I opened 3 boxes and got:
1 Damnation
0 Extirpates
7 Boom/Bust
4 Groundbreakers
3 Torchlings
4 Gaea's Anthem (1 foil)
0 Akromas
7 the white Drop of Honey (1 foil).
I got the shaft.
My buddy opened 1 box and got:
2 Damnations
2 Exterpates
3 Akromas
Granted the rest of his box sucked. Tonight at FNM, some kid traded the store a Char for a pack of PC and got a foil Damnation.
I look at the backmost card first, realize it's gold, and pull our Radha, Heir to Keld[/i] which reaches about $3 in our area (and some online prices I've seen as low as 1.something). I try and peek at the second backmost, holy crap it's black, aaaaaaaaaand........ Damnation! 1 down, 2 to go. I got told that the box in which I picked the pack out from was shuffled, seeing as how I was the third person to open a Damnation that day. From the same box.
I open a second pack, get an Akroma, Angel of Fury (Yay!) and an Ovinize (Boo!) My friend buys a fat pack, and gets 2x Dichotomancy, Jedit, Imp's Mischief, Magus of the Tabernacle and Magus of the Coffers. Bought another one, got another Imp's Mischief. Another friend pulled a Rolling Horror.
Then yet another friend playing somewhere else cracked 4 packs and got Damnation too. Sweet.
I don't remember what was in them because it was a draft we did today, but I think wizards is screwing people on damnation. 5 groundbreakers and 1 damnation out of 2 box that had been gone through.
That seems wrong. Sure its possible that they were just unlucky boxes (or lucky but not lucky enough) but still it sucks.
I don't remember what was in them because it was a draft we did today, but I think wizards is screwing people on damnation. 5 groundbreakers and 1 damnation out of 2 box that had been gone through.
That seems wrong. Sure its possible that they were just unlucky boxes (or lucky but not lucky enough) but still it sucks.
In a 15 man draft yesterday there were 2 non foil damnation and 1 foil. That should make it even with that you got (3 out 45 == 1 / 15)
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I only buy 1-2 packs of every expansion. For PC, I got Molten Firebird, Timbermare and, ugh, Temporal Extortion (I hate that crappy card and its crappy flavour text.) Uncommons weren't any good either: Shivan Meteor, Shrouded Lore and Waning Wurm. Though Rebuff the Wicked isn't awful, I suppose, and Necrotic Sliver was kinda cool.
Ghost ship WAS used back in the day, as a resilient flier, in the vein of something like Frenetic Efreet. Of course, those days are long gone, blue HAS ghost ship in standard, and ghost ship is much better than this since it has counter support (besides mana tithe) and all that fun stuff.
thats accutally why the white one is better. they cant bait you to regen (Blowing three precious blue mana) then play somthing harsh. White mana isnt as valuable for bluffing as blue mana, and as such, Malach will seem cheaper to regen. Plus he is an angel, who doesnt love them?
As for my box:
2 Akroma, one of them foil (!)
1 Groundbreaker
1 Damnation
1 Serra Sphinx
1 Gaeas Anthem
Aside from that, pretty much one of everything except fungal behemoth, braids, benalish (? the suspend soldier guy) and extripate. (boo!)
So yea, I was accutally happy with the box i got. Foil Akroma is shiiiiiiiinny, they did a much nicer job on her than the original, timeshifted or otherwise.
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1x Keen Sense
3x Hedge Troll (1 FOIL)
4x Harmonize
The planeshifteds were good. No Groundbreakers, Calciderms, or Hymns, but 2x Damnations, two of each of the red uncommons (they're all good), 1 Nodes, 4 Harmonize and 3 Hedge Troll (1 being foil, which looks GREAT). Overall, I'm quite satisfied, as I also got Torchling, Green and Blue magus, 2 Hellions, Timbermare, Chronicler, Mirri, Urborg, 2x Radha. I think it was a great box and was worth the price
I've opened a total of 3 boxes.. I'll mark down distributions if anyone would like to see them (probably tomorrow) but I'll let everyone on a little secret.
