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Check your printing30 different Electrike printings exist — is this your card? Ruby & Sapphire #53
Electrike Ruby & Sapphire #53 Pokémon card
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Common

Electrike53/109 · Ruby & Sapphire Price & Value

2003 · Illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita
50 HPLightningPokémonBasic

Market value · Near Mint · Normal

$0.66
  • PSA 9$201 sold · 90d · modelled · pop 10
  • PSA 10$701 sold · 90d · modelled · pop 13
LiquiditySells often
Confidence72 · medium23 raw sales in 90 days, prices spread across conditions, last sale 6 days ago.
Sales · 90 days26
Range$1$1
Bulk card. At this price most of what a buyer pays is postage, so treat it as a rough band rather than a valuation. eBay + TCGplayer. Updated 10 September 2026. Estimate, not an appraisalhow we price →

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Every price on this page is for Ruby & Sapphire #53/109, 2003. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.

Reverse Holo
The card body, not the picture

Everything except the illustration window is foiled — the mirror image of a normal holo, where only the picture shines.

Normalpriced on this page
The whole card

No foil anywhere — the non-holo printing.

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Electrike is a Common Pokémon card from Ruby & Sapphire (#53, released 2003), illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita. It's a Basic Lightning-type Pokémon with 50 HP, weak to Fighting ×2. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.

Prices last updated 10 September 2026.

0.4%
Played in 0.4% of competitive decks — 15 of 4,166 decklists across the last 42 Standard tournaments.

Electrike price history & recent sales

Price history · Raw

1 Oct 202310 Sept 2026
Latest
$0.66
Period high
$1.75
Period low
$0.63
Change
44.5% · 3Y
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Verified sales history

Medium confidence

23 sales in 90 days, but prices vary widely. · Very liquidSells often

Range$0.99$8.49Rawlowest to highest sale
Sales8 / 26last 30d / 90d, every grade
Sales rate6.3/mo38 recorded, every grade
Latest sale6d agoRaw23 in 90 days
Momentum-15%Raw30d vs 90d median
Where it sells100% eBayRawlast 90 days
Demand70/100sales rate, trend & buzz
Reverse Holo$9.221 sale, priced separately
Last sold
$1
Raw · 4 Sep 2026
Typical Raw
$2
Sales · last 90 days
26
How often it sells
Sells often
every 5 days · 8 in last 30 days
Worn-condition sales — shown for context, not price-forming
These listings claimed play wear in the title (LP/MP/played/damaged), so they sell below the Near Mint price above and are excluded from it.

Real completed eBay sales, refreshed periodically. Grade read from the listing title. Implausibly priced listings (lots, proxies, empty slabs) and wrong-variant sales are filtered out. Links to eBay are affiliate links — we may earn a commission.

Recent Raw sales

From 38 completed sales recorded between Mar 8, 2026 and Sep 4, 2026. Sold prices only — asking prices are never counted. The median above is computed over the 30 sales of the printing this page lists; reverse holo copies are real sales of a different card and are shown separately rather than mixed in. The range is wide because these sales span different printings and conditions — 1st Edition, Shadowless and Unlimited copies all carry this card's name, and they trade at very different levels. Each sale above is labelled with what its listing claimed, so you can see which ones describe the same object. Treat the median as the typical copy, not the range.

By grade

  • Raw$1.9531 sales · 23 in 90d, sells regularly
  • CGC 10$24.003 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
  • PSA 10$75.842 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
  • PSA 9$20.001 sale · 1 in 90d, rare
  • ACE 10$76.781 sale

Is Electrike worth grading?

Not worth grading

Most copies come back PSA 9worth $20 against the $71 you put in, a $51 loss. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $20$70. Averaged over every outcome that is $32 a card.

You put in$71card + fees
Most likelyPSA 9$20 ($51)
Best case1 in 2PSA 10 · $70
Average per card$32across every grade

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Compare graders, and the live market

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

  • PSA, CGC and Beckett side by side — each on its own population and its own fees, with Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market actually 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.
Trader plan and above

The odds

Electrike is a Commoncard — a guaranteed slot in every pack, not a rarity gamble, so there's no pull-odds figure for it.

