Pokémon Packs
Pokémon, card by card.
Every Pokémon pack deals 4 real cards from the 71 currently in the packs — real printings with live market values, from bulk to a $58.03 top chase. The Pokémon pool spans 33 different sets — 71 cards, one physical copy of each, no duplicates. Pull one and it leaves stock for good.
Pokémon cards also turn up in Assorted Everything packs.
The chase wall
The highest-value cards currently in the Pokémon pool. One physical copy each — when someone pulls it, it leaves stock for everyone.
Pick your tier — same 4 cards, better odds
Higher tiers never add cards; they shift the hit slot toward the top value bands. Live odds below, computed from what's actually left in the packs. Expected value ≈ 0.9× price at every tier.
The median is the pack you are actually likely to get: half land at or below it. The 0.9× average above is carried by the rare chase hits — both numbers are true, and both come from the same engine and the same stock. Full distribution per tier → Card values and prices are both USD. No exchange rate sits between them.
What the pool actually looks like
Full value-band composition of the published Pokémon inventory — the same distribution the odds tables are computed from.
Guides and reading for Pokémon
Guides
- How Pokémon Card Rarities Work
Pokémon does not run a colour ladder. It runs a rarity system: a symbol on the card, a foil pattern, and a stack of named art tiers above them. Learn to read all three and a bulk pile sorts itself.
- TCG Rarities and Parallels, Game by Game
In a trading card game, rarity is printed on the card and is part of what the card is. In sports it is a collectible tier bolted onto a card that already exists. That one difference is why crossing over is confusing — and it is fixable in about ten minutes.
- Holo RareGlossary
A Pokémon rare whose artwork window is foiled while the rest of the card stays matte.
- Reverse HoloGlossary
A Pokémon card with the foil applied everywhere except the artwork window — the inverse of a holo rare.
- Cosmos HoloGlossary
A Pokémon holo foil broken into dots and circles of different sizes — once the standard holo, now mostly used for promo versions.
- Ultra RareGlossary
In Yu-Gi-Oh!, a card with a gold foil name and holofoil artwork — a defined tier, not a general superlative.
- Secret RareGlossary
In Yu-Gi-Oh!, a card with a silver holographic name and a diagonal sparkling foil laid across the artwork.
- Full ArtGlossary
A Pokémon card whose illustration covers the entire face, with the game text printed over the art instead of beside it.
From the blog
- common Pokémon cards that are rare once graded
How a common card becomes valuable once graded: reading a population report, why a low count is not enough on its own, and real 2026 sold prices.
- the Pokémon reverse holo commons that sell
Most reverse holo commons sell for very little. Some sell for hundreds. The three things that separate them, with sold prices from September 2026.
- cosmos holo Pokémon cards, era by era
What cosmos holo Pokémon cards sell for: 12 cards from every era, $5 to $390, and how to tell which cosmos version you have. Prices read Sept. 2026.
- Pokémon errors and variants, priced
1st Edition, Shadowless, Red Cheeks Pikachu, No Rarity and Jungle no-symbol holos: how to tell each version apart and what each sold for in Sept. 2026.
- why most pulls get sold back
Our own ledger: 175 pulls sold back, 19 kept — about 9 in 10 decided pulls go straight back into the loop, not onto a shelf.
- how selling a card back works
Selling back at a rate that starts at 70% and climbs with your points rank, vs. listing it yourself — and the one honest number that decides between them.