our NBA 2K22 gaming guides tag. If you haven't yet, you can also read our NBA 2K22 PS5 Review to find out if this game really is the best in the series so far as 2K Games would claim.
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