Counter Gain
Surging Sparks · #249 · Hyper Rare · Latest · 2024
Pulling Counter Gain in a Surging Sparks pack is about 1.5% (Foil rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Counter Gain market value
Counter Gain (Surging Sparks #249) has a live market value of 218 Sparks, about $2.18 at the latest market price. That market price for Counter Gain was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 218 Sparks is the figure shown for Counter Gain in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Counter Gain, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 185 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Surging Sparks pack is 725 Sparks; this card's market value is 218 Sparks. Among the 252 priced cards in Surging Sparks, Counter Gain is the 50th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 18 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Pikachu ex at 26,698 Sparks.
How to pull Counter Gain
In a Surging Sparks pack, the Foil rare slot shows a Hyper Rare card about 1.5% of the time. In other words, about one Surging Sparks pack in 67 lands a Hyper Rare card in that slot. Counter Gain is one of 6 priced Hyper Rare cards in Surging Sparks that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Surging Sparks: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Surging Sparks page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Surging Sparks 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
Counter Gain is a Hyper Rare card, number 249 in Surging Sparks. Surging Sparks lists 6 Hyper Rare cards out of 260 cards in total, about 2% of the set list. Among the 6 priced Hyper Rare cards, market values run from 218 Sparks to 7,119 Sparks, and Counter Gain ranks 6th of them. Surging Sparks 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 Surging Sparks
Surging Sparks was released on November 8, 2024 and lists 260 cards on PackLab, 252 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Surging Sparks carry a combined market value of 111,885 Sparks. By market value, Counter Gain sits just below Flygon ex (236 Sparks) and just above Black Kyurem ex (217 Sparks).
