What is Houndoom from Great Encounters worth?

Houndoom has a live market value of 750 Sparks, about $7.50, last updated on October 19, 2026.

What do I get if I sell Houndoom back?

You can sell Houndoom back instantly at 85% of market value, which is 637 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab.

Houndoom

Great Encounters · #18 · Rare · Mid-era · 2008

Live market value

750 / $7.50

Pulling Houndoom in a Great Encounters pack is about 55.3% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.

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Houndoom market value

Houndoom (Great Encounters #18) has a live market value of 750 Sparks, about $7.50 at the latest market price. That market price for Houndoom was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 750 Sparks is the figure shown for Houndoom in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Houndoom, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 637 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Great Encounters pack is 4,225 Sparks; this card's market value is 750 Sparks. Among the 106 priced cards in Great Encounters, Houndoom is the 26th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 127 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Darkrai LV.X at 26,242 Sparks.

How to pull Houndoom

In a Great Encounters pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare card about 55.3% of the time. Houndoom is one of 21 priced Rare cards in Great Encounters that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Great Encounters: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Great Encounters page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Great Encounters box commits its card order before the first pack is sold, so each rip can be checked once the box sells out.

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Rarity and era

Houndoom is a Rare card, number 18 in Great Encounters. Great Encounters lists 21 Rare cards out of 106 cards in total, about 20% of the set list. Among the 21 priced Rare cards, market values run from 130 Sparks to 1,666 Sparks, and Houndoom ranks 7th of them. Great Encounters is part of the Diamond & Pearl 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 Great Encounters

Great Encounters was released on February 1, 2008 and lists 106 cards on PackLab, 106 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Great Encounters carry a combined market value of 135,728 Sparks. By market value, Houndoom sits just below Unown [G] (780 Sparks) and just above Rare Candy (673 Sparks).