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Pokémon Temporal Forces Pull Rates: What a Booster Box Delivers

Pokémon Temporal Forces pull rates: expected hits per booster box, packs per Special Illustration Rare, and cost per chase card at MSRP vs. market.

By Brandon · · 2 min read

Pokémon TCG Scarlet & Violet Temporal Forces Elite Trainer Box
Image: The Pokémon Company.
13.6 hits per Booster Box ex or better, on average
1 in 86 packs per SIR Special Illustration Rare; about 0.42 per Booster Box
$11.84 per hit at MSRP Booster Box at $161.64
$23.45 per hit at market Booster Box at $319.99

Pokémon doesn’t publish official pull rates, so everything below is community-sourced: public pack-opening samples combined in Poké EV’s open pull-rate dataset (CC BY 4.0). Confidence for Temporal Forces: high. Temporal Forces released 2024-03-22. Every number is an average across many packs, so any single box can do better or worse.

See how every Scarlet & Violet set compares: all 11 sets ranked by pull rate and cost per SIR →

What the data covers

ProductPacksCards per pack
Booster Box3610
ETB910

Rates are per pack; per-box figures multiply them by the packs in each product.

Expected pulls per box

Rarity1 in N packsPer Booster BoxPer ETB
Rare (non-holo)1 in 1.327.606.90
Double Rare (Pokemon ex)1 in 6.06.001.50
Illustration Rare1 in 13.02.770.69
Ultra Rare1 in 15.02.400.60
Special Illustration Rare1 in 86.00.420.10
Hyper Rare (gold)1 in 139.00.260.06
ACE SPEC Rare1 in 20.01.800.45
Any hit (ex or better)13.653.41

Cost per chase

Price divided by the expected number of cards. Prices are MSRP or market asks, not completed sales, and they move.

Temporal Forces: cost per chase card
  • MSRP
  • Market price

Average cost per card of each chase rarity. Most single boxes won't contain a Special Illustration Rare or Hyper Rare at all.

ProductAt MSRPAt market price
Booster Box$161.64 · $11.84/hit · $386/SIR$319.99 · $23.45/hit · $764/SIR
ETB$49.99 · $14.65/hit · $478/SIRn/a

MSRP: Booster Box $161.64 (Pokémon Center price); ETB $49.99 (standard ETB MSRP). Booster Box market price: $319.99 (pricecharting TCGplayer listing, Oct 7, 2026).

Notes and caveats

  • Walking Wake and Raging Bolt headline; ACE SPEC cards return here.
  • No official pull rates exist for Pokémon; all rates are community estimates, labeled with Poké EV’s confidence level.
  • These are averages across many packs. A single box can beat or miss every number on this page.
  • Nothing here is a buy or sell recommendation. It’s the math behind the community data.

Sources

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