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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reaper Steve" data-source="post: 4374055" data-attributes="member: 51528">Just curious, how many cases did you get? $550 looks like retail for 4 cases in the US. That means 24 boosters. There are 6 huge rares, with a '1 per 3 boosters' frequency. So, in 4 cases, one can expect 8 huge rares. The odds of getting one of each plus two duplicates are small, however. There are 18 S/M/L rares, 1 per booster. So, assuming perfect distribution, you'd get one of each, plus 6 duplicates. There are 2 dragonborn rares. Again, assuming 4 cases with perfect distribution, one can expect one of each, with a high probability of one duplicate. The huge sets always screw up the purchasing plan. I normally buy three cases of each set, but they have 12 boosters each. That's 36 boosters, giving me 1.5 of each rare. I normally miss one or two, but then have 3 of several that I can trade/sell to get the ones I missed. For this huge set, I'm buying 4 cases (but I also don't pay retail for my minis) to try to achieve the distribution I mentioned above. I'm certain I'll have to buy a few singles off ebay. I will say I think it was a HUGE ERROR to make both dragonborn minis in this set rare. Not wise to release a new edition of the game with a new race that many want to play and not have easy access to the minis (and no third party substitutes.) Of course, someone in marketing may have thought "Everyone wants a dragonborn. Let's make the minis rare... that'll drive sales of the boosters!" I hope that wasn't the case. I think an uncommon Dragonborn would drive sales as people know that they'd get 2-3 per case. Oh well, there's always the next set...</blockquote>

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