Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Pull Rates for Boundaries Crossed

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rileysill32 said:
Pull rates in a st louis prerelease have been consistently
2-2-2 from what I hear.

2 ex/2fa or shiny/2 ace spec
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Very nice! I was really looking forward of getting my first booster box, but after hearing what they did with the trainers I almost changed my mind, but I really like the pull rates and many of the holos and even regular rares in this set so I think I will still buy it.
 
The good things they did with this set outweigh the wrongs. I'm getting a box of this since it's my birthday soon, anyways.
 
is charizard in the white kyurem deck? blastoise is in the black kyurem deck so i hope that we get charizard in the white kyurem deck. also is meloetta in this set?

does anyone get a box with another pull rate (like 1 ex, no fa etc. ) ?
 
vaporeon said:
I'd like

2 Ace Specs per box (replaces 2 holo rares)
4-6 Pokemon EX
2 FA Pokemon EX
1 Secret Rare

Now, I'm not being greedy or anything but I went to my card shop today and bought the last 20 packs from the Dragons Exalted box and pulled no EX Pokemon or Secret Rares. Money I won't get back.

This way, us players can buy from a box and get great pulls. I think 1 in every 6-8 packs should have a EX, so you get at least 4 in a box. There also needs to be 1 Full Art every 18 packs (36 pack box). There also needs to be 1 Secret Rare in every box. not every 3. If TPCi cared, they would make it happen.
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It's very likely that your local card shop weighs their packs.

Also LOL @ 11 supers/box.
 
The pulls at the pre-release I was at today (I didn't play in the pre-release) would suggest 2-2-2 (EX/Full-art/Ace Spec). However computer search was considerably rarer than the other Ace Specs and I didn't see a single Landorus EX pulled (I only heard of one being pulled). I only heard of 1 keldeo ex being pulled as well
 
It looks like it's pretty steadily 5-7 Ultra Rares per box, but the 2-2-2 is NOT guaranteed. Our PTO had one box where she pulled 6 EX cards, but no Ace Specs at all.

Also, the shiny ratio seems to be very inconsistent. 6 boxes with absolutely nothing... and then 4 shinies out of the next 4 boxes. One table at our prerelease got 3 shinies. AT THE SAME TABLE. The best part was that the child who pulled the shiny Rocky Helmet also pulled a White Kyurem EX with its Ace Spec... AND a Celebi EX. This little boy got 4 Ultra Rares out of 6 packs! (He was super happy, as you might guess.)

Computer Search did seem to be the rarest Ace Spec. We saw a lot of the Kyurem items, and a lot of Celebi EX. As far as shinies go, by the time the day was done we had 2 of each pulled, so the Terrakion probably isn't any rarer than the other three.
 
Between the Prerelease and the Booster Draft we opened up 45 packs today. My daugther pulled two FA Landros EX. My wife pulled a Gold Potion ace spec. a secret rare Rocky Helmet. A FA and regular Celebi EX and a Black Kuyrem EX. I pulled A FA Kaledio EX and Celebi EX and a regular Landros EX and a Crystal wall Ace Spec.

So 8 EX (5 FA 3 regular) and and 2 Ace Speck and Secret Rare not a bad pull rate. tis was easily the most chase cards we have ever pulled in a Single prerelease day.
 
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I just hope these pulls are consistent with every box. The last DRX box I opened had only 3 NFA EX's, no other Ultra Rares.

How are the pack production and the card printing like compared to DRX?
 
Here were the pulls I saw at my pre-release.

17 people x 6 packs (I didn't see what anyone pulled out of their last 2 packs) = just under 3 boxes.

3 Computer Search
2 Gold Potion
1 Crystal Edge
2 Crystal Wall

1 FA Black Kyurem EX
1 FA Cresselia EX
1 FA Cherin
1 FA Skyla
1 FA My Little Pony EX

1 White Kyurem EX
1 Celebi EX
1 Cresselia EX
1 Landorus EX
2 My Little Pony EX

1 shiny Terrakion

The pull ratio seems pretty even this time. And that's good to see.
 
Yesterday i pulled landorous Ex and Fa keldeo ex! The pull rates for us were 2 EX/1 FA EX/1 Ace Spec. Although only two people pulled computer search out of around 5 boxes
 
From one box i pulled the following.

Landorous ex
Landorous EX FA
Cresseia ex
Skyla FA
Crystal Wall Ace Spec
Gold Potion Ace Spec
 
One full box:

Keldeo Ex
White Kyurem ex
Fa Bianca
Gold Potion
Computer Search

At the pr yesterday though, there was only 1 computer search from 20 players. And that included the draft afterwards.
 
KaMewie said:
How are the pack production and the card printing like compared to DRX?
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The card quality is different than DRX. The Reverse Holos in particular have a different paper, it's the same as Dragon Vault.

As for pack production... well... 5/6 of my packs had the reverse holo upside down, but that's pretty tame compared to last set's mess.
 
I and 2 of my friends have opened a box each and pulled the following:

Box 1:
FA Landorus
Cresselia
Black Kyurem
White Kyurem
Comp Search
Crystal Edge

Box 2:
FA Skyla
FA Cresselia
Keldeo
Landorus
Black Kyurem
Computer Search
Crystal Edge

Box 3:
FA Landorus
White Kuyrem
Keldeo
Celebi
FA Skyla
Comp Search
Crystal Edge

Not bad!...if I do say so myself :D

TCPi certainly got the pull rates right for this set. Way to go!!
 
AyameHikaru said:
The card quality is different than DRX. The Reverse Holos in particular have a different paper, it's the same as Dragon Vault.

As for pack production... well... 5/6 of my packs had the reverse holo upside down, but that's pretty tame compared to last set's mess.
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That's good to hear. The white specs at the back on some of the cards in DRX were just disappointing.
 
did anyone pull a ace spec and a holo/ex/fa/shiny in the same pack ? in HS i pulled a prime and a holo in the same pack 2 times
 
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