Articuno-EX
Plasma Storm · #132 · Rare Ultra · Mid-era · 2013
Pulling Articuno-EX in a Plasma Storm pack is about 3.9% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Articuno-EX market value
Articuno-EX (Plasma Storm #132) has a live market value of 45,449 Sparks, about $454.49 at the latest market price. That market price for Articuno-EX was last updated on October 22, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 45,449 Sparks is the figure shown for Articuno-EX in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Articuno-EX, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 38,631 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Plasma Storm pack is 3,925 Sparks; this card's market value is 45,449 Sparks. Among the 138 priced cards in Plasma Storm, Articuno-EX is the 4th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 71 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Lugia-EX at 221,924 Sparks.
How to pull Articuno-EX
In a Plasma Storm pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Ultra card about 3.9% of the time. In other words, about one Plasma Storm pack in 26 lands a Rare Ultra card in that slot. Articuno-EX is one of 5 priced Rare Ultra cards in Plasma Storm that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Plasma Storm: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Plasma Storm page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Plasma Storm 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
Articuno-EX is a Rare Ultra card, number 132 in Plasma Storm. Plasma Storm lists 5 Rare Ultra cards out of 138 cards in total, about 4% of the set list. Among the 5 priced Rare Ultra cards, market values run from 5,518 Sparks to 221,924 Sparks, and Articuno-EX ranks 2nd of them. Plasma Storm 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 Plasma Storm
Plasma Storm was released on February 6, 2013 and lists 138 cards on PackLab, 138 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Plasma Storm carry a combined market value of 469,081 Sparks. By market value, Articuno-EX sits just below Blastoise (50,000 Sparks) and just above Victini-EX (20,135 Sparks).
