Lt. Surge's Electrode Gym Challenge #52

Lt. Surge's Electrode from Gym Challenge (Gym) is indexed with pokemontcg.io embedded tcgplayer/cardmarket pricing and a current primary market value of $6.14.

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$ card.value gym2-52
name: Lt. Surge's Electrode
set: Gym Challenge
year: 2000
type: Lightning
rarity: Uncommon
market_usd: $6.14
median_index: +540% vs median
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source: pokemontcg.io embedded tcgplayer/cardmarket

market$6.14median$0.96statuspriced30d trend-33.1%year2000typeLightningbandliquidscore34rarityUncommonset no.#52

TCGplayer market object2026/06/27 Cardmarket trend object2026/06/21

$ cat card-dossier.md

Card research dossier

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Identity

Card: Lt. Surge's Electrode
Set: Gym Challenge
Series: Gym
Card number: #52
Release year: 2000
Release date: 2000/10/16
Artist: Ken Sugimori

Pokemon details

Type: Lightning
HP: 70
Subtypes: Stage 1
Evolves from: Lt. Surge's Voltorb
Evolves to: none listed
Pokedex no.: 101
Legalities: unlimited: Legal

Battle notes

Weakness: Fighting ×2
Resistance: none listed
Retreat cost: Colorless / Colorless
Converted retreat: 2
Flavor text: none listed

$ cat attacks.json

Attacks

Lightning / Lightning / Colorless · energy 3

Power Ball

30+

Flip 3 coins. This attack does 30 damage plus 10 more damage for each heads.

$ get-trend --card gym2-52

Market price trends

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$ cat price-variants.json

Variant prices

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1stEdition$3.01$5.99$6.14$52.50

unlimited$1.62$2.86$2.86$36.70