Steelix
Sandstorm · #23 · Rare · Mid-era · 2003
Pulling Steelix in a Sandstorm pack is about 49.2% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Steelix market value
Steelix (Sandstorm #23) has a live market value of 384 Sparks, about $3.84 at the latest market price. That market price for Steelix was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 384 Sparks is the figure shown for Steelix in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Steelix, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 326 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 384 Sparks. Among the 100 priced cards in Sandstorm, Steelix is the 36th 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 Steelix
In a Sandstorm pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare card about 49.2% of the time. In other words, about one Sandstorm pack in 2 lands a Rare card in that slot. Steelix is one of 12 priced Rare 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.
Rarity and era
Steelix is a Rare card, number 23 in Sandstorm. Sandstorm lists 12 Rare cards out of 100 cards in total, about 12% of the set list. Among the 12 priced Rare cards, market values run from 29 Sparks to 1,303 Sparks, and Steelix ranks 5th 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, Steelix sits just below Murkrow (394 Sparks) and just above Pikachu (366 Sparks).
