Ampharos
Expedition Base Set · #2 · Rare Holo · Vintage · 2002
Pulling Ampharos in an Expedition Base Set pack is about 33.3% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Ampharos market value
Ampharos (Expedition Base Set #2) has a live market value of 17,500 Sparks, about $175.00 at the latest market price. That market price for Ampharos was last updated on July 10, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 17,500 Sparks is the figure shown for Ampharos in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Ampharos, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 14,875 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 17,500 Sparks. Among the 165 priced cards in Expedition Base Set, Ampharos is the 12th 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 Ampharos
In an Expedition Base Set pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Holo card about 33.3% of the time. In other words, about one Expedition Base Set pack in 3 lands a Rare Holo card in that slot. Ampharos is one of 32 priced Rare Holo 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.
Rarity and era
Ampharos is a Rare Holo card, number 2 in Expedition Base Set. Expedition Base Set lists 32 Rare Holo cards out of 165 cards in total, about 19% of the set list. Among the 32 priced Rare Holo cards, market values run from 4,976 Sparks to 79,969 Sparks, and Ampharos ranks 12th 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, Ampharos sits just below Meganium (18,001 Sparks) and just above Charizard (17,332 Sparks).
