Nuit Noire ME05 SIR reportedly about 1 in 80 boosters, per English data
Pull-rate estimates for Nuit Noire (ME05) come from English Pitch Black boosters, not French ones, and no official French table exists. They reportedly put a Special Illustration Rare at 1.25% per booster (about 1 in 80) and the Mega Hyper Rare at about 0.09% (about 1 in 1,100). The study was attributed to TCGplayer (dated July 21, 2026) and reportedly covered more than 4,000 English boosters opened at an authentication center. The other per-booster rates reported are Double Rare at 21.02% (about 1 in 5), Illustration Rare at 11.01% (about 1 in 9) and Ultra Rare at 8.30% (about 1 in 12). The percentages come from Cardlytics, cross-checked against UltraBall and the French summary by Gotem, and give the chance of any card of that rarity, not of a specific card. The Mega Hyper Rare ratio is given as 1 in 1,081 by Gotem and as 1 in 1,111 by Cardlytics, so the article keeps about 1 in 1,100. These are reported observations on English boosters, not official rates. The source found no official French pull-rate table for ME05, no established guarantee of an SIR in a Nuit Noire display, and no robust evidence that any French blister, ETB or tripack gives a better per-booster rate.
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