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Imposter Professor Oak, Base Set 2 #102 (Rare)

Imposter Professor Oak

Base Set 2 · #102 · Rare · Vintage · 2000

Live market value
335 Sparks / $3.35

Pulling Imposter Professor Oak in a Base Set 2 pack is about 66.7% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.

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Imposter Professor Oak market value

Imposter Professor Oak (Base Set 2 #102) has a live market value of 335 Sparks, about $3.35 at the latest market price. That market price for Imposter Professor Oak was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 335 Sparks is the figure shown for Imposter Professor Oak in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Imposter Professor Oak, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 284 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Base Set 2 pack is 4,875 Sparks; this card's market value is 335 Sparks. Among the 130 priced cards in Base Set 2, Imposter Professor Oak is the 40th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 143 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Charizard at 39,975 Sparks.

How to pull Imposter Professor Oak

In a Base Set 2 pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare card about 66.7% of the time. Imposter Professor Oak is one of 20 priced Rare cards in Base Set 2 that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Base Set 2: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Base Set 2 page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Base Set 2 box commits its card order before the first pack is sold, so each rip can be checked once the box sells out.

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Rarity and era

Imposter Professor Oak is a Rare card, number 102 in Base Set 2. Base Set 2 lists 20 Rare cards out of 130 cards in total, about 15% of the set list. Among the 20 priced Rare cards, market values run from 272 Sparks to 3,161 Sparks, and Imposter Professor Oak ranks 16th of them. Base Set 2 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 Set 2

Base Set 2 was released on February 24, 2000 and lists 130 cards on PackLab, 130 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Base Set 2 carry a combined market value of 166,998 Sparks. By market value, Imposter Professor Oak sits just below Pokémon Trader (348 Sparks) and just above Double Colorless Energy (334 Sparks).

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