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Check your printing9 different Darkness Energy printings exist — is this your card? Emerald #86
Darkness Energy Emerald #86 Pokémon card
Rare

Darkness Energy

Emerald · 86/106 · Illustrated by Milky Isobe
EnergySpecial

Market value · ungraded · Normal

$1.73 5.5% · 30d
Confidencehigh
Range$1$3
Sold prices, not asking. TCGplayer + Cardmarket. Updated 20 August 2026. Estimate, not an appraisalhow we price →

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Estimated value · Near Mint
$1.73

What this price is based on

Low confidence

Only 0 sales in the last 90 days.

Median · CGC 9$43.002 sales
Trimmed meanoutliers removed
Range$30.00$56.00lowest to highest sale
Sales rate0.5/mo3 recorded

Recent CGC 9 sales

By grade

  • CGC 9$43.002 sales
  • CGC 9.5$51.601 sale

From 3 completed sales recorded between May 4, 2026 and Jun 22, 2026. Sold prices only — asking prices are never counted.

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Darkness Energy is a Rare Pokémon card from Emerald (#86), illustrated by Milky Isobe. It's a Special Energy card. Its current blended market value is $1.73 ungraded. Prices are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.

Prices last updated 20 August 2026.

35.8%
Played in 35.8% of competitive decks — 1,137 of 3,174 decklists across the last 41 Standard tournaments.

The receipts

Price history · Raw

1 Sept 202320 Aug 2026
Latest
$1.73
Period high
$9.00
Period low
$1.00
Change
5.5%
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Recent sold prices

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Should you grade it?

$43

Raw $1.73 → graded PSA 9$29.00, after ~$70.28 grading fee → 16.8× the raw value.

The odds

Darkness Energy is a Rare in Emerald — the pack's hit slot lands on Rare 67% of the time, split across 14 rare cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 21 packs.

Rare67%14 cards
PSA 10 (gem mint)28.6%2 of 7
PSA 971.4%5 of 7
PSA graded so far7
Gem Mint 102
Total graded7

Estimates only. Pack odds come from CardTrack's pack model (the same one behind the pack simulator) — not an official rate. Grading odds are the real cumulative PSA population, which skews toward nicer, resubmitted copies, so it overstates the true first-submission gem rate. Full grade-by-grade breakdown below.

Grade-by-grade ROI & risk-adjusted outcomesNet vs raw per target grade, plus the probability-weighted distribution
Target gradeEst. valueGrading feeNet vs rawMultiple
PSA 9$29.00$70$4316.8×
PSA 8$26.02$70$4615.0×

Net = graded value − raw value − grading cost (tier fee + ~$20 round-trip shipping), using PSA fees as of 2026-06-28; the paused PSA Value tier is excluded so this isn't overstated. Real outcome depends on the grade achieved; PSA 10 is best-case.

Population across gradersPSA, CGC & BGS — every grade, with gem rates

Only 29% of 7 PSA-graded Darkness Energy copies are a gem-mint 10 (2 of 7) — the rest grade lower.

PSA7 gradedPSA 10 · 2 · 29% gem
102
95
CGC74 gradedCGC 10 · 22 · 30% gem
1022
9.58
920
8.516
82

Real graded population from PSA, CGC & BGS — a lower gem rate means a Darkness Energy 10 is harder to pull.

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All grades & conditions

Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
Graded prices
Ungraded (raw)$1.73
PSA graded price estimates by grade
GradeRelative valuePrice
PSA 9pop 5$29$25$33
PSA 8$26$22$30
“Sold” = median of real recent sold listings at that grade (eBay or Fanatics Collect — hover a badge to see which). Other figures are blended marketplace estimates. Confidence reflects source backing and price spread — not PSA-official values.
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
Raw price by condition
Reverse Holofoil · live market via TCGplayer
NMNear Mint$1.73
LPLightly Played$1.00
MPModerately Played$0.32
7-dayflat
30-day 15.7%
90-day 46.3%
All-time high$2
All-time low$1
Other printingsNormal · $1.60
What NM / LP / MP actually mean — and how much they cost
Price by printingBase vs reverse holo vs 1st edition — priced separately

Price by variant

Reverse Holo$35
Normal$2

TCGplayer market price per printing — reverse holo, 1st edition and unlimited often differ sharply.

Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz

Cross-market prices

53% spread
TCGplayer · cheapest$2
PriceCharting · dearest$3

Currently 53% cheaper on TCGplayer than PriceCharting. These are independent market prices for the same card — a wide gap can mean a buying opportunity. Informational only, not arbitrage advice.

Market signal

Momentum · 30dRising +6%
Cross-marketMarkets disagree 53% gap

Derived from this card's 90-day price history, recent trend and cross-market price gap. Informational, not advice.

🇪🇺 Cardmarket price · Europe

62% cheaper than the US
Cardmarket · Europe's largest card market$1
Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat

If the Pokémon Darkness Energy is attached to attacks, the attack does 10 more damage to the Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). Ignore this effect unless the Attacking Pokémon is Darkness or has Dark in its name. Darkness Energy provides Darkness Energy. (Doesn't count as a Basic card.)

Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Number#86
RarityRare
SupertypeEnergy
SubtypesSpecial
Card IDex9-86
SourceAggregated marketplaces

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Frequently asked questions

How much is Darkness Energy (Emerald #86) worth?

As of 20 August 2026, Darkness Energy from Emerald is worth approximately $1.73 ungraded (near-mint). Values are blended from real Cardmarket, eBay sold and TCGplayer prices and update daily.

Is Darkness Energy rare?

Darkness Energy is a Rare card from Emerald (card #86), illustrated by Milky Isobe. Its current blended market value is $1.73 ungraded.

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