It was sad to see my delicious destructive deck get so thoroughly thrashed by all you Esper-playing sissies. (I mean that in the most curmudgeonly of respectful ways.)
Luckily I too can construct an Esper deck from my card pool and soon I'll be one of them.
Just got finished that Swiss sealed deck I decided to do. Worked out pretty well and I managed to land 3rd place and grab some prizes . Turns out Aven Mimeomancer is totally awesome for laying down the beats, and necromancer's covenant didn't get played once despite me expecting it to be a huge bomb.
Even if it hadn't went as well it was a ton of fun and definitely worth the 2 bucks for the games.
Looking forward to playing with you guys now that I'm warmed up .
Decided to open my PA League packs in a ALA Block Sealed.
this is the best idea I've seen so far for tracking your deck lists. In fact, I think I may join up now, having not realized how this would work very well, and not feel like I'm wasting limited packs.
If anyone want's some deck advice, or test help in the interim, add me: scullykel999.
Oh god, that is an awesome idea. I wish that a) I'd seen it before I cracked my packs, b) I had enough time to play a sanctioned sealed event, and c) I knew enough about this set to be able to construct my deck in under an hour and a half. So many playable cards!!!
So how exactly does this work, I might be down for getting 6 new boosters if it means a easier way in mtgo to track cards.
Also, me and Adhuin (Jammu) are actually in a clan already (at least I think he's the same Adhuin).
I might change clans just because, but I might not if it ultimately doesn't matter that much.
Point being, don't save a spot for me in Clan New Hampshire Darkmagics.
I have nice clan (Juggs of Naught) already, which I play with on the multiplayer room, so I won't be joining on the clan.
Still joining the league though.
Good way to spot Arcader's on the game rooms is to add them as buddies.
Right click the name on chat window and choose add buddy.
-> Game puts smiley next to name and lists him always on top of the chat windows.
Do we have lot of Euro PA-members signed up? I'm on GMT+2 and usually active in evenings in mtgo.
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ChaosHatHop, hop, hop, HA!Trick of the lightRegistered Userregular
Decided to open my PA League packs in a ALA Block Sealed.
this is the best idea I've seen so far for tracking your deck lists. In fact, I think I may join up now, having not realized how this would work very well, and not feel like I'm wasting limited packs.
If anyone want's some deck advice, or test help in the interim, add me: scullykel999.
Oh god, that is an awesome idea. I wish that a) I'd seen it before I cracked my packs, b) I had enough time to play a sanctioned sealed event, and c) I knew enough about this set to be able to construct my deck in under an hour and a half. So many playable cards!!!
So how exactly does this work, I might be down for getting 6 new boosters if it means a easier way in mtgo to track cards.
I might be up for that too, if I didn't have bonkers cards as is.
ok just sent a message to join the league...
been a while since i played (i havent played since mtgo v3 came around), but you can't sort your card pool to create a deck?
the deck, i can sort into piles, but not the pool?
this design is really clunky
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edited June 2009
OP super updated. If I left anything out, do tell me. Going to bed now, woo.
Forgive my lack of knowledge, but the sideboard can be swapped into the deck between rounds right? If so it might be worth still limiting it, else with 40 card decks from a 90 card pool you could sideboard in an entirely different deck!
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Alfred J. Kwakis it because you were insultedwhen I insulted your hair?Registered Userregular
Decided to open my PA League packs in a ALA Block Sealed.
I'd like to know how this works too - it sounds like I could double the fun for the same price, plus get familiar with the old/new rules and test my deck when I'm at it.
Decided to open my PA League packs in a ALA Block Sealed.
I'd like to know how this works too - it sounds like I could double the fun for the same price, plus get familiar with the old/new rules and test my deck when I'm at it.
You buy the six boosters you need for the PA league, plus two tickets. Then enter a sanctioned sealed deck tournament that is using those cards. You build your deck, play in the tournament, profit, and then use that same pool of cards when the PA league starts on Friday.
Since you are getting the boosters for PA anyway, you essentially get to play in the tournament for two ticketes ($2). Your cards do double duty!
