Surfing Pikachu
Rising Rivals · #114 · Rare Secret · Mid-era · 2009
Pulling Surfing Pikachu in a Rising Rivals pack is about 0.7% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Surfing Pikachu market value
Surfing Pikachu (Rising Rivals #114) has a live market value of 38,858 Sparks, about $388.58 at the latest market price. That market price for Surfing Pikachu was last updated on October 22, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 38,858 Sparks is the figure shown for Surfing Pikachu in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Surfing Pikachu, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 33,029 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Rising Rivals pack is 5,425 Sparks; this card's market value is 38,858 Sparks. Among the 114 priced cards in Rising Rivals, Surfing Pikachu is the 2nd most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 186 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Snorlax LV.X at 99,999 Sparks.
How to pull Surfing Pikachu
In a Rising Rivals pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Secret card about 0.7% of the time. In other words, about one Rising Rivals pack in 143 lands a Rare Secret card in that slot. Surfing Pikachu is one of 3 priced Rare Secret cards in Rising Rivals that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Rising Rivals: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Rising Rivals page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Rising Rivals 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
Surfing Pikachu is a Rare Secret card, number 114 in Rising Rivals. Rising Rivals lists 3 Rare Secret cards out of 120 cards in total, about 3% of the set list. Among the 3 priced Rare Secret cards, market values run from 26,039 Sparks to 38,858 Sparks, and Surfing Pikachu ranks 1st of them. Rising Rivals 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 Rising Rivals
Rising Rivals was released on May 16, 2009 and lists 120 cards on PackLab, 114 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Rising Rivals carry a combined market value of 395,326 Sparks. By market value, Surfing Pikachu sits just below Snorlax LV.X (99,999 Sparks) and just above Infernape E4 LV.X (35,000 Sparks).
