Pokémon TCG · pl1 · 2009-02-11
Platinum — Booster Box (36 packs)
Where the value comes from
| Tier | Odds / pack | Avg card value | EV / pack | Priced | P(≥1) / product |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ultra Rare | 4.0% | $72.25 | $2.89 | 77.0% | |
| Hyper Rare | 1.4% | $24.94 | $0.35 | 39.8% | |
| Bulk / regular cards | 94.6% | ≈ $0.01 | — | — |
Expected hits per product: 1.94 (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
9 priced · biggest hits first
$114.60
$112.51
$64.60
$61.30
$40.53
$39.95
$27.49
$27.14
$20.19Each 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dialga G LV.X #122 | $114.60 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | — |
| Giratina LV.X #124 | $112.51 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | 2%n=712 |
| Shaymin LV.X #126 | $64.60 | $149.00 (Express) | $2,000.00 | +$1,786.41 | 2%n=372 |
| Palkia G LV.X #125 | $61.30 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | 3%n=1,054 |
| Drapion LV.X #123 | $40.53 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | 1%n=383 |
| Shaymin LV.X #127 | $39.95 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | 5%n=414 |
| Scyther #130 | $27.49 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | 6%n=288 |
| Hitmonchan #129 | $27.14 | $79.99 (Regular) | $1,125.00 | +$1,017.88 | 6%n=262 |
| Electabuzz #128 | $20.19 | $79.99 (Regular) | — | — | 2%n=224 |
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 -99.1% market ROI pays for.
NO PRIMARY DATA EXISTS FOR THIS ERA. A dedicated 2026 research pass found no counted pull-rate study for any Diamond & Pearl or Platinum set. The widely repeated '1 Lv.X per box' figure traces to a 2010 PokeBeach forum guide that SELF-DECLARES 'these are estimations, not exact ratios', cites no sample or method anywhere, and was demonstrably revised in response to single-box anecdotes, with its author admitting he averaged rumours to produce the headline numbers. A competing unsourced claim puts Lv.X at ~1:36 packs in early DP improving to ~1:18 later, which CONTRADICTS '1 per box' on a 36-pack box - and neither side has a sample. The rates below (ultra_rare ~0.04/pack for Lv.X, hyper_rare 0.014/pack for gold-star secrets) are the site's own model sitting between those unsourced claims. Regular holos are treated as bulk. PRICE CAVEAT: sealed DP and Platinum boxes trade as vintage collectables well above what their contents support.
Market price history
4 days · 2026-08-14 → 2026-08-25Daily median of eBay-sold (PriceCharting) sealed prices. Updates each time the price job runs.