Alfred J. Kwakis it because you were insultedwhen I insulted your hair?Registered Userregular
edited June 2009
Yup, that's what I'll be doing then. Patching is almost finished now, then I'll be ready to go - hopefully it ain't to hard to get a spot in a tourney.
I am annoyed that I opened mine before this bright idea came up. What kind of prizes can you get?
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Alfred J. Kwakis it because you were insultedwhen I insulted your hair?Registered Userregular
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Say, how do these tourneys work anyway - do they start immediately after we reach the full player count, or is there a fixed time when they're played? I couldn't really make out how this system works, and I'm afraid to apply to one.
Forgive my lack of knowledge, but the sideboard can be swapped into the deck between rounds right? If so it might be worth still limiting it, else with 40 card decks from a 90 card pool you could sideboard in an entirely different deck!
Forgive my lack of knowledge, but the sideboard can be swapped into the deck between rounds right? If so it might be worth still limiting it, else with 40 card decks from a 90 card pool you could sideboard in an entirely different deck!
I agree with this.
I disagree. Radical sideboarding is part of the fun and strategy of sealed deck.
Say, how do these tourneys work anyway - do they start immediately after we reach the full player count, or is there a fixed time when they're played? I couldn't really make out how this system works, and I'm afraid to apply to one.
The "Sealed Swiss Queues" fire when there are enough players. Not sure how many are needed. At least 8, maybe 16.
The Daily and Premiere events are scheduled (exceptions sometimes for special promotional tournaments, usually around new set launches), although they still need to hit a minimum number of players to fire.
Alfred J. Kwakis it because you were insultedwhen I insulted your hair?Registered Userregular
edited June 2009
Ah, thank you Iolo, I'll stop asking stupid questions now alright .
Regarding the OP, I think we still haven't settled on whether everyone picks the same editon for their boosters after the first round or they get to chose their favourite ones from the block. I favour the former, personally. Not that it's of great importance, mind you.
My vote is for everyone picking the same but it's in no way a strong preference. I mainly just don't want to have to go to the effort of finding out which one would be best for me :P
Also at what point will we move up to 60 card decks?
My vote is for everyone picking the same but it's in no way a strong preference. I mainly just don't want to have to go to the effort of finding out which one would be best for me :P
When in doubt, just pick the 3rd set (Reborn in this case.) 3rd sets generally have a higher power level across all rarities (they will be in the market for less time than the first two sets, so interest/demand needs to be higher). So your commons and uncommons will generally be higher quality from a third set.
Because of that, I'd prefer we all open the same booster each week. But I'm up for whatever Captain ChaosHat sets forth.
Also at what point will we move up to 60 card decks?
I would hope we'd wrap the league up and start a new one before we got to the point where we'd switch to 60 cards.
Anyone got any tips on the best way to fight the deck-building interface to sort cards? With a set as golden as this one, the sort by color mechanic is less than useless.
Decided to open my PA League packs in a ALA Block Sealed.
I'd like to know how this works too - it sounds like I could double the fun for the same price, plus get familiar with the old/new rules and test my deck when I'm at it.
You buy the six boosters you need for the PA league, plus two tickets. Then enter a sanctioned sealed deck tournament that is using those cards. You build your deck, play in the tournament, profit, and then use that same pool of cards when the PA league starts on Friday.
Since you are getting the boosters for PA anyway, you essentially get to play in the tournament for two ticketes ($2). Your cards do double duty!
I understand this, but how does it separate the cards?
Anyone got any tips on the best way to fight the deck-building interface to sort cards? With a set as golden as this one, the sort by color mechanic is less than useless.
I generally start sorting by color for selecting my mono-color cards (the fundamentals), then I switch to Casting Cost to fill out the multi-color selections, and if the deck isn't fully built by then, I use the Type symbols to...you know...look through the card types.
I don't care either way with the pack opening but with interleague trading does it make too much difference? the decks are likely going to continue to become tighter as time goes on anyways.
Decided to open my PA League packs in a ALA Block Sealed.
I'd like to know how this works too - it sounds like I could double the fun for the same price, plus get familiar with the old/new rules and test my deck when I'm at it.
