Zapdos
Roaring Skies · #23 · Rare · Mid-era · 2015
Pulling Zapdos in a Roaring Skies pack is about 46.5% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Zapdos market value
Zapdos (Roaring Skies #23) has a live market value of 89 Sparks, about $0.89 at the latest market price. That market price for Zapdos was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 89 Sparks is the figure shown for Zapdos in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Zapdos, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 75 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Roaring Skies pack is 2,275 Sparks; this card's market value is 89 Sparks. Among the 111 priced cards in Roaring Skies, Zapdos is the 43rd most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 43 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Shaymin-EX at 31,473 Sparks.
How to pull Zapdos
In a Roaring Skies pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare card about 46.5% of the time. In other words, about one Roaring Skies pack in 2 lands a Rare card in that slot. Zapdos is one of 18 priced Rare cards in Roaring Skies that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Roaring Skies: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Roaring Skies page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Roaring Skies 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
Zapdos is a Rare card, number 23 in Roaring Skies. Roaring Skies lists 18 Rare cards out of 112 cards in total, about 16% of the set list. Among the 18 priced Rare cards, market values run from 28 Sparks to 379 Sparks, and Zapdos ranks 6th of them. Roaring Skies 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 Roaring Skies
Roaring Skies was released on May 6, 2015 and lists 112 cards on PackLab, 111 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Roaring Skies carry a combined market value of 162,555 Sparks. By market value, Zapdos sits just below Articuno (132 Sparks) and just above Banette (85 Sparks).
