Dark Gyarados
Team Rocket · #8 · Rare Holo · Vintage · 2000
Pulling Dark Gyarados in a Team Rocket pack is about 33.3% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Dark Gyarados market value
Dark Gyarados (Team Rocket #8) has a live market value of 22,218 Sparks, about $222.18 at the latest market price. That market price for Dark Gyarados was last updated on October 26, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 22,218 Sparks is the figure shown for Dark Gyarados in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Dark Gyarados, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 18,885 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Team Rocket pack is 15,300 Sparks; this card's market value is 22,218 Sparks. Among the 83 priced cards in Team Rocket, Dark Gyarados is the 4th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 1,155 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Dark Dragonite at 53,153 Sparks.
How to pull Dark Gyarados
In a Team Rocket pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Holo card about 33.3% of the time. In other words, about one Team Rocket pack in 3 lands a Rare Holo card in that slot. Dark Gyarados is one of 17 priced Rare Holo cards in Team Rocket that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Team Rocket: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Team Rocket page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Team Rocket 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
Dark Gyarados is a Rare Holo card, number 8 in Team Rocket. Team Rocket lists 17 Rare Holo cards out of 83 cards in total, about 20% of the set list. Among the 17 priced Rare Holo cards, market values run from 4,067 Sparks to 53,153 Sparks, and Dark Gyarados ranks 3rd of them. Team Rocket 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 Team Rocket
Team Rocket was released on April 24, 2000 and lists 83 cards on PackLab, 83 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Team Rocket carry a combined market value of 367,879 Sparks. By market value, Dark Gyarados sits just below Dark Raichu (36,169 Sparks) and just above Dark Alakazam (17,888 Sparks).
