Raichu
HeartGold & SoulSilver · #10 · Rare Holo · Mid-era · 2010
Pulling Raichu in a HeartGold & SoulSilver pack is about 24.1% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Raichu market value
Raichu (HeartGold & SoulSilver #10) has a live market value of 3,595 Sparks, about $35.95 at the latest market price. That market price for Raichu was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 3,595 Sparks is the figure shown for Raichu in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Raichu, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 3,055 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A HeartGold & SoulSilver pack is 6,450 Sparks; this card's market value is 3,595 Sparks. Among the 124 priced cards in HeartGold & SoulSilver, Raichu is the 19th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 372 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Lugia LEGEND at 42,285 Sparks.
How to pull Raichu
In a HeartGold & SoulSilver pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Holo card about 24.1% of the time. In other words, about one HeartGold & SoulSilver pack in 4 lands a Rare Holo card in that slot. Raichu is one of 14 priced Rare Holo cards in HeartGold & SoulSilver that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for HeartGold & SoulSilver: the full slot-by-slot table is on the HeartGold & SoulSilver page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every HeartGold & SoulSilver 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
Raichu is a Rare Holo card, number 10 in HeartGold & SoulSilver. HeartGold & SoulSilver lists 14 Rare Holo cards out of 124 cards in total, about 11% of the set list. Among the 14 priced Rare Holo cards, market values run from 850 Sparks to 16,611 Sparks, and Raichu ranks 6th of them. HeartGold & SoulSilver is part of the HeartGold & SoulSilver 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 HeartGold & SoulSilver
HeartGold & SoulSilver was released on February 10, 2010 and lists 124 cards on PackLab, 124 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in HeartGold & SoulSilver carry a combined market value of 308,184 Sparks. By market value, Raichu sits just below Donphan (4,305 Sparks) and just above Wobbuffet (3,529 Sparks).
