HeartGold & SoulSilver · #122 · 2010
Market price: The going rate for an ungraded copy of this exact printing, from actual sales data — TCGplayer for USD, Cardmarket for EUR. Updated daily. · Normal (non-holo): The plain printing — no foil anywhere. Price trackers say “Normal,” collectors say “non-holo”; usually the cheapest version of the card.
$21.03
up2% · 28dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 7, 2026
Graded: Examined by a professional company, scored 1–10, and sealed in a labeled case. Graded copies trade at their own prices, grade by grade. PSA 9 $30.00 · CGC 10 $16.80 · PSA 8 $23.95
Set rank: Where this card's market price ranks among the priced cards in its set — #1 is the set's most valuable card. in HeartGold & SoulSilver
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Normal
$21.03 (TCGplayer Market price: The going rate for an ungraded copy of this exact printing, from actual sales data — TCGplayer for USD, Cardmarket for EUR. Updated daily.)
PSA: Professional Sports Authenticator, the biggest grading company. Grades 1–10; PSA 10 is Gem Mint, and PSA slabs are the easiest to price and sell.
CGC: Certified Guaranty Company, one of the big three graders. Grades 1–10, with a Pristine 10 above Gem Mint 10; CGC slabs often sell a little below PSA.
Latest sold prices As of (a date): The price in force on the day we last checked — not a sale that closed that day. Rows marked “sold” carry the real sale day.. PSA and CGC grade on the same 1–10 scale, but the market prices them differently — what grades mean →
Sold data via Card Hedge
We're checking eBay for live listings of this card — counts and asking prices land here within a day.
Browse eBay now →What it actually sells for
Our chart tracks TCGplayer's market price and the asking prices of live eBay listings — what sellers want, not what buyers paid. Completed sale prices live on eBay itself: see recent sold listings for this card →
Right now Metal Energy trades at $21.03 for the Normal printing (TCGplayer market price).
That makes it the 27th most valuable of HeartGold & SoulSilver's 124 priced cards. The set's top card is Gyarados at $370. We've logged its price daily since Feb 8, 2024: $9.84 then, $21.03 now (up 113.7%). A year ago it sat around $18.43; today's $21.03 is 14.1% higher. Over the last 90 days it's down 1.1%, from $21.27. Since February 2024 it's run as high as $21.80 (January 2026) and as low as $9.81 (November 2024). Its 30-day range runs from $20.53 up to $21.03. Across the Atlantic, the European prints list around €10.02 on Cardmarket.
About $21.03 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Normal printing, updated Oct 7, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $16.80 — the latest CGC 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 7, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $21.03 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Down about 1% over the last 3 months — from $21.27 to $21.03 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 14%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $21.80 — that was January 2026. We've been writing this card's price down since February 2024, so that's the record on our watch, not an all-time record.
The European printings list around €10.02 on Cardmarket — they share one price there, because Cardmarket prices the physical card across languages. This English print trades at $21.03 on TCGplayer. Two marketplaces, two currencies — so watch both numbers instead of converting one into the other.
eBay is the easiest place — this page links straight to the live listings for Metal Energy (HeartGold & SoulSilver #122). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $21.03 today.
HeartGold & SoulSilver
