Weird mix

[Olive]

cos I'm such a nice guy I'll trade you a half-orc fighter and a wolf skeleton for a minatour.

 

[Bagpuss]

Dragoneye mix doesn't seem much better, an unopened crate of 16 boosters,

Rares - 2 Dire Apes, 2 Carrion Crawlers (both in boxes next to each other in the crate).
Uncommons - at least 3 boosters with identical Uncommons all next to each other in the box.
Commons - 1 Elf Spearguard, yet 12 Dwarf Barbarians. Many boxes hand almost identical sets of commons.

Prehaps its deliberate to put you off getting crates and thus getting a discount.

 

[Wippit Guud]

I became corrupted, bought my first mox of mini's yesterday.

I got dirty looks because I got a displacer beast...

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Dragoneye mix doesn't seem much better, an unopened crate of 16 boosters,

Rares - 2 Dire Apes, 2 Carrion Crawlers (both in boxes next to each other in the crate).
Uncommons - at least 3 boosters with identical Uncommons all next to each other in the box.
Commons - 1 Elf Spearguard, yet 12 Dwarf Barbarians. Many boxes hand almost identical sets of commons.

Prehaps its deliberate to put you off getting crates and thus getting a discount.

Thats quite a different mix than I got in the case I bought. I managed to get almost a complete set from opne case, only missing 3 rares (but I did get duplicates of the Black Dragon and Red Dragon and a couple other rares). I didn't pay much attention to the sorting on the commons and uncommons, but out of 16 boxes in a case, there are bound to be some duplicate assortments.

I doubt that WoTC would deliberatly sort this way to avoid selling cases, it doesn't help either the consumers or the stores selling the minis. WoTC doesn't care if the end consumer is getting a discount, they still make the same amount of $ per case when it is sold wholesale to the distributors.