Blaine
Gym Challenge · #17 · Rare Holo · Vintage · 2000
Pulling Blaine in a Gym Challenge pack is about 33.3% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Blaine market value
Blaine (Gym Challenge #17) has a live market value of 8,377 Sparks, about $83.77 at the latest market price. That market price for Blaine was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 8,377 Sparks is the figure shown for Blaine in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Blaine, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 7,120 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Gym Challenge pack is 21,300 Sparks; this card's market value is 8,377 Sparks. Among the 132 priced cards in Gym Challenge, Blaine is the 20th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 665 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Erika's Venusaur at 77,945 Sparks.
How to pull Blaine
In a Gym Challenge pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Holo card about 33.3% of the time. In other words, about one Gym Challenge pack in 3 lands a Rare Holo card in that slot. Blaine is one of 20 priced Rare Holo cards in Gym Challenge that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Gym Challenge: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Gym Challenge page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Gym Challenge 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
Blaine is a Rare Holo card, number 17 in Gym Challenge. Gym Challenge lists 20 Rare Holo cards out of 132 cards in total, about 15% of the set list. Among the 20 priced Rare Holo cards, market values run from 5,499 Sparks to 77,945 Sparks, and Blaine ranks 19th of them. Gym Challenge is part of the Gym series and sits in the Vintage era of the PackLab catalog. Vintage sets come from the early years of the hobby, when holographic rares were the main chase and sealed packs were far fewer.
About Gym Challenge
Gym Challenge was released on October 16, 2000 and lists 132 cards on PackLab, 132 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Gym Challenge carry a combined market value of 733,069 Sparks. By market value, Blaine sits just below Koga's Ditto (10,000 Sparks) and just above Erika's Kindness (6,744 Sparks).
