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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 5292907" data-attributes="member: 5948">I have in the past bought a fair number of cases of random ddm boosters.  Part of that is because I'm in australia whereas all the singles ebay sellers aren't, and postage costs are murder.  The other part is that when you're starting out with ddm in particular (this probably wouldn't apply to magic cards though) the great majority of miniatures you'll get in a booster are useful.  But once you've been going for a while you'll have accumulated dozens of orcs and skeletons and armoured dwarves with axes and don't need any more, and it becomes a waste of money to keep buying boosters stuffed with 'minion' miniatures you don't need, and the singles market looks more attractive.But wotc doesn't randomise sets (whether of ddm or magic cards) for the benefit of its customers.  It's for the benefit of the supply chain, and flgs who only having to order/shelve/inventory track one item ('set X booster pack') rather than dozens of individual items that have to be shelved individually (requiring loads of shelf space), ordered individually, manufactured and packaged individually, etc, etc, etc.  It's a decision to accept a large waste of material (the huge number of common/uncommon miniatures that will never get used) to minimise the waste of time and effort at the retailer/consumer end.  Which is a very classic late-20th-century-throwaway-consumer-society sort of tradeoff to make...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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