PSA 10 (gem mint)46.4%13 of 28
PSA 935.7%10 of 28
PSA graded so far28
Gem Mint 1013
Total graded28

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 10$69.99$71$1106.0×
PSA 9$20.00$70$5130.3×

⚖️ Risk-adjusted return

Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 25 PSA-graded copies:

OutcomeChanceValue
PSA 1044%$69.99
PSA 9typical36%$20.00
PSA 88%$12.69 †
PSA 612%$0.66

Priced from PriceCharting's graded ladder — we hold no completed sale of our own at that grade. Every other row is our own sold data.

Net = graded value − raw value − grading cost (tier fee + ~$20 round-trip shipping), using PSA fees as of 2026-08-26; the paused PSA Value tier is excluded so this isn't overstated. Gem rate is estimated from cumulative PSA population, which skews toward nicer, resubmitted copies — so it overstates the true grade rate. Treat it as a guide, not a guarantee.

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

13 of the 28 PSA-graded Electrike copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 46%. The rest graded lower.

PSA28 gradedPSA 10 · 13 · 46% gem

Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 28.

101346%
91036%
827.1%
6311%
CGC90 gradedCGC 10 · 48 · 53% gem

Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 90.

104853%
9.522.2%
92123%
8.544.4%
866.7%
7.533.3%
711.1%
6.533.3%
5.511.1%
TAG2 gradedTAG 10 · 0 · 0% gem

Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 2.

9150%
7150%

Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Electrike 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)$0.66
PSA graded price estimates by grade
GradeRelative valuePrice
PSA 10pop 13modelled$70$70$70
PSA 9pop 10modelled$20$20$20
“Sold” = median of real recent sold listings at that grade (eBay or Fanatics Collect — hover a badge to see which). “Modelled” = no verified graded sale behind the figure; it is derived from the raw price and reference guides, so treat it as a ceiling to check, not a price to quote. 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 · NM = our estimate, lower conditions use TCGplayer condition ratios · how we price played copies
NMNear Mint$0.66
LPLightly Played$0.38real sales: $2 n11
MPModerately Played$0.17
DMGDamaged$0.12
7-dayflat
30-dayflat
90-day 38.5%
All-time high$1
All-time low$0
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$10
Normal$1

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

50% spread
TCGplayer · cheapest$1
PriceCharting · dearest$1

Currently 50% 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

Cross-marketMarkets disagree 50% gap

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

Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Super Thunder Wave
Colorless

Flip a coin. If heads, each Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.

Tackle20
Colorless · Colorless
Weakness Fighting ×2Resistance Metal -30Retreat 1
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Lightning PokémonGEN IIIElectrikeManectric

ELECTRIKE stores electricity in its long body hair. This POKéMON stimulates its leg muscles with electric charges. These jolts of power give its legs explosive acceleration performance.

Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Number#53
RarityCommon
Released2003
SupertypePokémon
SubtypesBasic
TypeLightning
HP50
WeaknessFighting ×2
ResistanceMetal -30
Retreat cost1
National Pokédex#309
Card IDex1-53
SourceAggregated marketplaces

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Frequently asked questions

How much is Electrike (Ruby & Sapphire #53) worth?

As of 10 September 2026, Electrike from Ruby & Sapphire is worth approximately $0.66 ungraded (near-mint), and around $70 in PSA 10 gem mint. Values are blended from real Cardmarket, eBay sold and TCGplayer prices and update daily.

What is the PSA 10 price for Electrike?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Electrike from Ruby & Sapphire is worth around $70 — roughly 106× the raw ungraded value of $0.66.

Should I grade my Electrike?

Grading is worth it when the PSA 10 premium comfortably beats the grading fee and the card is clean enough to have a real shot at a 10 — the "Should you grade it?" estimate above works that out per grade, net of the current fee.

Is Electrike rare?

Electrike is a Common card from Ruby & Sapphire (card #53).

How do I know if my Electrike is Reverse Holo?

The card body, not the picture: Everything except the illustration window is foiled — the mirror image of a normal holo, where only the picture shines.

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