Metal Core Barrier
Unbroken Bonds · #232 · Rare Secret · Modern · 2019
Pulling Metal Core Barrier in an Unbroken Bonds pack is about 2.5% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Metal Core Barrier market value
Metal Core Barrier (Unbroken Bonds #232) has a live market value of 315 Sparks, about $3.15 at the latest market price. That market price for Metal Core Barrier was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 315 Sparks is the figure shown for Metal Core Barrier in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Metal Core Barrier, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 267 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. An Unbroken Bonds pack is 2,325 Sparks; this card's market value is 315 Sparks. Among the 235 priced cards in Unbroken Bonds, Metal Core Barrier is the 68th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 48 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Gardevoir & Sylveon-GX at 70,080 Sparks.
How to pull Metal Core Barrier
In an Unbroken Bonds pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Secret card about 2.5% of the time. In other words, about one Unbroken Bonds pack in 40 lands a Rare Secret card in that slot. Metal Core Barrier is one of 6 priced Rare Secret cards in Unbroken Bonds that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Unbroken Bonds: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Unbroken Bonds page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Unbroken Bonds 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
Metal Core Barrier is a Rare Secret card, number 232 in Unbroken Bonds. Unbroken Bonds lists 6 Rare Secret cards out of 246 cards in total, about 2% of the set list. Among the 6 priced Rare Secret cards, market values run from 279 Sparks to 4,528 Sparks, and Metal Core Barrier ranks 5th of them. Unbroken Bonds is part of the Sun & Moon series and sits in the Modern era of the PackLab catalog. Modern-era sets are recent and widely opened, and their chase cards are usually the full-art and illustration rares.
About Unbroken Bonds
Unbroken Bonds was released on May 3, 2019 and lists 246 cards on PackLab, 235 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Unbroken Bonds carry a combined market value of 398,278 Sparks. By market value, Metal Core Barrier sits just below Mewtwo (324 Sparks) and just above Slowbro (315 Sparks).
