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Iron Hands ex, Paradox Rift #248 (Special Illustration Rare)

Iron Hands ex

Paradox Rift · #248 · Special Illustration Rare · Latest · 2023

Live market value
1,181 Sparks / $11.81

Pulling Iron Hands ex in a Paradox Rift pack is about 4.3% (Foil rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.

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Iron Hands ex market value

Iron Hands ex (Paradox Rift #248) has a live market value of 1,181 Sparks, about $11.81 at the latest market price. That market price for Iron Hands ex was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 1,181 Sparks is the figure shown for Iron Hands ex in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Iron Hands ex, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 1,003 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Paradox Rift pack is 700 Sparks; this card's market value is 1,181 Sparks. Among the 266 priced cards in Paradox Rift, Iron Hands ex is the 29th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 20 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Groudon at 9,555 Sparks.

How to pull Iron Hands ex

In a Paradox Rift pack, the Foil rare slot shows a Special Illustration Rare card about 4.3% of the time. In other words, about one Paradox Rift pack in 23 lands a Special Illustration Rare card in that slot. Iron Hands ex is one of 15 priced Special Illustration Rare cards in Paradox Rift that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Paradox Rift: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Paradox Rift page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Paradox Rift box commits its card order before the first pack is sold, so each rip can be checked once the box sells out.

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Rarity and era

Iron Hands ex is a Special Illustration Rare card, number 248 in Paradox Rift. Paradox Rift lists 15 Special Illustration Rare cards out of 274 cards in total, about 5% of the set list. Among the 15 priced Special Illustration Rare cards, market values run from 547 Sparks to 4,374 Sparks, and Iron Hands ex ranks 9th of them. Paradox Rift is part of the Scarlet & Violet series and sits in the Latest era of the PackLab catalog. Latest-era sets are the newest releases, so their card prices are still settling as collectors open them.

About Paradox Rift

Paradox Rift was released on November 3, 2023 and lists 274 cards on PackLab, 266 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Paradox Rift carry a combined market value of 111,466 Sparks. By market value, Iron Hands ex sits just below Gimmighoul (1,246 Sparks) and just above Aegislash (1,166 Sparks).

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