When a local card shop in Alberta, Canada shared a photo of a smiling young boy holding up 10 golden Pokémon cards, fans didn’t want to believe it. Surely, many opined, it was an AI-generated image — or a Photoshopped one.
Pulling a Pokémon god pack, as fans call it, is unlikely for anyone to get, but not impossible. Annoyingly, there’s footage of people opening an entire stack of full-art Pokémon cards in a single pack nearly every week. These videos of fans winning the Pokémon lottery typically don’t include any golden cards, however. Classified as Mega Hyper Rare cards, these cards are notoriously difficult to find. In the recent Perfect Order set, for example, the pull rate for one of these cards was estimated to be 1 in 1786 packs, or 0.06%. A fraction of a percent.
What are the odds, then, that anyone could ever pull a Pokémon pack composed solely of golden cards? And the odds that someone would pull such a pack before the set goes on sale?
In anticipation of the July 17 release date for Pitch Black, many card shops have started hosting Pokémon pre-release events for the set. In these, fans are given one ready-to-play competitive deck as well as a few loose Pokémon packs. Attendees who stay through the event and play matches get a few more packs at the end.
A photo of an incredibly rare pull is easy to discredit, but a few hours after the initial card shop post went viral, footage of a kid surrounded by open packs emerged. In his hands were 10 individual Mega Darkrai Ex cards, each one valued at around $750 ungraded as of this writing. The video shows the Pokémon fan carefully lining up the cards one by one. If PSA determines the cards are in good condition, they can be worth up to $3,465 each.
“Is that a new kind of god pack?” one Facebook commenter wrote on the original photo. “Or is this an error pack?”
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