Price history
Daily median raw (ungraded) market price across the sources we track. Updates each time the price job runs. Scrub the chart for the exact price on a day.
Basic Lightning Energy #257
Scarlet & Violet · Hyper Rare
Where to pull it
Every ranked product whose packs can contain this exact card, best odds first. Odds assume uniform pull rates within the card's rarity tier — real sets short-print their biggest chases, so read them as a ceiling.
| Product | Market | Per pack | P(≥1) / product |
|---|---|---|---|
 Scarlet & Violet Booster Box (36 packs) | $288.84 | 1 in 324 | 10.5% |
 Scarlet & Violet Elite Trainer Box (9 packs) | $129.51 | 1 in 324 | 2.7% |
 Scarlet & Violet Booster Pack | $9.24 | 1 in 324 | 0.3% |
 Stellar Crown Terapagos ex Ultra-Premium Collection (18 packs) | $243.93 | — | — |
 Destined Rivals Team Rocket's Moltres ex Ultra-Premium Collection (18 packs) | $332.73 | — | — |
How much is Basic Lightning Energy #257 worth?
Basic Lightning Energy #257 is a Hyper Rare from the Pokémon TCG set Scarlet & Violet. Its current raw market value is $3.83, blended from live eBay sold prices and TCGplayer market data, and a PSA 10 copy sells for about $42.11.
What are the odds of pulling Basic Lightning Energy #257?
You can expect to pull Basic Lightning Energy roughly 1 in 324 packs — its Hyper Rare slot appears in about 1.8% of packs, shared across 6 cards of that rarity in Scarlet & Violet. Opening a whole Scarlet & Violet Booster Box (36 packs) gives you about a 10.5% chance of pulling at least one.
Which Scarlet & Violet product should you open for it?
Every product in the table above draws from the same Scarlet & Violet pack pool, so the honest answer is whichever costs least per pack — currently the Scarlet & Violet Booster Pack at $9.24. Bear in mind that on our numbers nearly every sealed Pokémon TCG product returns less than it costs when opened: buying the single outright is usually cheaper than chasing it.
Is Basic Lightning Energy worth grading?
A PSA 10 copy sells for about $42.11 against a raw price of $3.83 and a PSA fee of roughly $79.99 (Regular) — so a 10 nets about $-41.70. Too few copies have been graded for a reliable gem rate, so the payoff above is an upper bound with unknown odds.
Basic Lightning Energy price history
Since we began tracking on 2026-07-29, Basic Lightning Energy has moved from $4.26 to $3.82 (-10.3%). The chart above shows every tracked day; history deepens daily and nothing earlier is invented.