I skimmed over this thread, and it looks like no one mentioned it, so...
My roommate and I both picked RED for our color, and our packs were 100% identical, including the order of the cards. Not a single difference. We opened the version with Anger the Gods
thats sorta the whole premise behind the seeded packs, there's 8 different configurations, identified by the rare that they come with. Everybody that opens a particular rare in the pack, will get the exact same cards.
The Bow of Nylea was the rare card in my prelease pack.
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Out of 5 pre-re packs opened, I saw 2 gods; lucky. However, out of the 25 other boosters from those packs--1 thoughtseize, no mythics at all. I'd seen plenty of other people get mythics in their 5 'other' boosters, so it can happen; I'd just say the suspicion of pre-re boosters being slightly more loaded than normal boosters is over, if it was ever so to begin with.
I'm almost fairly certain that Pre-re packs are stacked. I saw 7 Xenagos' opened in one pre-re flight; specifically, 6 regular Xenagos' and one Foil (one guy opened a regular one and a foil one in the same pre-re box).
In my friend's and my seeded booster, we both went blue and we both had the same run, the rares being meletis charlatan and I don't remember the other cards but there was a lightning strike and a divine verdict.
I'm almost fairly certain that Pre-re packs are stacked. I saw 7 Xenagos' opened in one pre-re flight; specifically, 6 regular Xenagos' and one Foil (one guy opened a regular one and a foil one in the same pre-re box).
In my friend's and my seeded booster, we both went blue and we both had the same run, the rares being meletis charlatan and I don't remember the other cards but there was a lightning strike and a divine verdict.
That could be why he dropped in price and Elspeth shot up to take over the #1 spot.
"If fetch lands are reprinted I really believe they will be in allied colors (aka Onslaught fetches). If the fetch lands are reprinted you better believe that we'll all be fetching up basics. This would lead me to believe that the set after THS may have a reprint as the temples can't be fetched but it's pure speculation." - posted 03/22/2014 proved correct during Khans spoiler season.
"The set releases for fall 2015 (Blood, Sweat and Tears) and fall 2016 (Lock, Stock and Barrel). One or both of those 2 blocks (I'm betting) are going to contain either Fetch reprints or (more likely) Filter reprints. Filter lands still need a reprint. They are getting pretty high up there and it's been longer than ZEN so it makes a little more sense that Filter lands would see print earlier that fetches." - posted 03/22/2014 proved incorrect about filters coming earlier than fetches, still pending on filters in Origins block.
Finally getting a chance to post this about my midnight pre-release... I went black and got Hero's Downfall as my seeded rare... and then my five other packs were completely insane. My rares were:
Plus I ended up with Lash of the Whip, three Nylea's Emissary, two Pharika's Mender and a great curve that started on two Tormented Hero. So I rolled to a 5-0 record with my green/black deck, not even dropping a single game except in the last round when I got mana flooded in game two.
From what I talked with some of the other veteran players at the event, these pools seemed to contain a lot of duplicate rares and tended to skew towards being really strong or kind of sub-par. But OTOH, all the best players went at least 4-1, so probably the imbalance in card pools wasn't so severe as to offset deckbuilding and playing skill.
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I went white and my seeded had a Heliod, God of the Sun while 2 of my boosters had Thoughtseizes in them. I also got the RW Scry-land, a Sylvan Caryatid, and a Whip of Erebos.
I'm almost fairly certain that Pre-re packs are stacked. I saw 7 Xenagos' opened in one pre-re flight; specifically, 6 regular Xenagos' and one Foil (one guy opened a regular one and a foil one in the same pre-re box).
Xenagos does not appear in the color packs. The only mythics possible in the color packs are the gods. It's kind of silly, many people picked white (the weakest color in TTT sealed IMHO) hoping to max out their odds of opening an Elspeth, when it actually made no difference whatever.
