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Topic: Aquapolis Box Counts: How Rare are the Crystal Pokemons?
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Planteon
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posted January 24, 2003 05:47 AM
So, those of you who have been busy opening those aquapolis boxes, what is the rarity of the Crystal Pokémon?
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BJJ763
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posted January 24, 2003 06:35 AM
Oh hey someone beat me to a topic about Aquapolis. Well so far in 9 boxes i've pulled a complete set of Crystal Pokés in one box!, and another box gave 2 more and another a third so we've got 2 complete sets of Crystal from 9 boxes! We've yet to pull a Reverse Holo of a Crystal so i don't think they exist but could be wrong (hope i'm not as the RH mix has been fantastic).
Some other general thoughts:
I think we've pulled a complete set of the special energy cards from each box!
And the Trainers! Holy smokes! I don't think we've pulled a pack that had 2 uncommon Pokés, it's been 2 Trainers or 1 Trainer and 1 Pokémon! That is great for getting Town Volunteers, Forest Guardian, and the like for decks! (and trading).
The set is tougher to put into binder in orders - the H1-H32 threw off putting cards into binders easily (i usually can put any card into the correct spot thanks to the "9 factor") but then you had the 4 A and B versions of cards which messed it up more...(plus putting RHs away is different that putting the regular set away because there are no RH versions of H1-H32.)
And playing the cards, yes the babies out right stink when compared to their originals (with the possible exception of Tyrogue and Smoochum), but some cards scream "Use me! Try me out!" (Nidoking, Victreebel, Vileplume quickly come to mind). Others are 0-o why do they do that? Very few have a free Retreat cost. And it seems like you either will need a deck with 30 energy cards in it or one with 10 depending upon the energy manipulation you choose to use.
Drafting this will be interesting.
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nick15
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posted January 24, 2003 01:27 PM
What's the pack format for Aquapolis cards? Is it still the same as Expedition?
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SteveP
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posted January 24, 2003 01:42 PM
According to the checklist in the Theme Decks, the normal holos (H1-H32, and 149-151) don't have parallel reverse holos.
I haven't pulled a Crystal Poke yet after opening a sealed box and 20 single boosters.
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posted January 24, 2003 02:09 PM
2 boxes (72 boosters) only 1 Crystal Pokemon. One Uncommon is still missing (Dodrio). A lot of doubles.
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The Mystery Thing
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posted January 24, 2003 05:01 PM
One box for me. 2 Crystal pokes, along with every common, every uncommon, every energy, and no duplicates of rares or holos (if you don't count the reverse holos).
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posted January 24, 2003 07:54 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Planteon:
So, those of you who have been busy opening those aquapolis boxes, what is the rarity of the Crystal Pokémon?
Got all three first two boxes. Dry for the next 2 boxes - last box I pulled three (2 nido, 1 Kingdra)
As in Expedition - some of the uncommons are harder to get than the rares!
My coolest thing - 4 reverse Darkness! The reverse holo looks different for this set and the reverse darkness is truly cool to behold. ![[Big Grin]](../tcg/biggrin.gif)
It almost gets solid metallic colors depending on the angle instead of a rainbow effect.
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posted January 24, 2003 10:29 PM
Well so far I have opened 3 boxes (1 to open still tomorrow) and have gotten only 3 Crystal Pokemon. Got all three though and they came in the same box!! Also got reverse of all the energies so they do exist.
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posted January 25, 2003 03:08 PM
I've opened 3 boxes.
2 without Crystal, and one with the 3 Crystal Pokes ![[Love]](../tcg/graemlins/love.gif)
Friends opened 2 other boxes ... nothing there.
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posted January 25, 2003 05:40 PM
Is it just me, or do the crystal Pokémon look like they're "stacked"? 3 in one box, none in 2 others.... Is there a pattern?
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posted January 25, 2003 07:25 PM
in 3 boxes, i got 2 crystals.... But yet, my friend got 1 box and pulled 3 crystals
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posted January 26, 2003 12:28 PM
I bought 5 boxes so far and opening another one later and only got 2 crystals while my friend got 1 box and got all three crystals. Im hoping my 6th box has the last cryastal i need.
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posted January 26, 2003 02:04 PM
Opened 9 boxes, 1 box had 3 of them, 2 boxes 1 of them and 6 nothing.
