Energy Retrieval #81 — Base Set

Keiji Kinebuchi illustrated 38 of the 102 Base Set cards. Energy Retrieval, at number 81, is one of them: Uncommon, Trainer card.

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The sold-comp ledger contains zero rows for Energy Retrieval. A price appears here when at least eight verified sold lots for one exact printing and grade are in the ledger — that is the sample size the median is allowed to be computed from. No estimate, no range, no placeholder.

Identity fetched 2026-09-01 from the pokemontcg.io Base Set checklist; prices and populations are not in that record.

The record we hold

Set: Base Set (1999)
Card number: 81 / 102
Rarity: Uncommon
Card type: Trainer
HP: —
Holofoil: No
Illustrator: Illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi

Energy Retrieval was printed without a holofoil panel; 16 of the 102 cards carry one. By checklist position it is 81 of 102, which puts it in the last third of the binder. Its binder neighbours are Defender (#80) and Full Heal (#82). The record carries no HP for it — Trainer cards do not print one.

Which printing you are holding

Energy Retrieval was printed three times over, and the three do not trade alike. 1st Edition carries the edition stamp and a flat frame; Shadowless drops the stamp and keeps the flat frame; Unlimited restores the drop shadow. So Energy Retrieval will be priced three times over, not once: a blended median across the three would be a figure nobody paid.

Walk the set

Defender (#80) before, Full Heal (#82) after.

Also in Base Set

Potion, Poliwrath, Charmeleon, Magmar, Diglett and Vulpix — six cards drawn across the checklist by a fixed offset ring, each of which links back.

Also illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi

Keiji Kinebuchi is credited on 38 cards here; these 4 come off that list by the same offset rule.

Other Uncommon Trainer card cards

11 in the cohort; nearest by number: