I know packs are kind of a lottery, but after watching a friend bust three boxes( i know 3 boxes isnt a lot nor is it statistically relevant) it is just disheartening how bad the cards in this set really are. 3 boxes and all he had to show from it was 2 Ugin, 3 fetches, 1 souldfire grandmaster.
I just opened my second (and last) Gatecrash box, and pulled Duskmantle Seer, Borborygmos Enraged, Gideon, Obzedat, Deathpact Angel, Hellkite Tyrant, Enter the Infinite, and Domri Rade.
There was also a pack that had a Godless Shrine and a foil Breeding Pool.
I got a Korean Dragons of Tarkir box. 2 Narsets, 1 Sarkhan, 1 Dromoka, 1 Ojutai Exemplars, 1 foil Anticipate, 1 foil Ojutai's Command, copies of other Commands as rare.
I was at my LGS and saw he only had one Atarka precon deck left, and I wanted one for some EDH pieces. Also, I told my brother that I had to buy it because it had a Narset in there, and if I walked out, somebody else was going to get it. Rares in the two packs were a Narset Transcendent and Foe-Razer Regent. LGS owner couldn't believe it, since he didn't crack a Narset after opening 2 boxes.
Bought a pack that contained one Gatecrash 15 card booster pack and one Return to Ravnica 15 card booster pack, and I was very much pleased when I found not only a Stomping Grounds, but also a FOIL Aurelia, the Warleader in the Gatecrash pack alone. The Loxodon Smiter I found in the RTR pack was just icing on the cake.
I also remember when I pulled a Lilianna Vess, which was pretty cool as well.
Pulling both an Ajani and Jace, The Living Guildpact in the same draft in an M15 draft was pretty sweet. Opened a Chandra and a Liliana the draft before aswell.
I had a friend who opened a Entreat the Angels and and a foil Craterhoof Behemoth in the same pack. My best Openings consisted of 2 Thoughtseize in about 6 packs opened. I was really bummed out because it did the "Same thing" as Duress and I had only been playing for like a month...
I also remember opening a Tarmogoyf in my first Modern Masters booster pack. There is that.
Last weekend me and 5 other friends tried to do box sealed with Dragons of Tarkir.
However, finding enough English boxes here in Japan proved difficult. We bought out the Yellow Submarine in Yokohama, which meant we had 3 boxes and each one would be split between two people.
Shortly after we started cracking packs, the person with whom I split my box with pulled Sarkhan. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little jelly, but a few packs later I cracked a foil Sarkhan and got the single best pull out of the entire group.
Also pulled a Deathmist Raptor, Dragonlord Kolaghan and Risen Executioner, which certainly isn't too shabby for half a box.
The problem with defining this format by what is "fun" is that everyone seems to define fun as what they don't lose to. If you keep losing to easily answered cards, that means you should improve your deck. If you don't want to improve your deck, then you should come to peace with the idea that you are going to lose because you chose to not interact with better strategies.
Since I got a warning in the Market Street Cafe Thread I guess I'll post it here. I bought a Dragons of Tarkir booster box off ebay for $87.77 and pulled:
1x Narset Transcendent
1x Dragonlord Dromoka
1x Dragonlord Dromoka
1x Den Protector
1x Deathmist Raptor
1x Collected Company
1x Thunderbreak Regent
1x Surrak, the Huntcaller
1x Icefall Regent
This is the first time I've ever pulled 2 foil rares in 1 box. Strongly makes me consider buying another box just to see what my luck will be, although I'm normally cursed with mediocre pulls. Also, I once pulled a Thoughtsieze and a Thoughtsieze in the same pack
There's no justice in this world, ladies and gentlemen.
This sounds about right.
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So there's this guy at my LGS. He's extremely annoying. Like, really annoying. Brags about how good he is, thinks he's better than every other player, whines incessantly when he loses and gloats when he wins. You know the type. We all have one at our LGS.
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So this guy picks up his box and immediately starts ripping into the packs on a table off to the side. A few minutes later he goes mental. I ignore him because (a) I don't much like him, and (b) I was in the middle of a six-player EDH game that had already been going on for an hour. Eventually he quietens down after excitedly shouting at a couple of other regulars across the room about his "awesome pull". Then ten minutes later he hits the ******* roof, basically screaming with delight. At this point everyone in the shop is just staring at him and he just stands up and starts waving two cards around frantically with this big *****-eating grin on his face.
When he runs over to us and I see what they are my heart sinks. This arrogant, horrible human being has just opened the box of all boxes...
Don't know how old this guy is but it sounds like puberty will be punishment enough for him.
There was also a pack that had a Godless Shrine and a foil Breeding Pool.
I also remember when I pulled a Lilianna Vess, which was pretty cool as well.
Back when Zendikar was released, my buddy pulled a Phyrexian Dreadnought. Now THAT was awesome.
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Also, booster packs can kiss my horribly unlucky ***.
/cry.dec haha
I think I'm cursed :(.
Meanwhile my friends and everyone else at events I attend seem to pull amazing cards out of packs left and right.
GRRRR!
It was one heck of a draft
I also remember opening a Tarmogoyf in my first Modern Masters booster pack. There is that.
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I didn't get a foil mythic or a foil fetchland.
I got 26 mythics comprising 13 of the 15 mythics. Didn't get Sidisi or Ugin's Nexus. 2x Sarkhan, 1x Sorin.
Six foil rares, but none listed as more than $1.99 on SCG.
Got all 53 rares, though one or two of them had only one copy.
4x Bloodstained Mire, 4x Windswept Health, 3x Polluted Delta, 3x Wooded Foothills, 2x Flooded Strand
Would you say I got unlucky? Or is this within average?
Edit: Also got 5x Siege Rhino and 5x Dig Through Time.
Really?
However, finding enough English boxes here in Japan proved difficult. We bought out the Yellow Submarine in Yokohama, which meant we had 3 boxes and each one would be split between two people.
Shortly after we started cracking packs, the person with whom I split my box with pulled Sarkhan. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little jelly, but a few packs later I cracked a foil Sarkhan and got the single best pull out of the entire group.
Also pulled a Deathmist Raptor, Dragonlord Kolaghan and Risen Executioner, which certainly isn't too shabby for half a box.
Yeah, okay, have fun with your $1,200 card. My best pull is a foil Liliana of the Veil.
1x Narset Transcendent
1x Dragonlord Dromoka
1x Dragonlord Dromoka
1x Den Protector
1x Deathmist Raptor
1x Collected Company
1x Thunderbreak Regent
1x Surrak, the Huntcaller
1x Icefall Regent
This is the first time I've ever pulled 2 foil rares in 1 box. Strongly makes me consider buying another box just to see what my luck will be, although I'm normally cursed with mediocre pulls. Also, I once pulled a Thoughtsieze and a Thoughtsieze in the same pack
This sounds about right.
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Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander -
Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)Don't know how old this guy is but it sounds like puberty will be punishment enough for him.