Pokémon
The Eras Collection: Encore (Spicy)
The Eras Collection: Encore (Spicy) is a $69 Courtyard Pokémon mystery pack with a calibrated expected value of $99.96, worth $85.05 at its observed 85% buyback — a cash-out ratio of 1.233x (1.449x at sticker FMV), so it currently pays out more than it costs on average, after Courtyard's buyback haircut (+EV). 75.0% of 4 indexed pulls met or beat the pack price.
Cash-out ratio
1.233x
$85.05 back on a $69 pack, at this pack's observed 85% buyback. At sticker FMV it is 1.449x.
95% range $54.93–$115.16 — that still includes the $69 price, so this edge is inside the noise of the sample.
- Calibrated EV
- $100
- Cash-out EV
- $85
- Pack price
- $69
- Typical pull
- $103
- Hit rate
- 75.0%
- Lifetime EV
- $98
- Pulls indexed
- 4
- Last pull
- 62d ago
01 / Rip Advisor
Is The Eras Collection: Encore (Spicy) worth it right now?
- No new pulls in 63 days, past the 21-day ceiling.
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 Eras Collection: Encore (Spicy) pool
Only 4 pulls indexed — below the 5-pull floor for any pool read.
Only 4 pulls indexed — below the 5-pull floor for any pool read.
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 — 4 so far.
Signal lifetime
SIGNAL Awaiting new data · 63 days agoFewer than 5 indexed pulls — there is no signal to age yet.
- Newest pull
- 63 days
- observed
- Pull rate
- none
- observed
- Pulls, 7d
- 0
- 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 Eras Collection: Encore (Spicy)
Only 4 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 2018 to 2025.
- Current (2020+)75%$117 avg
- Modern (2010-2019)25%$43 avg
Most common sets
Sets these pulls came from.
- Celestial Storm25%$43 avg
- Pokémon Go25%$144 avg
- Pokémon Meg EN-Mega Evolution25%$98 avg
- Pokémon Mew EN-15125%$108 avg
Cards seen most often
Named on every readable pull.
- Ivysaur25%$98 avg
- Latios ◇25%$43 avg
- Radiant Blastoise25%$144 avg
- Squirtle25%$108 avg
Built from the 4 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 Eras Collection: Encore (Spicy) pulls
2022 Pokémon Go #018 Radiant Blastoise - Holo (PSA 10 GEM MINT)
2023 Pokémon Mew EN-151 #170 Squirtle - Illustration Rare (PSA 9 MINT)
2025 Pokémon Meg EN-Mega Evolution #134 Ivysaur - Illustration Rare (PSA 10 GEM MINT)
2018 Celestial Storm #108/168 Latios ◇ - Holo (CGC 9.5 MINT+)
08 / EV history
The Eras Collection: Encore (Spicy) EV over time
Calibrated EV currently sits at $99.96, above the $69 pack price, and has moved up 0.0% over the last 7 days.
Cash-out ratio over time: 552 points from Sep 12 to Sep 18, starting at 1.23x and ending at 1.23x, essentially flat across the period.
09 / Quick answers
The Eras Collection: Encore (Spicy) — quick answers
- Is The Eras Collection: Encore (Spicy) worth buying right now?
- Our current verdict is NO DATA (score 0/100). No new pulls in 63 days, past the 21-day ceiling.
- What is the EV of The Eras Collection: Encore (Spicy)?
- The calibrated EV is $99.96 against a pack price of $69.00, with a typical (median) pull of $102.95 across 4 indexed pulls.
- What are the real odds of beating the pack price on The Eras Collection: Encore (Spicy)?
- 75.0% 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 The Eras Collection: Encore (Spicy)?
- The median pull is $102.95 — half of all indexed rips returned less than that. The single best recorded pull is $144.00.
10 / Pull log
Latest The Eras Collection: Encore (Spicy) pulls
- 2022 Pokémon Go #018 Radiant Blastoise - Holo (PSA 10 GEM MINT)$144.0062d ago
- 2025 Pokémon Meg EN-Mega Evolution #134 Ivysaur - Illustration Rare (PSA 10 GEM MINT)$97.9062d ago
- 2018 Celestial Storm #108/168 Latios ◇ - Holo (CGC 9.5 MINT+)$42.6064d ago
- 2023 Pokémon Mew EN-151 #170 Squirtle - Illustration Rare (PSA 9 MINT)$108.0064d ago
Compare The Eras Collection: Encore (Spicy) with other Pokémon packs
Same math, same methodology — cash-out ratios after each pack's own buyback, so the comparison is apples to apples.
- Pokémon VIP CosmicEV $9,793SET PACK PRICE
- Pokémon Mythic Pack0.844x cash-out · EV $4,756 · hit rate 25.0%HOUSE EDGE
- Pokémon Legend (Spicy)1.058x cash-out · EV $3,097 · hit rate 35.3%GREAT VALUE
- Pokémon Legend Pack0.656x cash-out · EV $1,939 · hit rate 16.7%HOUSE EDGE
- Wildcard Diamond PackEV $1,722SET PACK PRICE
- Pokémon VIP (Spicy)EV $1,135SET PACK PRICE
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.