Courtyard's own data puts its buy-back at 84.6% of market
Courtyard offers 84.6% of its own fair market value estimate to buy a pulled card back. The same ratio appears on all 102 of its live packs. MyCardRips read the figure from Courtyard’s public pack data on October 15, 2026.
The number is not a new policy. What is new is that it can now be checked against Courtyard’s own numbers rather than estimated.
MyCardRips measured Courtyard’s standing offers by hand in September 2026. That sample covered nine cards. The offers averaged 84.8% of real market prices, ranging from 81.3% to 86.4%.
The published ratio of 0.846 sits inside that measured range. Nine cards can suggest a rate. Nine cards cannot settle one. A figure published on every pack settles it.
What it changes for your next rip
It makes the cost of selling back to Courtyard knowable before you buy.
On the October 15, 2026 ratio, a card Courtyard values at $100 returns $84.60 if you accept the standing offer. The remaining 15.4% is what the instant exit costs. That is a fee, and it is now a published one rather than an inferred one.
Two things the ratio does not tell you. It applies to Courtyard’s own valuation of the card, not to a price another buyer agreed to pay. It also says nothing about whether that valuation is accurate. That is a separate question, and the one MyCardRips tested by hand.
Readers comparing exits should weigh that 15.4% against the alternative. Selling the same card elsewhere carries its own costs. Those run from about 11% to 14% on the large marketplaces, as set out in where to sell Pokémon cards.
How busy the packs actually are
Courtyard’s pack data also carries pull counts, which most apps keep private.
Across all 102 live packs, the data recorded 942,647 pulls in the 30 days to October 15, 2026. At list prices that is roughly $57.9 million of pack sales. Discounts are not netted out, so treat the dollar figure as an upper estimate.
The cheapest tiers carry the volume. In the 30 days to October 15, 2026, the Basketball Starter Pack at $25 logged 19,436 pulls. Its Master Pack at $100 logged 5,450.
Courtyard publishes an expected value on each pack. As of October 15, 2026, the $25 starter packs state $24. The $100 master packs state $96. Both work out to 96% of the pack price. That is before the buy-back discount touches anything a buyer sells back.
That combination is the thing worth understanding. The stated expected value describes what the pack holds. The buy-back ratio describes what Courtyard pays to take it back. A buyer who rips and immediately sells back is exposed to both.
See the Courtyard review for the full scoring. The hand measurement this figure confirms sits in how good is the valuation.