Ampharos
HeartGold & SoulSilver · #105 · Rare Prime · Mid-era · 2010
Pulling Ampharos in a HeartGold & SoulSilver pack is about 5.5% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Ampharos market value
Ampharos (HeartGold & SoulSilver #105) has a live market value of 8,755 Sparks, about $87.55 at the latest market price. That market price for Ampharos was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 8,755 Sparks is the figure shown for Ampharos in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Ampharos, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 7,441 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 8,755 Sparks. Among the 124 priced cards in HeartGold & SoulSilver, Ampharos is the 9th 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 Ampharos
In a HeartGold & SoulSilver pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Prime card about 5.5% of the time. In other words, about one HeartGold & SoulSilver pack in 18 lands a Rare Prime card in that slot. Ampharos is one of 6 priced Rare Prime 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
Ampharos is a Rare Prime card, number 105 in HeartGold & SoulSilver. HeartGold & SoulSilver lists 6 Rare Prime cards out of 124 cards in total, about 5% of the set list. Among the 6 priced Rare Prime cards, market values run from 4,305 Sparks to 12,455 Sparks, and Ampharos ranks 3rd 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, Ampharos sits just below Typhlosion (12,012 Sparks) and just above Arcanine (8,439 Sparks).
