“Prismatic Evolutions” Pull Rates Revealed, Special Illustration Rares Twice as Easy to Pull!

By: Water Pokémon Master · Posted Posted onJan 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM · 14 Comments

The pull rates for Prismatic Evolutions have been determined by our friends at TCGplayer based on 1,200 booster pack openings.

At 1 in 45 packs, Special Illustration Rares are now twice as easy to pull as the last four sets. In Surging Sparks and before, they were found in roughly every 85 to 90 packs.

The last time they were this easy to pull was in Paradox Rift, where they were in 1 out of 47 packs. Before then, the rate was 1 out of 32 packs.

However, there are more Special Illustration Rares in this set than usual — 32! This means the chance to pull a specific SIR is 1 in 1,440 packs. This will make it much harder to pull an Umbreon ex.

Poke Ball reverse holo can be found in 1 out of every 3 packs. Master Balls can be found in 1 out of every 20 packs.

Hyper Rare gold cards are found in 1 out of 180 packs, which is nearly the same as Surging Sparks. The pull rates of gold cards have steadily become rarer over time. (In earlier Scarlet & Violet sets, they were in 1 out of ~54 packs.)

All other rarities remain roughly the same as previous Scarlet & Violet sets.

Ultra Rares are found in 1 out of 13 packs, which is slightly easier than previous sets.

ACE SPEC cards have a pull rate of 1 out of 21 packs, almost the same as when they were introduced in Temporal Forces.

You can see TCGplayer’s graphics below for the main Scarlet & Violet sets.

Check out our Prismatic Evolutions set guide for the card list, products, and everything else to know about the set!

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Checking the prices on TCGplayer for Kieran and the Blueberry Academy Elite 4 just took 50 years off of my life. Time to wait a month or three before getting them !
 
Man this is weird. It’s almost like they completely changed the pull rates just before the set released…

Also, do we know anything about God Pack HR ?
 
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Yeah… no. I’d much rather see a SIR pull rate on-par with or better than the pre-PAR sets, the fact that you could open 200+ packs without getting a single SIR is just sad.

But then again that’s why I’m critical of special sets in general rather than being critical of Prismatic Evolutions on its own. The sooner the international market embraces JPN-style releases the better.
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Man this is weird. It’s almost like they completely changed the pull rates just before the set released…

Also, do we know anything about God Pack HR ?
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Seeing the second-hand market for some cards, they clearly didn’t change enough to actually matter.
 
Those pull rates are not too bad… what’s too bad is I’m not able to buy a single pack to check for myself
 
Wait, are they really that good? Everyone's been saying they're really hard, at least prerelease pulls were.
 
Pulled the SIR sylveon and SIR Janine today out of my Pokemon center ETB. I don’t think I will ever get that lucky again in my Pokemon collecting career.
 
Prismatic Evolutions Pull Rates based on 1,200 pack openings but all the previous SV set data based on 8,000 pack openings? Hmm, I don't know if I trust these numbers... at only 1200 packs it still weighs on the "got a lucky batch of packs" for me. But I hope the second print run makes this ratio true so I can afford to buy the singles haha
 
I did my own test in the name of science.
I can say with confident the pull rate for a eeveelution is 1 in impossible
 
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