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SHSP Shadow Specters

Released 8 November 2013 · 215 cards · 24 packs per box

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Shadow Specters [1st Edition] - Booster Box

Is a booster box of SHSP worth opening?

Box price$149TCGplayer market price
Expected value$79.18$78.75 to $80.47 depending on the rates
If you sell the cards$35.01With a 5% fee and leaving out cards under $0.50
A typical box$32.23The median of 10,000 simulated boxes
You get your money back0.0%Almost never

On average, no: selling the cards from a SHSP box would get you $35.01, 24% of the $149 it costs. A typical box gives $32.23 and only 0.0% of boxes get your money back. If you're after a specific card, buying it as a single is usually cheaper.

How reliable the rates are: good (several sources that agree).

SHSP pull rates

How many cards of each rarity group come in a 24-pack box, how many packs it takes to pull one specific card of the group and how much the group adds to the box value.

RarityCardsPer boxOne specificAddsShare
Common 48 186 (184–192) 1 in 6 packs $40.07 51%
Rare 20 24 (24–24) 1 in 20 packs $16.64 21%
Super Rare 14 4.8 (4.8–4.8) 1 in 70 packs $10.16 13%
Ultra Rare 10 2.0 (2.0–2.0) 1 in 120 packs $4.79 6.0%
Secrets 8 1.0 (1.0–1.0) 1 in 185 packs $4.65 5.9%
Ghost 1 0.080 (0.080–0.080) 1 in 300 packs $2.88 3.6%

The cards that carry the box

What weighs most in the expected value: expensive cards that are hard to pull.

The most expensive SHSP cards

Their version and today's TCGplayer and Cardmarket price.

CardRarityTCGplayerCardmarket
Ghostrick Alucard SHSP-EN0521st Edition Ultimate Rare $43.88 —
Divine Dragon Knight Felgrand SHSP-EN0561st Edition Ghost Rare $35.95 —
Divine Dragon Knight Felgrand SHSP-EN056Unlimited Secret Rare $34.05 —
Ghostrick Alucard SHSP-EN052Unlimited Ultimate Rare $32.52 —
Divine Dragon Knight Felgrand SHSP-EN056Unlimited Ghost Rare $30.62 —
Divine Dragon Knight Felgrand SHSP-EN0561st Edition Ultimate Rare $21.92 —
Divine Dragon Knight Felgrand SHSP-EN056Unlimited Ultimate Rare $20.38 —
Number 46: Dragluon SHSP-EN0501st Edition Ultimate Rare $18.13 —
Divine Dragon Knight Felgrand SHSP-EN0561st Edition Secret Rare $16.32 —
Number 46: Dragluon SHSP-EN050Unlimited Ultimate Rare $15.27 —
Number 46: Dragluon SHSP-EN050Unlimited Super Rare $12.63 —
Number 46: Dragluon SHSP-EN0501st Edition Super Rare $12.56 —

SHSP booster box price over the last year

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TCGplayer market price, in dollars.

Sealed product

Where the numbers come from

The expected value adds up, for each rarity group, the copies in a box times the average price of its cards (the English card, with its TCGplayer price or, if there isn't one, Cardmarket's converted). The simulation opens 10,000 boxes with the same rates.

2010-2015 core booster: 8 commons and 1 rare per pack, with a foil in some packs. Konami ratios: Super 1 in 5 packs, Ultra 1 in 12, Secret 1 in 23 and Ghost 1 in 288. Ultimate Rares have no published rate: they don't count.

Pull rate sources: web.archive.org (opens in a new tab) · yugipedia.com (opens in a new tab)

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