Mars

Mars is a Uncommon card from the Space-Time Smackdown set — a Trainer card of the Supporter kind: no HP, no evolution, no attacks of its own. It hits the table, fires its effect, and steps aside.

What it does: Your opponent shuffles their hand into their deck and draws a card for each of their remaining points needed to win.

Trainer cards are balanced by how often you may play them in a turn, not by damage. Read the effect against what your deck is short of — energy acceleration, draw, healing, or forcing a switch — because a Trainer is only strong when it solves the exact bottleneck your deck actually has.

Rare cards are not spread evenly across a set. Each one is locked to specific packs, and opening the wrong pack from the right set means this card never shows up no matter how many you buy. Mars drops from Palkia.

Odds are set per slot, not per card — and the slot layout differs from one pack type to another, so never carry one pack's formula over to another. The Palkia pack gives 5 cards per opening — slot 1 is always Common · slot 2 is always Common · slot 3 is always Common · slot 4: 90.00% is Uncommon · slot 5: 60.00% is Uncommon. For Mars that works out to 2.50% in slot 4 · 1.67% in slot 5, which is 4.12% for any single pack, or about 24 packs before you can expect to see one.

Pulling is only the first path, and it is the one that can betray you: 4.12% per pack means the expected 24 packs is an average, not a promise.

The second path removes luck entirely. Every pack you open awards 5 Pack Points (an official in-game mechanic, not part of the drop-rate table) regardless of what comes out of it, and those points accumulate until you can redeem this exact card outright. Mars costs 70 PP — no pulls, no gambling, just the count.

The third path is trading, which spends Shinedust rather than Pack Points, and whether it is open to you depends entirely on the card's rarity. For Mars: It can be traded, and it costs 0 Shinedust.

Mars does not evolve from or into anything — it stands alone.

Some Pokémon are also printed more than once — across different sets or promo drops, with different art, different rarity, and sometimes different attacks under the same name. Where other printings of this card exist, they are linked on this page, because the stats can differ even when the name matches.

Mars is not a core card in any of the 50 meta decks currently tracked. It is a filler card: Pack Points cost only 70, so do not burn packs hunting it — open packs for the rare slots and this one arrives on its own.

The meta deck table is recomputed from tournament data (play rate plus win/loss/tie record), not from anyone's opinion. A card missing from that table can still be beautiful and still be expensive to trade for, but it will not win games on its own — those are two different questions and this page answers them separately.

Which pack should I open to get Mars?

Mars drops from Palkia. Opening a different pack from the same set will not produce it, because pack variants inside one set carry completely different rare-card pools.

Roughly how many packs does it take to pull Mars?

About 24 packs on average. That comes from the per-slot pull table rather than a single blended number: 2.50% in slot 4 · 1.67% in slot 5, which is 4.12% for any one pack. It is an expected value — a statistical estimate, not a guarantee: half of all players will need more.

Can I trade for Mars instead of pulling it?

It can be traded, and it costs 0 Shinedust. Trading uses Shinedust, and whether a card is tradeable at all is fixed by its rarity tier — Immersive Rare and Crown Rare cards can never be traded under any circumstance, so for those two tiers Pack Points or a direct pull are the only ways in.