Mega Evolution Full Art Pull Rate — 8.56% per pack (1 in 12)
8.56% of Mega Evolution booster packs contain a Full Art card — roughly 1 in 12 packs. Mega Evolution ships 22 Full Art cards in the pool, so the chance of pulling any specific Full Art is 0.0039 (≈1 in 257). These percentages come from PackRip's own rate table (the same constants the simulator runs on) — they are a model of the product, not a measurement of it. The Pokemon Company has never published pull rates.
Mega Evolution Full Art pull-rate methodology
| Formula | Tier odds = 8.56% per pack; per-card odds = tier odds ÷ 22 Full Art cards = 1 in 257. |
|---|---|
| Assumptions | One independent rare-slot roll per pack; uniform selection within the tier; no pity timers, box mapping, short-print correction, or edition/condition split. |
| Data source | Set checklist and rarity labels from the bundled Pokemon TCG API catalog; tier rates from rareSlotRates(), mirrored from the live pack opener. |
| Update cadence | Regenerated by prerender whenever set metadata, catalog data, or pull-rate constants change. |
| Limitations | This is a theoretical per-pack rate. Real sealed product can show print-run variance, collation quirks, and market-specific edition differences. |
Full Art cards in Mega Evolution
| # | Card | TCGplayer market | Per-card odds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lillie's Determination #169 | $20.77 | 1 in 257 |
| 2 | Mega Lucario ex #160 | $11.52 | 1 in 257 |
| 3 | Mega Venusaur ex #155 | $11.16 | 1 in 257 |
| 4 | Buddy-Buddy Poffin #167 | $5.59 | 1 in 257 |
| 5 | Mega Gardevoir ex #159 | $5.33 | 1 in 257 |
| 6 | Mega Kangaskhan ex #164 | $5.28 | 1 in 257 |
| 7 | Rare Candy #175 | $5.01 | 1 in 257 |
| 8 | Mega Absol ex #161 | $4.64 | 1 in 257 |
| 9 | Mega Latias ex #163 | $4.54 | 1 in 257 |
| 10 | Night Stretcher #173 | $4.22 | 1 in 257 |
| 11 | Wally's Compassion #176 | $2.85 | 1 in 257 |
| 12 | Mega Mawile ex #162 | $2.62 | 1 in 257 |
| 13 | Mega Manectric ex #158 | $2.35 | 1 in 257 |
| 14 | Air Balloon #166 | $2.34 | 1 in 257 |
| 15 | Fighting Gong #168 | $2.15 | 1 in 257 |
| 16 | Acerola's Mischief #165 | $2.03 | 1 in 257 |
| 17 | Premium Power Pro #174 | $1.94 | 1 in 257 |
| 18 | Mega Abomasnow ex #157 | $1.90 | 1 in 257 |
| 19 | Mega Camerupt ex #156 | $1.51 | 1 in 257 |
| 20 | Mystery Garden #172 | $1.01 | 1 in 257 |
| 21 | Lt. Surge's Bargain #170 | $0.99 | 1 in 257 |
| 22 | Mega Signal #171 | $0.99 | 1 in 257 |
How the 8.56% rate is computed
Every Mega Evolution booster pack rolls one rare-slot card (plus uncommons, commons, and energy in fixed slots). The rare slot is itself a weighted random draw across 6 tiers — Rare, Holo Rare, Full Art, and the era's other chase rarities. The Full Art tier captures 8.56% of those rare-slot draws (= 8.56 packs out of every 100). Within the Full Art tier, all 22 cards share the slot uniformly, so per-card odds are 8.56% ÷ 22 = 0.0039 = 1 in 257.
This is the same math PackRip's live Mega Evolution simulator uses to roll packs — open as many as you want for free, watch the empirical hit rate converge to the theoretical 8.56% over a large enough sample. Source code lives in src/utils/packGenerator.ts and the per-rarity drift is build-time-asserted against the published rates so the simulator and this landing page can never disagree.
Cumulative probability — how many packs to hit Full Art
Full Art pulls follow a geometric distribution with per-pack rate 0.085600. The expected number of packs until your first Full Art hit is 12; at 95% confidence you'll have one within 34 packs. Most experienced openers crack a sealed booster box (36 packs) and hit Full Art with probability 96.0% — so the average box yields just over 3.1 Full Art pulls.
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