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5 other Basic Grass Energy printings exist — is this your card? Paldea Evolved 278/193 ↓
Basic Grass Energy — Paldea Evolved #278

Hyper RarePaldea Evolved278/1932023Illustrated by N/A

Basic Grass Energy 278/193 · Paldea Evolved price & value

Raw · near mint

$10.95

Updated

GradedFull ladder ↓

  • PSA 10$494.4×
  • TAG 10$423.8×
  • PSA 9$312.8×
Sales recorded
42
every grade, since 2023
Last 90 days
21 raw · 24 all
8 in the last 30, every grade
Confidence
High
21 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
1d ago
raw
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Sold prices, not asking. Near Mint estimate from 25 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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What's your copy worth?

The headline above is Near Mint. Most copies that actually change hands are not — here is the same card at every condition it is realistically held in. How the grades are judged → How we price played copies →

  • NMheadline

    Near Mint

    $10.95

    basis

  • LP

    Lightly Played

    $10.23

    −7%

  • MP

    Moderately Played

    $8.73

    −20%

  • HP

    Heavily Played

    $6.95

    −37%

  • DM

    Damaged

    $4.56

    −58%

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

$11▲ 123%over 3 years

2023-06-01 → 2026-09-20

$5
$8
$10
$13
Jun 2023202420252026Sept 20262023-06-01 · $52023-07-01 · $62023-08-01 · $62023-09-01 · $62023-10-01 · $62023-11-01 · $62023-12-01 · $52024-01-01 · $62024-02-01 · $52024-03-01 · $62024-04-01 · $62024-05-01 · $62024-06-01 · $72024-07-01 · $72024-08-01 · $62024-09-01 · $72024-10-01 · $92024-11-01 · $72024-12-01 · $72025-01-01 · $82025-02-01 · $82025-03-01 · $72025-04-01 · $72025-05-01 · $82025-06-01 · $82025-07-01 · $82025-08-01 · $92025-09-01 · $82025-10-01 · $82025-11-01 · $82025-12-01 · $72026-01-01 · $72026-02-01 · $72026-03-01 · $72026-04-01 · $102026-05-01 · $102026-07-01 · $102026-07-14 · $102026-07-22 · $102026-07-23 · $102026-07-24 · $102026-07-25 · $102026-07-26 · $102026-07-27 · $102026-07-28 · $102026-07-29 · $102026-07-30 · $102026-07-31 · $102026-08-01 · $102026-08-02 · $102026-08-03 · $102026-08-04 · $102026-08-05 · $102026-08-06 · $102026-08-07 · $102026-08-08 · $102026-08-09 · $102026-08-10 · $102026-08-11 · $102026-08-12 · $102026-08-13 · $102026-08-14 · $112026-08-15 · $102026-08-16 · $112026-08-17 · $112026-08-18 · $112026-08-19 · $102026-08-20 · $102026-08-21 · $102026-08-22 · $102026-08-23 · $102026-08-25 · $102026-08-26 · $102026-08-27 · $102026-08-29 · $102026-08-30 · $102026-08-31 · $102026-09-01 · $102026-09-02 · $102026-09-03 · $102026-09-04 · $102026-09-05 · $122026-09-06 · $122026-09-07 · $122026-09-08 · $122026-09-09 · $122026-09-10 · $122026-09-11 · $122026-09-12 · $122026-09-13 · $112026-09-14 · $112026-09-15 · $112026-09-16 · $112026-09-17 · $112026-09-18 · $112026-09-19 · $112026-09-20 · $11
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.
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Copies for sale right now

Asking prices, not sales — the headline above is what copies actually sold for. Stock as of 2026-09-11T07:38:52.890Z.

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Cheapest raw copy $8 — 32% below our near-mint estimate of $11 · 2 copies whose seller declares wear left out of that comparison

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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

$6 – $25

Raw — lowest to highest sale

Sales rate

6.3/mo

every grade, whole record

Momentum

-34%

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$1126 sales · 21 in 90d, sells regularly
  • PSA 10$4310 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
  • PSA 9$162 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
  • PSA 8$41 sale · 1 in 90d, rare
  • CGC 9$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 42 sales for this card going back to 2023; the ledger names its most recent eight per grade, which is what the table below can link to.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
2023 Pokemon SV Paldea Evolved Basic Grass Energy Hyper Rare #278/193RaweBay2026-09-19—$7.00
2023 Pokemon SV Paldea Evolved Basic Grass Energy Hyper Rare #278/193 (B)RaweBay2026-09-15—$5.65
2023 Pokémon PAL EN Paldea Evolved Basic Grass Energy 278 Hyper Rare PSA 10PSA 10eBay2026-09-14—$32.00
Basic Grass Energy 278/193 NM Paldea Evolved Hyper Rare PokemonRaweBay2026-09-13—$5.50
Pokemon - 278/193 - Basic Grass Energy - Paldea EvolvedRaweBay2026-09-11—$12.98
Basic Grass Energy 278/193 Hyper Rare Paldea Evolved Pokemon Holo Near MintRaweBay2026-09-10—$10.56
Pokemon Basic Grass Energy 278/193 Paldea Evolved Hyper Rare Holo NMRaweBay2026-09-02—$11.49
2023 Pokémon Paldea Evolved Basic Grass Energy 278/193 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayFixedPrice2026-08-21121757154$31.00

1–8 of 29 sales · 12 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 212$494.4× raw
  • TAG 10pop 3modelled$423.8× raw
  • PSA 9pop 114✓ 5 cert-verified$312.8× raw
  • CGC 10modelled$272.4× raw
  • Ungraded$11
  • CGC 9modelled$9
  • BGS 9.5modelled$9
  • SGC 9modelled$6

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

58.7%

212 of 361

PSA 9

31.6%

114 of 361

Total PSA graded

361

every grade, all time

  • PSA 361 graded
  • TAG 4 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

Basic Grass Energy is a Secret / Rainbow in Paldea Evolved— the pack’s hit slot lands on secret / rainbow 2.5% of the time, split across 24 of them in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 965 packs.

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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 2026-09-19.

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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 Paldea Evolved #278/193, 2023. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.

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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

13% apart
  • PriceCharting$10
  • TCGplayer$11
  • Our raw sold median$11

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

$5 – $12

Today’s price sits 87% of the way up that band. These are readings of the raw price series above — not separate measurements, and not a forecast.

About Basic Grass Energy

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

Basic Grass Energy is a Hyper Rare Pokémon card from Paldea Evolved (#278, released 2023), illustrated by N/A. It’s a Basic Energy card. It’s listed among our gold secret rares.

#2 most valuable Basic grass energy of 6#48 most valuable in Paldea Evolved of 279
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Frequently asked questions

How much is Basic Grass Energy (Paldea Evolved #278) worth?

As of 20 September 2026, Basic Grass Energy from Paldea Evolved is worth approximately $11 ungraded in near-mint condition, and around $49 in PSA 10 gem mint. Blended from real completed sales and live market prices, updated daily.

What is the PSA 10 price for Basic Grass Energy?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Basic Grass Energy from Paldea Evolved is worth around $49 — roughly 4× the raw ungraded value of $11.

How often does Basic Grass Energy sell?

CardTrack recorded 24 completed sales of Basic Grass Energy (Paldea Evolved #278) across every grade in the last 90 days, 21 of them raw, the most recent on 2026-09-19. The headline price is a blend of those sales rather than an asking price.

Is Basic Grass Energy rare?

Basic Grass Energy is a Hyper Rare card from Paldea Evolved (card #278), released in 2023.