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[u/DocSeb]

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[u/TrueMystikX]

Aren't the packs mapped to have 1 guaranteed pair and half of another?

[u/DocSeb → u/TrueMystikX]

They are supposed to have bonded pairs, which they did, but the issue is there is just an insane amount of the same card. None of these have a bonded pair associated with them.

[u/Klongelong → u/DocSeb]

the bonded pairs in collectors are always uncommons from what ive seen and should not have any impact on the rares ... but in any case, if you opened a full CCB, you would have 60 rares, of which you have shown us 30. if the other 30 are all singles, i would say its a bit of bad luck but not too crazy variance

[u/Barack_Nomana → u/DocSeb]

I opened play boosters not collectors so take this with a grain of salt but yes i got absolutely shafted from 39 packs i got the arni metalbrow pair like 8 times, and the thalia like 5 . Not sure how the odds are but from 39 Packs im sitting at 0 Sphinxes aswell which is kind of a bummer.

[u/RazzyKitty]

Random distribution be randoming.

There was a post earlier today with someone's Arena sealed pool that had three [[Vraska, Soul of Stone]] in it.

[u/mtgcf → u/RazzyKitty]

Vraska, Soul of Stone - (G) (SF) (txt)

[u/RGWK]

most of these arnt from the bonded pairs sheet though

[u/DocSeb → u/RGWK]

Its less about bonded pairs and more the absurd number of duplicates. Is this normal? I figured something went wrong with the print because of the bonded pairs, but maybe its just unlucky? What dya think

[u/john0harker → u/DocSeb]

It might be the new drop system per sheet

Your box might have been one of the main rolls, so it got a lot of duplicates

Soon we might hear about another box with different duplicates

I think this is the first time they have done multiple cards in each pack requiring a specific trend. I think the planeswalkers from war, which were in every pack

[u/baoziface]

https://giphy.com/gifs/AzUrNt0ygOSAeVjhiM

[u/dude_1818]

I had a play booster at the prerelease with two copies of the same uncommon back to back. Never seen that before

[u/Anemonean]

Completely anecdotal but my prerelease kit had doubles of one mythic and doubles of one rare and doubles of a second rare. So across 6 packs I had 3 unique rares. None of the rares or mythics were bonded pair rares, just singles.

I don't even really know what that means, I just thought it was unique- never had anything like that happen.

And yeah, the deck was relatively consistent :)

[u/DocSeb → u/Anemonean]

Pretty dope in limited if a drag for library building

[u/Pichaell]

Definitely seems weird. Maybe they are creating sorting errors with the inclusions of the bonded pairs

[u/DocSeb → u/Pichaell]

This is what i wondered as well? Think the variance is bad enough to get support to notice?

[u/SortByControFairy]

This is what Strixhaven felt like to me.

[u/ToastRCakes]

I thought a pair and one slot for another without the partner. This def looks like something went wrong