Paldean Fates Booster Pack

Paldean Fates Booster Pack guide

What's inside the Paldean Fates Booster Pack

One sealed Paldean Fates Booster Pack contains 10 cards, with at least one rare, all from Paldean Fates.

Paldean Fates is a special set, so its packs were mostly sold inside Elite Trainer Boxes, bundles and collections rather than from a booster box, and loose packs are usually taken from those.

About Paldean Fates

A special set with a large Shiny Treasure subset of shiny Pokémon, led by shiny Charizard ex. Released on 26 January 2024, it belongs to the Scarlet & Violet era. It is past its main print window, so sealed stock is getting harder to find at retail.

Paldean Fates has 91 cards in its main numbering, plus 154 secret rares numbered beyond it.

The cards a Paldean Fates Booster Pack can hold

The Paldean Fates cards collectors most want to pull are Charizard ex and Mew ex. Any one pack can hold them, but most packs will not: buying the single card is usually cheaper than opening for it.

Our catalogue lists the set's rarest tiers as 6 Hyper Rares, 8 Special Illustration Rares and 12 Shiny Ultra Rares. Prices for every card are on the Paldean Fates set page.

Paldean Fates Booster Pack price today

There are 28 matching listings on eBay at the moment (ebay.de from €38.10, ebay.co.uk from €38.44, ebay.com from €71.88). The lowest total with delivery to Germany is €38.10, against a typical asking price of €54.77.

Bear in mind these are asking prices rather than sold prices: sellers at the top of the range often accept offers or wait a long time to sell.

Price per pack

At the typical price, a Paldean Fates Booster Pack costs €54.77, compared with €38.86 in a Paldean Fates Booster Bundle and €54.54 in a Paldean Fates Elite Trainer Box. That makes it the most expensive way to buy Paldean Fates packs right now, which is normal for single packs.

Is the Paldean Fates Booster Pack a good investment?

Paldean Fates is out of its main print run, the stage where sealed prices often start to move, but modern sets are printed in large numbers and can be reprinted. Single packs are the easiest to resell but also the most likely to have been searched or weighed. Watch the price of Charizard ex, the set's headline card, since sealed Paldean Fates tends to move with it.

None of this is financial advice: sealed prices can fall as well as rise. Our guide should you buy sealed Pokémon products? weighs up both sides.

Before you buy

Look closely at the wrapping in the photos. Factory wrap on packs is tight and crimped evenly at both ends; baggy, shiny or uneven wrap is a common sign of a reseal. Avoid "weighed" or searched packs from bulk sellers: some sellers weigh packs to pull the holos out first. Compare the total with delivery, not just the price, and store sealed product flat, out of sunlight and away from damp.