You buy the six boosters you need for the PA league, plus two tickets. Then enter a sanctioned sealed deck tournament that is using those cards. You build your deck, play in the tournament, profit, and then use that same pool of cards when the PA league starts on Friday.
Since you are getting the boosters for PA anyway, you essentially get to play in the tournament for two ticketes ($2). Your cards do double duty!
I understand this, but how does it separate the cards?
1) You can take a screenshot and/or copy of card list from your pool all in one place.
2) You can do a single deck 'save as' of all 90 cards as once (which you can't do when you open 15 card boosters one at a time)
3) I think (?) that MTGO automatically saves sanctioned tournament pools and decks.
ChaosHat, what'll the time limit be on league games?
Also, for the OP:
How to play your games:
1) Arrange to meet your opponent in the Anything Goes room (Menu --> Play --> Casual Play --> Anything Goes)
2) You or your opponent should create a "New Game" with these settings:
Constructed
Freeform
One on One Duel
Best 2 out of 3
Event Timer (whatever ChaosHat says)
Deck [Your league deck]
Comment "Something so your opponent knows its for him/her"
Allow Watchers: Up to you, but c'mon, let us watch
If anyone in this is willing to trade for the 5 planeshift packs I have at more then 1.5 tickets value that the trade bots offer let me know (I'm thinking like 2-3 packs of what we need maybe for the 5) I tried to off as much of my old stuff as possible and most the bots would offer me was like 7 tickets.
If anyone in this is willing to trade for the 5 planeshift packs I have at more then 1.5 tickets value that the trade bots offer let me know (I'm thinking like 2-3 packs of what we need maybe for the 5) I tried to off as much of my old stuff as possible and most the bots would offer me was like 7 tickets.
Unsane, as much as the profit of NOW might be appealing, you might want to hang onto old packs as they have a schedule for holding drafts and other events for out-of-print sets.
It stops at the week of July 22nd, which will be Odyssey/Torment/Judgement, but if you assume it'll continue beyond that, there will be Invasion/Planeshift/Apocalypse draft queues sometime in August. At which point you can either draft them, or sell them for a greater profit.
Anyone got any tips on the best way to fight the deck-building interface to sort cards? With a set as golden as this one, the sort by color mechanic is less than useless.
I generally start sorting by color for selecting my mono-color cards (the fundamentals), then I switch to Casting Cost to fill out the multi-color selections, and if the deck isn't fully built by then, I use the Type symbols to...you know...look through the card types.
But yeah, not the best interface.
These are the only Alara Block cards I have :oops:
Man, if I had the time and money, and didn't have the distinct feeling that it would cost me my social life and my soul, I'd totally be down with this.
Yea I am looking at it from a cash vs not cash view, I believe those packs were a prize anyways. But you are likely right, I assume if all goes according to plan with this league I will be playing magic more often and who knows maybe I will play something other then standard, block, and limited.
If anyone in this is willing to trade for the 5 planeshift packs I have at more then 1.5 tickets value that the trade bots offer let me know (I'm thinking like 2-3 packs of what we need maybe for the 5) I tried to off as much of my old stuff as possible and most the bots would offer me was like 7 tickets.
Unsane, as much as the profit of NOW might be appealing, you might want to hang onto old packs as they have a schedule for holding drafts and other events for out-of-print sets.
It stops at the week of July 22nd, which will be Odyssey/Torment/Judgement, but if you assume it'll continue beyond that, there will be Invasion/Planeshift/Apocalypse draft queues sometime in August. At which point you can either draft them, or sell them for a greater profit.
That 1.5 tix is a bit low of when compared what they sell them for, which is $texas.
I was going through rares of that set and even total crap ones like: Planeswalker's Mirth
go for 1.5 tix.
Normal crap rares from other sets go for about 0.10-0.15
As an FYI: for selling to bots, the best "buy" prices I've found are from the bot known as FreeRares.
Said bot DOES NOT distribute free rares, but it does generally give +1 tix (at least) over all other bot prices and is often willing to buy jank that not even the BUY UR UNCOMMONZZZ bots will touch.
