Banette
Crystal Guardians · #1 · Rare Holo · Mid-era · 2006
Pulling Banette in a Crystal Guardians pack is about 25.7% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Banette market value
Banette (Crystal Guardians #1) has a live market value of 1,931 Sparks, about $19.31 at the latest market price. That market price for Banette was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 1,931 Sparks is the figure shown for Banette in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Banette, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 1,641 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Crystal Guardians pack is 6,125 Sparks; this card's market value is 1,931 Sparks. Among the 100 priced cards in Crystal Guardians, Banette is the 24th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 302 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Alakazam ★ at 142,950 Sparks.
How to pull Banette
In a Crystal Guardians pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Holo card about 25.7% of the time. In other words, about one Crystal Guardians pack in 4 lands a Rare Holo card in that slot. Banette is one of 13 priced Rare Holo cards in Crystal Guardians that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Crystal Guardians: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Crystal Guardians page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Crystal Guardians 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
Banette is a Rare Holo card, number 1 in Crystal Guardians. Crystal Guardians lists 13 Rare Holo cards out of 100 cards in total, about 13% of the set list. Among the 13 priced Rare Holo cards, market values run from 988 Sparks to 25,997 Sparks, and Banette ranks 10th of them. Crystal Guardians is part of the EX 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 Crystal Guardians
Crystal Guardians was released on August 1, 2006 and lists 100 cards on PackLab, 100 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Crystal Guardians carry a combined market value of 543,962 Sparks. By market value, Banette sits just below Blastoise (2,047 Sparks) and just above Squirtle (1,881 Sparks).
