Energy Retrieval
Ancient Origins · #99 · Rare Secret · Mid-era · 2015
Pulling Energy Retrieval in an Ancient Origins pack is about 6.9% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Energy Retrieval market value
Energy Retrieval (Ancient Origins #99) has a live market value of 2,044 Sparks, about $20.44 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 2,044 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 1,737 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. An Ancient Origins pack is 2,575 Sparks; this card's market value is 2,044 Sparks. Among the 101 priced cards in Ancient Origins, Energy Retrieval is the 22nd most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 39 Sparks, and the most valuable card is M Rayquaza-EX at 117,200 Sparks.
How to pull Energy Retrieval
In an Ancient Origins pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Secret card about 6.9% of the time. In other words, about one Ancient Origins pack in 14 lands a Rare Secret card in that slot. Energy Retrieval is one of 5 priced Rare Secret cards in Ancient Origins that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Ancient Origins: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Ancient Origins page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Ancient Origins 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 a Rare Secret card, number 99 in Ancient Origins. Ancient Origins lists 5 Rare Secret cards out of 101 cards in total, about 5% of the set list. Among the 5 priced Rare Secret cards, market values run from 710 Sparks to 117,200 Sparks, and Energy Retrieval ranks 4th of them. Ancient Origins is part of the XY series and sits in the Mid-era era of the PackLab catalog. Mid-era sets sit between the early classics and the current releases, and sealed packs from them are harder to find today.
About Ancient Origins
Ancient Origins was released on August 12, 2015 and lists 101 cards on PackLab, 101 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Ancient Origins carry a combined market value of 344,202 Sparks. By market value, Energy Retrieval sits just below Lugia-EX (2,272 Sparks) and just above M Ampharos-EX (1,891 Sparks).
