Is Gengar's Game: Encore worth buying right now?

Our current verdict is NO DATA (score 0/100). No pack price on record, so no net or ROI figure can be computed.

What is the EV of Gengar's Game: Encore?

The calibrated EV is $114.91 against a pack price of not yet set, with a typical (median) pull of $84.60 across 45 indexed pulls.

What are the real odds of beating the pack price on Gengar's Game: Encore?

We cannot say yet. Gengar's Game: Encore has no pack price on record, and the odds of beating a price are undefined until there is one to beat. The 45 indexed pulls are still shown below as a record of what has come out.

What is the typical pull from Gengar's Game: Encore?

The median pull is $84.60 — half of all indexed rips returned less than that. The single best recorded pull is $352.20.

Pokémon

Gengar's Game: Encore

Gengar's Game: Encore is a Courtyard Pokémon mystery pack with a calibrated expected value of $114.91 and a typical (median) pull of $84.60 across 45 indexed pulls. Its pack price is not yet confirmed, so the EV ratio, hit rate, and Rip Advisor verdict are pending.

Calibrated EV

$115

— ROI

LOW CONFIDENCE · 45 pulls · todaySIGNAL Fresh · just now

Calibrated EV: $115
Cash-out EV: $101
Pack price: Unknown
Typical pull: $85
Hit rate: —
Lifetime EV: $115
Pulls indexed: 45
Last pull: 18m ago

01 / Rip Advisor

Is Gengar's Game: Encore worth it right now?

score 0/100NO DATA

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No pack price on record, so no net or ROI figure can be computed.

Log this decision:

Verdict is computed transparently from indexed pulls: cash-out ROI, median pull, 7-day trend, hit rate, and sample size. Redemption shipping (typically $16+) is not included — cards worth less than a few times the shipping cost are usually better instant-sold than shipped. Not financial advice.

02 / Pool signals

What's happening in the Gengar's Game: Encore pool

Lifecycle stage, health, and chase removals — read from indexed pulls, never guessed.

No price set — pool economics can’t be computed.

NO DATA

No price set — pool economics can’t be computed.

Pro adds the Pool Health score and chase-removal impact.

Not observable: packs remaining, value remaining, and which chases are still in the pool — Courtyard publishes a pull feed, not inventory. We label those unavailable rather than estimate them. Everything above is computed from indexed pulls and EV snapshots; thin or stale data pulls the score toward neutral. Formula

Chase tracker

No pack price set, so a chase tier cannot be anchored.

Signal lifetime

SIGNAL Fresh · just now

Recomputed against pulls indexed in the last few hours.

Newest pull: 34 min; observed
Pull rate: too soon; observed
Pulls, 7d: 38; observed
Half-life: Pro

Aged, not predicted. Half-life counts how fast new evidence arrives, measured from real pull timestamps — it is not a forecast of where EV is heading. We publish no EV-drift half-life because our snapshot history is still too short for a regression to mean anything. The seeded placeholder points this note used to warn about have been flagged in the database and excluded from every chart, trend and score, so what you see plotted is observed data. Note the headline EV is decay-weighted, so it reacts to new pulls sooner than this whole-sample horizon implies. Methodology

03 / Contents

What has come out of Gengar's Game: Encore

The eras, sets and cards this pack has actually produced. A record of past pulls — Courtyard publishes no inventory, so this is not a statement about what is left.

By era

Cards seen range from 1999 to 2026.

Current (2020+)84%$103 avg
Modern (2010-2019)8%$195 avg
Retro (2000-2009)5%$186 avg
Vintage (pre-2000)3%$179 avg

Most common sets

Sets these pulls came from.

Crown Zenith5%$185 avg
Pokémon Jtg EN-Journey Together5%$58 avg
Pokémon MC-Start Deck 100 Battle Collection5%$66 avg
Pokémon Meg EN-Mega Evolution5%$163 avg
Pokémon Sv2a-Pokémon Card 1515%$78 avg
Black Star Promos - Scarlet & Violet SVP EN3%$101 avg
Black Star Promos - Scarlet & Violet SVPEN3%$95 avg
Lost Origin3%$199 avg

Cards seen most often

Named on every readable pull.

Pikachu13%$103 avg
Banette GX3%$107 avg
Bulbasaur3%$68 avg
Cinccino EX3%$103 avg
Clefable3%$59 avg
Cynthia's Garchomp EX3%$57 avg
Dark PORYGON23%$294 avg
Dondozo3%$95 avg

Built from the 38 indexed pulls of this pack so far — a record of what has come out, not a promise about what is left.

