Booster Pack Distributions
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Posted on April 29, 2016, 6:28 a.m. by Bovine073
I've heard in recent years, generally in a 15 card booster pack there are 11 commons, 3 uncommons, and 1 rare, with a 1/8 chance of that rare being a mythic. Is this correct?
Also, I know that SOI you can have two (or maybe 3?) rares, because of flip cards like Thing in the Ice Flip. Does anyone have exact numbers on these?
Thanks guys, (it's a question for drafting and cube).
Also, standard booster is 10 commons, 3 uncommons, 1 rare, 1 land. Sorry for double post.
April 29, 2016 7:15 a.m.
Denial048 thanks, and one more thing, what about the foil? Is it normally a foil land but sometimes a foil non-land that can be any rarity?
April 29, 2016 7:49 a.m.
The foil can be any card from the set. If you have experienced more foil lands than anything else, that is just poor luck
April 29, 2016 7:56 a.m.
Karns_Pyromancer says... #6
Stats, as best I remember, are:9 Common slots, 3 Uncommon slots, Rare slot, Land slot, DFC slot. You've a 1 in 4 chance of getting a foil. A 1 in 7 chance of a Mythic in your rare slot. I forget how lands are divvied, but rare lands take the Rare slot in SOI. The DFC slot will hold a Common or Uncommon DFC. If you get a rare or mythic DFC, you also get a Common or Uncommon DFC (That's2 DFC's for those keeping score at home). I believe the odds are 1 in 6 of this happening.
April 29, 2016 10:48 a.m.
Named_Tawyny says... #7
I don't think that that's correct, Karns_Pyromancer.
Rare lands (and uncommon and common lands as well) are found in the rare/uncommon/common slot - only basic lands are found in the land slot (the exception to this was FRF, and - IIRC - the RTR block?).
There's about a 1 in 8 chance of getting a second DFC (which would be a rare/mythic).
In addition, you have the chance at a foil, which could be from any rarity.
Denial048 says... #2
In SOI (and original Innistrad with DFC's) it is possible to get up t 3 Mythic Rares. This is extremely rare. Basically, you get a standard Sorin, Grim Nemesis, a foil Nahiri, the Harbinger and a DFC Arlinn Kord Flip. Three Planeswalkers from one pack.
Note that any distribution of rares/mythic rares is possible. Because the Foil does not affect the rare, and nor does the DFC (which takes a common slot)
April 29, 2016 7:15 a.m.