S12A · #159 · 2022 · Japanese
Market price: The going rate for an ungraded copy of this exact printing, from actual sales data — TCGplayer for USD, Cardmarket for EUR. Updated daily. · Holo: The artwork shines with a foil pattern. A separate printing from the plain card, and in vintage sets often worth many times more.
$0.18
Steady · 23dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 6, 2026
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博士の研究 sits at $0.18 on TCGplayer today for the Holofoil printing.
Inside S12A, that ranks 172nd out of 255 priced cards. (ギラティナVSTAR leads the set at $301.) Since we started tracking it on Dec 12, 2024, it's eased 68.4% — from $0.57 to $0.18. Over the last year it's fallen 5.3%, from $0.19 to $0.18. Zoom in to 90 days and it's flat, holding around $0.18. Its highest point since we started tracking (December 2024) was $0.57 in December 2024; its lowest, $0.11 in April 2026. Over the last 30 days it's touched $0.18 at the top and $0.17 at the bottom.
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About $0.18 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Holofoil printing, updated Oct 6, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
Pretty flat over the last 3 months — it's held around $0.18 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's down 5%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $0.57 — that was December 2024. We've been writing this card's price down since December 2024, so that's the record on our watch, not an all-time record.
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Cards trading near $0.18 today.
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