Shining Legends Shining Pull Rate — 3.00% per pack (1 in 33)
3.00% of Shining Legends booster packs contain a Shining card — roughly 1 in 33 packs. Shining Legends ships 6 Shining cards in the pool, so the chance of pulling any specific Shining is 0.0050 (≈1 in 200). 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.
Shining Legends Shining pull-rate methodology
| Formula | Tier odds = 3.00% per pack; per-card odds = tier odds ÷ 6 Shining cards = 1 in 200. |
|---|---|
| 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. |
Shining cards in Shining Legends
| # | Card | TCGplayer market | Per-card odds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shining Mew #40 | $196.96 | 1 in 200 |
| 2 | Shining Rayquaza #56 | $153.14 | 1 in 200 |
| 3 | Shining Arceus #57 | $35.11 | 1 in 200 |
| 4 | Shining Jirachi #42 | $33.27 | 1 in 200 |
| 5 | Shining Genesect #9 | $13.54 | 1 in 200 |
| 6 | Shining Volcanion #27 | $6.59 | 1 in 200 |
How the 3.00% rate is computed
Every Shining Legends 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 7 tiers — Rare, Holo Rare, Shining, and the era's other chase rarities. The Shining tier captures 3.00% of those rare-slot draws (= 3.00 packs out of every 100). Within the Shining tier, all 6 cards share the slot uniformly, so per-card odds are 3.00% ÷ 6 = 0.0050 = 1 in 200.
This is the same math PackRip's live Shining Legends simulator uses to roll packs — open as many as you want for free, watch the empirical hit rate converge to the theoretical 3.00% 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 Shining
Shining pulls follow a geometric distribution with per-pack rate 0.030000. The expected number of packs until your first Shining hit is 34; at 95% confidence you'll have one within 99 packs. Most experienced openers crack a sealed booster box (36 packs) and hit Shining with probability 66.6% — so the average box yields just over 1.1 Shining pulls.
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