CourtyardACourtyard Review: Odds, Payouts and Real Returns
Cash card rip packs, vaulted and graded, ship or sell back
- What comes back66
- Getting paidnot published
- Transparency60
- Getting your card100
- Getting startednot published
Scores are computed, not written: the same five criteria with the same thresholds run over every operator. Where a site publishes nothing on a criterion it drops out of that operator's average rather than counting as a zero. How we rate.
In short
Courtyard measured 91.8% coming back per dollar across 231,989 sampled pulls, with a typical rip of 81.6%. It publishes no buyback rate, so what a sell-back returns is not something we can state.
- ✓Free vaulting, insured at market value
- ✓Publishes per-pack odds as value bands with probabilities
- ✓Wide catalogue across Pokemon, sports, comics and more
What's good
- ✓Free vaulting, insured at market value
- ✓Publishes per-pack odds as value bands with probabilities
- ✓Wide catalogue across Pokemon, sports, comics and more
Good to know
- •Shipping plus taxes are on you
- •ID check before a card ships
Not yet verified
- ?Payout speed
- ?Minimum buy-in
- ?Withdrawal fee
Where a fact is not published, we say "Not stated" rather than estimate it.
Our read on Courtyard
Courtyard is a card-rip site: cash card rip packs, vaulted and graded, ship or sell back. You buy a digital pack at a set price, open it to reveal one real graded card, and then choose an exit, ship the slab or sell it back. What separates the operators in this category is rarely the thrill; it's the exit terms and whether the published odds survive contact with the real pull feed.
Across 231,989 sampled pulls we measured 91.8% of every dollar coming back in card value, gross, before cash-out. The typical rip, the median rather than the average, is 81.6%. That gap is not a contradiction: it is what a one-card-per-pack format looks like when a small number of large hits carry the mean. Most rips land at or below the pack price, which is why we lead with the median everywhere.
The strongest pack in its catalogue on our board is Sealed Pokémon Booster at 112.3% typical from 17,695 pulls. The full catalogue, with the distribution behind each pack, is on the packs tab.
On the terms side: no buyback rate is published, so what a sell-back returns is not something we can state. ID check: required before shipping. The complete term-by-term picture, including everything the site does not state, is on the trust tab.
Their odds, packs and terms are theirs to change, and this page reflects what was published when we checked it on 2026-10-04. Rip within a budget you're happy to spend on the entertainment.
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Courtyard: frequently asked questions
Is Courtyard legit?+
Courtyard pays out real, professionally graded cards from a vault, and we measure what actually comes back from its public pull feed rather than taking its odds on trust. Across 231,989 sampled pulls we observed 91.8% of every dollar coming back in card value, gross, before cash-out. Facts it doesn't publish are listed as not verified rather than guessed.
How do Courtyard payouts work?+
Courtyard does not publish a buyback rate, so we can't state what a sell-back returns. Shipping the physical card is the outcome we can verify.
What is the typical return on Courtyard?+
The typical rip, the median across sampled pulls, is 81.6%. The site-wide average is 91.8%: it sits higher because a handful of big hits carry it. The gap between those two numbers is the honest picture of a one-card-per-pack site.
How often do you get your money back on Courtyard?+
Across 231,412 openings we recorded on Courtyard, 32.3% came back worth at least what the pack cost. The rest landed below it. That is the number to plan around: one card per pack means most openings sit near or under the price, and the occasional big hit is what pulls the average up.
What is the biggest pull recorded on Courtyard?+
The largest single outcome we have on record is 2023 Pokémon Mew EN-151 Charizard EX out of 30th Anniversary: Red, worth 6229.2% of the pack price. It is one opening out of 231,412, so treat it as the tail of the distribution rather than something to expect.
Are the expensive packs on Courtyard better value than the cheap ones?+
Not automatically, and the data lets you check rather than guess. In the under $25 band we recorded 63,380 openings, of which 39.7% came back worth at least the pack price. In the $500 and up band, across 5,709 openings, that figure is 28.7%. So the cheaper packs returned the price more often here, which is a fact about Courtyard and not a rule that carries to other sites.
Do Courtyard's published odds match reality?+
We compare every stated tier against what we actually recorded. The widest gap on Courtyard is the base tier of Sealed Pokémon Booster: advertised at 66.5%, observed at 5.0% across 884 openings. That gap runs against the buyer. Gaps this size need a large sample before they mean anything, which is why we only report tiers with at least 200 recorded openings.
Courtyard elsewhere
What actually comes back on Courtyard
Every figure below is counted from 231,412 openings we recorded across 139 packs, not from anything Courtyard states about itself.
- Got the price back
- 32.3%
- of openings returned at least what the pack cost.
- The usual range
- 63.0% to 157.0%
- where 8 in 10 openings of Pokémon Starter Pack landed, across 39,579 of them.
- Biggest hit recorded
- 6229.2%
- 2023 Pokémon Mew EN-151 Charizard EX, out of 30th Anniversary: Red.
Where the openings landed
- under 25%1.4% · 3,140
- 25-50%1.8% · 4,270
- 50-90%57.2% · 132,414
- 90-110%13.9% · 32,107
- 110-200%19.8% · 45,918
- 200-500%5.6% · 13,000
- over 500%0.2% · 563
Share of openings by what the card was worth against the pack price. One card per pack, so the bar on the left is the ordinary outcome and the tail on the right is what people remember.
Does paying more change the odds?
| Pack price | Packs | Openings | Got the price back | Typical rip, per pack |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under $25 | 8 | 63,380 | 39.7% | 73.9% to 112.3% |
| $25 to $99 | 39 | 124,453 | 31.5% | 48.7% to 98.5% |
| $100 to $499 | 43 | 37,870 | 22.8% | 11.9% to 92.9% |
| $500 and up | 49 | 5,709 | 28.7% | 67.7% to 95.3% |
The last column is the range across the individual packs in that price band, not an average: each pack's typical rip is a median, and medians of different packs cannot be averaged into one. Bands with fewer than 200 recorded openings are left out entirely.
Do the published odds hold?
On Sealed Pokémon Booster, the base tier is advertised at 66.5% and came in at 5.0% across 884 recorded openings. That is the widest gap between stated and observed odds we found on Courtyard, and it falls against the buyer.
In October 2026 we recorded 11,373 openings on Courtyard, with a typical rip of 79.5%. See how every site did that month.
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