Pokémon · EX
Electrike
Ruby & Sapphire · #30 · Uncommon · 2003
Listings
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From
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Market reference
$1.45
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Current listings on The Game Traders
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 30 / 109
- Release year
- 2003
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- HP
- 50
- Subtype
- Basic
- Evolves to
- Manectric
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Illustrator
- Hajime Kusajima
- Pokédex #
- 309
- Series
- EX
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Energy Acceleration
- Damage efficiency
- 30 damage
- 15 per Energy
- Prize liability
- 1 Prize given up
- Single-prize attacker — favourable prize trades
- Setup
- Basic
- Plays straight down — no evolution needed
Also does
Strategy & play
How Electrike plays — derived from its stats and the rules of the game, not an opinion.
- Not a main attacker — its job is energy acceleration. Run it as a consistency hub and protect it, because opponents will target the engine.
- Needs Lightning Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Lightning type, weak to Fighting ×2 — a Fighting attacker doing ≥25 effectively one-shots it.
- A single-prize attacker — prize-trade-positive against ex / V decks that give up two at a time.
- Seen in 1% of recent tournament decks that can run it, usually 3 copies.
How to beat Electrike
- Exploit its Fighting weakness — ≥25 damage one-shots it.
- KO it to choke their draw / search engine.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 1% of decks
- 2.66 copies on average · 348 decks
- Match win rate
- 37.3%
- -10.1 pts vs the 47.3% field average
Plays well with
Cards most often run alongside this one in tournament decks over the last 180 days — ranked by how distinctive the pairing is.
Manectric
in 87% of decks · 41 seen
Mega Zeraora ex
in 23% of decks · 11 seen
Voltaic Lightning Energy
in 96% of decks · 45 seen
Tapu Koko
in 7% of decks · 25 seen
Mega Manectric ex
in 100% of decks · 348 seen
Mega Manectric ex
in 98% of decks · 46 seen
Manectric
in 36% of decks · 126 seen
Mega Eelektross ex
in 82% of decks · 287 seen
More by Hajime Kusajima
This card was illustrated by Hajime Kusajima.
Building around Electrike?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
LCharge
Attach a Lightning Energy card from your discard pile to Electrike.
LCThunder Jolt — 30
Flip a coin. If tails, Electrike does 10 damage to itself.
Weakness:F×2
Resistance:M-30
Retreat cost:C
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
Tournament play
This printing of Electrike has no recent tournament appearances, but a different printing is currently a meta staple.
Electrike — Mega Evolution
Played in 162 recent decks
Pricing reference
Latest snapshot from the upstream catalog. Actual marketplace prices fluctuate by condition, edition, and grade — use this as a reference, not a quote.
TCGPlayer (USD)
Updated 2026/07/04| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | $0.90 | $1.49 | $25.00 | $1.45 | — |
| Reverse Holofoil | $9.95 | $39.99 | $99.90 | $8.91 | — |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/06/27| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.40 |
| 7-day average | €1.05 |
| 30-day average | €0.76 |
| Low | €0.05 |
| Trend price | €1.43 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.30 |
| Reverse holo low | €1.70 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €3.16 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €4.64 |
| reverseHoloSell | €3.82 |
| averageSellPrice | €1.04 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €4.31 |
| Reverse holo trend | €5.14 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Electrike is real?
Electrike is not on our list of commonly-counterfeited cards, but counterfeits exist across every set. Check the back-light test (real cards have a black inner layer that blocks light; counterfeits glow through), the rosette dot pattern on the back under magnification, font weight and kerning on the card name, and the holofoil pattern if applicable. For high-value copies we recommend submitting to a professional grader (PSA, BGS, CGC) for tamper-evident authentication.
What is Electrike worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Electrike is $1.45; there are no active listings on The Game Traders right now. Actual value depends on condition, grading, edition and printing variant — graded high-condition copies (PSA 9–10) trade at a substantial premium over raw copies.
What set is Electrike from?
Electrike is from the Pokémon set "Ruby & Sapphire" in the EX series, released in 2003.
What rarity is Electrike?
Electrike is a Uncommon card in the Ruby & Sapphire set.
Other Electrike printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
