Ordinary Rod
Sword & Shield · #171 · Uncommon · Modern · 2020
Pulling Ordinary Rod in a Sword & Shield pack is about 100% (Uncommon slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Ordinary Rod market value
Ordinary Rod (Sword & Shield #171) has a live market value of 20 Sparks, about $0.20 at the latest market price. That market price for Ordinary Rod was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 20 Sparks is the figure shown for Ordinary Rod in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Ordinary Rod, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 17 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Sword & Shield pack is 650 Sparks; this card's market value is 20 Sparks. Among the 216 priced cards in Sword & Shield, Ordinary Rod is the 135th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 24 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Snorlax VMAX at 10,699 Sparks.
How to pull Ordinary Rod
In a Sword & Shield pack, the Uncommon slot shows an Uncommon card about 100% of the time. Ordinary Rod is one of 56 priced Uncommon cards in Sword & Shield that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Sword & Shield: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Sword & Shield page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Sword & Shield 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
Ordinary Rod is an Uncommon card, number 171 in Sword & Shield. Sword & Shield lists 56 Uncommon cards out of 224 cards in total, about 25% of the set list. Among the 56 priced Uncommon cards, market values run from 3 Sparks to 40 Sparks, and Ordinary Rod ranks 24th of them. Sword & Shield is part of the Sword & Shield 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 Sword & Shield
Sword & Shield was released on February 7, 2020 and lists 224 cards on PackLab, 216 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Sword & Shield carry a combined market value of 50,562 Sparks. By market value, Ordinary Rod sits just below Mudbray (20 Sparks) and just above Skorupi (20 Sparks).
