Pokespective

Lightning Energy

Gym Heroes · Common · 1st Edition

Forecast: in line · 51%1st EditionVintage
Price
$2.08
Interest score
31/100 — Ordinary
Pricing
Rarely trades

Pricier than 24% of the cards we track in this set · in the middle of its 12-month range ($1.24–$2.63)

Lightning Energy — price history
$0.90$1.00$1.10$1.20$1.30$1.40$1.50$1.60$1.70$1.80$1.90$2.00 2024-022024-072024-122025-052025-112026-042026-09

Why it scores where it does

What's driving the score
Seller confidence: -0.424Seller confidence-0.4242-month trend: +0.1532-month trend+0.1531-month trend: +0.1121-month trend+0.112Listing tightness: -0.084Listing tightness-0.084Unusual move: +0.071Unusual move+0.071Price steadiness: -0.070Price steadiness-0.070Near its high: -0.054Near its high-0.0544-month trend: -0.0504-month trend-0.050

Its interest score of 31 out of 100 is driven most by seller confidence — sellers undercutting. 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?

Ordinary - 31 out of 100

It ranks above 31% of the cards 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?

Sellers undercutting and climbing for 2 months

People selling are asking less than the card recently sold for - holders are competing to get out. It has outpaced the market over two months, which is long enough to be a trend rather than a blip.

Is it becoming more popular?

Mostly yes

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+5.8%
Past 2 months+17.3%
Past 4 months-32.5%

Is it expensive or cheap?

$2.08 - cheap for its set

At $2.08 it is one of the cheaper cards in its set - number 201 of 264 by price. Against other Common cards it sits at the 77th percentile - toward the top. It is 26% 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 26-year-old set

Common is a common tier - 12,381 tracked cards share it. This is the 1st Edition printing, which is priced as a completely separate market from the other printings of the same artwork. The set is about 26 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 15% 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?

No

At $2.08 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)

Roughly in line with the market

An estimated 51% chance of beating the typical tracked card over the next 60 days, by around +0.5% on a middling outcome.

Chance of beating market
51%
50% would be average
Expected vs market
+0.5%
the part actually predicted
Forecast confidence
50
thin data — treat loosely

$1.83 – $2.73 — 80% likely. The middle half lands between $2.00 and $2.40. Today it is $2.08.

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$2.08What copies have recently sold for
Cheapest listing$0.45The lowest price anyone is currently asking
Middle of listings$1.66The midpoint of what sellers are asking
Seller confidence-20.2%Asking prices are below recent sales — sellers want out
1-month trend vs market+5.8%Outpacing the market
2-month trend vs market+17.3%Outpacing the market
4-month trend vs market-32.5%Falling behind the market
Versus same-set, same-rarity cards-36.3%Shown for interest only — this one is not part of the score
Unusual move+0.5Within its normal range of movement
Below its 12-month high-20.9%Well off its high
Day-to-day price movement0.0235Jumpy
How often it trades15%Rarely trades — the price shown may be stale
Price checks on record365Observations in the past year
Times the price changed56How many of those were real moves
Actively tradedYesWhether there is enough activity for the trend figures to mean anything
Set age25.9 yearsVintage
Interest score31 / 100Ranks above 31% of tracked cards
TCGplayer product ID86,757For looking it up elsewhere

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