Packs of real Pokémon cards, sold as Gems
Grailed.gg sells digital Pokémon packs. Its homepage sums it up: rip packs "from $0.50", then have real cards "shipped to you or sell back instantly at 100%". Its terms say every card in your inventory "matches a physical card we hold and can ship to you", stored for free.
It isn't connected to grailed.com, the fashion marketplace. It's a different site that happens to use the same name.
Everything runs on Gems. Stablecoins are credited at their face value in US dollars, so 1 Gem is $1. This is a card-pack site for adults (18+): you pay a fixed price for a random pull, and Grailed's own terms say that "over time you should expect to receive less card value than you spend."
What the house keeps
Every pack lists the chance of every card. We added up the odds times the card values in Grailed's public pack data on 11 November 2026. Across all 25 packs, from $0.84 to $835, a pack returned between 83.3% (Soaring Sky) and 90.9% (Trainer) of its price. The typical pack returned 90%, and Haunted and Vintage returned 84.5%.
So on an average pack, a $10 rip gives you about $9 of card value, and on the worst ones less. Those values are Grailed's own: its terms call card value "our reference price based on market data" and "not a promise that you could sell the card for that amount anywhere else."
Most cards are raw. On 11 November 2026, 47 of the 309 cards across all packs were PSA-graded. The top prize was a PSA 10 Crystal Celebi valued at 150,300 Gems.
Sell back at 100%, and cash out
You can sell any card back for 100% of its card value, paid in Gems. Unlike Packs.com, where sell-backs only buy more packs, Grailed lets you withdraw Gems as crypto. Courtyard buys back at 90% of market value and Phygitals at up to 92%, so on paper Grailed pays the most of the card sites we list. Keep in mind that the 100% is of Grailed's own card value.
The withdrawal rules in its terms:
- Withdrawals go out as crypto. The FAQ lists SOL, ETH, HYPE, USDC and USDT on Solana, Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and HyperEVM.
- The minimum is $5, and each withdrawal costs a network fee of 1 Gem.
- Your account must have deposited at least 5 Gems in total before its first withdrawal.
- Deposits and deposit bonuses carry a 1x play-through, and promo codes 2x. Promo Gems can't be withdrawn.
- Withdrawals may be reviewed before they are sent, and Grailed may ask you to prove your identity at any time.
We haven't tested a withdrawal, so we can't say how fast one arrives.
Paying in
Deposits are in crypto, on the same networks, plus a card option through a payment partner. When we looked, the site's own text allowed for card deposits being "unavailable right now", with crypto as the fallback.
Shipping your cards
The terms let you ship cards at any time from your inventory, up to 50 cards per shipment. The fee is shown before you confirm and is paid in real Gems. Every shipment is insured for the declared value of its cards, shipments worth 1,000 Gems or more go by DHL, and you pay any import duty. The FAQ says orders ship worldwide and arrive 3 to 5 business days after processing.
Free packs and rewards
New accounts can open 3 free packs. The terms say the value of each card pulled is added to your balance as real Gems instead of a card, with no play-through. To claim them you connect a Discord account, join Grailed's server and get its verified role, and the Discord account must be at least 28 days old. That still costs no money, which is rare in 2026.
After that, rewards come from your rank. There are 19 ranks, and higher ones unlock Gemback (a share of your losses back), weekly and monthly bonuses, and a daily pack. You earn XP when a pull is worth less than you paid, or you can buy it at 300 XP per Gem.
Games
Besides packs, there are pack battles (including "Borrow" seats, where you pay as little as 20% of the entry for a share of the result), an Upgrader and the Merchant, which the terms call a beta. All of them are Pokémon only.
Provably fair
Before each round Grailed commits to a hashed server seed, mixes in your client seed and reveals the server seed when you rotate it, so you can check a result afterwards. Battles share one server seed across every opening. That proves a result wasn't changed after the fact. It doesn't change the 10% or so priced into the odds.
Who runs it
The site and its terms name HOLOLABS LTD, a company registered in Cyprus (HE 499604) in Nicosia, under Cyprus law. We found no gambling licence. Its X account, @Grailed_GG, was created on 1 May 2026 and had about 3,200 followers when we checked. It has no Trustpilot page, and we found no outside reviews. The site advertises a "$350,000+ Vault", which we can't check.
The terms ban players from sanctioned countries and the FATF high-risk list, and using a VPN to get around that. The US and the UK are not on its list of restricted countries.
Design
We haven't scored the design yet. Matt will give his take after he's used the site.
The code
There is no Betrefs code for Grailed.gg. The free packs above are the site's own offer.