PokémonME0536 booster packsReleased Jul 17, 2026
Open one and you'll pull about $109.61 of cards, on average, across 36 packs.
-$65.80
You would do better buying the singles
At $175 a box. The cards inside are worth $109.61 at market prices, and 11% of boxes beat the price. Sold, you'd keep about $32 after fees and postage.
Across the pull rates' margins, the cards are worth $98 to $121. Pull-rate data: Medium-high.
Prices checked by Shon Atsil · updated Nov 7, 2026. Averages over many boxes, not a promise for yours. Shares from 40,000 simulated boxes. How it's worked out
Tear open 36 Booster Packs one at a time, at the odds and prices this page is built on. Cards worth $2 or more count at their own price and link to TCGplayer; cheaper cards count at their average.
A sealed box. What's inside?
36 packs to tear open, one at a time. Pack art: AKIRA EGAWA.
Based on 40,000 simulations · Nov 7
11% beat a $175 box
Every card at market price. An average, not a promise: your box is one draw.
Every night, after the prices are refreshed, we open 40,000 boxes pack by pack, from the same pack contents and card prices as the value above, and record what each box is worth at market price and after selling. On Nov 7 they averaged $109.67 against a value of $109.61 ($31.57 against $31.52 if sold); a night more than 2% out isn't shown. The share that beat the box is counted against that day's $175.41; at other prices it's read off the spread of boxes, to about a point. The run's random numbers come from the seed 2026-11-07:pokemon:pitch-black, so it can be repeated exactly.
1Mega Darkrai exSpecial Illustration Rare
$130.40
Odds: about 1 every 13 boxes
Art: AKIRA EGAWA
2Mega Darkrai exMega Hyper Rare
$116.58
Odds: about 1 every 31 boxes
Art: 5ban Graphics
3Morpeko exSpecial Illustration Rare
$57.08
Odds: about 1 every 13 boxes
Art: NC Empire
Mega Zeraora ex
Mega Chandelure ex
Gwynn
Gladion's Final Battle
Misty's Vitality
Mega Darkrai ex
Gwynn
Mega Chandelure ex
Everything else
Commons, uncommons, rares and two reverse holos a pack.
Whole box
$60.15
Share
55%
Special Illustration Rare
The full-art illustration of an ex or Trainer: the big chase. 1.25% a pack (±0.33), 6 cards averaging $49.28.
Per box
0.45
Whole box
$22.17
Share
20%
Ultra Rare
A full-art ex or Trainer, in the rare slot. 8.3% a pack (±0.82), 18 cards averaging $3.58.
Per box
3.0
Whole box
$10.69
Share
10%
Illustration Rare
A full-art illustration of a regular Pokémon, in the second reverse slot. 11.01% a pack (±0.93), 11 cards averaging $2.10.
Per box
4.0
Whole box
$8.32
Share
8%
Double Rare
A regular Pokémon ex, in the rare slot. 21.02% a pack (±1.21), 10 cards averaging $0.59.
Per box
7.6
Whole box
$4.49
Share
4%
Mega Hyper Rare
The set’s top card; a handful of pulls behind its rate, so read it loosely. 0.09% a pack (±0.09), 1 cards averaging $116.58.
Per box
0.03
Whole box
$3.78
Share
3%
Pull rates. The Pokémon Company publishes none. Ours come from the TCGplayer Authentication Center, which opened 4,000+ packs of Pitch Black (their article ). Every card in a rarity counts as equally likely, as they found. The ± is their 95% margin; the range in the verdict is the box value across it.
The pack. 4 commons, 3 uncommons, two reverse holo slots (the second can be an Illustration Rare or better) and a rare slot (a Double or Ultra Rare at their rates). Mega Hyper Rares count as their own small chance per pack. Packs are independent: English boxes carry no guaranteed hits.
Prices. TCGplayer market price for every card, refreshed daily; reverse holos at their reverse holo price. Card scans and artists from TCGdex.
