Professor Birch's Observations
Primal Clash · #159 · Rare Ultra · Mid-era · 2015
Pulling Professor Birch's Observations in a Primal Clash pack is about 9.7% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Professor Birch's Observations market value
Professor Birch's Observations (Primal Clash #159) has a live market value of 1,940 Sparks, about $19.40 at the latest market price. That market price for Professor Birch's Observations was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 1,940 Sparks is the figure shown for Professor Birch's Observations in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Professor Birch's Observations, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 1,649 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Primal Clash pack is 1,950 Sparks; this card's market value is 1,940 Sparks. Among the 164 priced cards in Primal Clash, Professor Birch's Observations is the 25th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 46 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Primal Kyogre-EX at 36,335 Sparks.
How to pull Professor Birch's Observations
In a Primal Clash pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Ultra card about 9.7% of the time. In other words, about one Primal Clash pack in 10 lands a Rare Ultra card in that slot. Professor Birch's Observations is one of 16 priced Rare Ultra cards in Primal Clash that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Primal Clash: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Primal Clash page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Primal Clash 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 Birch's Observations is a Rare Ultra card, number 159 in Primal Clash. Primal Clash lists 16 Rare Ultra cards out of 164 cards in total, about 10% of the set list. Among the 16 priced Rare Ultra cards, market values run from 1,940 Sparks to 36,335 Sparks, and Professor Birch's Observations ranks 16th of them. Primal Clash is part of the XY series and sits in the Mid-era era of the PackLab catalog. Mid-era sets sit between the early classics and the current releases, and sealed packs from them are harder to find today.
About Primal Clash
Primal Clash was released on February 4, 2015 and lists 164 cards on PackLab, 164 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Primal Clash carry a combined market value of 199,531 Sparks. By market value, Professor Birch's Observations sits just below Kyogre-EX (1,999 Sparks) and just above Sceptile (1,762 Sparks).
