Buying Mewtwo ex 157/128 costs $42.00 (TCGplayer market price, October 19, 2026). Opening Elite Trainer Box packs at MSRP until one shows up costs about $1,338 on average, 32 times as much.
Source: TCGplayer market price; pull rate from TCGplayer Authentication Center; Elite Trainer Box MSRP per Bill's Archive, read October 12, 2026.

TCGplayer Authentication Center opened 3,000+ packs of 30th Celebration and found a Futuristic Rare in 0.83% of them, give or take 0.31% at 95% confidence (published September 24, 2026).
The English set has 2 Futuristic Rares, so one named card is 0.83% ÷ 2 = 0.41% a pack, about 1 in 241 packs; across the interval, 1 in 175 to 1 in 385. That split treats every Futuristic Rare as equally likely, which is an assumption, not a count. TCGplayer's own figure for one specific Futuristic Rare is 1 in 240.
For an even chance of pulling this card you need 167 packs, and 554 for a 90% chance.


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TCGplayer market price for a Near Mint holofoil copy: $42.00 on October 19, 2026, read from the TCGplayer Price Guide's Market Price column.
October 19, 2026 is our first reading for this card. Each Monday's price refresh adds a point, and the change since that first reading shows here from the second one.
30th Celebration has 2 Mewtwo ex cards besides this one: Mewtwo ex 064/128 (Double Rare, $0.85) and Mewtwo ex 151/128 (Special Illustration Rare, $50.46), at TCGplayer market prices of October 19, 2026. The price and odds on this page are for 157/128 only.
The $42.00 market price is for a raw card, not a PSA, CGC or Beckett grade. Whether grading pays at that price is what the grading calculator works out.
At the Elite Trainer Box MSRP of $49.99 for 9 packs ($5.55 a pack; the US price reported by Bill's Archive, read October 12, 2026), the 241 packs you would expect to open before the first Mewtwo ex 157/128 cost about $1,338: 32 times the single's $42.00 on October 19, 2026. Across the interval the bill runs from $974 to $2,136.
Luck runs both ways. One box's 9 packs give a 3.7% chance of at least one copy (2.3% to 5.0% across the interval), and half of all openers will have pulled it within 167 packs, about $928 at MSRP. The other half are still opening at that point.


The other cards in those packs are worth something too; what a box returns on average is worked out on Is 30th Celebration worth opening?
Of the 188 30th Celebration cards with a market price on October 19, 2026, Mewtwo ex 157/128 ranks twelfth and makes up 2.8% of the $1,490.87 it costs to buy one of every card.
Every card and its price is on the 30th Celebration checklist.
YOSHIROTTEN also drew Mew ex 158/128 (Futuristic Rare, $39.24) in 30th Celebration.
Mewtwo ex 157 joins our list this week: at $42.00 on October 19, 2026 it has passed Mew ex 158, the set's other Futuristic Rare, now $39.24, and ranks twelfth of the 188 cards. Both are by YOSHIROTTEN. One named Futuristic Rare turns up about 1 in 241 packs, rarer than the 1 in 205 of a Special Illustration Rare, yet the Special Illustration Rare Mewtwo ex 151 costs $8.46 more. The Futuristic Rare rate has a wide interval, 0.83% plus or minus 0.31%, so the pack bill at Elite Trainer Box MSRP runs from $974 to $2,136, about $1,338 on average, 32 times the single. Buy it as a single, and pick between the two Mewtwo ex on art.
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