Magneton
Base Set 2 · #9 · Rare Holo · Vintage · 2000
Pulling Magneton in a Base Set 2 pack is about 33.3% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Magneton market value
Magneton (Base Set 2 #9) has a live market value of 2,651 Sparks, about $26.51 at the latest market price. That market price for Magneton was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 2,651 Sparks is the figure shown for Magneton in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Magneton, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 2,253 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 2,651 Sparks. Among the 130 priced cards in Base Set 2, Magneton is the 18th 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 Magneton
In a Base Set 2 pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Holo card about 33.3% of the time. In other words, about one Base Set 2 pack in 3 lands a Rare Holo card in that slot. Magneton is one of 20 priced Rare Holo 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
Magneton is a Rare Holo card, number 9 in Base Set 2. Base Set 2 lists 20 Rare Holo cards out of 130 cards in total, about 15% of the set list. Among the 20 priced Rare Holo cards, market values run from 2,171 Sparks to 39,975 Sparks, and Magneton ranks 17th 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, Magneton sits just below Clefairy (2,812 Sparks) and just above Hitmonchan (2,568 Sparks).
