One of the most important metrics for any new expansion set is the pull rate – the ratio of packs that have rare cards to those that don’t. Sets that have a good pull rate tend to be more popular than those with a low pull rate. Although a huge number of packs should be opened to get a truly definitive answer to this question, most people only buy one or two booster boxes at most and we wanted to emulate the experience of the average Pokémon fan by determining the Silver Tempest pull rate of two random booster boxes.
What is a Silver Tempest Booster Box?
Silver Tempest is the 11th main expansion set in the Pokémon Sword and Shield series.
The set was released on 11th November 2022 with a presale price of around £105 ($100). We ordered our boxes from two different suppliers to ensure they were completely random boxes.
New booster boxes are sealed a with clear film covering which has the Pokémon logo imprinted in white.
Each booster box contains 36 sealed booster packs. The booster packs for this set have four different artworks – Alolan Vulpix, Regieleki, Serperior and Regidrago.
How good is the Silver Tempest pull rate?
The term ‘pull rate’ refers to the numbers of holo, half art, and full art (including ultra and secret rare as well as Trainer Gallery and Radiant Pokémon cards) that are found in booster boxes. The higher the numbers of these cards, the better the pull rate. In this set, the Trainer Gallery cards and Radiant Pokémon cards take the place of a reverse holo, meaning that a pack can have more than one art card.
In addition to logging the overall Silver Tempest pull rate we also logged the pull rate for each pack art design – Alolan Vulpix, Regidrago, Regieleki and Serperior.
Silver Tempest Pull Rate Results by Pack Art
Our two booster boxes contained:
18 packs of each art – Alolan Vulpix, Regidrago, Regieleki and Serperior.
Alolan Vulpix Artwork
Our 18 packs featuring Alolan Vulpix included 7 that had no holo or art cards.
From the other 11 packs we pulled:
2 x 004/195 Ariados (Holo Rare)
147/195 Archeops (Holo Rare)
033/195 Alolan Vulpix V (Half Art)
128/195 Magearna V (Half Art)
135/195 Regidrago V (Half Art)
140/195 Ho-Oh V (Half Art)
058/195 Regieleki VMAX (Full Art)
196/195 Serperior VSTAR (Secret Rainbow Rare)
TG01/TG30 Braixen (Trainer Gallery)
TG19/TG30 Corviknight (Trainer Gallery)
This represents a pull rate of 61%
Regidrago Artwork
Out of the 18 packs featuring Regidrago, 6 packs had no holo rare or art cards.
From the remaining 12 packs we pulled:
004/195 Ariados (Holo Rare)
2 x 097/195 Terakion (Holo Rare)
154/195 Earthen Seal Stone (Holo Rare)
156/195 Forest Seal Stone (Holo Rare)
016/195 Radiant Tsareena (Radiant Card)
059/195 Radiant Alakazam (Radiant Card)
194/195 Wallace (Ultra Rare)
199/195 Unown VSTAR (Secret Rare)
212/195 Energy Switch (Secret Rare)
TG26/TG30 Professor Burnet (Trainer Gallery)
This represents a pull rate of 61%
Regieleki Artwork
Out of our 18 packs, 12 packs contained no holo rare or art cards.
From the other 6 packs we pulled:
022/195 Rapidash (Holo Rare)
016/195 Radiant Tsareena (Radiant Card)
059/195 Radiant Alakazam (Radiant Card)
102/195 Ursaluna V (Half Art)
136/195 Regidrago VSTAR (Half Art)
171/195 Chesnaught V (Ultra Rare)
TG07/TG30 Rockruff (Trainer Gallery)
This represents a pull rate of 39%
Serperior Artwork
Our 18 packs featuring Serperior included 7 that had no holo rare or art cards.
From the other 11 packs we pulled:
078/195 Reuniclus (Holo Rare)
2 x 119/195 Metagross (Holo Rare)
015/195 Chesnaught V (Half Art)
035/195 Omastar V (Half Art)
070/195 Mawile V (Half Art)
058/195 Regieleki VMAX (Full Art)
TG01/TG30 Braixen (Trainer Gallery)
TG03/TG30 Gardevoir (Trainer Gallery)
TG04/TG30 Jynx (Trainer Gallery)
TG17/TG30 Altaria (Trainer Gallery)
This represents a pull rate of 61%
Conclusion
From our 72 booster packs we pulled 12 holo rare cards, 4 Radiant cards, 9 half art cards, 7 full art cards and 8 Trainer Gallery full art cards. This represents a Silver Tempest pull rate of 56%.
If the holo rare cards are removed from the calculation the pull rate falls to 39%
The results analysed by pack art showed that packs with Alolan Vulpix, Regidrago and Serperior artwork all had the same pull rate of 61% while Regieleki artwork packs fell to 39%.
However, it should be remembered that the Silver Tempest pull rate results posted here were taken from two booster boxes. If the sample were larger with more booster boxes being analysed, the result could be different.
