Does the condition of the card change its price?

Yes. We check it when your card arrives, and here is what we pay in each condition. Like new: €15.00. Played a little: €5.00. Worn: €3.65.

How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read TR 4/109 there. Its illustration is signed Kouki Saitou.

Which set does it come from?

It comes from the Team Rocket Returns set, released here on 1 November 2004.

It leaves listings slower than most of the cards we buy in Japanese. Our pokoSCORE gives it 20 out of 100. At least 2 copies have sold since 12 September. From the listings we track. Departures may be sales or withdrawals.

Team Rocket Returns

Dark Electrode TR 4/109

Name: Dark Electrode TR 4
Brand: Pokémon

TRJPRare

You receive

€15.00

Your offer depends on the card’s printing, edition and condition. We check its condition when it arrives.

How much is your Dark Electrode worth?

A copy in Japanese, like new: we’ll buy it from you for €15.00 today. That’s the same price as a week ago.

Today · You get

€15.00

The same price as on 23 September

€15.00

23 SeptemberToday

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24 September	€15.00
25 September	€15.00
26 September	€15.00
27 September	€15.00
28 September	€15.00
29 September	€15.00
30 September	€15.00

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pokoSCORE

Market activity

20out of 100

Slow departures

It leaves listings slower than most of the cards we buy in Japanese.

Copies gone since 12 September: at least 2
For sale on 28 September: 29
For sale on 12 September: 28

From the listings we track. Departures may be sales or withdrawals.

Versions of this card

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TR 4Team Rocket ReturnsRareSelected printingYou receive€15.00

What you might be wondering about this card

How much do we pay for Dark Electrode TR 4/109?: A copy in Japanese, like new: we’ll buy it from you for €15.00 today.
Does the condition of the card change its price?: Yes. We check it when your card arrives, and here is what we pay in each condition. Like new: €15.00. Played a little: €5.00. Worn: €3.65.
How can you tell your card is this one?: Look at the bottom of your card: you should read TR 4/109 there. Its illustration is signed Kouki Saitou.
Which set does it come from?: It comes from the Team Rocket Returns set, released here on 1 November 2004.
Does it sell fast?: It leaves listings slower than most of the cards we buy in Japanese. Our pokoSCORE gives it 20 out of 100. At least 2 copies have sold since 12 September. From the listings we track. Departures may be sales or withdrawals.

When it came out

Team Rocket Returns landed here on 1 November 2004.

Every set, with both of its dates

What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

HP: 70
Type: LightningDarkness
Stage: Stage 1
Retreat cost: 1
Weakness: ×2
Number: 4/109
Set: Team Rocket ReturnsTR
Illustrated by: Kouki Saitou

Its Ability

Darkness Navigation暗闇のナビゲーション

Once during your turn (before your attack), if Dark Electrode has no Energy attached to it, you may search your deck for a Darkness or Dark Metal Energy and attach it to Dark Electrode. Shuffle your deck afterward. This power can't be used if Dark Electrode is affected by a Special Condition.ターン中（攻撃前）に、暗い電極にエネルギーが付着していない場合は、デッキを検索して暗闇や暗い金属エネルギーを検索し、暗い電極に取り付けることができます。その後、デッキをシャッフルします。暗い電極が特別な状態の影響を受ける場合、この電力は使用できません。

Its attacks

Energy Bombエネルギー爆弾

You may move all Energy cards attached to Dark Electrode to your Benched Pokémon in any way you like.暗い電極に取り付けられたすべてのエネルギーカードを、好きな方法でベンチ付きポケモンに移動できます。

What to make of it

Have a look at what it does well, then at what will get in your way. After that you'll know whether it belongs in your deck.

A strength
Retreat cost 1. One Energy to discard and it is back on the Bench, which matters a lot on the turn you need to swap attackers.
A strength
Energy Bomb hits for 30 on 1 Energy. Nothing in Team Rocket Returns hits harder for that price.
A strength
It has an Ability, Darkness Navigation. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
Keep in mind
None of the 5,655 tournament lists we have read runs it. That does not make it a bad card — it means we have not seen it on a table yet.
Keep in mind
Weakness Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,655 tournament lists we have read, 1,271 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Who plays it

None of the tournament lists we have read mentions this card. That happens with a card that has just come out, or one players have not tried yet.

The other cards of this Pokémon

Two cards of the same Pokémon can be worth wildly different amounts — it depends on the set, the rarity and the artwork. We put all 46 Electrode cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Electrode card and its price