Sandslash
HeartGold & SoulSilver · #29 · Rare · Mid-era · 2010
Pulling Sandslash in a HeartGold & SoulSilver pack is about 49.5% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Sandslash market value
Sandslash (HeartGold & SoulSilver #29) has a live market value of 302 Sparks, about $3.02 at the latest market price. That market price for Sandslash was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 302 Sparks is the figure shown for Sandslash in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Sandslash, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 256 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 302 Sparks. Among the 124 priced cards in HeartGold & SoulSilver, Sandslash is the 70th 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 Sandslash
In a HeartGold & SoulSilver pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare card about 49.5% of the time. In other words, about one HeartGold & SoulSilver pack in 2 lands a Rare card in that slot. Sandslash is one of 21 priced Rare 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
Sandslash is a Rare card, number 29 in HeartGold & SoulSilver. HeartGold & SoulSilver lists 21 Rare cards out of 124 cards in total, about 17% of the set list. Among the 21 priced Rare cards, market values run from 91 Sparks to 1,609 Sparks, and Sandslash ranks 16th 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, Sandslash sits just below Tyrogue (314 Sparks) and just above Vulpix (295 Sparks).
