Dark Raticate
Team Rocket Returns · #17 · Rare · Mid-era · 2004
Pulling Dark Raticate in a Team Rocket Returns pack is about 38.6% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Dark Raticate market value
Dark Raticate (Team Rocket Returns #17) has a live market value of 500 Sparks, about $5.00 at the latest market price. That market price for Dark Raticate was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 500 Sparks is the figure shown for Dark Raticate in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Dark Raticate, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 425 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Team Rocket Returns pack is 10,275 Sparks; this card's market value is 500 Sparks. Among the 111 priced cards in Team Rocket Returns, Dark Raticate is the 65th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 658 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Torchic ★ at 525,000 Sparks.
How to pull Dark Raticate
In a Team Rocket Returns pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare card about 38.6% of the time. In other words, about one Team Rocket Returns pack in 3 lands a Rare card in that slot. Dark Raticate is one of 13 priced Rare cards in Team Rocket Returns that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Team Rocket Returns: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Team Rocket Returns page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Team Rocket Returns 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
Dark Raticate is a Rare card, number 17 in Team Rocket Returns. Team Rocket Returns lists 13 Rare cards out of 111 cards in total, about 12% of the set list. Among the 13 priced Rare cards, market values run from 49 Sparks to 9,610 Sparks, and Dark Raticate ranks 8th of them. Team Rocket Returns 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 Team Rocket Returns
Team Rocket Returns was released on November 1, 2004 and lists 111 cards on PackLab, 111 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Team Rocket Returns carry a combined market value of 1,942,771 Sparks. By market value, Dark Raticate sits just below Wooper (528 Sparks) and just above Dark Golbat (480 Sparks).
