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Shiftry, Sandstorm #12 (Rare Holo)

Shiftry

Sandstorm · #12 · Rare Holo · Mid-era · 2003

Live market value
3,586 Sparks / $35.86

Pulling Shiftry in a Sandstorm pack is about 16.3% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.

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Shiftry market value

Shiftry (Sandstorm #12) has a live market value of 3,586 Sparks, about $35.86 at the latest market price. That market price for Shiftry was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 3,586 Sparks is the figure shown for Shiftry in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Shiftry, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 3,048 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Sandstorm pack is 4,825 Sparks; this card's market value is 3,586 Sparks. Among the 100 priced cards in Sandstorm, Shiftry is the 14th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 233 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Raichu ex at 35,699 Sparks.

How to pull Shiftry

In a Sandstorm pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Holo card about 16.3% of the time. In other words, about one Sandstorm pack in 6 lands a Rare Holo card in that slot. Shiftry is one of 14 priced Rare Holo cards in Sandstorm that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Sandstorm: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Sandstorm page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Sandstorm 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

Shiftry is a Rare Holo card, number 12 in Sandstorm. Sandstorm lists 14 Rare Holo cards out of 100 cards in total, about 14% of the set list. Among the 14 priced Rare Holo cards, market values run from 282 Sparks to 11,639 Sparks, and Shiftry ranks 7th of them. Sandstorm 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 Sandstorm

Sandstorm was released on September 18, 2003 and lists 100 cards on PackLab, 100 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Sandstorm carry a combined market value of 234,768 Sparks. By market value, Shiftry sits just below Zangoose (3,927 Sparks) and just above Cacturne (3,508 Sparks).

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