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Planteon
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posted January 26, 2003 11:51 PM
It sounds like the Crystals are't that hard to pull then. If I've counted correctly the posts so far have 34 Crystal Pokémons in 43 boxes i.e. 1Crystal/45.5 Boosters - There are 32+3 Holos in the set so...
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posted January 27, 2003 12:39 AM
We've only opened 2 boxes so far. In the first, we got the whole set of 3 Crystals. In the second box, we got 2 out of the 3, so that's 5 out of 2 boxes! ![[Bounce]](../tcg/graemlins/jump.gif)
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Dan the Pokeman
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posted January 27, 2003 04:52 AM
I opened 2 boxes this weekend; Zero (0) Crystal Pokemon
I'm also short MANY holos from the set, and I got 6 duplicate holos and a lot of duplicate rares :\
5 Town Volunteers, but several Jugglers and Forest Guardians.
Not the best 2 boxes I've opened...
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posted January 27, 2003 07:05 AM
my freind opened a box and got none, I however pulled 1. I belive they are harder to get, however they are still regular rair as far as I can tell.
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posted January 27, 2003 09:05 AM
I open 1 box and got 2 Crystal pokemon.
No duplicate Holo and Rare. Still miss some common and uncommon.
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posted January 27, 2003 10:09 AM
Out of the one box that I got over the weekend I got NONE of the Crystal Pokemon.
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Gym Leader Blaine
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posted January 27, 2003 10:16 AM
quote:
Originally posted by SteveP:
According to the checklist in the Theme Decks, the normal holos (H1-H32, and 149-151) don't have parallel reverse holos.
I haven't pulled a Crystal Poke yet after opening a sealed box and 20 single boosters.
Steve H1-H32 DO HAVE parallel reverse holos and non-holos of the cards in the aquapolis set. Out of the box I open I got one a couple of the Pokemon were there is a Holo, reverse holo, and just a plain normal rare.
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posted January 27, 2003 12:06 PM
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Originally posted by Gym Leader Blaine:
Steve H1-H32 DO HAVE parallel reverse holos and non-holos of the cards in the aquapolis set. Out of the box I open I got one a couple of the Pokemon were there is a Holo, reverse holo, and just a plain normal rare.
G.L.Blaine - There aren't cards numbered H1 - H32 that exist as reverse holos, though it's true that the non-holo counter-parts exist as RH. For example, H1 Ampharos exists only as holo, while it's "twin" #1/147 Ampharos exists as non-holo and reverse holo.
I pulled 1 set of 'crystal' rares each in two boxes, none in a third, and one card in box#4.
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posted January 27, 2003 01:17 PM
So far, in one box I've gotten one Crystal Pokemon.
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posted January 27, 2003 08:46 PM
I pulled 9 Packs out of a box and got 16 rares, one of which was Crystal Lugia.
My friend pulled 10 out of the same box, and got Crystal Kingdra.
What I am really happy about is that I got the Muk, Scizor, Grass Exeggutor, Crystal Energy, and Boost Energy. ![[Razz]](../tcg/tongue.gif)
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posted January 28, 2003 05:37 AM
so the conclusion would be:
there are no reverse holo "#Hxx/H32" ...
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posted January 28, 2003 05:50 AM
As the reports keep coming in it sounds like about one Crystal Pokémon per box, which is what you would expect if they were as rare as the other rares.
The rare cards that are not also found as holos are actually the second hardest to pull if you count holos+foils+normal versions of the same card as one card (if you play with the cards rather than collect them, then the ammount of shiny stuff on the cards doesn't matter).
Thus, in one box you will on average find:
1 Crystal Pokemon (3 cards in set)
11 other Rare Holos (32 cards in set)
+ 24 "normal" versions of Holos
+ 8 foil versions
Sum: 43
12 Rare cards with no holo counterpart (16 cards in set)
+ 4 foil versions
Sum: 16
72 Uncommons (48 cards in set)
+ 12 foil versions
Sum: 84
168 Commons (51 cards in set)
+ 12 foil versions
Sum: 180
Now, remember these are average numbers and with some sort of normal variation 95% of boxes will contain:
0-3 Crystals
38-48 Holos (and counterparts)
13-19 Rares (and counterparts)
80-90 Uncommons (and counterparts)
175-185 Commons (and counterparts)
[ January 28, 2003, 05:55 AM: Message edited by: Planteon ]
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