From:	Forrest Houston <fhouston@****.ISI.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Identical Boosters and Starters
Date:	Fri, 5 Sep 1997 16:18:16 -0400

I just opened a box of starters and a box of boosters last night and had a
similar experience. I opened the starters first so if there was a pattern
there I didn't pick up on it. However, out of the 31 rares (2 of the
starters had 2 rares and 1 extra uncommon, 3 had 4 rares and 1 less uc) 4
of them were duplicated (for a total of 8). I guess it's a common problem
with distribution where they don't anticipate that people might buy things
a box at a time.

The boosters though were really disappointing. I didn't find any that
matched card for card, but I did see that sequences of cards seemed to go
together. Such that 90% of the time an Elvish Hitman would be followed by
a Chipjack1 which was followed by a Luck o' the Irish, etc...(these aren't
the exact combos, but you get the point). The biggest disappoint though
was 9 of the 36 boosters had duplicate commons within the booster. Such
that there was c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c1 c2 c3 c4 u1 u2 u3 u4 r1 (rarity/card
number). So while everything balanced out based on the number of cards
that I bought (gotta love wholesale :-) ) if I had been buying a single
pack or two I would have been REALLY ah... "upset" shall we say ;-)


Just my $0.02
Forrest


> [snip]
> This is not an isolated incident, it has happened to a few friends as
> well... and the same thing occurs in boosters.... 12 cards are
> identical, even to the extreme of location within the booster and the
> only difference is the rare and uncommons.... that is very sad... as in
> lame.
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