Raichu
XY · #43 · Rare Holo · Mid-era · 2014
Pulling Raichu in an XY pack is about 22.8% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Raichu market value
Raichu (XY #43) has a live market value of 374 Sparks, about $3.74 at the latest market price. That market price for Raichu was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 374 Sparks is the figure shown for Raichu in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Raichu, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 317 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 374 Sparks. Among the 146 priced cards in XY, Raichu is the 19th 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 Raichu
In an XY pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Holo card about 22.8% of the time. In other words, about one XY pack in 4 lands a Rare Holo card in that slot. Raichu is one of 16 priced Rare Holo 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
Raichu is a Rare Holo card, number 43 in XY. XY lists 16 Rare Holo cards out of 146 cards in total, about 11% of the set list. Among the 16 priced Rare Holo cards, market values run from 76 Sparks to 1,188 Sparks, and Raichu ranks 4th 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, Raichu sits just below Muscle Band (455 Sparks) and just above Water Energy (345 Sparks).
