Lost Thunder · #213 · 2018

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. · Holo: The artwork shines with a foil pattern. A separate printing from the plain card, and in vintage sets often worth many times more.
$179
up9% · 29dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 16, 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 10 $1,000 · PSA 9 $138 · CGC 10 $173
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 Lost Thunder
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Holofoil
$179 (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.
BGS: Beckett Grading Services, one of the big three graders. Grades 1–10 in half steps; a Black Label 10 is perfect on all four subgrades.
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 →
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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 Professor Elm's Lecture trades at $179 for the Holofoil printing (TCGplayer market price).
That makes it the 3rd most valuable of Lost Thunder's 236 priced cards. The set's top card is Lugia-GX at $370. We've logged its price daily since Feb 8, 2024: $58.13 then, $179 now (up 208.6%). A year ago it sat around $89.17; today's $179 is 101.2% higher. Over the last 90 days it's up 20.6%, from $149. Since February 2024 it's run as high as $182 (October 2026) and as low as $53.36 (October 2024). Its 30-day range runs from $164 up to $182.
About $179 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Holofoil printing, updated Oct 16, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. We track this exact card graded — the slab guides are linked on this page. What grading means →
About $1,000 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 16, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $179 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge. Our PSA 10 price guide →
Up about 21% over the last 3 months — from $149 to $179 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 101%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $182 — that was October 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.
eBay is the easiest place — this page links straight to the live listings for Professor Elm's Lecture (Lost Thunder #213). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule. Want it graded? Our PSA 10 guide shows what slabs are going for.
Cards trading near $179 today.