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Evolving Skies is the 2021 Pokémon Trading Card Game booster expansion containing 237 cards. PackRip's free, browser-based simulator opens packs with the exact Sword & Shield era pull rates the real product shipped with — same rare-slot odds, same per-card distribution inside each tier, same chase variance. No signup, no email, no purchase: rip as many Evolving Skies packs as you like, every card you pull is tracked in your in-browser collection.
Evolving Skies deals the 11-card layout PackRip uses outside the e-Card and EX eras: 1 Rare or Holo Rare in the rare slot, 3 Uncommon, 4 Common, and 1 Basic Energy. On Evolving Skies that slot resolves at 33.4% non-holo Rare and 28.0% Holo Rare. The remaining 38.6% goes to this set's ultra-rare tiers — Pokémon V, Full Art, VMAX and 2 more. These are Evolving Skies's effective rates, not the nominal band widths: the rare slot is one roll through a cumulative cascade, and a band whose pool this set does not fill passes its share down to the next tier that does.
Pack EV is concentrated almost entirely in the rare slot — the 9 non-rare slots cycle uniformly through the common/uncommon pool. The rates above come from packGenerator.ts via the shared cascade model, so this page, the in-app odds and the engine cannot disagree.
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The highest-priced chase cards currently tracked from Evolving Skies on TCGplayer, in market-value order. Each one links to the dedicated chase pull-odds page, which shows the exact per-pack hit rate, 50%/95% confidence bands, and a pack-rip-vs-single-buy breakdown. These are the cards that drive Evolving Skies's expected pack value.
The complete top-25 Evolving Skies market-value list ranks every priced card in the set; the Evolving Skies binder calculator shows how many packs it takes to complete the full checklist.
The full expected-value math for Evolving Skies booster packs — average payout per pack across thousands of independent rolls at current TCGplayer market prices — lives on the dedicated EV calculator at /ev/swsh7. That page weights each rarity tier by its actual rare-slot probability and aggregates against the live price snapshot, so the EV figure reflects the same RNG the simulator uses. Use it to decide whether sealed-pack rips beat single buys for your specific target chase.
Completing the full 237-card Evolving Skies binder is a coupon-collector problem: lower-rarity slots finish fast, the rarest tier dominates the tail. The breakdown — expected packs to 95% completion, the bottleneck rarity, sealed-cost vs singles-cost comparison — lives at /binder/swsh7. Track in-simulator progress on the Evolving Skies collection screen.
Every printing in Evolving Skies has its own page with rarity, market price, pull odds, and the full set/sub-type/HP/weakness/illustrator profile. Browse the checklist from /collection/swsh7, or open a single printing directly — Umbreon VMAX #215 or Rayquaza VMAX #218.
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PackRip: TCG Card Packs is a separate native iOS app built around the same pack-opening ritual — rarity tiers, pity guarantees, offline play, App Badging when daily packs reset. It ships its own original card artwork rather than the Evolving Skies checklist, and it keeps a separate save from the web simulator. See the iOS app or grab it on the App Store.
How many cards are in Evolving Skies?Evolving Skies contains 237 cards in the main set, released in 2021. The full checklist is reachable through the per-card pages on PackRip — every printing has its own URL with the live TCGplayer market price, pull-rate odds, and rarity tier surfaced. The binder completion calculator at /binder/swsh7 shows exactly how many sealed packs reach 95% completion of the 237-card binder.
When was Evolving Skies released?Evolving Skies was released in 2021 as part of the Pokémon Trading Card Game Sword & Shield era release schedule. The full release-order index of PackRip's 139 booster sets (128 English + 11 vintage Japanese) is at /sets, grouped by era from Base Set (January 1999) through Pitch Black (July 2026).
What's the rarest card in Evolving Skies?The single highest-priced card from Evolving Skies on TCGplayer's market index right now is Umbreon VMAX #215 at $2261.15. Its per-pack pull rate is approximately 1 in 786, or 1 in 786 packs. Full top-25 market ranking at /most-valuable/swsh7.
Is opening Evolving Skies packs free on PackRip?Yes. PackRip is a free, browser-based Pokémon TCG booster pack opening simulator — no account, no signup, no payment, no email. Open as many Evolving Skies packs as you like; daily free packs reset every day, with extra packs unlocked via in-game badges. Cards are simulated and do not have resale value.
How accurate are the pull rates?Pull rates in PackRip's Evolving Skies simulator come from PackRip's own published per-rarity rate table — a fixed model, not a measurement of the real print run, which was never published. The exact per-rarity slot probabilities live in packGenerator.ts and are build-time asserted against the prerender constants — the simulator and every SEO landing page cannot drift out of sync. Independent random pulls, no pity timers, no soft caps, no first-edition split.
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Card data and card images come from the open-source Pokemon TCG API; pack art and set logos from ptcg-assets; market prices are a bundled snapshot of TCGplayer data. Pull rates shown on PackRip are the simulator's own published rate table, not official figures.
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