Palkia
Great Encounters · #26 · Rare · Mid-era · 2008
Pulling Palkia in a Great Encounters pack is about 55.3% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Palkia market value
Palkia (Great Encounters #26) has a live market value of 281 Sparks, about $2.81 at the latest market price. That market price for Palkia was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 281 Sparks is the figure shown for Palkia in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Palkia, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 238 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 281 Sparks. Among the 106 priced cards in Great Encounters, Palkia is the 39th 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 Palkia
In a Great Encounters pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare card about 55.3% of the time. Palkia 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.
Rarity and era
Palkia is a Rare card, number 26 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 Palkia ranks 14th 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, Palkia sits just below Wigglytuff (289 Sparks) and just above Dialga (262 Sparks).
