Butterfree
Generations · #5 · Rare Holo · Mid-era · 2016
Pulling Butterfree in a Generations pack is about 11.7% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Butterfree market value
Butterfree (Generations #5) has a live market value of 427 Sparks, about $4.27 at the latest market price. That market price for Butterfree was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 427 Sparks is the figure shown for Butterfree in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Butterfree, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 362 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Generations pack is 2,775 Sparks; this card's market value is 427 Sparks. Among the 92 priced cards in Generations, Butterfree is the 26th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 54 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Flareon-EX at 20,586 Sparks.
How to pull Butterfree
In a Generations pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Holo card about 11.7% of the time. In other words, about one Generations pack in 9 lands a Rare Holo card in that slot. Butterfree is one of 7 priced Rare Holo cards in Generations that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Generations: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Generations page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Generations 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
Butterfree is a Rare Holo card, number 5 in Generations. Generations lists 7 Rare Holo cards out of 117 cards in total, about 6% of the set list. Among the 7 priced Rare Holo cards, market values run from 185 Sparks to 5,324 Sparks, and Butterfree ranks 4th of them. Generations is part of the XY 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 Generations
Generations was released on February 22, 2016 and lists 117 cards on PackLab, 92 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Generations carry a combined market value of 158,808 Sparks. By market value, Butterfree sits just below Imakuni? (444 Sparks) and just above Pikachu (334 Sparks).
