Pokémon TCG · S9 · 2022-01-14
スターバース — Booster Box (30 packs)
Where the value comes from
| Tier | Odds / pack | Avg card value | EV / pack | Priced | P(≥1) / product |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Double Rare | 13.0% | $2.26 | $0.29 | 98.5% | |
| Ultra Rare | 15.0% | $16.36 | $2.45 | 99.2% | |
| Bulk / regular cards | 72.0% | ≈ $0.01 | — | — |
Expected hits per product: 8.40 (counting every tier the pull-rate table enumerates). The Bulk / regular cards row is the rest of a pack — commons, uncommons and plain rares worth about a cent — shown so the odds add up to the whole pack.
What are the odds you profit?
EV is the average; this is the distribution. 20,000 simulated openings of this exact product, using the same sources, odds and prices as everything above.
Same assumptions as the EV: odds are uniform within each tier (real sets short-print their biggest chases, so true odds are usually a touch worse than this), cards sell at today's market price, and selling costs nothing. Read it as a ceiling, not a promise.
Chase cards
19 priced · biggest hits first
$54.99
$52.50
$25.00
$22.00
$20.00
$17.30
$15.81
$11.47
$11.25
$10.87
$10.79
$7.10
$6.43
$6.33
$6.07
$5.99
$5.34
$5.30
$5.09Each tile: card value (top-right), then the odds of pulling that exact cardfrom a single pack — shown as “1 in N packs” and as a percentage (the same number, two ways). Per-card odds assume every card in a tier is equally likely — no public data quantifies short prints. See methodology.
Special-treatment cards
1 shown · not counted in EV
$180.00Premium special-art printings — showcase/borderless prints, ultra-secret SARs and the like. They’re the set’s headline chases but pulled far below any rate public data quantifies, so they’re shown here for reference and deliberately excluded from the EV above.
Is it worth grading?
PSA US fees, approx · Jul 2026What a PSA 10 sells for vs the raw price plus PSA's fee — the upside if the card grades a 10. The odds of actually getting a 10 are a separate column, still pending.
| Card | Raw | PSA fee | PSA 10 value | Net if 10 | Chance of 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| アルセウスV #112 | $54.99 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | — |
| リザードンVSTAR #118 | $52.50 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | — |
| ハイパーボール #126 | $25.00 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | — |
| リザードンV #102 | $22.00 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | — |
| シロナの覇気 #114 | $20.00 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | — |
| アルセウスVSTAR #125 | $17.30 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | — |
| ネオラントV #105 | $15.81 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | — |
| アルセウスVSTAR #120 | $11.47 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | — |
| シロナの覇気 #122 | $11.25 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | — |
| アルセウスV #111 | $10.87 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | — |
| ドンカラスV #109 | $10.79 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | — |
Net if 10= PSA 10 value − raw − fee, the gain assuming a perfect grade (an upper bound — most cards won't 10). Chance of 10is this card's own PSA population — of every copy graded, the share that came back a 10 — and it drives the graded EV toggle instead of one flat assumption. Read it as a ceiling, not a coin flip: it counts cards people CHOSE to submit, which skews toward good copies, and a card pulled from a pack today may fare worse. A “—” means too few graded copies to quote. PSA 10 prices come from Scrydex and PokemonPriceTracker. Fees exclude shipping and use the cheapest PSA tier for each card's declared (graded) value. PSA paused its cheaper Value tiers in June 2026 under a grading backlog, so Regular ($79.99) is the current floor — grading a card much under ~$100 rarely makes sense.
How many packs for…
No number of packs guarantees it — that is what a -36.6% market ROI pays for.
Star Birth (JP): Japanese Pokémon model, confidence LOW — a scaffold, not a measured study. Catalog + card images from TCGdex (Japanese names), card + box prices from PriceCharting's 'Pokemon Japanese <set>' consoles. TCGdex does not carry rarities for the JP secret/chase range (#166+ come back null), so the chase tier here is INFERRED from market value — the priced holos that aren't base-set rares are grouped as ultra_rare, and the ultra-chases (SAR/UR > $100) are shown display-only, out of EV, exactly as the Chinese gem-pack model does. Per-pack odds reuse the English-era shape at deliberately conservative rates (understating, the safe direction), so ROI reads as an honest lower bound, not a promise. Tier values are live PriceCharting prices.
Market price history
No history yet. The chart fills in as the daily price job accumulates snapshots.