

X” and had a pull rate of approximately 1:36 packs for the first sets in the Diamond and Pearl era, and a more favorable 1:18 pull rate for later sets in the LV. Level X cards received their own Official Rarity of “Rare Holo LV. The Diamond and Pearl expansion reset the TCG by removing ex and gold star cards and replacing them with Level X cards. Today’s article finishes the historic overview of rarity in the TCG and proposes solutions that PCI could incorporate to simplify rarity going forward. In Part 1, I reviewed the evolution of rarity through the end of the original ex era, at which time, there were 7 Official Rarity designations: This means, in terms of Actual Rarity, the Secret Rares from Evolutions are less rare than the Secret Rares from Sun and Moon, even though they both have the same Official Rarity. However, you have a much better chance of pulling a Secret Rare from an Evolutions booster pack than you do pulling a Secret Rare from a Sun and Moon booster pack. Here Comes Team Rocket! and the rainbow foil Lapras GX both have the same Official Rarity of “Secret Rare”. Both XY Evolutions and Sun and Moon have secret rare cards. Here’s an example of how these terms work.

“ Actual Rarity” is used in this article to refer to the actual chances of pulling a particular class of cards from a booster pack. The current official checklists can be found here: A card’s Official Rarity can be found official TCG checklists and other promotional and supplemental materials published by Wizards and/or PCI. “ Official Rarity” refers to the official rarity that Wizards of Coast or PCI assigned to a particular card. By way of refresher, below is a list of the terms that this article uses to discuss rarity in the Pokemon TCG. Today’s article is the continuation of my analysis of rarity in the Pokemon TCG.