3 Extripates.
4 Groundbreakers.
4 Akromas (1 foil....with a regular one right behind it and a Null Profusion)
And 3 Damnations.... 2 foiled... :love::love::love:
2x Damnation (1x Foil)
1x Extirpate
3x Akroma
2x Groundbreaker
2x Timbermare
2x Porphyry Nodes
3x Shivan Wumpus
and nearly 2x each of the dragons witht eh exceltion of Teneb...for which I opened none.
I also went by and grabbed 7x more packs today and opened another Akroma and Damnation!!
Still though....only 1x Extirpate.
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I bought a box today and i got
1 timbermare
2 groundbreaker
2 damnation
2 extirpate
3 akroma
1 torchling
1 detrivore
thats about all the good stuff there was
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wish I could explain that last one. Btw, all the packs were from the same box, and the spellshifts were all on the right. But I'm still happy with the rest of my pulls.
To paraprase martin luther king people should be judged on the content of there character. None of this should matter and people should not care about posts. I only have 2 posts but i can already tell that im going to be a better poster than many posts i ve read.
i bought two boxes, i got two damnation, 1 extirpate,three grounbreakers, three gaes anthem, two torchling, 1 akroma, a bunch of the dragons, foil numot, foil radha, but i got sexiness in foil simain spirit guide, foil calciderm, foil reckless wurm, im pretty happy
So I bought two boxes, and the rares were almost exactly identical in both of them, which was both good and bad.
4 Aeon Chronicler
1 Akroma, Angel of Fury (FOIL)
4 Benalish Commander
2 Body Double
4 Boom//Bust
4 Braids
2 Crovax
2 Damnation
2 Detrivore
2 Dichotomancy
2 Dust Elemental
4 Fatal Frenzy
4 Fungal Behemoth
2 Groundbreaker
2 Heroes Remembered
5 Imp's Mischief (1 FOIL)
2 Jedit
2 Life and Limb
2 Magus of the Arena
2 Magus of the Coffers
2 Magus of the Tabernacle
2 Mesa Enchantress
4 Mirri the Cursed
4 Oros
2 Porphyry Nodes
1 Serendib Sorcery
2 Serra Sphinx
2 Shivan Wumpus
1 Temporal Extortion
6 Teneb, the Harvester (!!!!)
2 Vorosh, the Hunter
2 Wild Pair
See how almost everything is an even number? Half were in one box and half in the other. There were seriously about 3 rares different between the two boxes. I did a fair bit of trading afterwards and got 2 Extirpates, 2 more Damnations, 2 Voidstone Gargoyles, 1 Radha, another Nodes, and a couple other things without giving up much that I cared about. Those six Tenebs ended up being pretty good trade bait.
for the record, 8 people in a draft, 2 damnations, 2 akromas, 2 extirpates, 2 crovaxes....this is an unshuffled box as far as i know. im pretty sure it was right out of the WotC wrap...
Noteable:
1 - Akroma
3- Damnation
1-Extirpate
1-Torchling
2-Volcano Hellion
1-Radha
2-Chronoza
1-Mirri
2-Numot
3-Intet
1-Crovax
1-Jedit
2-Aeon Chronicler
1 each of Magus of Library, Coffers, Tabernacle, and Bazaar (No Arena)
About 4-6 voidstone gargoyles, mesa enchantresses, temporal extortions, and other jank rares.
NO TIMBERMARE
NO GROUNDBREAKER
NO VOROSH
NO OROS
NO TENEB
NO GAEA'S ANTHEM
I also noticed that the box only had 2 blood knights and 2 mycologists.
Those were the 2 cards I was looking forward to most (even more than the rares) and I don't even have a playset. I also only got 1 Frozen Aether,
1 Hedge Troll, 1 Kavu Predator, and 1 Pyrohemia. The Unc slot seems to have been filled with Rebuffs and Kor Dirges.
On the positive side of things, the majority of the packs I opened had at least 2 rares and about 1/4 of those had 3.
