Lightning Energy — Guardians Rising #168, PSA 10

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Lightning Energy 168/145 · Guardians Rising PSA 10 price

PSA 10 · gem mint slab

$34

Fair buy $34 · sell $37 (±10%)1.5× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$22
PSA 9$341.5×
PSA 10this page$341.5×

PSA 10 sales: 6; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 0; rare
Confidence: Low; Only 0 sales in the last 90 days.
Latest sale: 220d ago; one every ~51d

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Our published graded price for this card, checked against every cert-verified sale below. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

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PSA 10 slabs for sale right now

Live asks for a PSA 10 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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Cheapest ask $105 — 210% above our PSA 10 estimate of $34

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Why $34? Cert-verified PSA 10 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
2026-02-28	eBay · auction	listing #142283198	$34
2026-02-11	eBay · bestoffer	listing #28533771	$60
2025-12-22	eBay · fixedprice	listing #55522479	$70
2025-11-28	eBay · bestoffer	listing #101705964	$108
2025-09-03	eBay · auction	listing #59574513	$55
2025-06-12	eBay · auction	listing #51630332	$51

3 of 6 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 1 fixed-price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 51 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 10 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 10 sales — 15 sales across 12 months, Feb 2023 to Feb 2026.

PSA 10 · index · latest

$34▼ 51%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

The recorded PSA 10 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 $47 (Feb 2026, 2 sales) · ▼ 6% since Feb 2023

Every PSA 10 sale we can show you

Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. We hold 6 PSA 10 sales with a median of $62; 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 Pokémon Guardians Rising Lightning Energy 168/145 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayAuction	2026-02-28	142283198	$34.00
Lightning Energy - 168/145 - Pokemon Guardians Rising Secret Rare Card PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-02-27	—	$34.00
PSA 10 GEM MINT 2017 Pokemon Guardians Rising Secret Rare Lightning Energy #168	PSA 10	eBay	2026-02-11	—	$99.00
2017 Pokémon Guardians Rising Lightning Energy 168/145 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayBestOffer	2026-02-11	28533771	$60.00
2017 Pokémon Guardians Rising Lightning Energy 168/145 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayFixedPrice	2025-12-22	55522479	$69.98
PSA 10 GEM MINT 2017 Pokemon Guardians Rising Secret Rare Lightning Energy #168	PSA 10	eBay	2025-12-21	—	$69.98
2017 Pokémon Guardians Rising Lightning Energy 168/145 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayBestOffer	2025-11-28	101705964	$108
2017 Pokémon Guardians Rising Lightning Energy 168/145 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayAuction	2025-09-03	59574513	$55.03
2017 Pokemon Sun and Moon Guardians Rising Lightning Energy #168 PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2025-09-02	—	$55.00
2017 Pokemon Sun and Moon Guardians Rising Lightning Energy #168 PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2025-06-12	—	$50.00
2017 Pokémon Guardians Rising Lightning Energy 168/145 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayAuction	2025-06-12	51630332	$50.76

1–8 of 11 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 10 median ($62) 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 10 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 10 population

132

45.7% of 289 graded

Share of every submission

45.7%

the census gem rate — a ceiling

Total PSA graded

289

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 10: CGC 6 of 47. A CGC or BGS 10 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Lightning Energy worth grading?

Every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it — the PSA 10 outcome is one leg, not the whole answer.

Verdict

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-72

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 10

4540%

of submissions, by the census

Best case

$-69

PSA 10 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$80

tier fee + shipping

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 10 graded sales and a population of 4,409,850 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Lightning Energy (Guardians Rising #168) — PSA 10 market value USD $34, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/guardians-rising/lightning-energy-168/psa-10

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 10 Lightning Energy (Guardians Rising #168) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 10 gem mint Lightning Energy from Guardians Rising is worth approximately $34, with a fair range of $34 to $37 — about 1.5× the $22 raw near-mint price.

Where does the PSA 10 price come from?

From 6 cert-verified PSA 10 sales, each tied by PSA to a specific slab with a public cert number — 3 at auction, 2 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 51 days.

How many PSA 10 Lightning Energy exist?

PSA has graded 132 copies of Lightning Energy (Guardians Rising #168) a 10, out of 289 submitted — 45.7% of the population. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Lightning Energy hoping for a PSA 10?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $80 grading fee is about $-72; this card comes back a PSA 10 about 4540% of the time.

Is a PSA 10 Lightning Energy a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 10 Lightning Energy has 6 recorded sales, and the slab-history table above shows what happened to copies that sold twice. Read those before you read anyone's forecast.