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.
Choice Helmet #229
Lost Thunder · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 Lost Thunder Booster Box (36 packs) | $1,641.00 | 1 in 965 | 3.7% |
 Lost Thunder Elite Trainer Box (8 packs) | $710.00 | 1 in 965 | 0.8% |
 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 Choice Helmet #229 worth?
Choice Helmet #229 is a Hyper Rare from the Pokémon TCG set Lost Thunder. Its current raw market value is $5.16, blended from live eBay sold prices and TCGplayer market data, and a PSA 10 copy sells for about $49.99.
What are the odds of pulling Choice Helmet #229?
You can expect to pull Choice Helmet roughly 1 in 965 packs — its Hyper Rare slot appears in about 2.3% of packs, shared across 22 cards of that rarity in Lost Thunder. Opening a whole Lost Thunder Booster Box (36 packs) gives you about a 3.7% chance of pulling at least one.
Which Lost Thunder product should you open for it?
Every product in the table above draws from the same Lost Thunder pack pool, so the honest answer is whichever costs least per pack — currently the Lost Thunder Elite Trainer Box (8 packs) at $710.00. 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 Choice Helmet worth grading?
A PSA 10 copy sells for about $49.99 against a raw price of $5.16 and a PSA fee of roughly $79.99 (Regular) — so a 10 nets about $-35.15. Of the 71 copies PSA has graded, 36.6% came back a 10 — and since people submit their cleanest copies, read that as a ceiling for a random pull, not your odds.
Choice Helmet price history
Since we began tracking on 2026-08-14, Choice Helmet has moved from $4.82 to $5.16 (+7.1%). The chart above shows every tracked day; history deepens daily and nothing earlier is invented.