I bought in with two packs: Black and Red. The Black seeded pack had a Psychic Intrusion, and the boosters had a Erebos and a Medomai. I, for fun, bought an extra Red seeded pack after the event, and nearly konked out. Guild pack had a Purphoros and another booster had a Purphoros. At my event, it seemed like most people pulled Gods, considering in three rounds (fourth was a buy) battles were gods against gods: Erebos vs. Heliod, Erebos vs. Thassa, Erebos vs. Heliod.
I went white and my seeded had a Heliod, God of the Sun while 2 of my boosters had Thoughtseizes in them. I also got the RW Scry-land, a Sylvan Caryatid, and a Whip of Erebos.
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
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I got no money in my prerelease pack(with the exception of Hero's downfall), but I did score a Xenagos and Nyelia in my 6 pack prize
the guy next to me got three gods(red, white, blue) and the guy next to him had a foil thoughtseize.
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
At my LGS, I played in every prerelease event (Midnight, 3 during the day on Saturday, and one on Sunday) and only witnessed one Elspeth being opened.
I won half of a box on Saturday, and opened 5 prerelease packs, including my friend that's pooling with me, and we opened 2 Xenagos, 3 Thoughtseize, 4 Thassa, 2 Ashiok, 2 Ashen Rider, a poop-ton of scry lands, and absolutely no Elspeths.
I played 3 events this weekend and pulled bonkers. Seems a lot of people did. My green box alone had two Naylea, 2 bows and Heliod. I also hit 3 Elspeth and 2 scry lands. I saw 2 of the foil R/G planeswalker and 3 normal between two events, and a number of Ashioks as well. Plus, and this is nuts, 5 foil thoughtseizes! God only lmowz how many normal ones. Very few people didn't pull a god.
Makes me wonder about price of these cards. I get that I'm seeing such a small pool (40, 42 and 22 people for the events) it is insignificant, but gods seem to be all over. And if I alone got 3 Elspeth in 2 boxes and one from my win (10 packs) it seems like a high rate of money pulls.
I played 3 events this weekend and pulled bonkers. Seems a lot of people did. My green box alone had two Naylea, 2 bows and Heliod. I also hit 3 Elspeth and 2 scry lands. I saw 2 of the foil R/G planeswalker and 3 normal between two events, and a number of Ashioks as well. Plus, and this is nuts, 5 foil thoughtseizes! God only lmowz how many normal ones. Very few people didn't pull a god.
Makes me wonder about price of these cards. I get that I'm seeing such a small pool (40, 42 and 22 people for the events) it is insignificant, but gods seem to be all over. And if I alone got 3 Elspeth in 2 boxes and one from my win (10 packs) it seems like a high rate of money pulls.
That only means people on other event got crappy pulls. The rates are constant.
I don't really remember my exact pool, but I did get an Exanegos. adamgreeney's description fits my prerelease too. I seemed to be one of the only people not to pull a god or a god artifact. The pools were nuts, though, and I can't wait to open more packs!
I pulled a black box and a red box. Seeded rares were Whip of Erebos and Purphorus. Between the other packs and prize support I pulled another Purphorus, Elspeth, Polukranos, foil fleecemane, and foil stormbreath dragon. I finished 2nd in the 2HG, and 4th in the sealed. Of course, from my perspective, the packs seemed stacked. 5 mythics including a foil.
I attended one event and picked white. The seeded pack contained Heliod, God of the Sun. One of the boosters contained Purphoros, God of the Forge. Needless to say, they worked pretty well together. I ended up 4th at 4-1, losing to the judge who had Elspeth, double Dissolve, and Ducksauce of Meletis
My roommate and I both picked RED for our color, and our packs were 100% identical, including the order of the cards. Not a single difference. We opened the version with Anger the Gods
Edit: Can also confirm that Meletis Charletan is a possible blue rare.
In my friend's and my seeded booster, we both went blue and we both had the same run, the rares being meletis charlatan and I don't remember the other cards but there was a lightning strike and a divine verdict.
