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8 other Darkness Energy printings exist — is this your card? Crown Zenith 158/159 ↓
Darkness Energy — Crown Zenith #158

Rare UltraCrown Zenith158/1592023

Darkness Energy 158/159 · Crown Zenith price & value

Raw · near mint

$7.59

Updated

GradedFull ladder ↓

  • PSA 10$374.9×
  • CGC 10$131.7×
  • PSA 9$111.4×
Sales recorded
36
every grade, since 2025
Last 90 days
22 raw · 23 all
12 in the last 30, every grade
Confidence
High
22 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
5d ago
raw
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Sold prices, not asking. Near Mint estimate from 22 completed sales of this exact card, each adjusted for the condition it sold in. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

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The headline above is Near Mint. Most copies that actually change hands are not — pick the holder and condition you actually have. How the grades are judged → How we price played copies →

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And here is what an ungraded copy has actually done. The line ends on the Near Mint price above — the same number, not a second one.

Raw · latest

$8▲ 138%over 4 years

2023-02-01 → 2026-09-22

$2
$4
$6
$8
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Our recorded ungraded price for this card. The line closes on the Near Mint figure shown above — the chart and the headline are the same number by construction, never two.

Copies for sale right now

Asking prices, not sales — the headline above is what copies actually sold for. Stock as of 2026-09-21T08:52:29.209Z.

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What the sales actually show

The counts are in the hero; this is how the card trades — the range, the pace, where, and what each grade has actually fetched. Figures that name a grade cover that grade alone; the rest count every grade.

Range

$3 – $11

Raw — lowest to highest sale

Sales rate

4.3/mo

every grade, whole record

Momentum

0%

Raw — 30d vs 90d median

Where it sells

100% eBay

Raw — last 90 days

Demand

70/100

Very liquid — sales rate, trend & buzz

What each grade sold for

  • Raw$722 sales · 22 in 90d, sells regularly
  • PSA 10$249 sales
  • PSA 9$132 sales
  • CGC 10$122 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
  • PSA 8$101 sale

Medians of completed sales at that grade — not the ladder above, which prices every grade including the ones that have never traded here. Where the two differ, this one is what changed hands and the ladder is what it is worth.

Every sale we can show you

Completed sales from our own sold ledger, PSA’s certified-sale feed and the eBay comps, in one list, newest first — Fanatics, Goldin and eBay between them. Filter by grade: a raw copy and a graded slab are different objects, and averaging them is how a raw market comes to look wild. We hold 36 sales for this card going back to 2025; the ledger names its most recent eight per grade, which is what the table below can link to.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
Darkness Energy 158/159 Ultra Rare Crown Zenith Pokemon Holo Near MintRaweBay2026-09-17—$8.79
Darkness Energy 158/159 Ultra Rare Crown Zenith Pokemon Holo TCG CardRaweBay2026-09-14—$7.20
Darkness Energy 158/159 Ultra Rare Crown Zenith Pokemon Holo Near MintRaweBay2026-09-09—$7.25
Darkness Energy 158/159 Ultra Rare Crown Zenith Pokemon Holo NM/MRaweBay2026-09-08—$10.82
Pokemon Darkness Energy 158/159 Crown Zenith Textured Holo Ultra Rare NMRaweBay2026-09-06—$5.49
Darkness Energy 158/159 Ultra Rare Crown Zenith Pokemon Holo Lightly PlayedRaweBay2026-09-02—$7.99
Darkness Energy 158/159 Ultra Rare Crown Zenith Pokemon Holo Near MintRaweBay2026-09-02—$7.33
2023 Pokemon Sword & Shield Crown Zenith Full Art Darkness Energy #158 CGC 10 GECGC 10Fanatics2026-08-31—$9.00

1–8 of 28 sales · 11 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

Every grade, priced

Each row is a blended value for that slab, from real completed sales where we have them.

