Professor's Research
Shining Fates · #60 · Rare · Modern · 2021
Pulling Professor's Research in a Shining Fates pack is about 45.8% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Professor's Research market value
Professor's Research (Shining Fates #60) has a live market value of 14 Sparks, about $0.14 at the latest market price. That market price for Professor's Research was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 14 Sparks is the figure shown for Professor's Research in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Professor's Research, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 11 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Shining Fates pack is 550 Sparks; this card's market value is 14 Sparks. Among the 195 priced cards in Shining Fates, Professor's Research is the 173rd most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 216 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Charizard VMAX at 11,430 Sparks.
How to pull Professor's Research
In a Shining Fates pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare card about 45.8% of the time. In other words, about one Shining Fates pack in 2 lands a Rare card in that slot. Professor's Research is one of 8 priced Rare cards in Shining Fates that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Shining Fates: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Shining Fates page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Shining Fates 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 is a Rare card, number 60 in Shining Fates. Shining Fates lists 8 Rare cards out of 203 cards in total, about 4% of the set list. Among the 8 priced Rare cards, market values run from 5 Sparks to 29 Sparks, and Professor's Research ranks 6th of them. Shining Fates 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 Shining Fates
Shining Fates was released on February 19, 2021 and lists 203 cards on PackLab, 195 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Shining Fates carry a combined market value of 70,720 Sparks. By market value, Professor's Research sits just below Nickit (14 Sparks) and just above Tropius (14 Sparks).
