Is Unbroken Bonds Worth Ripping? EV & Pull Rates

Right now: the best rip in Unbroken Bonds is the Booster Pack at $66.48 against $22.00 of expected pulls — a −72% margin after ~15% selling fees. Figures refresh every two hours.

Unbroken Bonds, released May 3, 2019, is the home of Reshiram & Charizard-GX — one of the defining cards of the TAG TEAM era, both competitively and as a collectible. Its full-art and rainbow versions still drive most of what this set is worth.

The odds run on the standard SM model: an ultra rare or better roughly 1 in 10 to 11 packs, rainbows near 1 in 50, golds around 1 in 100, all community estimates. Because so much of the set's value sits in one Charizard, per-pack EV looks healthier than most SM sets — but pack prices climbed to match, and then kept going.

One quirk of this page: the Elite Trainer Box has no reliable TCGplayer market price, so we only track loose packs and the 36-pack booster box here. The live table below shows how far current sealed prices sit above what the average rip returns.

Sealed products: price vs. expected value

ProductMargin after ~15% feesMarket priceEV of pulls
Booster Pack −72% $66.48 $22.00
Booster Box (36 packs) −73% $2509.28 $791.98

Pull-rate model

Unbroken Bonds packs hold 10 cards; the slots below are the ones that carry value.

SlotOutcomeEst. chance
Reverse HoloReverse Holo100%
Holo Rare slotRare / Rare Holo89%
Holo Rare slotRare Holo GX11%
Hit slotHolo Rare (baseline)90.5%
Hit slotFull Art Ultra6.5%
Hit slotRainbow Rare2%
Hit slotGold Secret1%

Community-estimated rates — no publisher discloses official pull odds. The calculator prices each outcome from live singles data.

FAQ

Why isn't the Unbroken Bonds Elite Trainer Box listed?

It has no reliable market price on TCGplayer, so we can't compute an honest margin for it. We track the loose booster pack and the 36-pack booster box instead.

What is the chase card in Unbroken Bonds?

Reshiram & Charizard-GX. The regular version was a competitive staple, and the full-art, rainbow and gold-tier secrets are the collector chase.

Are the pull rates on this page official?

No. They're community estimates from box-break data — The Pokémon Company doesn't publish official pull rates for any set.

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