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.
Mela #254
Paradox Rift · Special Illustration 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 Paradox Rift Booster Box (36 packs) | $278.69 | 1 in 711 | 4.9% |
 Paradox Rift Elite Trainer Box (9 packs) | $134.99 | 1 in 711 | 1.3% |
 Paradox Rift Elite Trainer Box — Pokémon Center (9 packs) | $190.00 | 1 in 711 | 1.3% |
 Paradox Rift Booster Pack | $11.53 | 1 in 711 | 0.1% |
 Stellar Crown Terapagos ex Ultra-Premium Collection (18 packs) | $243.93 | — | — |
 Destined Rivals Team Rocket's Moltres ex Ultra-Premium Collection (18 packs) | $332.73 | — | — |
How much is Mela #254 worth?
Mela #254 is a Special Illustration Rare from the Pokémon TCG set Paradox Rift. Its current raw market value is $8.86, blended from live eBay sold prices and TCGplayer market data, and a PSA 10 copy sells for about $90.59.
What are the odds of pulling Mela #254?
You can expect to pull Mela roughly 1 in 711 packs — its Special Illustration Rare slot appears in about 2.1% of packs, shared across 15 cards of that rarity in Paradox Rift. Opening a whole Paradox Rift Booster Box (36 packs) gives you about a 4.9% chance of pulling at least one.
Which Paradox Rift product should you open for it?
Every product in the table above draws from the same Paradox Rift pack pool, so the honest answer is whichever costs least per pack — currently the Paradox Rift Booster Pack at $11.53. 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 Mela worth grading?
A PSA 10 copy sells for about $90.59 against a raw price of $8.86 and a PSA fee of roughly $79.99 (Regular) — so a 10 nets about +$1.75. Of the 1,511 copies PSA has graded, 33.8% came back a 10 — and since people submit their cleanest copies, read that as a ceiling for a random pull, not your odds.
Mela price history
Since we began tracking on 2026-07-29, Mela has moved from $9.16 to $8.86 (-3.3%). The chart above shows every tracked day; history deepens daily and nothing earlier is invented.