
Shipwreck
Wildcard Platinum Pack
Wildcard Platinum Pack is a $500 Courtyard Shipwreck mystery pack with a calibrated expected value of $392.80, worth $343.27 at its observed 87% buyback — a cash-out ratio of 0.687x (0.786x at sticker FMV), so it currently returns less than its price on the average rip once the buyback haircut is taken. 15.4% of 13 indexed pulls met or beat the pack price. Early Rip Advisor lean (small sample): SKIP (24/100).
Ranked #74 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
0.687x
$343.27 back on a $500 pack, at this pack's observed 87% buyback. At sticker FMV it is 0.786x.
95% range $309.54–$377.00, clear of the $500 price.
- Calibrated EV
- $393
- Cash-out EV
- $343
- Pack price
- $500
- Typical pull
- $409
- Hit rate
- 15.4%
- Lifetime EV
- $421
- Pulls indexed
- 13
- Last pull
- 1d ago
01 / Rip Advisor
Is Wildcard Platinum Pack worth it right now?
- Early read: only 13 pulls indexed — this is a lean, not a settled verdict. The numbers can swing hard until the sample reaches 30.
- Cash-out EV is $343 on a $500 pack (-31.3% net after the ~87% buyback) — the average rip loses money.
- Cash-out EV is $343.27, and the sample is precise enough to place it below the $500.00 price: the 95% range is $309.54 to $377.00, which does not include the price.
- The typical pull (median) is $409 — most rips return less than the pack price; the EV is carried by rare chase cards.
- What recent pulls return has been stable over the last 7 days.
- Low volatility: steady pack. Fewer duds, but also fewer moonshots.
- Calibrated EV (recent pulls weighted) is $393 vs $421 lifetime — the pool has gotten worse recently.
- 15.4% of pulls meet or beat the pack price, across 13 indexed pulls.
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 Wildcard Platinum Pack pool
13 pulls indexed — drift math needs 30+ to mean anything. Early read only.
13 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 — 13 so far.
Signal lifetime
SIGNAL Active · 27 h agoCurrent, with pulls still arriving at the usual rate. At the observed pull rate, half the evidence behind this read is replaced in about 21 days.
- Newest pull
- 27 h
- observed
- Pull rate
- 0.6/day
- observed
- Pulls, 7d
- 3
- 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 Wildcard Platinum Pack
Only 13 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 2004 to 2025.
- Current (2020+)67%$444 avg
- Year not stated17%$399 avg
- Modern (2010-2019)8%$363 avg
- Retro (2000-2009)8%$409 avg
Most common sets
Sets these pulls came from.
- (1652-81)P BOLIVIA 4R (11.80g) Consolacion8%$375 avg
- 1679P V BOLIVIA 4R (6.94g) Consolacion8%$422 avg
- Evolving Skies8%$352 avg
- Finest8%$409 avg
- One Piece English Version 1st Anniversary Set8%$396 avg
- One Piece Starter Deck ST01-Straw Hat Crew8%$523 avg
- Panini Absolute Kaboom! Horizontal8%$472 avg
- Panini Donruss Downtown8%$439 avg
Cards seen most often
Named on 83% of readable pulls. The rest do not print a card number, and without one the card cannot be told apart from the set name.
- Brian Thomas Jr.10%$439 avg
- Brook10%$396 avg
- Johnny Gaudreau10%$363 avg
- Jude Bellingham10%$372 avg
- Lamine Yamal10%$472 avg
- LeBron James10%$409 avg
- Rome Odunze10%$472 avg
- Roronoa Zoro10%$523 avg
What comes out
Not every pull is a graded single.
- Graded cards83%$433 avg
- Graded coins17%$399 avg
Built from the 12 indexed pulls of this pack so far — a record of what has come out, not a promise about what is left. 1 name could not be read and is excluded.
07 / Big hits
Biggest Wildcard Platinum Pack pulls

2020 Panini Prizm #256 Tyrese Maxey - Silver Prizm (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

2022 One Piece Starter Deck ST01-Straw Hat Crew #013 Roronoa Zoro - Super Pre-Release (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

