Sandshrew
Team Rocket Returns · #74 · Common · Mid-era · 2004
Pulling Sandshrew in a Team Rocket Returns pack is about 100% (Common slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Sandshrew market value
Sandshrew (Team Rocket Returns #74) has a live market value of 242 Sparks, about $2.42 at the latest market price. That market price for Sandshrew was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 242 Sparks is the figure shown for Sandshrew in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Sandshrew, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 205 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 242 Sparks. Among the 111 priced cards in Team Rocket Returns, Sandshrew is the 82nd 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 Sandshrew
In a Team Rocket Returns pack, the Common slot shows a Common card about 100% of the time. Sandshrew is one of 32 priced Common 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
Sandshrew is a Common card, number 74 in Team Rocket Returns. Team Rocket Returns lists 32 Common cards out of 111 cards in total, about 29% of the set list. Among the 32 priced Common cards, market values run from 6 Sparks to 3,135 Sparks, and Sandshrew ranks 14th 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, Sandshrew sits just below Quagsire (254 Sparks) and just above Dark Pupitar (219 Sparks).
