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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barcode" data-source="post: 1426049" data-attributes="member: 3165">The ratios of C/U/R are fixed, so although I don't remember exactly for the entry pack, it sounds right.  For an expansion pack it is 4/3/1, so you do much better if you are shooting for uncommons and rares.Also, an odd phenomenon we noticed at my FLGS.  Many of the boxes in a single case or shipment of cases have unusually large recurrences of the same uncommons and rares, while almost none of some others.  The owner had a theory that a smaller subset of bins are used to fill batches of expansions with minor variations, these expansions go into the same case.  This and other cases from the same "batch" are all shipped to the same distributor and placed in the same general location.  So when your FLGS orders 10 cases, he gets many of the same uncommon and rare minis.  Fine if you are in a large city or suburban sprawl, but in our isolated community in upstate NY it is bloody inconvenient, since it is tough to trade when everyone is missing the same minis.  (Believe it or not, I have *no* Abyssal Maws or Dwarf Barbarians, but like seven Dretches and five Elf Spearguards)Solution:  For Archfiends he is buying a couple of cases each from multiple, geographically dispersed distributors.  He doesn't buy enough to get volume discounts anyway.  We love him.I also am excited about Archfiends - the commons are much more useful to those of us using these primarily for tabletop instead of skirmish.  If I throw seven dretches at my party, they just gonna laugh...</blockquote>

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