Calculate your Alara Reborn booster box
April 21, 2009 at 7:02 am dignifieddevil Leave a comment
Ok so this is in no way an accurate emulation of a real box of Alara Reborn. Magic boxes are in reality not as random as this demonstration makes them and they also usually contain fewer repeats. However, this is a little game I play when a set is drawing me in to buy a box. Each box is rumored to contain 4 Mythics, 32 Rares, and 1 Foil rare or mythic and then some foil commons and uncommons. Alara Reborn contains 10 Mythics and 35 Rares. You calculate your box the following way.
Go to: http://www.random.org/integers/
For mythics generate 4 random integers from 1 – 10
Write them down in the comments section and match the number to the name.
Example: 2 9 10 4
Defiler of Souls, Jenara, Maelstrom Nexus, & Lord of Extinction
Which isn’t a bad pull
For rares generate 32 integers from 1 – 35 then match the numbers
I got: 28 31 20 20 18 35 4 4 31 14 21 7 14 4 15 7 29 19 12 7 23 5 31 26 14 17 11 1 24 7 32 23
Realiator Griffin, Wargate, Engima Sphinx, Enigma Sphinx, Maelstrom Pulse, Unknown, Lich Lord of Unx x 2, Wargate, Mycoid Shepherd, Glory of Warfate, Time Seive, Mycoid Shepherd, Lich Lord of Unx, Knotvine Paladin, Time Seive, Finest Hour, Dauntless Escort, Spellbreaker Behemoth, Time Seive, Sages of Anima, Nemesis of Reason, Wargate, Madrush Cyclops, Mycoid Shepherd, Spellbound Dragon, Blitz Hellion, Aven Mimeomancer, Unscythe, Time Seive, Golden Xerox, & Unknown
Which is actually a pretty good pull, a lot of Time Seives and Wargates two Engima Sphinxs, a Knotvine Paladin, and a Maelstrom Pulse.
For the foil Create 1 integer from 1 – 45 with the mythics being 1 – 10 and the rares starting at 11. Aven Mimeomancer is 11 in other words.
I got 37 which translates to 27 in the rares a foil Mayeal’s Aria.
The spoiler for Alara Reborn is here
You can pre-order Alara Reborn from MtgFanatic.com.
Mythics
1. Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund
2. Defiler of Souls
3. Dragon Broodmother
4. Lord of Extinction
5. Sen Triplets
6. Sphinx of the Steel Wind
7. Thraximundar
8.Uril, the miststalker
9. Jenara, Asure of War
10. Maelstrom Nexus
Rares
1. Aven Mimeomancer
2. Filigree Angel
3. Meddling Mage
4. Lich Lord of Unx
5. Nemesis of Reason
6. Soulquake
7. Time Sieve
8. Deathbringer Thocatar
9. Lightning Reaver
10. Thought Hemorrhage
11. Blitz Hellion
12. Spellbreaker Behemoth
13. Knight of New Alara
14. Mycoid Shepherd
15. Knotvine Paladin
16. Necromancer’s Covenant
17. Spellbound Dragon
18. Maelstrom Pulse
19. Dauntless Escort
20. Enigma Sphinx
21. Glory of Warfare
22. Lords of Forgotten Alara
23. Sages of the Anima
24. Unscythe, Killer of Kings
25. Lavalanche
26. Madrush Cyclops
27. Mayael’s Aria
28. Retaliator Griffin
29. Finest Hour
30. Vedalken Heretic
31. Wargate
32. Cloven Casting
33. Fight to the Death
34. Identity Crisis
35. Predatory Advantage
I’ve done this before with other sets and found that it usually brings me down to earth with a box, however assuming that Maelstrom Pulse, Jenara, & Lord of Extinction all go for 10 USD or more directly after the initial release and the Enigma Sphinxes and other cards will retail for around 5 USD or more for a few weeks after the official release, a box is more than worth buying. I’ve calculated two or three now and the numbers do seem to add up. The added incentive of uncommons like the new Warhammer also make the set slightly more appealing. Hence, chance seems to favor cracking a case with in a week of the release.
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