Darkness Energy — Burning Shadows #168, PSA 9

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Darkness Energy 168/147 · Burning Shadows PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$35

Fair buy $35 · sell $49Updated today

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

Raw NM$53
PSA 9this page$35
PSA 10$3506.6×

PSA 9 sales: 5; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 0; rare
Confidence: Low; Only 0 sales in the last 90 days.
Latest sale: 115d ago; one every ~50d

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PSA 9 slabs for sale right now

Live asks for a PSA 9 of this exact card · stock as of today. A raw copy or a reverse holo is a different product and is not in this list.

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PSA 9 · buy now

Cheapest ask $150 — 329% above our PSA 9 estimate of $35

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Why $35? Cert-verified PSA 9 sales

Each sale is tied by PSA to a specific graded slab — click the cert to check the exact card, grade and serial on psacard.com. Outliers against the grade’s own median are dropped; qualified slabs are listed separately beneath.

Date	Sold via	Cert	Price
2026-06-12	eBay · bestoffer	listing #58380694	$35
2026-05-22	eBay · auction	listing #57342948	$43
2026-02-25	eBay · bestoffer	listing #76633533	$70
2026-01-06	eBay · auction	listing #55162098	$29
2025-12-23	eBay · bestoffer	listing #55293488 sold before	$52
2025-10-17	eBay · auction	listing #57495280	$23

3 of 6 were competitive auctions; 3 best offers and 0 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 50 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 35 sales across 29 months, Mar 2018 to Jun 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$35▼ 23%over 75 days

2026-07-22 → 2026-10-05

The recorded PSA 9 price index, closing on the figure above. The line is the running level, so a single unusually cheap or dear sale does not spike it. Hover any day for its price on the line.

Latest $35 (Jun 2026, 1 sale) · ▲ 6% since Mar 2018

Slab history — PSA 9 copies that have sold more than once

5 slabs have sold more than once, across 5 resales — typically 269 days apart, with a median gross price change of +52.7%. That is 5 of the 30 distinct slabs behind 35 cert-linked sales at this grade — 16.7%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#55293488	Sept 2022 $20→Dec 2025 $52	Over a year	+164.6%
#28632489	Jun 2020 $60→Sept 2025 $43	Over a year	-28.2%
#27776656	Sept 2020 $50→Jan 2021 $80	3–6 months	+59.7%
#44795903	Mar 2020 $36→Aug 2020 $55	3–6 months	+52.7%
#28632493	Apr 2018 $50→Jan 2019 $51	6–12 months	+2.2%

A cert reappearing shows the same physical slab sold again — it identifies no buyer or seller. Gross change is price to price; fees, shipping and the grading cost are not in it.

Every PSA 9 sale we can show you

Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. We hold 5 PSA 9 sales with a median of $43; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2017 Pokemon Sun & Moon Darkness Energy 168/147 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-06-12	—	$40.00
2017 Pokémon Burning Shadows Darkness Energy 168/147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-06-12	58380694	$35.00
2017 Pokémon Burning Shadows Darkness Energy 168/147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-05-22	57342948	$43.00
2017 Pokémon Burning Shadows Darkness Energy 168/147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-02-25	76633533	$70.00
2017 Pokémon Burning Shadows Darkness Energy 168/147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-01-06	55162098	$28.50
2017 Pokemon Sun & Moon Burning Shadows Darkness Energy #168/147 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-01-05	—	$28.50
2017 Pokémon Burning Shadows Darkness Energy 168/147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2025-12-23	55293488	$51.60
2017 Pokémon Darkness Energy 168/147 Burning Shadows Gold Secret Rare PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2025-12-22	—	$74.78
2017 Pokémon Burning Shadows Darkness Energy 168/147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2025-10-17	57495280	$22.79

1–8 of 9 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($43) sits above the published price above. The median is every recorded sale weighted equally; the price is the cert-verified market with outliers and qualified slabs removed, and is what the latest sales support.

How many PSA 9 copies exist

PSA’s cumulative census for this card. It counts resubmissions, so it skews toward nicer copies and overstates the rate a fresh submission should expect.

PSA 9 population

150

45.6% of 329 graded

Graded higher

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

329

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 20 of 86. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Darkness Energy worth grading?

Every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it — the PSA 9 outcome is one leg, not the whole answer.

Verdict

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-38

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

4580%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-99

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$81

tier fee + shipping

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The verdict above is PSA's — the grader the population, the ROI table and the ladder on this page all use. Trader prices all three graders against each other and adds what the asking market is doing right now.

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PSA, CGC and Beckett side by side — each on its own population and fees, Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market pays for.
Lightly and moderately played — the same expected return for a copy that cannot gem.
Ask vs sold — what the live listings want, against what copies have really closed at.
Momentum — the 30-day median against the 90-day, per grade.
Where it sells higher — the Fanatics-versus-eBay premium, with the sale counts behind it.
Population history — the weekly PSA census, so you can see how fast 10s are arriving before you post the card.

Built on 15 graded sales and a population of 4,409,884 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Darkness Energy (Burning Shadows #168) — PSA 9 market value USD $35, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/burning-shadows/darkness-energy-168/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Darkness Energy (Burning Shadows #168) worth?

As of 5 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Darkness Energy from Burning Shadows is worth approximately $35, with a fair range of $35 to $49 — about 0.7× the $53 raw near-mint price.

Where does the PSA 9 price come from?

From 6 cert-verified PSA 9 sales, each tied by PSA to a specific slab with a public cert number — 3 at auction, 3 by best offer and 0 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 50 days.

How many PSA 9 Darkness Energy exist?

PSA has graded 150 copies of Darkness Energy (Burning Shadows #168) a 9, out of 329 submitted — 45.6% of the population, with 65 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Darkness Energy hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $81 grading fee is about $-38; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 4580% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Darkness Energy a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Darkness Energy has 5 recorded sales, and the slab-history table above shows what happened to copies that sold twice. Read those before you read anyone's forecast.