Magcargo
Great Encounters · #45 · Uncommon · Mid-era · 2008
Pulling Magcargo in a Great Encounters pack is about 100% (Uncommon slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Magcargo market value
Magcargo (Great Encounters #45) has a live market value of 57 Sparks, about $0.57 at the latest market price. That market price for Magcargo was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 57 Sparks is the figure shown for Magcargo in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Magcargo, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 48 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 57 Sparks. Among the 106 priced cards in Great Encounters, Magcargo is the 79th 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 Magcargo
In a Great Encounters pack, the Uncommon slot shows an Uncommon card about 100% of the time. Magcargo is one of 32 priced Uncommon 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
Magcargo is an Uncommon card, number 45 in Great Encounters. Great Encounters lists 32 Uncommon cards out of 106 cards in total, about 30% of the set list. Among the 32 priced Uncommon cards, market values run from 28 Sparks to 780 Sparks, and Magcargo ranks 24th 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, Magcargo sits just below Snubbull (58 Sparks) and just above Gorebyss (55 Sparks).
