Electrode
Base · #21 · Rare · Vintage · 1999
Pulling Electrode in a Base pack is about 66.7% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Electrode market value
Electrode (Base #21) has a live market value of 973 Sparks, about $9.73 at the latest market price. That market price for Electrode was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 973 Sparks is the figure shown for Electrode in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Electrode, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 827 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 973 Sparks. Among the 102 priced cards in Base, Electrode is the 21st 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 Electrode
In a Base pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare card about 66.7% of the time. Electrode is one of 16 priced Rare 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
Electrode is a Rare card, number 21 in Base. Base lists 16 Rare cards out of 102 cards in total, about 16% of the set list. Among the 16 priced Rare cards, market values run from 316 Sparks to 1,778 Sparks, and Electrode ranks 4th 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, Electrode sits just below Electabuzz (1,002 Sparks) and just above Item Finder (934 Sparks).
