Basculin
Emerging Powers · #24 · Common · Mid-era · 2011
Pulling Basculin in an Emerging Powers pack is about 100% (Common slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Basculin market value
Basculin (Emerging Powers #24) has a live market value of 46 Sparks, about $0.46 at the latest market price. That market price for Basculin was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 46 Sparks is the figure shown for Basculin in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Basculin, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 39 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. An Emerging Powers pack is 1,175 Sparks; this card's market value is 46 Sparks. Among the 98 priced cards in Emerging Powers, Basculin is the 50th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 46 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Thundurus at 2,332 Sparks.
How to pull Basculin
In an Emerging Powers pack, the Common slot shows a Common card about 100% of the time. Basculin is one of 34 priced Common cards in Emerging Powers that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Emerging Powers: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Emerging Powers page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Emerging Powers 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
Basculin is a Common card, number 24 in Emerging Powers. Emerging Powers lists 34 Common cards out of 98 cards in total, about 35% of the set list. Among the 34 priced Common cards, market values run from 19 Sparks to 104 Sparks, and Basculin ranks 5th of them. Emerging Powers is part of the Black & White series and sits in the Mid-era era of the PackLab catalog. Mid-era sets sit between the early classics and the current releases, and sealed packs from them are harder to find today.
About Emerging Powers
Emerging Powers was released on August 31, 2011 and lists 98 cards on PackLab, 98 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Emerging Powers carry a combined market value of 11,675 Sparks. By market value, Basculin sits just below Joltik (47 Sparks) and just above Sewaddle (46 Sparks).