I ordered a box of the theme decks, so I technically will have Teneb and Magus of the Arena. The release I went to had no promo cards, so I have only the 1 Hedge Troll. I'm considering buying another booster box to pick up what I'm missing.
I went to the Melb prerelease as well. Did you play in the 10:30 flight on Saturday?
So far at the hobby shop in town, out of 2 3/4 boxes(not mine) and 2 fat packs(1 mine) no one has been able to pull a red Akroma.
In my fat pack I got:
Fatal Fury x2
...could be the angel collectors.
i've opened more than 36 packs (fat pack, prerelease, releases, prizes,) getting 0 damnations, 1 extirpate, 1 boom/bust and a ton of crap.
looks like i just have to cash out $80 for a set.
1 Damnation
0 Extirpates
7 Boom/Bust
4 Groundbreakers
3 Torchlings
4 Gaea's Anthem (1 foil)
0 Akromas
7 the white Drop of Honey (1 foil).
I got the shaft.
My buddy opened 1 box and got:
2 Damnations
2 Exterpates
3 Akromas
Granted the rest of his box sucked. Tonight at FNM, some kid traded the store a Char for a pack of PC and got a foil Damnation.
I collect pre-release Stone-Tongue Basilisk
I look at the backmost card first, realize it's gold, and pull our Radha, Heir to Keld[/i] which reaches about $3 in our area (and some online prices I've seen as low as 1.something). I try and peek at the second backmost, holy crap it's black, aaaaaaaaaand........ Damnation! 1 down, 2 to go. I got told that the box in which I picked the pack out from was shuffled, seeing as how I was the third person to open a Damnation that day. From the same box.
I open a second pack, get an Akroma, Angel of Fury (Yay!) and an Ovinize (Boo!) My friend buys a fat pack, and gets 2x Dichotomancy, Jedit, Imp's Mischief, Magus of the Tabernacle and Magus of the Coffers. Bought another one, got another Imp's Mischief. Another friend pulled a Rolling Horror.
Then yet another friend playing somewhere else cracked 4 packs and got Damnation too. Sweet.
first i bought 3packs
i got damnation on the first pack w/ heroes remembered
the other 2 sucks 1 legendary dragon and a sucky rare
thinking the chances of getting a another great rare
is really low i still take chances...
guess what happen i got another dragon w/ a another damnation
two damnation for 4 packs
wow i love this set.....
That seems wrong. Sure its possible that they were just unlucky boxes (or lucky but not lucky enough) but still it sucks.
thats accutally why the white one is better. they cant bait you to regen (Blowing three precious blue mana) then play somthing harsh. White mana isnt as valuable for bluffing as blue mana, and as such, Malach will seem cheaper to regen. Plus he is an angel, who doesnt love them?
As for my box:
2 Akroma, one of them foil (!)
1 Groundbreaker
1 Damnation
1 Serra Sphinx
1 Gaeas Anthem
Aside from that, pretty much one of everything except fungal behemoth, braids, benalish (? the suspend soldier guy) and extripate. (boo!)
So yea, I was accutally happy with the box i got. Foil Akroma is shiiiiiiiinny, they did a much nicer job on her than the original, timeshifted or otherwise.
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2 Damnation (1 Foil)
2 Extirpate
0 Akroma
1 Torchling
2 Timbermare
3 Groundbreaker
Were the only things of note from almost 3 (three) boxes
WoW is so addictive.
