Venonat
Base Set 2 · #97 · Common · Vintage · 2000
Pulling Venonat in a Base Set 2 pack is about 100% (Basic Energy slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Venonat market value
Venonat (Base Set 2 #97) has a live market value of 107 Sparks, about $1.07 at the latest market price. That market price for Venonat was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 107 Sparks is the figure shown for Venonat in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Venonat, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 90 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 107 Sparks. Among the 130 priced cards in Base Set 2, Venonat is the 77th 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 Venonat
In a Base Set 2 pack, the Basic Energy slot shows a Common card about 100% of the time. Venonat is one of 42 priced Common 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
Venonat is a Common card, number 97 in Base Set 2. Base Set 2 lists 42 Common cards out of 130 cards in total, about 32% of the set list. Among the 42 priced Common cards, market values run from 21 Sparks to 441 Sparks, and Venonat ranks 8th 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, Venonat sits just below Magmar (108 Sparks) and just above Pidgey (105 Sparks).
