Zapdos
Base · #16 · Rare Holo · Vintage · 1999
Pulling Zapdos in a Base pack is about 33.3% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Zapdos market value
Zapdos (Base #16) has a live market value of 4,922 Sparks, about $49.22 at the latest market price. That market price for Zapdos was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 4,922 Sparks is the figure shown for Zapdos in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Zapdos, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 4,183 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Base pack is 8,300 Sparks; this card's market value is 4,922 Sparks. Among the 102 priced cards in Base, Zapdos is the 10th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 246 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Charizard at 95,465 Sparks.
How to pull Zapdos
In a Base pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Holo card about 33.3% of the time. In other words, about one Base pack in 3 lands a Rare Holo card in that slot. Zapdos is one of 16 priced Rare Holo cards in Base that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Base: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Base page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Base box commits its card order before the first pack is sold, so each rip can be checked once the box sells out.
Rarity and era
Zapdos is a Rare Holo card, number 16 in Base. Base lists 16 Rare Holo cards out of 102 cards in total, about 16% of the set list. Among the 16 priced Rare Holo cards, market values run from 1,870 Sparks to 95,465 Sparks, and Zapdos ranks 10th of them. Base is part of the Base series and sits in the Vintage era of the PackLab catalog. Vintage sets come from the early years of the hobby, when holographic rares were the main chase and sealed packs were far fewer.
About Base
Base was released on January 9, 1999 and lists 102 cards on PackLab, 102 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Base carry a combined market value of 230,938 Sparks. By market value, Zapdos sits just below Gyarados (5,475 Sparks) and just above Clefairy (4,618 Sparks).