Normal Rares
2x Heroes' Reunion
2x Retether
2x Voidstone Gargoyle
1x Aeon Chronicler
1x Braids, Cabal Minion
1x Body Double
1x Chronozoa
1x Dichotomancy FOIL
1x Magus of the Bazaar
1x Extirpate
1x Imp's Mischief
1x Mirri the Cursed
1x Roiling Horror
1x Temporal Extortion
1x Detritivore
1x Fatal Frenzy
2x Magus of the Arena
2x Volcano Hellion
1x Torchling
1x Fungal Behemoth
1x Jedit Ojanen of Efrava
1x Life and Limb
1x Magus of the Library
1x Timbermare
1x Wild Pair
2x Intet, the Dreamer
1x Oros, the Avenger
2x Radha, Heir to Keld
1x Vorosh, the Hunter
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Planeshifted rares/uncommons
2x Malach of the Dawn
2x Mycologist
2x Mesa Enchantress
1x Porphyry Nodes
2x Ovinize
2x Frozen AEther
1x Riptide Pilferer
1x Serra Sphinx
1x Serendib Sorcerer
2x Dunerider Outlaw
2x Kor Dirge
2x Shrouded Lore
2x Damnation
2x Blood Knight
2x Pyrohemia
2x Reckless Wurm
1x Molten Firebird
1x Keen Sense
3x Hedge Troll (1 FOIL)
4x Harmonize
The planeshifteds were good. No Groundbreakers, Calciderms, or Hymns, but 2x Damnations, two of each of the red uncommons (they're all good), 1 Nodes, 4 Harmonize and 3 Hedge Troll (1 being foil, which looks GREAT). Overall, I'm quite satisfied, as I also got Torchling, Green and Blue magus, 2 Hellions, Timbermare, Chronicler, Mirri, Urborg, 2x Radha. I think it was a great box and was worth the price
2x Damnation
2x Extirpate
3x Akroma, Angel of Fury
2x Timbermare
1x Radha, Heir to Keld
1x Torchling
1x Detritivore
1x Teneb (foil)
2x Intet
2x Numot
2x Crovax
2x Temporal Extortion
2x Volcano Hellion
1x Dust Elemental
1x Chronozoa
1x each Magus (except for Arena)
1x Voidstone Gargoyle
1x Serra Sphinx
2x Mesa Enchantress
3x Spellshift (are these things everywhere?)
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
2x Wild Pair
1x Prodigal Pyromancer (foil)
1x Venarian Glimmer (foil)
1x Mire Boa (foil)
I'm pretty sure that I made back the $75 I spent on the box...:)
Very pleased, may buy another.
Edit: No Boom/Bust or Groundbreakers, but not too concerned about picking them up in trade.
3 Extripates.
4 Groundbreakers.
4 Akromas (1 foil....with a regular one right behind it and a Null Profusion)
Note to self: Your mafia theories are usually wrong, so don't act on them.
2x Damnation (1x Foil)
1x Extirpate
3x Akroma
2x Groundbreaker
2x Timbermare
2x Porphyry Nodes
3x Shivan Wumpus
and nearly 2x each of the dragons witht eh exceltion of Teneb...for which I opened none.
I also went by and grabbed 7x more packs today and opened another Akroma and Damnation!!
Still though....only 1x Extirpate.
2 Damnation
1 Extirpate
1 Porphyry Nodes (Foil)
2 Mirri the Cursed (1 Foil)
1 Torchling
1 Timbermare
2 Boom/Bust
and for the garbage:
3 Teneb
3 Braids
2 Aeon Chronicler
2 Heroes Remembered(1 foil)
2 Mesa Enchantress
2 Molten Firebird.... the list goes on
extirpate
akroma angel of fury
volcanic helion
cronozoa
benalish comander
dust elemental
overall good pack for my first planar chaos
1 timbermare
2 groundbreaker
2 damnation
2 extirpate
3 akroma
1 torchling
1 detrivore
thats about all the good stuff there was
2xGroundbreakers(1 Foil)
2xTimbermare
2xAkroma, Angel of Wrath
1xExtirpate
1xRadha, Heir to Keld
1xUrborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1xVoidstone Gargoyle(Foil)
and..........3xSpellshifts
wish I could explain that last one. Btw, all the packs were from the same box, and the spellshifts were all on the right. But I'm still happy with the rest of my pulls.
