Team Rocket Booster Pack

Team Rocket Booster Pack guide

What's inside the Team Rocket Booster Pack

Each Team Rocket Booster Pack is a single foil pack of a random selection of 9 to 11 cards, with at least one rare from Team Rocket.

Vintage packs came with different artwork on the wrapper, and collectors often pay more for a particular Pokémon on the front. Some sellers also list "heavy" packs picked by weight to hold a holo, which is worth knowing before you buy loose packs.

1st Edition and Unlimited booster packs are both listed here, and 1st Edition sells for far more, so check the listing title before comparing prices.

About Team Rocket

Introduced Dark Pokémon, the villains' weaker but meaner versions of familiar Pokémon, and hid Dark Raichu as the hobby's first secret rare. Released on 24 April 2000, it belongs to the Wizards of the Coast era, when Pokémon cards first took off and print runs were far smaller than today. 26 years on, most of its sealed stock has long been opened, and unopened product mostly changes hands between collectors.

Team Rocket has 82 cards in its main numbering, plus 1 secret rare numbered beyond it.

The cards a Team Rocket Booster Pack can hold

The Team Rocket cards collectors most want to pull are Dark Charizard, Dark Blastoise, Dark Raichu and Dark Dragonite. 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 35 Rares. See every Team Rocket card price for what each is worth.

Team Rocket Booster Pack price today

Right now the cheapest Team Rocket Booster Pack on eBay costs €321.22 including delivery to Germany, and the typical asking price across 59 listings is €543.67 (ebay.de from €321.22, ebay.co.uk from €412.56, ebay.com from €381.00).

Asking prices are what sellers hope to get, not what booster packs actually sell for, so treat the cheapest listing as the benchmark for a fair deal.

Price per pack

At the typical price, a Team Rocket Booster Pack costs €543.67, compared with €3.27 in a Team Rocket Booster Box. That makes it the most expensive way to buy Team Rocket packs right now, which is normal for single packs.

Team Rocket Booster Pack as an investment

Sealed Team Rocket is now a collector's item: very few unopened booster packs survive, and each one opened makes the rest rarer. Condition and authenticity matter more than anything else at this age. Single packs are the easiest to resell but also the most likely to have been searched or weighed. Much of its sealed value rests on demand for Dark Charizard and Dark Blastoise: if those cards rise, unopened product usually follows.

Past prices do not guarantee future ones, and this is not financial advice. Read should you buy sealed Pokémon products? for the pros and cons.

Before you buy

Check the shrink wrap: factory wrap on packs is tight and crimped evenly at both ends, and loose or glossy wrap can mean a resealed product. At €543.67 it is worth asking for photos of every side and buying from sellers with a long, positive history, since resealed and weighed product is common. Avoid "weighed" or searched packs from bulk sellers: some sellers weigh packs to pull the holos out first. For product this old, ask whether it has been checked by an authenticator: fakes and resealed vintage boxes are made to fool buyers. Check whether delivery from ebay.de adds import fees, and store sealed product flat, out of sunlight and away from damp.