# What is the rarest card in Celebrations?

> The rarest card in Celebrations is Professor's Research (Professor Oak) (#24), a Rare Ultra.
>
> Source: https://www.nomekop.app/faqs/rarest-card-in-celebrations — NOMEKOP, an independent Pokémon TCG binder tool
> (not affiliated with Nintendo / The Pokémon Company). Figures as of June 2026.

**The rarest card in Celebrations is Professor's Research (Professor Oak) (#24), a Rare Ultra.**

## Why Professor's Research (Professor Oak) tops the list

Celebrations prints just 1 Rare Ultra, the thinnest tier in the set, and Professor's Research (Professor Oak) sits at #24 among them. Rarity and price don't always line up. By market value the priciest card is Mew (#25) at about $74.20, so the rarest pull and the most expensive one are different cards here.

## How Professor's Research (Professor Oak) sits in the wider chase

Celebrations runs to 25 cards including 0 secret rares, and Professor's Research (Professor Oak) is the scarcest of them. Other cards collectors hunt in the set:

- [Mew (#25)](/card/cel25-25) — Rare Holo (~$74.20)
- [Flying Pikachu VMAX (#7)](/card/cel25-7) — Rare Holo VMAX (~$8.74)
- [Surfing Pikachu VMAX (#9)](/card/cel25-9) — Rare Holo VMAX (~$8.70)
- [Pikachu (#5)](/card/cel25-5) — Rare Holo (~$8.21)
- [Surfing Pikachu V (#8)](/card/cel25-8) — Rare Holo V (~$5.17)

## Star Pokémon to chase in Celebrations

Beyond the single rarest card, these are the headline Pokémon and their prints in the set — each appears in multiple slots, so there's more than one Celebrations card to hunt per name:



If you're hunting the rarest pull, Professor's Research (Professor Oak) is the one to prioritise; the rest of Celebrations' chase fills in from there. With 0 secret rares and 0 full-art cards across the 25-card set, there's a deep bench of rare pulls behind it.

Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset (TCGplayer pricing), as of June 2026.