H/W http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=66439
4 Aeon Chronicler
1 Akroma, Angel of Fury (FOIL)
4 Benalish Commander
2 Body Double
4 Boom//Bust
4 Braids
2 Crovax
2 Damnation
2 Detrivore
2 Dichotomancy
2 Dust Elemental
4 Fatal Frenzy
4 Fungal Behemoth
2 Groundbreaker
2 Heroes Remembered
5 Imp's Mischief (1 FOIL)
2 Jedit
2 Life and Limb
2 Magus of the Arena
2 Magus of the Coffers
2 Magus of the Tabernacle
2 Mesa Enchantress
4 Mirri the Cursed
4 Oros
2 Porphyry Nodes
1 Serendib Sorcery
2 Serra Sphinx
2 Shivan Wumpus
1 Temporal Extortion
6 Teneb, the Harvester (!!!!)
2 Vorosh, the Hunter
2 Wild Pair
See how almost everything is an even number? Half were in one box and half in the other. There were seriously about 3 rares different between the two boxes. I did a fair bit of trading afterwards and got 2 Extirpates, 2 more Damnations, 2 Voidstone Gargoyles, 1 Radha, another Nodes, and a couple other things without giving up much that I cared about. Those six Tenebs ended up being pretty good trade bait.
Noteable:
1 - Akroma
3- Damnation
1-Extirpate
1-Torchling
2-Volcano Hellion
1-Radha
2-Chronoza
1-Mirri
2-Numot
3-Intet
1-Crovax
1-Jedit
2-Aeon Chronicler
1 each of Magus of Library, Coffers, Tabernacle, and Bazaar (No Arena)
About 4-6 voidstone gargoyles, mesa enchantresses, temporal extortions, and other jank rares.
NO TIMBERMARE
NO GROUNDBREAKER
NO VOROSH
NO OROS
NO TENEB
NO GAEA'S ANTHEM
I also noticed that the box only had 2 blood knights and 2 mycologists.
Those were the 2 cards I was looking forward to most (even more than the rares) and I don't even have a playset. I also only got 1 Frozen Aether,
1 Hedge Troll, 1 Kavu Predator, and 1 Pyrohemia. The Unc slot seems to have been filled with Rebuffs and Kor Dirges.
On the positive side of things, the majority of the packs I opened had at least 2 rares and about 1/4 of those had 3.
I ordered a box of the theme decks, so I technically will have Teneb and Magus of the Arena. The release I went to had no promo cards, so I have only the 1 Hedge Troll. I'm considering buying another booster box to pick up what I'm missing.
My list is in the multiple rares Thread.....
Aeon Chronicler
3 Mesa Enchantress
1 Torchling
teneb, numot, intet, and vorosh
1 chronozoa
1 mirri
1 jedit
2 Radha
2 Damnation
2 timbermare
1 Extirpate
0 Groundbreaker
0 Akroma
basically, a pc box is make or break based on damnation extirpate groundbreaker and akroma/.
my friend opened 2 akromas in his draft pool. gosh. and he OPENED tem.
2x Intet
2x Numot
2x Yawgmoth's Tomb
2x Chronazoa
2x Porphyry Nodes (1x Foil...see below)
2x Detritivore
2x Volcanic Hellion
2x Null Profusion
2x Temporal Extortion
2x Voidstone Gargoyle
2x Wild Pair
2x Crovax
(yeah, there's definitely a lot of dupes)
1x Damnation
1x Extirpate
1x Groundbreaker
1x Akroma
1x Torchling
1x Jedit
1x Radha
1x Magus of Library
1x Magus of Bazaar
1x Aeon Chronicler
1x Heroes Remembered
1x Gaea's Anthem
1x Retether
1x Body Double
1x Spellshift (what a crappy card!)
1x Serendib Sorcerer
1x Serra Sphinx
1x Roiling Horror
1x Fatal Frenzy
1x Molten Firebird
1x Life & Limb (blechh!)
Best pack I (may have ever) opened:
1x Groundbreaker
1x Extirpate
1x Porphyry Nodes (foil) Yowza...
Overall, I'm pretty happy. Wanted a few more of the better uncommons, but I'm not complaining--at all.
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