Crystal Guardians
Booster Box no-chase EV calculator

Estimate the English EX Crystal Guardians Booster Box (TCGplayer product 98567): 36 packs of 9 game cards. Exact Normal and Reverse Holofoil quotes come from generated local data; Market never borrows Low or another finish. Packaging inserts are outside the game-card EV.

Chase branches are excluded: holo rares, EX/GX/V/VMAX/VSTAR, secret rares, Shiny/Radiant/Trainer Gallery, illustration, hyper, ACE SPEC, and other premium rows do not contribute to this baseline.

Calculation order: ordinary pack contents are assigned to card rows first, then disabled pools and optional Sift filtering are applied afterward. Disabled rows do not backfill into other cards.

36 packs / booster box CG · group 1395 5 Common / 2 Uncommon / 1 Rare / 1 Reverse Independent browser simulation

No-chase baseline

This documented ordinary no-chase scenario excludes 13 Holo Rare, 10 Pokémon-ex and 2 Gold Star identities before drawing. It retains the original 5 Common, 2 Uncommon, 1 ordinary Rare and 1 ordinary reverse card per pack. Uniform allocation within the 29 Common, 30 Uncommon, 16 Rare and 75 reverse identities is an existing assumption, not publisher-measured factory odds. Construct and normalize exclusions first, draw all 324 positions, then apply Sift and included-pool filters without reroll or backfill.

Guaranteed box toppers, standalone sealed-product inserts, non-game inserts, code cards, and standalone basic Energy insert slots are outside this no-chase model. Numbered Common/Uncommon Basic Energy rows remain modelable; Rare Basic Energy rows stay out of ordinary no-chase slots.

Loaded pools: waiting for card data.

Included pools ▶
Sift is a price floor. Row tinting always uses the Sift value; EV only uses it when Use Sift in EV is checked.

Release-specific model analysis

What drives Crystal Guardians Booster Box

Product profile. This booster box resolves 324 card positions across 150 named outcomes. The model snapshot dated June 10, 2026 contains 60 Uncommon, 58 Common, 32 Rare. Its largest slot groups are 75 reverse standard, 30 nf uncommon, 29 nf common, 16 rare slot rare. Every listed outcome contributes to the published baseline unless the visitor applies a post-draw filter.

Largest modeled weights. Aron #44/100 (6.21 expected per booster box), Bulbasaur #45/100 (6.21 expected per booster box), Bulbasaur #46/100 (6.21 expected per booster box), Cacnea #47/100 (6.21 expected per booster box), Charmander (Delta Species) #49/100 (6.21 expected per booster box). These are frequency leaders in the product model, not a promise that any individual opening will contain them.

Release-specific card examples. Aron (Reverse Holofoil) #44/100, Bill's Maintenance #71/100, Blastoise #14/100, Charmander #48/100, Blastoise (Reverse Holofoil) #14/100, Cacturne (Delta Species) (Reverse Holofoil) #15/100, Cacturne (Delta Species) #15/100, Combusken (Reverse Holofoil) #16/100. Seeing the named pool makes it possible to compare this release with adjacent sets instead of treating every sealed product as the same generic pack calculation.

Reference snapshot value concentration. At the TCGplayer Market snapshot dated August 12, 2026, 150 modeled outcomes have a usable direct or documented fallback price. The largest deterministic contributions come from Squirtle #64/100 ($114.46), Charmander (Delta Species) (Reverse Holofoil) #49/100 ($71.52), Bulbasaur #45/100 ($71.32), Blastoise (Reverse Holofoil) #14/100 ($62.40), Bulbasaur (Reverse Holofoil) #45/100 ($54.36). Together those five rows account for 19.6% of the modeled gross value. This dated reference does not update with the live calculator's prices or Sift settings.

The baseline product model is constructed first, including any documented chase exclusions. The calculator then draws the complete baseline product. Included-pool controls and optional Sift evaluate that completed draw afterward and do not alter its collation.

Selling Fees

Per-row net EV uses percentage and transaction fees. Per-order processing is controlled in purchase settings.

Value Threshold

Generated Pokemon price snapshots support Market, Low, and Direct Low pricing for EV.
Rows below Sift are removed from EV only if the toggle below is on.

EV Range (Monte Carlo)

Runs per summary update; low and high are central quantiles from product openings.

Purchase EV

Whole boxes only (0–1,000); fractional and out-of-range input is normalized before calculating.

Adds the marketplace per-order processing fee in the purchase summary.
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Pack & Product EV

Pack and product no-chase expected value summary across low, mid, and high estimates.
MetricLowMidHigh
Pack EV (gross)$0.00$0.00$0.00
Product EV x 36 packs (gross)$0.00$0.00$0.00
Gross EV per product$0.00$0.00$0.00
Total fees per product$0.00$0.00$0.00
Net after fees per product$0.00$0.00$0.00
Profit after fees per product$0.00$0.00$0.00
Break-even price/product (mid)$0.00

Purchase EV & Profit

Purchase-level no-chase expected value using the active product count and order-fee settings.
All productsLowMidHigh
Gross EV$0.00$0.00$0.00
Total fees$0.00$0.00$0.00
Net after fees$0.00$0.00$0.00
Profit after expenses$0.00$0.00$0.00
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Products: 0 - Price/product: $0.00 - Total cost: $0.00 - Rows priced: 0 / 0 missing

Sealed Price / EV

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Marketplace sealed booster box low prices compared to the current no-chase break-even price/product (mid).
Source Product price Break-even price/product (mid) P/E Basis
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Simulation Results (after Sift)

Confidence band: -
Each bar groups simulated product totals after cards are drawn, then Sift and pool toggles are applied to those pulls.
Per-card no-chase expected value rows for the current filters and price source.
Name Card # Rarity Treatment Value Seller fees Expected / product Gross EV Net EV Products / copy
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Deterministic total - active pools & Sift 0.00 $0.00 $0.00 -
Sanity total - all modeled ordinary rows 0.00 - - -
Expected copies are modeled from ordinary pack slots first. Gross and net EV apply disabled pool filters and optional Sift afterward, so filtered rows do not rebalance into other slots.