Decided to open my PA League packs in a ALA Block Sealed.
I'd like to know how this works too - it sounds like I could double the fun for the same price, plus get familiar with the old/new rules and test my deck when I'm at it.
You buy the six boosters you need for the PA league, plus two tickets. Then enter a sanctioned sealed deck tournament that is using those cards. You build your deck, play in the tournament, profit, and then use that same pool of cards when the PA league starts on Friday.
Since you are getting the boosters for PA anyway, you essentially get to play in the tournament for two ticketes ($2). Your cards do double duty!
I understand this, but how does it separate the cards?
1) You can take a screenshot and/or copy of card list from your pool all in one place.
2) You can do a single deck 'save as' of all 90 cards as once (which you can't do when you open 15 card boosters one at a time)
3) I think (?) that MTGO automatically saves sanctioned tournament pools and decks.
ChaosHat, what'll the time limit be on league games?
Also, for the OP:
How to play your games:
1) Arrange to meet your opponent in the Anything Goes room (Menu --> Play --> Casual Play --> Anything Goes)
2) You or your opponent should create a "New Game" with these settings:
Constructed
Freeform
One on One Duel
Best 2 out of 3
Event Timer (whatever ChaosHat says)
Deck [Your league deck]
Comment "Something so your opponent knows its for him/her"
Allow Watchers: Up to you, but c'mon, let us watch
I don't really care about a time limit I guess. It's not like we're doing this in a one day tournament fashion where games need time limits to keep them moving so they don't slowdown the other rounds. I guess just keep it default (30 mins for each player) but if someone wanted to change it I wouldn't care.
Good idea on adding the "How to internet battle" guide, I'll update right away.
As for packs, I kind of want to go with "whatever you want" because for me personally that means Alara Reborn every week, but I guess we can just do it in some sort of method to the madness.
Lastly, 2010 is set to come out July 17 which is basically three weeks after we start. Usually sets release online about a month after, although I predict that this one will take longer due to the new rules that are also coming into place. Anyways, look for this league to last until whenever 2010 releases on MTGO, so about 7+ weeks. Then I'll tally up the points, and the top 8 from each conference will advance to playoffs, and everyone else can take a break/sell off their Alara cards for 2010 boosters if they wish, and then we'll be looking to start over with 2010, which will probably last until the next big set launches, unless a bunch of people have a problem with moving through the league that fast.
I don't really care about a time limit I guess. It's not like we're doing this in a one day tournament fashion where games need time limits to keep them moving so they don't slowdown the other rounds. I guess just keep it default (30 mins for each player) but if someone wanted to change it I wouldn't care.
Good idea on adding the "How to internet battle" guide, I'll update right away.
As for packs, I kind of want to go with "whatever you want" because for me personally that means Alara Reborn every week, but I guess we can just do it in some sort of method to the madness.
Lastly, 2010 is set to come out July 17 which is basically three weeks after we start. Usually sets release online about a month after, although I predict that this one will take longer due to the new rules that are also coming into place. Anyways, look for this league to last until whenever 2010 releases on MTGO, so about 7+ weeks. Then I'll tally up the points, and the top 8 from each conference will advance to playoffs, and everyone else can take a break/sell off their Alara cards for 2010 boosters if they wish, and then we'll be looking to start over with 2010, which will probably last until the next big set launches, unless a bunch of people have a problem with moving through the league that fast.
The more I think about it, the more a structured pack schedule makes sense. There are already enough variables with so many people learning the interface, new rules, etc. I think it would be best to eliminate any unnecessary complexity so everyone can focus on the game and not on what pack they should open. It also eliminates buyer's remorse 8-).
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I don't really care about a time limit I guess. It's not like we're doing this in a one day tournament fashion where games need time limits to keep them moving so they don't slowdown the other rounds. I guess just keep it default (30 mins for each player) but if someone wanted to change it I wouldn't care.
Good idea on adding the "How to internet battle" guide, I'll update right away.
As for packs, I kind of want to go with "whatever you want" because for me personally that means Alara Reborn every week, but I guess we can just do it in some sort of method to the madness.
