Is The Backroom 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 The Backroom?

The calibrated EV is $262.06 against a pack price of not yet set, with a typical (median) pull of $221.00 across 19 indexed pulls.

What are the real odds of beating the pack price on The Backroom?

We cannot say yet. The Backroom has no pack price on record, and the odds of beating a price are undefined until there is one to beat. The 19 indexed pulls are still shown below as a record of what has come out.

What is the typical pull from The Backroom?

The median pull is $221.00 — half of all indexed rips returned less than that. The single best recorded pull is $562.40.

Pokémon

The Backroom

The Backroom is a Courtyard Pokémon mystery pack with a calibrated expected value of $262.06 and a typical (median) pull of $221.00 across 19 indexed pulls. Its pack price is not yet confirmed, so the EV ratio, hit rate, and Rip Advisor verdict are pending.

Calibrated EV

$262

— ROI

EMERGING · 19 pulls · todaySIGNAL Fresh · 1.5 h ago

Calibrated EV: $262
Cash-out EV: $237
Pack price: Unknown
Typical pull: $221
Hit rate: —
Lifetime EV: $262
Pulls indexed: 19
Last pull: 20m ago

01 / Rip Advisor

Is The Backroom 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 The Backroom 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

Needs 30+ indexed pulls to define a chase tier for this pack — 10 so far.

Signal lifetime

SIGNAL Fresh · 1.5 h ago

Recomputed against pulls indexed in the last few hours.

Newest pull: 1.5 h; observed
Pull rate: too soon; observed
Pulls, 7d: 10; 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 The Backroom

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 10 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

Cards seen range from 1996 to 2026.

Current (2020+)40%$163 avg
Modern (2010-2019)20%$322 avg
Retro (2000-2009)20%$481 avg
Vintage (pre-2000)20%$302 avg

Most common sets

Sets these pulls came from.

Disney Lorcana EN P3-Promo10%$201 avg
Pokémon Basic10%$474 avg
Pokémon Game10%$130 avg
Pokémon Par EN-Paradox Rift10%$155 avg
Pokémon Rocket10%$562 avg
Pokémon Sun & Moon Black Star Promos10%$415 avg
Pokémon Sword & Shield Chilling Reign10%$163 avg
Pokémon Sword & Shield Darkness Ablaze10%$132 avg

Cards seen most often

Named on every readable pull.

Celebi V10%$163 avg
Charizard Vmax10%$132 avg
Dark Raichu10%$562 avg
Magby10%$155 avg
Magikarp & Wailord GX10%$415 avg
Mewtwo10%$474 avg
Morty's Murkrow10%$399 avg
Rayquaza EX10%$229 avg

Built from the 10 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 The Backroom pulls

2000 Pokémon Rocket #83 Dark Raichu - 1st Edition Holo (PSA 8 NM-MT)

$562PSA 8 NM-MT

1996 Pokémon Basic #150 Mewtwo - Holo (PSA 9 MINT)

$474PSA 9 MINT

2019 Pokémon Sun & Moon Black Star Promos #SM166 Magikarp & Wailord GX - Holo Towering Splash-GX Box (PSA 8 NM-MT)

$415PSA 8 NM-MT

2001 Pokémon VS #025 Morty's Murkrow - 1st Edition Holo (PSA 9 MINT)

$399PSA 9 MINT

2015 Pokémon XY Black Star Promos #XY69 Rayquaza EX - Holo (PSA 6 EX-MT)

$229PSA 6 EX-MT

2026 Disney Lorcana EN P3-Promo #54 Woody - Jungle Guide - Wilds Unknown Set Championship Prize (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

$201PSA 10 GEM MINT

2021 Pokémon Sword & Shield Chilling Reign #160 Celebi V - Holo Full Art (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

$163PSA 10 GEM MINT

2023 Pokémon Par EN-Paradox Rift #186 Magby - Illustration Rare (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

$155PSA 10 GEM MINT

08 / EV history

The Backroom EV over time

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

Calibrated EV currently sits at $262.06, and has moved up 4.0% over the last 7 days.

$286.05EV

09 / Quick answers

The Backroom — quick answers

Is The Backroom 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 The Backroom?: The calibrated EV is $262.06 against a pack price of not yet set, with a typical (median) pull of $221.00 across 19 indexed pulls.
What are the real odds of beating the pack price on The Backroom?: We cannot say yet. The Backroom has no pack price on record, and the odds of beating a price are undefined until there is one to beat. The 19 indexed pulls are still shown below as a record of what has come out.
What is the typical pull from The Backroom?: The median pull is $221.00 — half of all indexed rips returned less than that. The single best recorded pull is $562.40.

10 / Pull log

Latest The Backroom pulls

Compare The Backroom with other Pokémon 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.