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Darkness Energy

Generations · Common · Reverse Holofoil

Forecast: ahead · 80%Reverse HolofoilVintage
Price
$9.70
Interest score
98/100 — Standout
Pricing
Rarely trades

Pricier than 87% of the cards we track in this set · at the top of its 12-month range ($4.83–$9.73)

Darkness Energy — price history
$4.00$6.00$8.00$10.00 2024-022024-072024-122025-052025-112026-042026-09

Why it scores where it does

What's driving the score
Unusual move: +0.335Unusual move+0.3351-month trend: +0.3151-month trend+0.315Seller confidence: +0.278Seller confidence+0.2782-month trend: +0.2122-month trend+0.2124-month trend: +0.0274-month trend+0.027Listing tightness: -0.016Listing tightness-0.016Price steadiness: +0.012Price steadiness+0.012Near its high: +0.010Near its high+0.010

Its interest score of 98 out of 100 is driven most by unusual move — sudden jump. Blue bars pushed the score up, red bars pulled it down. The ingredients are weighted by how well each one has actually predicted price moves in this market, measured on your own price history rather than assumed.

What the numbers say

Is this card interesting right now?

Standout - 98 out of 100

It is in the top 5% of everything we track. The score describes the conditions around the card today - how sellers are pricing it, how it is trending, how steadily it trades. It is not a prediction, and it says nothing about whether you will enjoy owning the card.

Why is it interesting?

Sudden jump and climbing this month

The recent move is far larger than this card's normal week-to-week wobble - something happened. It has outpaced the rest of the market over the past month. Working against it: asking prices are scattered, so the quoted price is not really the price.

Is it becoming more popular?

Yes - consistently

Compared with the Pokemon market as a whole, so a rising tide does not count as popularity. In this market these trends have tended to keep going rather than reverse.

Past month+28.4%
Past 2 months+29.9%
Past 4 months+27.0%

Is it expensive or cheap?

$9.70 - expensive for its set

At $9.70 it is expensive for its set - number 21 of 153 by price. Against other Common cards it sits at the 89th percentile - toward the top. It is at or near its highest price of the past year.

What makes this card unusual?

An ordinary Common from a 11-year-old set

Common is a common tier - 12,381 tracked cards share it. This is the Reverse Holofoil printing, which is priced as a completely separate market from the other printings of the same artwork. The set is about 11 years old, so surviving copies in good condition get scarcer over time.

Could you actually buy or sell it?

Slowly - it rarely trades

The price changed in 16% of our checks over the past year across 364 observations. TCGplayer's market price only updates when a copy sells, so a low figure means the price shown may be stale and any trend reading is built on very few real sales.

Is grading worth considering?

No

At $9.70 raw, grading costs roughly $22.00 - more than the card itself. Only worth it for sentimental reasons. This is a vintage set, where condition varies far more between copies and grading matters correspondingly more. This is a rule of thumb from the card's raw price, age and price stability. We track raw ungraded prices only - no graded sales and no population data - so this cannot tell you what a PSA 10 of this card is worth. Check a graded price guide before spending money.

What happens next (60 days)

Expected to outpace the market

An estimated 80% chance of beating the typical tracked card over the next 60 days, by around +15.3% on a middling outcome.

Chance of beating market
80%
50% would be average
Expected vs market
+15.3%
the part actually predicted
Forecast confidence
66
higher = tighter, better-grounded

$10.15 – $14.22 — 80% likely. The middle half lands between $10.87 and $12.67. Today it is $9.70.

Assumes the market as a whole drifts +4.0% over 60 days, its recent average. That part is an assumption carried forward, not a prediction — the 'vs market' figure above does not depend on it.

Prices here are TCGplayer's market price, which is an average of recent sales and lags a real move by a few weeks. Part of any short-term forecast is that lag catching up — visible in the chart, but not something you can buy at.

Every number behind this page

Market price$9.70What copies have recently sold for
Cheapest listing$8.75The lowest price anyone is currently asking
Middle of listings$16.17The midpoint of what sellers are asking
Seller confidence+66.7%Asking prices are above recent sales — sellers are in no hurry
1-month trend vs market+28.4%Outpacing the market
2-month trend vs market+29.9%Outpacing the market
4-month trend vs market+27.0%Outpacing the market
Versus same-set, same-rarity cards+13.2%Shown for interest only — this one is not part of the score
Unusual move+3.2Within its normal range of movement
Below its 12-month high-0.3%At or near its high
Day-to-day price movement0.0151Calm and steady
How often it trades16%Rarely trades — the price shown may be stale
Price checks on record364Observations in the past year
Times the price changed59How many of those were real moves
Actively tradedYesWhether there is enough activity for the trend figures to mean anything
Set age10.6 yearsVintage
Interest score99 / 100Ranks above 99% of tracked cards
TCGplayer product ID113,739For looking it up elsewhere

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