Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia)
Sword & Shield · #209 · Rare Rainbow · Modern · 2020
Pulling Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia) in a Sword & Shield pack is about 3.3% (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 #209) has a live market value of 404 Sparks, about $4.04 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 404 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 343 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 404 Sparks. Among the 216 priced cards in Sword & Shield, Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia) is the 26th 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 Rainbow card about 3.3% of the time. In other words, about one Sword & Shield pack in 30 lands a Rare Rainbow card in that slot. Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia) is one of 8 priced Rare Rainbow 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 Rainbow card, number 209 in Sword & Shield. Sword & Shield lists 8 Rare Rainbow cards out of 224 cards in total, about 4% of the set list. Among the 8 priced Rare Rainbow cards, market values run from 145 Sparks to 10,699 Sparks, and Professor's Research (Professor Magnolia) ranks 7th 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 Morpeko VMAX (428 Sparks) and just above Ordinary Rod (399 Sparks).
