Regarding prerelease packs, they made a change a while back to have the prerelease promo be one random rare from the set with a foil and date-stamp, yes?
Is this just so there will be prerelease versions of every rare in the set while also making sure everyone's sealed pool has a legendary creature in it to interact with cards in the set that need them?
Is this just so there will be prerelease versions of every rare in the set while also making sure everyone's sealed pool has a legendary creature in it to interact with cards in the set that need them?
Every pack has a Legendary, just like with flip cards.
So...... any chance you could do some sort of limited brawl with these packs? That might be an interesting idea with any surplus pre release packs. You would be guarenteed at least 7 legends (right one per pack plus one foil promo one).
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So...... any chance you could do some sort of limited brawl with these packs? That might be an interesting idea with any surplus pre release packs. You would be guarenteed at least 7 legends (right one per pack plus one foil promo one).
Out of interest, where was it stated there was a Legendary in each pack? I must have missed that announcement.
That is interesting though that we are getting an additional promo. Of course, there some Legends at uncommon, so the promo might not be anything too great. Of course even some of the uncommon legends have looks pretty good.
Two promos is strictly better than one the way I see it. All more incentive to go. The set looks to be the most interesting in years to boot.
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EDH Decks UWB Oloro, Ageless Ascetic's spring of life RUG Animar, Soul of the Elements and friends... lots of them WBG Karador king of two worlds (value and attrition) WRKalemne's Angels BRUG Yidris's Wild Party UWBR Breya's Terrifying Tinker Toys UBRThe Pretender
So...... any chance you could do some sort of limited brawl with these packs? That might be an interesting idea with any surplus pre release packs. You would be guarenteed at least 7 legends (right one per pack plus one foil promo one).
Out of interest, where was it stated there was a Legendary in each pack? I must have missed that announcement.
That is interesting though that we are getting an additional promo. Of course, there some Legends at uncommon, so the promo might not be anything too great. Of course even some of the uncommon legends have looks pretty good.
The mechanics ‘spoiler’ (they revealed the full English version themselves after the Chinese version leaked):
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Legendary characters new and old have risen to prominence across the plane. In every Dominaria booster pack, you'll find at least one legendary creature.
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However the card count breakdowns provided don’t account for there being a separate print sheet like SOI flip cards or conspiracy draft-matters cards. What seems most likely is that there are 27ish uncommon legendaries and the uncommon track is set up that every third card is legendary, assuring a legendary uncommon in every pack. And that’s what I expect this bonus promo is derived from - it’ll be one of the ~27 uncommon legendary creatures.
Y'all see it says "Legendary" not "Legendary creature" right? That means the Legendary promo in your prerelease pack can be anything from Uncommon to Mythic including various Sorceries, Creatures, Enchantments, and Planeswalkers.
Maro said that one of the things they explored with Unstable design was how print technology and collation can make sure cards appear in packs at regular intervals or in the same pack with specific other cards. Likely they are planning the collation such that, between the rare and uncommon slots, there is one or more legendaries, rather than it being a specific "legendary slot" the way dual faced cards were.
Maro said that one of the things they explored with Unstable design was how print technology and collation can make sure cards appear in packs at regular intervals or in the same pack with specific other cards. Likely they are planning the collation such that, between the rare and uncommon slots, there is one or more legendaries, rather than it being a specific "legendary slot" the way dual faced cards were.
That seems slightly concerning if they can still claim your getting a random booster but actually not. Why they would do anything nefarious with it like almost going back to a R1 R2 R3 U1 U2 U3 type of system I dont think they would but I like the idea of a certain randomizatiom of the slots and would not like that they could "stack" the slots in a certain way. Probably just paranoia and conspiracy hehehe you know like exact same printed boxes, But if short printing of certain rares or slots occur...no thanks.
On the note of an extra Legend Foil....thank you very much...I happily accept your bonus WOTC
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They’ve been streaming slots all along. Tell me the last time you opened two of the same nonfoil uncommon in the same pack? If every uncommon slot was a random uncommon it wouldn’t be unusual to get a duplicate duo among your three uncommons. But it never happens (barring manufacturing malfunction).
Going from tracking each rarity separately to a tracking mechanism that actually spans rarities might be one step further. But it is just one step further on the already non random path they’ve been following for decades.
kdrakari asked: From my understanding, Dominaria booster packs will have a reserved "Legendary Creature" slot similar to Innistrad/SOI having a reserved DFC slot. Will Legendary Creatures show up in the normal slots as well, or just the special slot?
MaRo: It’s not a special slot per se. We’ve made the collation work so every booster pack gets a legendary creature but in the slot of its rarity.
Yes, there's no such thing as "truly random", but rather the cards are ordered with such complexity that the order is unrecognizable.
You do not want a truly random pack. Well, I guess I should only speak for my self. I don't want to open a pack that has 5 of the same common in it. Or do a draft where packs 5-7 just randomly didn't ever have any of the cards in my colors to start off with. They have a good system going.
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https://magic.wizards.com/en/event-types/prerelease
Is this just so there will be prerelease versions of every rare in the set while also making sure everyone's sealed pool has a legendary creature in it to interact with cards in the set that need them?
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Every pack has a Legendary, just like with flip cards.
Probably the fact that it's an additional foil and of a legendary creature, for you know, people who that's special to? Weird question lol.
It's weird to see them use "foil" in one line and "premium" in the next.
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Out of interest, where was it stated there was a Legendary in each pack? I must have missed that announcement.
That is interesting though that we are getting an additional promo. Of course, there some Legends at uncommon, so the promo might not be anything too great. Of course even some of the uncommon legends have looks pretty good.
EDH Decks
UWB Oloro, Ageless Ascetic's spring of life
RUG Animar, Soul of the Elements and friends... lots of them
WBG Karador king of two worlds (value and attrition)
WRKalemne's Angels
BRUG Yidris's Wild Party
UWBR Breya's Terrifying Tinker Toys
UBR The Pretender
The mechanics ‘spoiler’ (they revealed the full English version themselves after the Chinese version leaked):
“
Legendary characters new and old have risen to prominence across the plane. In every Dominaria booster pack, you'll find at least one legendary creature.
“
However the card count breakdowns provided don’t account for there being a separate print sheet like SOI flip cards or conspiracy draft-matters cards. What seems most likely is that there are 27ish uncommon legendaries and the uncommon track is set up that every third card is legendary, assuring a legendary uncommon in every pack. And that’s what I expect this bonus promo is derived from - it’ll be one of the ~27 uncommon legendary creatures.
Uhh what??
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Seems pretty big to me.
That seems slightly concerning if they can still claim your getting a random booster but actually not. Why they would do anything nefarious with it like almost going back to a R1 R2 R3 U1 U2 U3 type of system I dont think they would but I like the idea of a certain randomizatiom of the slots and would not like that they could "stack" the slots in a certain way. Probably just paranoia and conspiracy hehehe you know like exact same printed boxes, But if short printing of certain rares or slots occur...no thanks.
On the note of an extra Legend Foil....thank you very much...I happily accept your bonus WOTC
Going from tracking each rarity separately to a tracking mechanism that actually spans rarities might be one step further. But it is just one step further on the already non random path they’ve been following for decades.
Yes, there's no such thing as "truly random", but rather the cards are ordered with such complexity that the order is unrecognizable.