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: €5.00. Played a little: €2.45.

How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read CES 172/168 there. Its illustration is signed 5ban Graphics.

Which set does it come from?

It comes from the Celestial Storm set, released here on 3 August 2018.

It leaves listings slower than most of the cards we buy in Japanese. Our pokoSCORE gives it 35 out of 100. At least 1 copy has sold since 8 September. From the listings we track. Departures may be sales or withdrawals.

Celestial Storm

Electrode GX CES 172/168

CESJPSecret Rare

You receive

€5.00

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

How much is your Electrode GX worth?

A copy in Japanese, like new: we’ll buy it from you for €5.00 today.

Today · You get

€5.00

The same price as on 26 September

€5.00

26 SeptemberToday

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Day	Our offer
26 September	€5.00
27 September	€5.00

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pokoSCORE

Market activity

35out of 100

Slow departures

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

Copies gone since 8 September: at least 1
For sale on 26 September: 8
For sale on 8 September: 9

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

Versions of this card

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What you might be wondering about this card

How much do we pay for Electrode GX CES 172/168?: A copy in Japanese, like new: we’ll buy it from you for €5.00 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: €5.00. Played a little: €2.45.
How can you tell your card is this one?: Look at the bottom of your card: you should read CES 172/168 there. Its illustration is signed 5ban Graphics.
Which set does it come from?: It comes from the Celestial Storm set, released here on 3 August 2018.
Does it sell fast?: It leaves listings slower than most of the cards we buy in Japanese. Our pokoSCORE gives it 35 out of 100. At least 1 copy has sold since 8 September. From the listings we track. Departures may be sales or withdrawals.

When it came out

Celestial Storm landed here on 3 August 2018.

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: 190
Type: Lightning
Retreat cost: 1
Weakness: ×2
Resistance: -20
Number: 172/168
Set: Celestial StormCES
Illustrated by: 5ban Graphics

Its Ability

Extra Energy Bombエネエネボンバー

Once during your turn (before your attack), you may attach 5 Energy cards from your discard pile to your Pokémon, except Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX, in any way you like. If you do, this Pokémon is Knocked Out.自分の番に1回使えて、使ったなら、このポケモンをきぜつさせる。自分のトラッシュにあるエネルギーを5枚、自分のポケモン（「ポケモンGX・EX」をのぞく）に好きなようにつける。

Its attacks

Electro Ballエレキボール

Crush and Burn GXクラッシュバーンGX

30+

Discard any amount of Energy from your Pokémon. This attack does 50 more damage for each card you discarded in this way. (You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)自分の場のポケモンについているエネルギーを好きなだけトラッシュし、その枚数x50ダメージ追加。［対戦中、自分はGXワザを1回しか使えない。］

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
It has an Ability, Extra Energy Bomb. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
Keep in mind
None of the 5,417 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 5,417 tournament lists we have read, 1,215 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