Energy Retrieval
Base · #81 · Uncommon · Vintage · 1999
Pulling Energy Retrieval in a Base pack is about 100% (Uncommon slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Energy Retrieval market value
Energy Retrieval (Base #81) has a live market value of 63 Sparks, about $0.63 at the latest market price. That market price for Energy Retrieval was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 63 Sparks is the figure shown for Energy Retrieval in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Energy Retrieval, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 53 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Base pack is 8,300 Sparks; this card's market value is 63 Sparks. Among the 102 priced cards in Base, Energy Retrieval is the 89th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 246 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Charizard at 95,465 Sparks.
How to pull Energy Retrieval
In a Base pack, the Uncommon slot shows an Uncommon card about 100% of the time. Energy Retrieval is one of 32 priced Uncommon cards in Base that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Base: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Base page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Base box commits its card order before the first pack is sold, so each rip can be checked once the box sells out.
Rarity and era
Energy Retrieval is an Uncommon card, number 81 in Base. Base lists 32 Uncommon cards out of 102 cards in total, about 31% of the set list. Among the 32 priced Uncommon cards, market values run from 38 Sparks to 706 Sparks, and Energy Retrieval ranks 30th of them. Base is part of the Base series and sits in the Vintage era of the PackLab catalog. Vintage sets come from the early years of the hobby, when holographic rares were the main chase and sealed packs were far fewer.
About Base
Base was released on January 9, 1999 and lists 102 cards on PackLab, 102 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Base carry a combined market value of 230,938 Sparks. By market value, Energy Retrieval sits just below PlusPower (64 Sparks) and just above Pokédex (58 Sparks).
