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Switch, Expedition Base Set #157 (Common)

Switch

Expedition Base Set · #157 · Common · Vintage · 2002

Live market value
200 Sparks / $2.00

Pulling Switch in an Expedition Base Set pack is about 100% (Common slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.

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Switch market value

Switch (Expedition Base Set #157) has a live market value of 200 Sparks, about $2.00 at the latest market price. That market price for Switch was last updated on July 10, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 200 Sparks is the figure shown for Switch in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Switch, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 170 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. An Expedition Base Set pack is 23,150 Sparks; this card's market value is 200 Sparks. Among the 165 priced cards in Expedition Base Set, Switch is the 147th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 1,136 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Dragonite at 79,969 Sparks.

How to pull Switch

In an Expedition Base Set pack, the Common slot shows a Common card about 100% of the time. Switch is one of 49 priced Common cards in Expedition Base Set that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Expedition Base Set: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Expedition Base Set page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Expedition Base Set 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

Switch is a Common card, number 157 in Expedition Base Set. Expedition Base Set lists 49 Common cards out of 165 cards in total, about 30% of the set list. Among the 49 priced Common cards, market values run from 48 Sparks to 6,088 Sparks, and Switch ranks 44th of them. Expedition Base Set is part of the E-Card series and sits in the Vintage era of the PackLab catalog. Vintage sets come from the early years of the hobby, when holographic rares were the main chase and sealed packs were far fewer.

About Expedition Base Set

Expedition Base Set was released on September 15, 2002 and lists 165 cards on PackLab, 165 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Expedition Base Set carry a combined market value of 924,607 Sparks. By market value, Switch sits just below Multi Technical Machine 01 (210 Sparks) and just above Water Energy (196 Sparks).

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