Lastly, 2010 is set to come out July 17 which is basically three weeks after we start. Usually sets release online about a month after, although I predict that this one will take longer due to the new rules that are also coming into place. Anyways, look for this league to last until whenever 2010 releases on MTGO, so about 7+ weeks. Then I'll tally up the points, and the top 8 from each conference will advance to playoffs, and everyone else can take a break/sell off their Alara cards for 2010 boosters if they wish, and then we'll be looking to start over with 2010, which will probably last until the next big set launches, unless a bunch of people have a problem with moving through the league that fast.
The more I think about it, the more a structured pack schedule makes sense. There are already enough variables with so many people learning the interface, new rules, etc. I think it would be best to eliminate any unnecessary complexity so everyone can focus on the game and not on what pack they should open. It also eliminates buyer's remorse 8-).
No, it just makes the buyers remorse me!
"GOD DAMN YOU HAT AND YOUR CONFLUX BOOSTER WEEK! WORTHLESS PACK!"
"GOD DAMN YOU HAT AND YOUR CONFLUX BOOSTER WEEK! WORTHLESS PACK!"
LOL. I was thinking more like "Ooooh, which pack should I choose, well, uh, I want this shiny rare in Conflux but these uncommons in Alara Reborn and......um........OK ALARA REBORN!
..................
FUCK I didn't get what I wanted, why didn't I choose Conflux? NOOOOOOOOOO"
so then you'd feel that lost not because of deck construction skills or play skill differences, but from pack choice differences. Which shouldn't really be part of the game, imho. Everyone should have the same potential card pool.
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It was sad to see my delicious destructive deck get so thoroughly thrashed by all you Esper-playing sissies. (I mean that in the most curmudgeonly of respectful ways.)
Luckily I too can construct an Esper deck from my card pool and soon I'll be one of them.
And yeah, I have Vent...but uh, never use it.
Even if it hadn't went as well it was a ton of fun and definitely worth the 2 bucks for the games.
Looking forward to playing with you guys now that I'm warmed up
So how exactly does this work, I might be down for getting 6 new boosters if it means a easier way in mtgo to track cards.
I have nice clan (Juggs of Naught) already, which I play with on the multiplayer room, so I won't be joining on the clan.
Still joining the league though.
Good way to spot Arcader's on the game rooms is to add them as buddies.
Right click the name on chat window and choose add buddy.
-> Game puts smiley next to name and lists him always on top of the chat windows.
Do we have lot of Euro PA-members signed up? I'm on GMT+2 and usually active in evenings in mtgo.
Still open through Friday.
I might be up for that too, if I didn't have bonkers cards as is.
been a while since i played (i havent played since mtgo v3 came around), but you can't sort your card pool to create a deck?
the deck, i can sort into piles, but not the pool?
this design is really clunky
you rock, CH.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I'd like to know how this works too - it sounds like I could double the fun for the same price, plus get familiar with the old/new rules and test my deck when I'm at it.
You buy the six boosters you need for the PA league, plus two tickets. Then enter a sanctioned sealed deck tournament that is using those cards. You build your deck, play in the tournament, profit, and then use that same pool of cards when the PA league starts on Friday.
Since you are getting the boosters for PA anyway, you essentially get to play in the tournament for two ticketes ($2). Your cards do double duty!
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I agree with this.
I disagree. Radical sideboarding is part of the fun and strategy of sealed deck.
The "Sealed Swiss Queues" fire when there are enough players. Not sure how many are needed. At least 8, maybe 16.
The Daily and Premiere events are scheduled (exceptions sometimes for special promotional tournaments, usually around new set launches), although they still need to hit a minimum number of players to fire.
Steam profile.
Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
Regarding the OP, I think we still haven't settled on whether everyone picks the same editon for their boosters after the first round or they get to chose their favourite ones from the block. I favour the former, personally. Not that it's of great importance, mind you.
Also at what point will we move up to 60 card decks?
When in doubt, just pick the 3rd set (Reborn in this case.) 3rd sets generally have a higher power level across all rarities (they will be in the market for less time than the first two sets, so interest/demand needs to be higher). So your commons and uncommons will generally be higher quality from a third set.