2024 Panini Absolute Kaboom! Horizontal #15 Rome Odunze (PSA 9 MINT)

2023-24 Topps Merlin UEFA Club Competitions #27 Lamine Yamal - Aqua Prism Refractor (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

2025 Panini Donruss Downtown #2 Brian Thomas Jr. (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

1679P V BOLIVIA 4R (6.94g) Consolacion NGC SEASALVAGED

2004 Finest #23 LeBron James (PSA 10 GEM MINT)

2024 One Piece English Version 1st Anniversary Set #011 Brook (PSA 10 GEM MINT)
08 / EV history
Wildcard Platinum Pack EV over time
Calibrated EV currently sits at $392.80, below the $500 pack price, and has moved down 1.3% over the last 7 days.
Cash-out ratio over time: 524 points from Sep 16 to Sep 22, starting at 0.70x and ending at 0.69x, down overall (-1.3%), ranging between 0.68x and 0.72x.
09 / Quick answers
Wildcard Platinum Pack — quick answers
- Is Wildcard Platinum Pack worth buying right now?
- Our current verdict is SKIP (score 24/100). Early read: only 13 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 Wildcard Platinum Pack?
- The calibrated EV is $392.80 against a pack price of $500.00, with a typical (median) pull of $408.80 across 13 indexed pulls.
- What are the real odds of beating the pack price on Wildcard Platinum Pack?
- 15.4% 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 Wildcard Platinum Pack?
- The median pull is $408.80 — half of all indexed rips returned less than that. The single best recorded pull is $530.50.
10 / Pull log
Latest Wildcard Platinum Pack pulls
1771MO F MEXICO 1/2R NGC$350.001d ago
2024 Panini Absolute Kaboom! Horizontal #15 Rome Odunze (PSA 9 MINT)$472.205d ago
(1652-81)P BOLIVIA 4R (11.80g) Consolacion NGC SEASALVAGED$375.006d ago
2004 Finest #23 LeBron James (PSA 10 GEM MINT)$408.808d ago
2023-24 Panini Select FIFA #177 Jude Bellingham - White (PSA 10 GEM MINT)$372.009d ago
1679P V BOLIVIA 4R (6.94g) Consolacion NGC SEASALVAGED$422.009d ago
2021 Evolving Skies #212/203 Sylveon VMAX - Secret Rare Holo (CGC 10 GEM MINT)$351.6017d ago
2025 Panini Donruss Downtown #2 Brian Thomas Jr. (PSA 10 GEM MINT)$438.5023d ago
2022 One Piece Starter Deck ST01-Straw Hat Crew #013 Roronoa Zoro - Super Pre-Release (PSA 10 GEM MINT)$522.6045d ago
2024 One Piece English Version 1st Anniversary Set #011 Brook (PSA 10 GEM MINT)$396.0045d ago
2020 Panini Prizm #256 Tyrese Maxey - Silver Prizm (PSA 10 GEM MINT)$530.5045d ago
2023-24 Topps Merlin UEFA Club Competitions #27 Lamine Yamal - Aqua Prism Refractor (PSA 10 GEM MINT)$472.0045d ago
2014 SP Authentic #306 Johnny Gaudreau - Autograph (PSA 10 GEM MINT)$363.0045d ago
Compare Wildcard Platinum Pack with other Shipwreck packs
Same math, same methodology — cash-out ratios after each pack's own buyback, so the comparison is apples to apples.
- $500 Shipwreck Coins Pack0.779x cash-out · EV $461 · hit rate 22.2%HOUSE EDGE
- Pokémon VIP CosmicEV $8,256SET PACK PRICE
- Premier Watch BoxEV $8,300SET PACK PRICE
- Sports Cosmic PackEV $8,007SET PACK PRICE
- Basketball Mythic Pack0.745x cash-out · EV $4,404 · hit rate 22.2%HOUSE EDGE
- Baseball Mythic Pack0.924x cash-out · EV $5,460 · hit rate 40.0%NEAR BREAK-EVEN
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.