04 / Floor safety

Gengar's Game: Encore floor safety & buyback reality

The two ways average EV lies to you — how top-heavy the pack is, and what FMV actually converts to in cash — then which exit pays most.

In Gengar's Game: Encore, the top 2% of pulls account for 8% of all pulled value — low dilution. Value is spread fairly evenly across the pool, so the average is close to what a typical rip returns. The observed instant-offer ratio is 88% of FMV, which is the cash number every verdict on this page already uses.

Floor safety

low dilution

8% of everything this pack has paid out came from just the top 2% of pulls. Value is spread broadly across pulls, so the average sits closer to the typical rip here than it does on a top-heavy pack. It still sits above the median — check both.

Buyback reality

87.6% of FMV observed

Across 42 indexed pulls that carry a recorded bid, a $100 FMV pull cashes out around $88 if you instant-sell — better than the platform's 84.6%. This is the figure every verdict on the site multiplies by.

Holding, listing, or physically redeeming can beat the instant offer — but redemption shipping (typically $16+) eats small wins.

Net exit value

36 paired pulls · 95% bid coverage · confidence 78%

Instant-selling the average (mean) pull here returns $104.88 — $14.85 below sticker FMV (12.4% haircut). That figure is the average of bids we actually recorded, not the platform rate applied blind.

Pro compares all three exits side by side, with the redemption breakeven and the value-by-value haircut curve for this pack.

Bids are recorded, resale is not. Instant-buyback figures are real offers captured at index time and can move. Redemption shipping starts near $16 in the US, is higher internationally, and is charged per shipment — batching pulls lowers it. We publish no resale estimate, liquidity score, or time-to-sell, because no such data is available to us. How buyback works

05 / Observed odds

Gengar's Game: Encore odds — observed, not posted

Reconstructed from real pulls, so it shows what has actually been coming out — posted odds can't do that. It is a record of pulls, not a count of what is left.

Under $450.0%· stable
$45 – $9050.0%· stable
$90 – $180 · beats the pack34.2%· stable
$180 – $449 · big hit15.8%· stable
$449+ · chase0.0%· stable

Observed across 38 indexed pulls — what actually came out of this pack, independent of the posted odds. The 48h column shows tier drift: a falling green tier means fewer of the good cards have come out lately — which may mean they are running out, or may just be a quiet 48 hours.

07 / Big hits

Biggest Gengar's Game: Encore pulls

2018 Pokémon Sun & Moon Tag Bolt #038 Gengar & Mimikyu GX - Holo (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

$352PSA 10 GEM MINT

2002 Pokémon Neo Destiny #8 Dark PORYGON2 - 1st Edition Holo (PSA 7 NM)

$294PSA 7 NM

2024 Pokémon Simplified Cs6b C-Shadow of the Blue Sea #150 Giratina V - Holo Super Rare (CGC 10 GEM MINT)

$257CGC 10 GEM MINT

2023 Crown Zenith #GG69/GG70 Giratina VSTAR - Galarian Gallery Holo (CGC 9 MINT)

$225CGC 9 MINT

2022 Lost Origin #TG05/TG30 Pikachu - Trainer Gallery Holo (CGC 10 GEM MINT)

$199CGC 10 GEM MINT

2025 Pokémon Meg EN-Mega Evolution #177 Mega Venusaur EX - Holo Special Illustration Rare (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

$181PSA 10 GEM MINT

1999 Pokémon Jungle #59 Paras - 1st Edition (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

$179PSA 10 GEM MINT

2024 Pokémon Tef EN-Temporal Forces #164 Grotle - Illustration Rare (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

$173PSA 10 GEM MINT

08 / EV history

Gengar's Game: Encore EV over time

Snapshot per scraper run. The dashed line is break-even — EV above it is +EV.

Calibrated EV currently sits at $114.91, and has moved up 8.0% over the last 7 days.

$116.29EV

09 / Quick answers

Gengar's Game: Encore — quick answers

Is Gengar's Game: Encore worth buying right now?: Our current verdict is NO DATA (score 0/100). No pack price on record, so no net or ROI figure can be computed.
What is the EV of Gengar's Game: Encore?: The calibrated EV is $114.91 against a pack price of not yet set, with a typical (median) pull of $84.60 across 45 indexed pulls.
What are the real odds of beating the pack price on Gengar's Game: Encore?: We cannot say yet. Gengar's Game: Encore has no pack price on record, and the odds of beating a price are undefined until there is one to beat. The 45 indexed pulls are still shown below as a record of what has come out.
What is the typical pull from Gengar's Game: Encore?: The median pull is $84.60 — half of all indexed rips returned less than that. The single best recorded pull is $352.20.

10 / Pull log