Blastoise-EX
XY · #29 · Rare Holo EX · Mid-era · 2014
Pulling Blastoise-EX in an XY pack is about 21.9% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Blastoise-EX market value
Blastoise-EX (XY #29) has a live market value of 1,163 Sparks, about $11.63 at the latest market price. That market price for Blastoise-EX was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 1,163 Sparks is the figure shown for Blastoise-EX in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Blastoise-EX, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 988 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 1,163 Sparks. Among the 146 priced cards in XY, Blastoise-EX is the 12th 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 Blastoise-EX
In an XY pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Holo EX card about 21.9% of the time. In other words, about one XY pack in 5 lands a Rare Holo EX card in that slot. Blastoise-EX is one of 8 priced Rare Holo EX 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
Blastoise-EX is a Rare Holo EX card, number 29 in XY. XY lists 8 Rare Holo EX cards out of 146 cards in total, about 5% of the set list. Among the 8 priced Rare Holo EX cards, market values run from 492 Sparks to 3,289 Sparks, and Blastoise-EX ranks 5th 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, Blastoise-EX sits just below Greninja (1,188 Sparks) and just above Emolga-EX (819 Sparks).
