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Call of Legends: Establishing a Rarity Scheme

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From the box that I opened:
2 Shiny (both of which got immediately traded off)
3 RH Basic Energies (also got RH Special Metal and Dark)
No less than 5 of any TSS
 
Politoed666 said:
What's hilarious is that people are lusting over the foil energies as the most desirable chase cards in the set... they're foil energies. When the set is released, they'll be worth $3! It's like, a guy opens a box and is excited because he pulled three foil energies. That's a whopping $9 of your box paid off!

Why would you ever buy a set for cards that have a terrible pull ratio and aren't even worth anything?
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Hence why I'm not buying a box. If it were like, ~12 foil energy per box like in Emerald, then I'd be all over it. There would of course be some trade bait because heaven knows I don't want anything else in the set besides Lost Remover.

Now it's not worth my while :<
 
What I don't get is how few super rares are in the boxes compared to all of the HeartGold SoulSilver sets.

  • There were 8 Primes in Triumphant, and on average it seemed people were getting 5 Primes in a box.
  • There are 11 Shinies in Call of Legends and on average it seems people are getting 2 Shinies in a box.
  • There were 4 Legends in Triumphant, and on average it seemed people were getting 2 Legends in a box.
  • There are 8 Foil Energy in Call of Legends and on average it seems people are getting 2 Foil Energy in a box.
Let me summarize these conclusions.

Triumphant had less Super Rares than Call of Legends and yet gave out close to double the amount of Super Rare cards.

I just don't get the logic coming from Nintendo of America (I ain't blaming TPCi). They know the set isn't going to be as popular because it's full of reprints (many poor choices). They know they can't make any new Primes or Legends and they will have to use all the Japanese Shiny Pokemon as Super Rares. Among all these disadvantages for the set, they also choose to cut the rarities of all the Super Rares in half, making it twice as hard to collect any of them.

Do they want to make money? That's the goal, right? I would think that there being some upside to purchasing the set would be a good marketing move. Right now, however you approach the set, there are nothing but reasons why NOT to purchase from the set.

  • Likelihood of pulling a Super Rare has been cut in half even though the set has more Super Rares than any other set within the last block.
  • The Foil Energy are literally Super Rares, even though many players will want 10-16 of each of them. See above comment.
  • Much of the set is compromised of reprints, many of which are not that useful and can easily be found in previous sets, making the usefulness of the reprint quite low.
  • Out of 22 Foils, 8 are exact reprints of the Shiny Super Rares. This sounds like a plus until you consider how utterly unplayable the Shiny Super Rares are, which is okay for Super Rares, but not okay for 1/3 of the Foils in the set.
And reasons TO buy the set?

  • A small amount of the reprints are actually pretty useful. Perhaps one or two of the Supporter reprints are playable.
  • The Lost Zone Pokemon, stadium, and trainers pulled from Triumphant are surprisingly refreshing and interesting to play with.
  • There seems to be evidence that the amount of Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums in a box has increased for Call of Legends.
I'm TOTALLY looking forward to Black and White, but dang was Call of Legends a big disappointment.
 
I wouldn't put off Call of Legends just yet. From the look of things, Call of Legends has potential to be a very popular set. Singles pre-orders are going unnaturally well. That's for sure.

Remember, competitive players are the ultra minority in Pokemon TCG. Pokemon is the best selling TCG in the nation yet it does not even rank in the top 3 in terms of sales at hobby stores. The overwhelming majority of Pokemon buyers literally never read the text on the card. Maybe simply shiny legendaries are enough to entice most Pokemon consumers. -.-
 
2 sparkly legendries
3 foil energies
3 holo legendries
10 holos (reprints/Lost Link)

Wow, I thought I got screwed till I see what everyone else pulled.
 
I bought 14 packs out of a box at my local yesterday, front to back on one side, got no shiny, no rh energies and one lost world. I'm buying a box on Friday. Hope it's better
 
My box contained 2 Shining Pokemon and 1 Foil Energy.

Seems the Foil Energies really are this rare. Over 5 boxes opened at Prereleases so far this is all fairly consistent with what I've seen.

I got 12 "true holo rares", so that's exactly on average (was fortunate to also get 7 RH of true holos)
And 5 Lost World.

I'm thinking I'll not be getting a playset of the energy, then >.<
 
This is what I got from my box
2 shiny
12 super
4 rh energy
6 rh super

Mine was pretty decent I got my 4 lost world and 1 smeargle.
 
I don't know how Troll And Toad did it, but they had 20 of each Shiny for sale the other day lol
I bought three
 
I bought 3 packs today and got 2 reverse holo energies, does it mean I got good pull? How rare are they in this set? (too lazy to read back)
 
It means that you pulled really well. Seems like the energies are 2-3 per box. My friend entered the sneak and pulled 2 RH energies from his 6 packs and 1 lost world from his other 2 packs. I pulled 1 shiny Raquaza and 1 lost world from my 8 packs. I can complain with what I got though, Black Rayquaza is SOOOOOO COOL looking. Although in the Draft box, there were 7 lost worlds wth RH ones lol So I think the ratios per box on things is really really really really really really random.
 
espy87 said:
I don't know how Troll And Toad did it, but they had 20 of each Shiny for sale the other day lol
I bought three
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They open Pokemon on the order of cases (plural) to get their stuff. If you open cases (plural) of virtually *anything*, you're going to get obscene numbers of cards.
 
bullados said:
They open Pokemon on the order of cases (plural) to get their stuff. If you open cases (plural) of virtually *anything*, you're going to get obscene numbers of cards.
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Plus they have thousands of CCG buys every day people who don't care about how energies look will probably sell them on TNT they only turn over 75 cents-1.00 profit from their buy list to what they sell them for.
 
Just opened five packs, here's the good stuff:

1 Lost world
3 Research record (1 Reverse holo)
1 PONT
1 Umbreon (reprint)
1 Mr. Mime
1 Skarmory (reprint)

0 Shinies or foil energy. :c
 
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