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Basic Lightning Energy — Scarlet & Violet #257

Hyper RareScarlet & Violet257/1982023

Basic Lightning Energy #257/198 Scarlet & Violet Price

Raw · near mint

$3.23

Updated today

Graded

PSA 10$5517×
PSA 9$206.2×
CGC 9$92.6×

Sales recorded: 63; every grade, since 2026
Last 90 days: 46 raw · 49 all; 22 in the last 30, every grade
Confidence: High; Closely clustered.
Latest sale: 6d ago; raw

Bulk card. At this price most of what a buyer pays is postage, so treat it as a rough band rather than a valuation. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

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How Basic Lightning Energy trades

A near-mint Basic Lightning Energy is 50% cheaper than a year ago, when it was $6.41 (October 2025). It peaked at $7.37 in May 2023 and sits 56% below that high. Raw, it ranks 45th of 258 in Scarlet & Violet — in the set's most valuable quarter.

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What an ungraded copy has done.

Raw · latest

$3▼ 49%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

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. 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.

Copies for sale right now

Asking prices, not sales. Stock as of 2026-10-04T14:20:37.944Z.

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What the sales actually show

Range

$1 – $9

Raw — lowest to highest sale

Momentum

-5%

Raw — 30d vs 90d median

Where it sells

100% eBay

Raw — last 90 days

Demand

70/100

Very liquid — sales rate, trend & buzz

Market data

Across the markets

54% apart

TCGplayer$3
PriceCharting$3
Our raw sold median$5

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.

Recent sales

The latest sales at each grade, newest first. Pick a grade.

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
Pokemon TCG Basic Lightning Energy 257/198 Scarlet & Violet Hyper Rare Holo Eng	Raw	eBay	2026-09-29	—	$4.00
Basic Lightning Energy 257/198 Hyper Rare Scarlet & Violet Pokemon Holo NM/M	Raw	eBay	2026-09-27	—	$4.74
Pokemon TCG Basic Lightning Energy 257/198 Scarlet & Violet Hyper Rare Holo Eng	Raw	eBay	2026-09-25	—	$4.75
Pokémon Basic Lightning Energy 257/198 Holo Hyper Rare Scarlet & Violet NM	Raw	eBay	2026-09-25	—	$4.40
Basic Lightning Energy 257/198 Hyper Rare Scarlet & Violet Pokemon Holo NM	Raw	eBay	2026-09-21	—	$4.74

1–5 of 5 sales.

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