Is SLAM Pack worth buying right now?

Our current verdict is SKIP (score 36/100). Early read: only 16 pulls indexed — this is a lean, not a settled verdict. The numbers can swing hard until the sample reaches 30.

What is the EV of SLAM Pack?

The calibrated EV is $108.62 against a pack price of $120.00, with a typical (median) pull of $100.00 across 16 indexed pulls.

What are the real odds of beating the pack price on SLAM Pack?

12.5% of indexed pulls met or beat the pack price. These are observed odds reconstructed from real pulls, not the posted odds.

What is the typical pull from SLAM Pack?

The median pull is $100.00 — half of all indexed rips returned less than that. The single best recorded pull is $155.39.

SLAM Magazine

SLAM Pack

SLAM Pack is a $120 Courtyard SLAM Magazine mystery pack with a calibrated expected value of $108.62, worth $91.89 at its observed 85% buyback — a cash-out ratio of 0.766x (0.905x at sticker FMV), so it currently returns less than its price on the average rip once the buyback haircut is taken. 12.5% of 16 indexed pulls met or beat the pack price. Early Rip Advisor lean (small sample): SKIP (36/100).

Ranked #66 of 74 ranked packs by cash-out ratio.

This pack is no longer sold on Courtyard — the numbers below are its historical record.

Cash-out ratio

0.766x

$91.89 back on a $120 pack, at this pack's observed 85% buyback. At sticker FMV it is 0.905x.

95% range $81.53–$102.26, clear of the $120 price.

SKIP-23.4% ROI

EMERGING · 16 pulls · todaySIGNAL Weakening · 20 h ago

Calibrated EV: $109
Cash-out EV: $92
Pack price: $120
Typical pull: $100
Hit rate: 12.5%
Lifetime EV: $104
Pulls indexed: 16
Last pull: 19h ago

01 / Rip Advisor

Is SLAM Pack worth it right now?

Early readscore 36/100SKIP

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Early read: only 16 pulls indexed — this is a lean, not a settled verdict. The numbers can swing hard until the sample reaches 30.
Cash-out EV is $92 on a $120 pack (-23.4% net after the ~85% buyback) — the average rip loses money.
Cash-out EV is $91.89, and the sample is precise enough to place it below the $120.00 price: the 95% range is $81.53 to $102.26, which does not include the price.
The typical pull (median) is $100 — most rips return less than the pack price; the EV is carried by rare chase cards.
Recent pulls are averaging 29.3% above where they were 7 days ago. A restock would look like this; so would a lucky week. We cannot see inventory, so this is a change in what came out, not a confirmed change in what is in there.
Low volatility: steady pack. Fewer duds, but also fewer moonshots.
12.5% of pulls meet or beat the pack price, across 16 indexed pulls.

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 SLAM Pack pool

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

16 pulls indexed — drift math needs 30+ to mean anything. Early read only.

BUILDING SAMPLE

16 pulls indexed — drift math needs 30+ to mean anything. Early read only.

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

Needs 30+ indexed pulls to define a chase tier for this pack — 16 so far.

Signal lifetime

SIGNAL Weakening · 20 h ago

Pull flow has slowed past the usual gap of 9.2 h, so this read is ageing faster than the pack is producing evidence. At the observed pull rate, half the evidence behind this read is replaced in about 6.2 days.

Newest pull: 20 h; observed
Pull rate: 2.6/day; observed
Pulls, 7d: 12; 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 SLAM Pack

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.

Only 16 pulls indexed. Below 25 the proportions below move a lot on a single pull — read them as examples of what has appeared, not as a profile of the pack.

By era

No printed years could be read from these names.

Year not stated100%$104 avg

Most common sets

Sets these pulls came from.

Slam Media Inc.100%$104 avg

Cards seen most often

Named on every readable pull.

SLAM100%$104 avg

Built from the 16 indexed pulls of this pack so far — a record of what has come out, not a promise about what is left.

07 / Big hits

Biggest SLAM Pack pulls

SLAM #250 CGC 9.8 White Pages (Slam Media Inc., 6-7/24) - Universal Doncic Orange Metal Edition

$155CGC-COMIC 9.8 NM/M

SLAM #250 CGC 9.8 White Pages (Slam Media Inc., 6-7/24) - Universal Doncic Orange Metal Edition

$155CGC-COMIC 9.8 NM/M

SLAM #227 CGC 9.4 White Pages (Slam Media Inc., 5-6/20) - Universal

$110CGC-COMIC 9.4 NM

SLAM #227 CGC 9.4 White Pages (Slam Media Inc., 5-6/20) - Universal

$110CGC-COMIC 9.4 NM

SLAM #259 CGC 9.4 White Pages (Slam Media Inc., 12/25-1/26) - Universal James Variant

$107CGC-COMIC 9.4 NM

SLAM #257 CGC 9.6 White Pages (Slam Media Inc., 8/25-9/25) - Universal

$102CGC-COMIC 9.6 NM+

SLAM #257 CGC 9.6 White Pages (Slam Media Inc., 8/25-9/25) - Universal

$102CGC-COMIC 9.6 NM+

SLAM #244 CGC 9.4 White Pages (Slam Media Inc., 6-7/23) - Universal FIBA Variant

$100CGC-COMIC 9.4 NM

08 / EV history

SLAM Pack EV over time

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

Calibrated EV currently sits at $108.62, below the $120 pack price, and has moved up 29.3% over the last 7 days.

0.766xCash-out ratio

09 / Quick answers

SLAM Pack — quick answers

Is SLAM Pack worth buying right now?: Our current verdict is SKIP (score 36/100). Early read: only 16 pulls indexed — this is a lean, not a settled verdict. The numbers can swing hard until the sample reaches 30.
What is the EV of SLAM Pack?: The calibrated EV is $108.62 against a pack price of $120.00, with a typical (median) pull of $100.00 across 16 indexed pulls.
What are the real odds of beating the pack price on SLAM Pack?: 12.5% of indexed pulls met or beat the pack price. These are observed odds reconstructed from real pulls, not the posted odds.
What is the typical pull from SLAM Pack?: The median pull is $100.00 — half of all indexed rips returned less than that. The single best recorded pull is $155.39.

10 / Pull log

Latest SLAM Pack pulls

Compare SLAM Pack with other SLAM Magazine packs

Same math, same methodology — cash-out ratios after each pack's own buyback, so the comparison is apples to apples.

Understand these numbers

Every figure on this page — EV, EV ratio, hit rate, dilution — is defined once and computed the same way for every pack.