Pinsir
Base Set 2 · #29 · Rare · Vintage · 2000
Pulling Pinsir in a Base Set 2 pack is about 66.7% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Pinsir market value
Pinsir (Base Set 2 #29) has a live market value of 447 Sparks, about $4.47 at the latest market price. That market price for Pinsir was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 447 Sparks is the figure shown for Pinsir in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Pinsir, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 379 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 447 Sparks. Among the 130 priced cards in Base Set 2, Pinsir is the 34th 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 Pinsir
In a Base Set 2 pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare card about 66.7% of the time. Pinsir 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.
Rarity and era
Pinsir is a Rare card, number 29 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 Pinsir ranks 12th 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, Pinsir sits just below Kangaskhan (452 Sparks) and just above Dugtrio (446 Sparks).
