Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia)
Sword & Shield · #178 · Rare Holo · Modern · 2020
Pulling Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia) in a Sword & Shield pack is about 20.6% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia) market value
Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia) (Sword & Shield #178) has a live market value of 17 Sparks, about $0.17 at the latest market price. That market price for Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia) was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 17 Sparks is the figure shown for Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia) in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia), you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 14 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Sword & Shield pack is 650 Sparks; this card's market value is 17 Sparks. Among the 216 priced cards in Sword & Shield, Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia) is the 150th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 24 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Snorlax VMAX at 10,699 Sparks.
How to pull Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia)
In a Sword & Shield pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Holo card about 20.6% of the time. In other words, about one Sword & Shield pack in 5 lands a Rare Holo card in that slot. Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia) is one of 17 priced Rare Holo cards in Sword & Shield that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Sword & Shield: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Sword & Shield page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Sword & Shield box commits its card order before the first pack is sold, so each rip can be checked once the box sells out.
Rarity and era
Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia) is a Rare Holo card, number 178 in Sword & Shield. Sword & Shield lists 17 Rare Holo cards out of 224 cards in total, about 8% of the set list. Among the 17 priced Rare Holo cards, market values run from 17 Sparks to 815 Sparks, and Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia) ranks 17th of them. Sword & Shield is part of the Sword & Shield series and sits in the Modern era of the PackLab catalog. Modern-era sets are recent and widely opened, and their chase cards are usually the full-art and illustration rares.
About Sword & Shield
Sword & Shield was released on February 7, 2020 and lists 224 cards on PackLab, 216 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Sword & Shield carry a combined market value of 50,562 Sparks. By market value, Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia) sits just below Metal Saucer (17 Sparks) and just above Galarian Linoone (16 Sparks).
