Kabuto
Sandstorm · #39 · Uncommon · Mid-era · 2003
Pulling Kabuto in a Sandstorm pack is about 100% (Uncommon slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Kabuto market value
Kabuto (Sandstorm #39) has a live market value of 462 Sparks, about $4.62 at the latest market price. That market price for Kabuto was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 462 Sparks is the figure shown for Kabuto in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Kabuto, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 392 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 462 Sparks. Among the 100 priced cards in Sandstorm, Kabuto is the 31st 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 Kabuto
In a Sandstorm pack, the Uncommon slot shows an Uncommon card about 100% of the time. Kabuto is one of 33 priced Uncommon 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
Kabuto is an Uncommon card, number 39 in Sandstorm. Sandstorm lists 33 Uncommon cards out of 100 cards in total, about 33% of the set list. Among the 33 priced Uncommon cards, market values run from 7 Sparks to 892 Sparks, and Kabuto 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, Kabuto sits just below Quilava (516 Sparks) and just above Illumise (445 Sparks).
