Price history
Daily median raw (ungraded) market price across the sources we track. Updates each time the price job runs. Scrub the chart for the exact price on a day.
Metal Core Barrier #232
Unbroken Bonds · Hyper Rare
Where to pull it
Every ranked product whose packs can contain this exact card, best odds first. Odds assume uniform pull rates within the card's rarity tier — real sets short-print their biggest chases, so read them as a ceiling.
| Product | Market | Per pack | P(≥1) / product |
|---|---|---|---|
 Unbroken Bonds Booster Box (36 packs) | $2,434.43 | 1 in 877 | 4.0% |
 Unbroken Bonds Elite Trainer Box (8 packs) | $1,700.00 | 1 in 877 | 0.9% |
 Unified Minds Power Partnership Tin - Lucario & Melmetal GX (4 packs) | — | — | — |
 Unified Minds Power Partnership Tin - Garchomp & Giratina GX (4 packs) | $50.00 | — | — |
 Unified Minds Power Partnership Tin - Mewtwo & Mew GX (4 packs) | $145.00 | — | — |
How much is Metal Core Barrier #232 worth?
Metal Core Barrier #232 is a Hyper Rare from the Pokémon TCG set Unbroken Bonds. Its current raw market value is $3.09, blended from live eBay sold prices and TCGplayer market data, and a PSA 10 copy sells for about $56.33.
What are the odds of pulling Metal Core Barrier #232?
You can expect to pull Metal Core Barrier roughly 1 in 877 packs — its Hyper Rare slot appears in about 2.3% of packs, shared across 20 cards of that rarity in Unbroken Bonds. Opening a whole Unbroken Bonds Booster Box (36 packs) gives you about a 4.0% chance of pulling at least one.
Which Unbroken Bonds product should you open for it?
Every product in the table above draws from the same Unbroken Bonds pack pool, so the honest answer is whichever costs least per pack — currently the Unbroken Bonds Elite Trainer Box (8 packs) at $1700.00. Bear in mind that on our numbers nearly every sealed Pokémon TCG product returns less than it costs when opened: buying the single outright is usually cheaper than chasing it.
Is Metal Core Barrier worth grading?
A PSA 10 copy sells for about $56.33 against a raw price of $3.09 and a PSA fee of roughly $79.99 (Regular) — so a 10 nets about $-26.74. Of the 213 copies PSA has graded, 40.8% came back a 10 — and since people submit their cleanest copies, read that as a ceiling for a random pull, not your odds.
Metal Core Barrier price history
Since we began tracking on 2026-08-14, Metal Core Barrier has moved from $3.15 to $3.08 (-2.2%). The chart above shows every tracked day; history deepens daily and nothing earlier is invented.