Buying Mew ex 158/128 costs $61.23 (TCGplayer market price, October 12, 2026). Opening Elite Trainer Box packs at MSRP until one shows up costs about $1,338 on average, 22 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: $61.23 on October 12, 2026, read by hand from the TCGplayer Price Guide's Market Price column.
On release day, September 16, 2026, Bill's Archive's snapshot of the same TCGplayer market price had it at $248.04; our first reading, $61.23 on October 12, 2026, is down 75% on that. The release-day figure is theirs, so the chart draws it as an open dot and our own change figure leaves it out.
October 12, 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.
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 Mew ex 158/128 cost about $1,338: 22 times the single's $61.23 on October 12, 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 12, 2026, Mew ex 158/128 ranks sixth and makes up 4.2% of the $1,473.67 it costs to buy one of every card.
Only Lugia CC 029 (Classic Collection, $178.01), Charizard CC 001 (Classic Collection, $143.44), Magikarp CC 030 (Classic Collection, $88.03), Mew ex 152/128 (Special Illustration Rare, $85.67) and Gengar ex 154/128 (Special Illustration Rare, $74.79) cost more.
Every card and its price is on the 30th Celebration checklist.
YOSHIROTTEN also drew Mewtwo ex 157/128 (Futuristic Rare, $40.64) in 30th Celebration.
Rarer is not dearer here. One named Futuristic Rare turns up about 1 in 241 packs against 1 in 205 for a Special Illustration Rare, yet this Mew ex was $61.23 on October 12, 2026, $24.44 below the Special Illustration Rare Mew ex 152. It also fell the furthest of the eight chase cards we track: Bill's Archive's release-day snapshot had it at $248.04, and our first reading is 75% lower. Its rate has a wide interval, 0.83% plus or minus 0.31%, so the pack bill runs from $974 to $2,136. Buy it as a single if you want YOSHIROTTEN's art, and add Mewtwo ex 157, the set's other Futuristic Rare by the same artist, at $40.64.
30th Celebration has 2 Mew ex cards besides this one: Mew ex 066/128 (Double Rare, $3.20) and Mew ex 152/128 (Special Illustration Rare, $85.67), at TCGplayer market prices of October 12, 2026. The price and odds on this page are for 158/128 only.
No. It is TCGplayer's market price for a Near Mint copy, the condition of a raw card, not a PSA, CGC or Beckett grade. Whether grading pays at that price is what the grading calculator works out.
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