RAINBOW ENERGY #17/82 - TEAM ROCKET
- Set
- Pokemon Team Rocket (Base series)
- Number
- 17/82
- Rarity
- Rare Holo
- Card type
- Energy - Special
- Artist
- Takumi Akabane
- Released
- (2000-04-24)
- Raw card reference RAW / UNGRADED
- $41.83 USD (TCGplayer market, 1stEditionHolofoil, as of 2026-09-11)Loose, ungraded copy. Not a graded slab - graded values are charted below.
- Graded slab data GRADED SLAB
- 2 Rip Station marks - per grader and grade, see the chart.
- In our machines
- 1 in the $50.00 machine
RIP IT
Rainbow Energy is in the $50.00 machine right now - PSA 6 loaded. A pack reveals one random card from that machine.
Rip the $50.00 machineABOUT THIS CARD
Rainbow Energy is a rare holo energy card from Pokemon Team Rocket, card 17 of 82, released April 24, 2000 in the Base series. The illustration is by Takumi Akabane.
VALUE
What is Rainbow Energy #17 from Team Rocket worth?
Two different numbers answer this, and they are not interchangeable. Raw/ungraded: a loose, ungraded copy of Rainbow Energy #17 (Team Rocket) carries a market reference of $41.83 USD for the 1stEditionHolofoil printing (TCGplayer market price, as of 2026-09-11). Graded slabs: a graded example is priced per grading company and per grade and can sit far above that raw figure - our own graded marks for this card are charted and tabled below, per grader and grade. Both are references, not offers. The graded copy in our machine carries a Rip Station estimated slab value of $46.00 (PSA 6).
Graded slab values over time GRADED SLAB
Slab values, per grading company and grade. These are a different market from the raw/ungraded reference in the facts block above - do not read one as the other.
| Date | Grader | Grade | Estimated slab value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-12 | CGC | 9.5 | $191.00 |
| 2026-06-27 | PSA | 6 | $39.00 |
PULL RATE
What are the odds of pulling Rainbow Energy #17?
From published pack odds, any holofoil rare appeared about 1 in 3 packs in Team Rocket boosters. With 17 cards sharing that slot, pulling Rainbow Energy specifically works out to roughly 1 in 51 packs, assuming equal seeding. In the Rip Station $50.00 machine right now, 1 of 1249 loaded cards is this card - about 0.08% per rip.
Source: Bulbapedia: Booster pack (TCG). Per-card figure derived as slot odds x 17 eligible cards.
POP REPORT
Rip Station vault population - graded slabs GRADED SLAB
Counts of GRADED copies, by grading company and grade, that have passed through our machines. Raw/ungraded copies are counted separately in the Raw row.
| Grader | Grade | Copies |
|---|---|---|
| CGC | 9.5 | 1 |
| PSA | 6 | 1 |
| Total | 2 | |
IN OUR MACHINES
Is Rainbow Energy #17 in a Rip Station machine?
Yes. 1 graded copy of Rainbow Energy is loaded in the $50.00 machine. A pack from that machine reveals one random card from everything loaded in it.
- $50.00 machine: 1 of 1249 loaded cards (0.08% per rip). Rip this machine
SOURCES
- Card metadata and image: the open pokemontcg.io dataset.
- Raw/ungraded reference value: pokemontcg.io market snapshot (tcgplayer), as of 2026-09-11. An ungraded single, an estimate, not an offer - and not a graded slab value.
- Pack odds: cited above per slot.
- Machine availability, composition odds, graded vault population and graded price marks: Rip Station first-party data.