Tentacool
Fossil · #56 · Common · Vintage · 1999
Pulling Tentacool in a Fossil pack is about 100% (Basic Energy slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Tentacool market value
Tentacool (Fossil #56) has a live market value of 156 Sparks, about $1.56 at the latest market price. That market price for Tentacool was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 156 Sparks is the figure shown for Tentacool in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Tentacool, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 132 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Fossil pack is 12,275 Sparks; this card's market value is 156 Sparks. Among the 62 priced cards in Fossil, Tentacool is the 45th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 448 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Dragonite at 56,473 Sparks.
How to pull Tentacool
In a Fossil pack, the Basic Energy slot shows a Common card about 100% of the time. Tentacool is one of 16 priced Common cards in Fossil that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Fossil: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Fossil page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Fossil 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
Tentacool is a Common card, number 56 in Fossil. Fossil lists 16 Common cards out of 62 cards in total, about 26% of the set list. Among the 16 priced Common cards, market values run from 43 Sparks to 402 Sparks, and Tentacool ranks 10th of them. Fossil 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 Fossil
Fossil was released on October 10, 1999 and lists 62 cards on PackLab, 62 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Fossil carry a combined market value of 347,360 Sparks. By market value, Tentacool sits just below Golem (165 Sparks) and just above Slowbro (145 Sparks).
