Pokespective

Darkness Energy (Basic)

HeartGold SoulSilver · Common

Forecast: slight edge · 55%NormalVintage
Price
$55.77
Interest score
61/100 — Not trustworthy
Pricing
Very few listings

Pricier than 94% of the cards we track in this set · in the middle of its 12-month range ($46.95–$75.00)

Darkness Energy (Basic) — price history
$20.00$40.00$60.00$80.00 2024-022024-072024-122025-062025-112026-042026-09

Why it scores where it does

What's driving the score
Seller confidence: +0.500Seller confidence+0.500Listing tightness: -0.104Listing tightness-0.1041-month trend: -0.0801-month trend-0.080Unusual move: -0.076Unusual move-0.076Near its high: -0.062Near its high-0.062Price steadiness: -0.050Price steadiness-0.0502-month trend: -0.0422-month trend-0.0424-month trend: -0.0194-month trend-0.019

Its interest score of 61 out of 100 is driven most by seller confidence — sellers holding firm. 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?

Scores 61, but do not trust it

Asking prices are 5.4x what the card last sold for. At that extreme this is one or two outlier listings on a nearly empty page, not sellers holding firm - and seller confidence is the heaviest ingredient in the score. Check the real listings before believing this ranking. The score is computed the same way as for every other card, and on this one the ingredients are being fed by a listing that does not represent a real market. Treat the ranking as unreliable until the listings look normal again.

Why is it interesting?

Sellers holding firm and scattered listings

People selling this card are asking more than it has recently sold for. In this market that has been the single most reliable sign that supply is tight. Asking prices are scattered, so the quoted price is not really the price.

Is it becoming more popular?

No - losing ground

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-2.1%
Past 2 months-3.1%
Past 4 months-12.2%

Is it expensive or cheap?

$55.77 - expensive for its set

At $55.77 it is one of the priciest cards in its set - number 16 of 232 by price. Against other Common cards it sits at the 97th percentile - toward the top. It is 34% below its 12-month high. Worth knowing: in this market cards near their highs have gone on to do better than deeply discounted ones, so a big discount is not automatically a bargain.

What makes this card unusual?

An ordinary Common from a 17-year-old set

Common is a common tier - 12,381 tracked cards share it. The set is about 17 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 10% of our checks over the past year across 365 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?

Worth a look

At $55.77 raw, the roughly $22.00 fee is about 39% of the card's value, so a strong grade can pay for itself. It hinges entirely on condition - centering, edges and surface. This is a vintage set, where condition varies far more between copies and grading matters correspondingly more. This card trades infrequently, so a graded copy could take a while to sell. 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)

Slightly ahead of the market

An estimated 55% chance of beating the typical tracked card over the next 60 days, by around +7.1% on a middling outcome.

Very few listings: treat this forecast as unusable. The model's heaviest input is seller confidence, and that is the exact figure this card's listings distort.

Chance of beating market
55%
not meaningful here
Expected vs market
+7.1%
not meaningful here
Forecast confidence
49
thin data — treat loosely

$52.74 – $77.31 — 80% likely. The middle half lands between $57.40 and $68.28. Today it is $55.77.

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$55.77What copies have recently sold for
Cheapest listing$59.21The lowest price anyone is currently asking
Middle of listings$300.00The midpoint of what sellers are asking
Seller confidence+437.9%Asking prices are above recent sales — sellers are in no hurry
1-month trend vs market-2.1%Falling behind the market
2-month trend vs market-3.1%Falling behind the market
4-month trend vs market-12.2%Falling behind the market
Versus same-set, same-rarity cards-23.5%Shown for interest only — this one is not part of the score
Unusual move-0.1Within its normal range of movement
Below its 12-month high-25.6%Well off its high
Day-to-day price movement0.0212Jumpy
How often it trades10%Rarely trades — the price shown may be stale
Price checks on record365Observations in the past year
Times the price changed37How many of those were real moves
Actively tradedYesWhether there is enough activity for the trend figures to mean anything
Set age16.6 yearsVintage
Interest score62 / 100Ranks above 62% of tracked cards
TCGplayer product ID84,677For looking it up elsewhere

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