Shelmet
Darkness Ablaze · #9 · Common · Modern · 2020
Pulling Shelmet in a Darkness Ablaze pack is about 100% (Common slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Shelmet market value
Shelmet (Darkness Ablaze #9) has a live market value of 4 Sparks, about $0.04 at the latest market price. That market price for Shelmet was last updated on October 20, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 4 Sparks is the figure shown for Shelmet in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Shelmet, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 3 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 4 Sparks. Among the 201 priced cards in Darkness Ablaze, Shelmet is the 192nd most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 21 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Charizard VMAX at 3,886 Sparks.
How to pull Shelmet
In a Darkness Ablaze pack, the Common slot shows a Common card about 100% of the time. Shelmet is one of 53 priced Common 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
Shelmet is a Common card, number 9 in Darkness Ablaze. Darkness Ablaze lists 61 Common cards out of 209 cards in total, about 29% of the set list. Among the 53 priced Common cards, market values run from 2 Sparks to 37 Sparks, and Shelmet ranks 49th 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 23,451 Sparks. By market value, Shelmet sits just below Parasect (4 Sparks) and just above Simisage (4 Sparks).
