Prinplup
Dark Explorers · #28 · Uncommon · Mid-era · 2012
Pulling Prinplup in a Dark Explorers pack is about 100% (Uncommon slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Prinplup market value
Prinplup (Dark Explorers #28) has a live market value of 47 Sparks, about $0.47 at the latest market price. That market price for Prinplup was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 47 Sparks is the figure shown for Prinplup in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Prinplup, 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. A Dark Explorers pack is 5,700 Sparks; this card's market value is 47 Sparks. Among the 111 priced cards in Dark Explorers, Prinplup is the 85th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 135 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Gardevoir at 94,633 Sparks.
How to pull Prinplup
In a Dark Explorers pack, the Uncommon slot shows an Uncommon card about 100% of the time. Prinplup is one of 35 priced Uncommon cards in Dark Explorers that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Dark Explorers: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Dark Explorers page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Dark Explorers 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
Prinplup is an Uncommon card, number 28 in Dark Explorers. Dark Explorers lists 35 Uncommon cards out of 111 cards in total, about 32% of the set list. Among the 35 priced Uncommon cards, market values run from 33 Sparks to 2,373 Sparks, and Prinplup ranks 26th of them. Dark Explorers 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 Dark Explorers
Dark Explorers was released on May 9, 2012 and lists 111 cards on PackLab, 111 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Dark Explorers carry a combined market value of 408,344 Sparks. By market value, Prinplup sits just below Eelektrik (48 Sparks) and just above Herdier (45 Sparks).
