Piplup
Platinum · #85 · Common · Mid-era · 2009
Pulling Piplup in a Platinum pack is about 100% (Common slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Piplup market value
Piplup (Platinum #85) has a live market value of 439 Sparks, about $4.39 at the latest market price. That market price for Piplup was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 439 Sparks is the figure shown for Piplup in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Piplup, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 373 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Platinum pack is 4,800 Sparks; this card's market value is 439 Sparks. Among the 130 priced cards in Platinum, Piplup is the 46th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 154 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Dialga G LV.X at 29,787 Sparks.
How to pull Piplup
In a Platinum pack, the Common slot shows a Common card about 100% of the time. Piplup is one of 39 priced Common cards in Platinum that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Platinum: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Platinum page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Platinum 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
Piplup is a Common card, number 85 in Platinum. Platinum lists 39 Common cards out of 133 cards in total, about 29% of the set list. Among the 39 priced Common cards, market values run from 27 Sparks to 2,494 Sparks, and Piplup ranks 7th of them. Platinum is part of the Platinum 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 Platinum
Platinum was released on February 11, 2009 and lists 133 cards on PackLab, 130 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Platinum carry a combined market value of 176,632 Sparks. By market value, Piplup sits just below Cyrus's Conspiracy (458 Sparks) and just above Crobat G (395 Sparks).