And I had Soldier of the Pantheon.
That could be why he dropped in price and Elspeth shot up to take over the #1 spot.
"The set releases for fall 2015 (Blood, Sweat and Tears) and fall 2016 (Lock, Stock and Barrel). One or both of those 2 blocks (I'm betting) are going to contain either Fetch reprints or (more likely) Filter reprints. Filter lands still need a reprint. They are getting pretty high up there and it's been longer than ZEN so it makes a little more sense that Filter lands would see print earlier that fetches." - posted 03/22/2014 proved incorrect about filters coming earlier than fetches, still pending on filters in Origins block.
Abhorrent Overlord x2! (So I had three total in my pool... only could fit two in the final deck, but not really complaining)
Reaper of the Wilds
Spear of Heliod
Firedrinker Satyr
and a foil Polukranos, World Eater!
Plus I ended up with Lash of the Whip, three Nylea's Emissary, two Pharika's Mender and a great curve that started on two Tormented Hero. So I rolled to a 5-0 record with my green/black deck, not even dropping a single game except in the last round when I got mana flooded in game two.
From what I talked with some of the other veteran players at the event, these pools seemed to contain a lot of duplicate rares and tended to skew towards being really strong or kind of sub-par. But OTOH, all the best players went at least 4-1, so probably the imbalance in card pools wasn't so severe as to offset deckbuilding and playing skill.
Xenagos does not appear in the color packs. The only mythics possible in the color packs are the gods. It's kind of silly, many people picked white (the weakest color in TTT sealed IMHO) hoping to max out their odds of opening an Elspeth, when it actually made no difference whatever.
Must be nice
I went Red and got Anger of the Gods,
which was a card I wanted, so that's okay.
I also got Hammer of Purphoros, Whip of Erebos, Fleecemane Lion, Shipbreaker Kraken, and Mistcutter Hydra.
All in all, incredibly "meh" Rares, especially since the kid before me
got TWO Purphoros, God of the Forge,
and the guy after got two Thoughtseize!
I still managed to place third and get two packs, and what do I get?
Hammer of Purphoros (again), and Firedrinker Satyr :barf:
So far, I'm digging Theros' Limited, but *hating* the Rares and how little they bring to the table.
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
the guy next to me got three gods(red, white, blue) and the guy next to him had a foil thoughtseize.
Thanks Argentleman;)
WB Teysa token aggroBW (retired)
MAKING (Onmath, Numot, maybe something in Esper)
No Heliod.
Epic Fail.
(and just how many packs did you open for this stuff?!)
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
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500: 05/05/07 @11:48 PST
666: 08/27/07 @11:36 PST
777: 01/28/08 @20:22 PST
800: 04/07/08 @19:18 PST
888: 08/08/08 @16:12 PST
900: 08/12/08 @16:57 PST
1000:12/22/08 @ 18:01 PST
MTGS Legacy Tournament #5 Semi-finalist.
MTGS Legacy Tournament #6 Top 8.
My prize packs contained
Pyxis of Pandemoniumx2
Not too bad overall.
At my LGS, I played in every prerelease event (Midnight, 3 during the day on Saturday, and one on Sunday) and only witnessed one Elspeth being opened.
I won half of a box on Saturday, and opened 5 prerelease packs, including my friend that's pooling with me, and we opened 2 Xenagos, 3 Thoughtseize, 4 Thassa, 2 Ashiok, 2 Ashen Rider, a poop-ton of scry lands, and absolutely no Elspeths.
(Our LGS was giving out 4 Theros and 3 M14 for 3 -1 and 6 and 5 for 4-0)
Makes me wonder about price of these cards. I get that I'm seeing such a small pool (40, 42 and 22 people for the events) it is insignificant, but gods seem to be all over. And if I alone got 3 Elspeth in 2 boxes and one from my win (10 packs) it seems like a high rate of money pulls.
That only means people on other event got crappy pulls. The rates are constant.
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