  • PSA 10pop 63✓ 11 cert-verified$374.9× raw
  • CGC 10pop 172 sold$131.7× raw
  • PSA 9pop 38✓ 4 cert-verified$111.4× raw
  • Ungraded$8

A badge says what is behind the number. cert-verified means PSA sales each tied to a specific slab you can check by serial; sold means completed eBay or Fanatics listings; modelled means no verified graded sale exists and the figure is derived from the raw price and reference guides — a ceiling to check, not a price to quote. reviewed was set by hand after reading the sales record.

How many exist, and at what grade

PSA's cumulative census for this card — the same population behind the ladder above and the grading verdict below.

PSA 10 · gem mint

61.2%

63 of 103

PSA 9

36.9%

38 of 103

Total PSA graded

103

every grade, all time

  • PSA 103 graded
  • CGC 38 graded

The census is cumulative and counts resubmissions, so it skews toward nicer copies and overstates the gem rate a first submission should expect. Treat it as the ceiling.

The odds of pulling one

Darkness Energy is a Ultra Rare in Crown Zenith— the pack’s hit slot lands on ultra rare 10% of the time, split across 13 of them in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 131 packs.

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Is Darkness Energy worth grading?

Every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it — not the PSA 10 outcome alone.

Verdict

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-51

after fees, all grades

Best case

$-41

PSA 10 only

Grading cost

$70

tier fee + shipping

Best case is the PSA 10 outcome and the number to trust least — it assumes the gem rate the census above shows, which the census itself overstates. Expected net is the honest one.

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Trader

Compare graders, and the live market

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.

Trader plan and above →
  • 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 14 graded sales and a population of 5,110,886 · fees as of 2026-09-21.

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More Darkness Energy and more from Crown Zenith

Prices are raw near mint; PSA 10 shown where we have one.

Make sure you have the right card

Every price on this page is for Crown Zenith #158/159, 2023. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.

Holofoilpriced on this page
The illustration window

The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.

Not this card?

The same name and number exists in other sets. The number printed on your card is what separates them — this page prices 158/159.

#158/165 Expedition Base Set · 2002

Market data

Where else this card trades, where the markets disagree, and what the price series says about the last 90 days.

Across the markets

14% apart
  • TCGplayer$6
  • Our raw sold median$7

Vendor prices for the same printing beside our own raw sold median — the same figure as the Raw row in the by-grade table. A wide gap is usually thin data on one side rather than an arbitrage; the headline is blended from sales, not from the cheapest of these.

What the series says

Volatility

volatile

90-day band

$2 – $8

Today’s price sits 96% of the way up that band. These are readings of the raw price series above — not separate measurements, and not a forecast.

About Darkness Energy

Which card this is — then the attacks and stats as printed, and the species behind them.

Darkness Energy is a Rare Ultra Pokémon card from Crown Zenith (#158, released 2023). It’s a Basic Energy card. It’s listed among our full-art cards.

#10 most valuable Darkness energy of 33#10 most valuable in Crown Zenith of 160
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Frequently asked questions

How much is Darkness Energy (Crown Zenith #158) worth?

As of 22 September 2026, Darkness Energy from Crown Zenith is worth approximately $8 ungraded in near-mint condition, and around $37 in PSA 10 gem mint. Blended from real completed sales and live market prices, updated daily.

What is the PSA 10 price for Darkness Energy?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Darkness Energy from Crown Zenith is worth around $37 — roughly 5× the raw ungraded value of $8.

Should I grade my Darkness Energy?

Probably not. Weighted across the grades this card actually earns, expected value after the $70 grading fee is about $-51 — grading it is likely to cost more than it adds.

How often does Darkness Energy sell?

CardTrack recorded 23 completed sales of Darkness Energy (Crown Zenith #158) across every grade in the last 90 days, 22 of them raw, the most recent on 2026-09-17. The headline price is a blend of those sales rather than an asking price.

Is Darkness Energy rare?

Darkness Energy is a Rare Ultra card from Crown Zenith (card #158), released in 2023.