Shadow Circle
XY · #126 · Uncommon · Mid-era · 2014
Pulling Shadow Circle in an XY pack is about 100% (Uncommon slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Shadow Circle market value
Shadow Circle (XY #126) has a live market value of 25 Sparks, about $0.25 at the latest market price. That market price for Shadow Circle was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 25 Sparks is the figure shown for Shadow Circle in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Shadow Circle, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 21 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. An XY pack is 1,800 Sparks; this card's market value is 25 Sparks. Among the 146 priced cards in XY, Shadow Circle is the 120th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 42 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Blastoise-EX at 17,486 Sparks.
How to pull Shadow Circle
In an XY pack, the Uncommon slot shows an Uncommon card about 100% of the time. Shadow Circle is one of 42 priced Uncommon cards in XY that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for XY: the full slot-by-slot table is on the XY page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every XY 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
Shadow Circle is an Uncommon card, number 126 in XY. XY lists 42 Uncommon cards out of 146 cards in total, about 29% of the set list. Among the 42 priced Uncommon cards, market values run from 16 Sparks to 455 Sparks, and Shadow Circle ranks 33rd of them. XY is part of the XY series and sits in the Mid-era era of the PackLab catalog. Mid-era sets sit between the early classics and the current releases, and sealed packs from them are harder to find today.
About XY
XY was released on February 5, 2014 and lists 146 cards on PackLab, 146 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in XY carry a combined market value of 84,602 Sparks. By market value, Shadow Circle sits just below Professor Sycamore (25 Sparks) and just above Staryu (25 Sparks).
