Houndoom V
Darkness Ablaze · #21 · Rare Holo V · Modern · 2020
Pulling Houndoom V in a Darkness Ablaze pack is about 15.9% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Houndoom V market value
Houndoom V (Darkness Ablaze #21) has a live market value of 231 Sparks, about $2.31 at the latest market price. That market price for Houndoom V was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 231 Sparks is the figure shown for Houndoom V in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Houndoom V, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 196 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Darkness Ablaze pack is 500 Sparks; this card's market value is 231 Sparks. Among the 201 priced cards in Darkness Ablaze, Houndoom V is the 25th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 21 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Charizard VMAX at 3,871 Sparks.
How to pull Houndoom V
In a Darkness Ablaze pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Holo V card about 15.9% of the time. In other words, about one Darkness Ablaze pack in 6 lands a Rare Holo V card in that slot. Houndoom V is one of 14 priced Rare Holo V cards in Darkness Ablaze that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Darkness Ablaze: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Darkness Ablaze page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Darkness Ablaze 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
Houndoom V is a Rare Holo V card, number 21 in Darkness Ablaze. Darkness Ablaze lists 14 Rare Holo V cards out of 209 cards in total, about 7% of the set list. Among the 14 priced Rare Holo V cards, market values run from 64 Sparks to 718 Sparks, and Houndoom V ranks 3rd of them. Darkness Ablaze 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 Darkness Ablaze
Darkness Ablaze was released on August 14, 2020 and lists 209 cards on PackLab, 201 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Darkness Ablaze carry a combined market value of 23,388 Sparks. By market value, Houndoom V sits just below Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing (248 Sparks) and just above Piers (216 Sparks).
