Hey. I have been put off buying a booster box of one of the smaller sets like Aether revolt and Hour of devastation. This is because in a box of the bigger sets i get 4 copies of each common (sometimes 3) but i thought that since the smaller sets have less cards there would be a large amount of unwanted common duplicates. How many copies of commons are typically in a box of the smaller sets? thanks.
Using Aether Revolt as the example...5-6 of each common would be expected, but of course variance.
Booster packs have 10-11 commons in them depending on tip cards, basic lands, foils etc. It may just be 10 at all...I'm actually not sure.
If you have 10 per pack and 36 packs in a box that is 360 commons divided by 70 commons is 5.1 average. Now I am fairly certain the commons are not randomized the same way as maybe rares are plus there is just expected deviation. You may get 3 of one and 9 of another.
As an aside, on a larger set like Kaladesh with 101 commons, you can expect an average of 3.6 of each common (360/101=3.56). This matches the numbers you mentioned.
All that said not sure why extra commons is a reason not to buy a booster box. I can list a bunch of other reasons not to, but this doesn't seem like it would ever be a consideration.
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Booster packs have 10-11 commons in them depending on tip cards, basic lands, foils etc. It may just be 10 at all...I'm actually not sure.
If you have 10 per pack and 36 packs in a box that is 360 commons divided by 70 commons is 5.1 average. Now I am fairly certain the commons are not randomized the same way as maybe rares are plus there is just expected deviation. You may get 3 of one and 9 of another.
As an aside, on a larger set like Kaladesh with 101 commons, you can expect an average of 3.6 of each common (360/101=3.56). This matches the numbers you mentioned.
All that said not sure why extra commons is a reason not to buy a booster box. I can list a bunch of other reasons not to, but this doesn't seem like it would ever be a consideration.