You are also likely to end up with 1-2 of every uncommon card and 2-3 of most common cards in the set! This is just the reality of how factory production works for these kinds of products.Īnother great reason to purchase packs in a booster box is to get a better price. Out of your 36 rares, it is normal to get at least 20 different rare cards in an individual box. Opening packs from the same box makes it more likely to get a variety of cards. When you purchase a booster box, you will get 36 rare cards, 108 uncommon cards, and 216 common cards. It’s also possible that you open the same cards over and over again. If you occasionally buy a handful of booster packs at your local game store or Wal-Mart, it’s possible that you open the extremely rare and hard to find cards every time. When you buy a single pack, you will get a random rare card, 3 random uncommon cards, and 6 random common cards. In that set, there is somewhere around 70 rare cards, 70 uncommon cards, and 80 common cards. One of the best reasons to buy booster boxes is to get a better distribution of cards. Imagine there are 220 cards in a set. While you can buy booster packs individually, they are also commonly sold in a booster box of 36 packs. If you bought 10 packs of Team Up, you would end up with 10 rare cards, 30 uncommon cards, and 60 common cards. As you can see in the picture above, the booster packs are from the set Sun and Moon Team Up. When you buy a booster pack, it will indicate the set that it is from. Each set contains a fixed number of new cards, usually around 200. New sets are released roughly four times a year, each with a unique name like “Sun and Moon Team Up”. The standard distribution of cards in a booster pack is 6 common cards, 3 uncommon card, and 1 rare ( or better) card.īooster packs ( pictured above) are released in sets. Each card has a rarity, ranging from common ( the most frequently included cards) to super rare ( the least frequently included cards). The primary way players collect these cards is through booster packs.Ī booster pack contains 10 random cards, similar to a pack of baseball cards.
The Pokemon TCG is a trading card game, meaning players collect cards to build unique decks and play against each other. In this chapter, we cover everything you need to know to decide how you want to collect the Pokemon TCG! Booster Packs and Booster Boxes While theme decks are incredibly convenient, they are only the beginning of what is available to play the game.
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