Paradox Rift · #250 · 2023
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.
$8.19
down13% · 29dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 15, 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 $105 · PSA 9 $14.17 · CGC 10 $25.80
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 Paradox Rift
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Holofoil
$8.19 (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.
SGC: Sportscard Guaranty — a long-running grader with black-bordered slabs. Grades 1–10 in half steps; fewer Pokémon sales than the big three.
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.; rows marked “sold” carry the actual 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
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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 →
Today's TCGplayer market price for Sandy Shocks ex is $8.19 for the Holofoil printing.
Among the 266 priced cards in Paradox Rift, it sits 40th. The set's top card is Groudon at $104. We've logged its price daily since Feb 8, 2024: $14.55 then, $8.19 now (down 43.7%). A year ago it sat around $6.74; today's $8.19 is 21.5% higher. Over the last 90 days it's down 10.1%, from $9.11. Since February 2024 it's run as high as $14.67 (February 2024) and as low as $5.28 (August 2025). Its 30-day range runs from $8.19 up to $9.37. Across the Atlantic, the European prints list around €6.95 on Cardmarket. On the graded side, a CGC 9 last sold for $13.00 on Sep 19.
Around the World
$8.19
USD is TCGplayer's market price for the English print; EUR is Cardmarket's, shared across the European printings (Cardmarket prices the physical card). Both update daily.
Ability Magnetic Absorption
Once during your turn, if your opponent has 4 or fewer Prize cards remaining, you may attach a Basic Fighting Energy card from your discard pile to this Pokémon.
Earthen Spike200
Cost: Fighting, Fighting, Colorless
During your next turn, this Pokémon can't attack.
About $8.19 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Holofoil printing, updated Oct 15, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $105 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 7, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $8.19 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Down about 10% over the last 3 months — from $9.11 to $8.19 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 22%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $14.67 — that was February 2024. 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 €6.95 on Cardmarket — they share one price there, because Cardmarket prices the physical card across languages. This English print trades at $8.19 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 Sandy Shocks ex (Paradox Rift #250). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $8.19 today.
Paradox Rift
