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Professor's Research (Professor Sada), Scarlet & Violet #240 (Ultra Rare)

Professor's Research (Professor Sada)

Scarlet & Violet · #240 · Ultra Rare · Latest · 2023

Live market value
254 Sparks / $2.54

Pulling Professor's Research (Professor Sada) in a Scarlet & Violet pack is about 6.6% (Foil rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.

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Professor's Research (Professor Sada) market value

Professor's Research (Professor Sada) (Scarlet & Violet #240) has a live market value of 254 Sparks, about $2.54 at the latest market price. That market price for Professor's Research (Professor Sada) was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 254 Sparks is the figure shown for Professor's Research (Professor Sada) in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Professor's Research (Professor Sada), you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 215 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Scarlet & Violet pack is 675 Sparks; this card's market value is 254 Sparks. Among the 258 priced cards in Scarlet & Violet, Professor's Research (Professor Sada) is the 48th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 16 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Gardevoir ex at 6,921 Sparks.

How to pull Professor's Research (Professor Sada)

In a Scarlet & Violet pack, the Foil rare slot shows an Ultra Rare card about 6.6% of the time. In other words, about one Scarlet & Violet pack in 15 lands an Ultra Rare card in that slot. Professor's Research (Professor Sada) is one of 20 priced Ultra Rare cards in Scarlet & Violet that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Scarlet & Violet: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Scarlet & Violet page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Scarlet & Violet box commits its card order before the first pack is sold, so each rip can be checked once the box sells out.

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Rarity and era

Professor's Research (Professor Sada) is an Ultra Rare card, number 240 in Scarlet & Violet. Scarlet & Violet lists 20 Ultra Rare cards out of 266 cards in total, about 8% of the set list. Among the 20 priced Ultra Rare cards, market values run from 85 Sparks to 1,422 Sparks, and Professor's Research (Professor Sada) ranks 8th of them. Scarlet & Violet is part of the Scarlet & Violet series and sits in the Latest era of the PackLab catalog. Latest-era sets are the newest releases, so their card prices are still settling as collectors open them.

About Scarlet & Violet

Scarlet & Violet was released on March 31, 2023 and lists 266 cards on PackLab, 258 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Scarlet & Violet carry a combined market value of 69,371 Sparks. By market value, Professor's Research (Professor Sada) sits just below Arven (254 Sparks) and just above Banette ex (218 Sparks).

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