I'm not sure if this is related, but the rares i am seeing pulled are really "clumped". Example, i went to a 16 person sealed event today. 3 People had Battlefield Forges, 2 had Karplusan Yeti, 2 had Wrath of God, 3 people had Royal Assassin, i saw 2-3 Elvish Pipers, etc.
Yesterday I went to a 4-man draft, and eventually lost. I bought a box afterwards. I got all 12 rares tha were drafted in the box. Is this some kind of printing thing? or just karma?
Its all about the regional print runs. My region is pulling the same common, uncommons, and rares. Other regions are pulling different.Serra angels and thundermares are hard to pull around here, but easier to pull wraths and assassins. It the opposite in other regions from what i heard.
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There was a repeated uncommon run in 2 of my 9th release packs, it consisted of Flashfires, Rod of Ruin and Phyrexian Gargantua. Bad for constructed, good for limited.
I think it is pointless to try and figure 'print runs' as Wizards by now has certainly mixed it up enough to make it 'untrackable'. I bought a case. 6 boxes that is. Of boosters. Anyway, and I only got one Hippie, 1-4 of every other rare except for Might of Oaks. While opening, I didn't notice any sort of similarity in the run of the rares...
I bought 4 packs and i got exactly the same commons in about 2 of them i can't rember what they were pacifism, seething song, remove soul, sandstone warrior, skyhunter prowler, fear.
I got second place at my draft and every common run ran like this
Naturalize
Ravenous Rats
Mana leak
**card**
**card**
**card**
**card**
**card**
then it went to this:
**card**
Naturalize
Ravenous Rats
Mana leak
**card**
**card**
**card**
.. and so on and so on. I ended up getting 2 full playsets of these commons.
In the 32 man sealed deck we did yesterday there was an awful lot Hyppies and Form of the Dragons opened. I was one of them to get Form. . . nice little bomb in limited.
I know two print runs.
I know Blinding Angel, Force of Nature is one, I don't know the order though [I know 5 people who got this]
and I am pretty sure that wrath of god, elvish piper is another [only 3 here]
yeah,i help out the manager at my local store and I opened most of 2 boxes and then pulled out any usefull commons out and I noticed the main common run of mana leak,rav. rats, and naturalize as like 3-5 commons and llanowar elves and remove soul are usually in that run.very useful indraft as if the guy passing to you took a common you can usually avoid fighting for colors.there was also the same sequence of umcommons in 2 packs in a team draft,but i can't remeber other than one was g.tactics,the other was pretty good and the last was ok.if anyone can tell me what they get if an unc. is tactics it'll probably come back to me.
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I've bought 3 fatpacks, and now have 2 hyppies, and 2 friggin polymorphs... also, at the release tourney i went to, i pulled an underworld dreams, and my friend got a foily one. my other friend pulled a wrath, and this other kid at the tourney pulled a foily one... weird, weird goins on.
So far I've opened both a mana leak and a naturalize in every pack I've opened, and I've opened about 15 over the course of the last weekend. nothing else repetitive tho.
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I think it is pointless to try and figure 'print runs' as Wizards by now has certainly mixed it up enough to make it 'untrackable'. I bought a case. 6 boxes that is. Of boosters. Anyway, and I only got one Hippie, 1-4 of every other rare except for Might of Oaks. While opening, I didn't notice any sort of similarity in the run of the rares...
No, it's quite possible, as Wizards always has an understandable common print run to make sealed deck matches fair. However, with this thread turning into "hey, let's talk about what rares I got" when the title clearly states "common and uncommon print runs", this may be a difficult thing to do.
commons are usually grouped together in every set, and this one is no exception... if they continue to do as they have in the past, there are two different set of cards beside each common... therefore, a mana leak may have a raise dead and a infantry veteran in one, and a festering goblin and a llanowar elves in another... continuing for all 10 commons...
uncommons run on the same path, and it made it so easy to tell in darksteel if you would see a skullclamp in draft by seeing the first uncommon... this one is pretty hard for me to tell...
rare print runs are next to impossible to see (if not completely impossible)... for instance, in my region, we have sold 14-15 boxes of 9th, and the last one (which i bought) had the ONLY Jester's cap in all of em...
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Strange indeed. Since I joined a sealed release party, I didn't remember the common and uncommon order. But, like fnmpm, in my 5 packs, from the the 1st pack I got, I pulled a Scared Ground, and from 2nd I pulled a Polymorph.
In the 32 man sealed deck we did yesterday there was an awful lot Hyppies and Form of the Dragons opened. I was one of them to get Form. . . nice little bomb in limited.
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My release event was rescheduled to next Sunday, not sure why. I'll let you guys know any pattern I spot, anyway.
Yesterday I went to a 4-man draft, and eventually lost. I bought a box afterwards. I got all 12 rares tha were drafted in the box. Is this some kind of printing thing? or just karma?
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Naturalize
Ravenous Rats
Mana leak
**card**
**card**
**card**
**card**
**card**
then it went to this:
**card**
Naturalize
Ravenous Rats
Mana leak
**card**
**card**
**card**
.. and so on and so on. I ended up getting 2 full playsets of these commons.
I know Blinding Angel, Force of Nature is one, I don't know the order though [I know 5 people who got this]
and I am pretty sure that wrath of god, elvish piper is another [only 3 here]
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Though I saw about 10 wraths and 10-11 serra angels :\
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No, it's quite possible, as Wizards always has an understandable common print run to make sealed deck matches fair. However, with this thread turning into "hey, let's talk about what rares I got" when the title clearly states "common and uncommon print runs", this may be a difficult thing to do.
uncommons run on the same path, and it made it so easy to tell in darksteel if you would see a skullclamp in draft by seeing the first uncommon... this one is pretty hard for me to tell...
rare print runs are next to impossible to see (if not completely impossible)... for instance, in my region, we have sold 14-15 boxes of 9th, and the last one (which i bought) had the ONLY Jester's cap in all of em...
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pack 3:mana leak, naturalize, rav rats, suntail hawk, bald barbarians, boomrang, shatter, pegasus charger, contam bond, llan elf, azure drake, glutton zombie, flowstone crusher, brushland, forest
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EDIT - in my sealed packs, I opened: wildfires, biorythm, karplusan forest, thundermare, mahamoti djinn.
My release event was rescheduled to next Sunday, not sure why. I'll let you guys know any pattern I spot, anyway.
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