Because of that, I'd prefer we all open the same booster each week. But I'm up for whatever Captain ChaosHat sets forth.
I would hope we'd wrap the league up and start a new one before we got to the point where we'd switch to 60 cards.
Anyone got any tips on the best way to fight the deck-building interface to sort cards? With a set as golden as this one, the sort by color mechanic is less than useless.
Steam profile.
Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
I understand this, but how does it separate the cards?
I generally start sorting by color for selecting my mono-color cards (the fundamentals), then I switch to Casting Cost to fill out the multi-color selections, and if the deck isn't fully built by then, I use the Type symbols to...you know...look through the card types.
But yeah, not the best interface.
1) You can take a screenshot and/or copy of card list from your pool all in one place.
2) You can do a single deck 'save as' of all 90 cards as once (which you can't do when you open 15 card boosters one at a time)
3) I think (?) that MTGO automatically saves sanctioned tournament pools and decks.
ChaosHat, what'll the time limit be on league games?
Also, for the OP:
How to play your games:
1) Arrange to meet your opponent in the Anything Goes room (Menu --> Play --> Casual Play --> Anything Goes)
2) You or your opponent should create a "New Game" with these settings:
Steam profile.
Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
Unsane, as much as the profit of NOW might be appealing, you might want to hang onto old packs as they have a schedule for holding drafts and other events for out-of-print sets.
Nix-Tix Draft Rotation
It stops at the week of July 22nd, which will be Odyssey/Torment/Judgement, but if you assume it'll continue beyond that, there will be Invasion/Planeshift/Apocalypse draft queues sometime in August. At which point you can either draft them, or sell them for a greater profit.
These are the only Alara Block cards I have :oops:
SC2: XxKhrushchev.539
As it stands, I wish you all luck.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
That 1.5 tix is a bit low of when compared what they sell them for, which is $texas.
I was going through rares of that set and even total crap ones like:
Planeswalker's Mirth
go for 1.5 tix.
Normal crap rares from other sets go for about 0.10-0.15
Now I guess I need to find time to use it since I work 4-midnight.
Said bot DOES NOT distribute free rares, but it does generally give +1 tix (at least) over all other bot prices and is often willing to buy jank that not even the BUY UR UNCOMMONZZZ bots will touch.
Example for the Mentally Handicapped:
Dauntless Escort
Typical Buybot price: ~1.5 tix
FreeRares: ~3 tix
I don't really care about a time limit I guess. It's not like we're doing this in a one day tournament fashion where games need time limits to keep them moving so they don't slowdown the other rounds. I guess just keep it default (30 mins for each player) but if someone wanted to change it I wouldn't care.
Good idea on adding the "How to internet battle" guide, I'll update right away.
As for packs, I kind of want to go with "whatever you want" because for me personally that means Alara Reborn every week, but I guess we can just do it in some sort of method to the madness.
Lastly, 2010 is set to come out July 17 which is basically three weeks after we start. Usually sets release online about a month after, although I predict that this one will take longer due to the new rules that are also coming into place. Anyways, look for this league to last until whenever 2010 releases on MTGO, so about 7+ weeks. Then I'll tally up the points, and the top 8 from each conference will advance to playoffs, and everyone else can take a break/sell off their Alara cards for 2010 boosters if they wish, and then we'll be looking to start over with 2010, which will probably last until the next big set launches, unless a bunch of people have a problem with moving through the league that fast.
The more I think about it, the more a structured pack schedule makes sense. There are already enough variables with so many people learning the interface, new rules, etc. I think it would be best to eliminate any unnecessary complexity so everyone can focus on the game and not on what pack they should open. It also eliminates buyer's remorse 8-).
No, it just makes the buyers remorse me!
"GOD DAMN YOU HAT AND YOUR CONFLUX BOOSTER WEEK! WORTHLESS PACK!"
LOL. I was thinking more like "Ooooh, which pack should I choose, well, uh, I want this shiny rare in Conflux but these uncommons in Alara Reborn and......um........OK ALARA REBORN!
..................
FUCK I didn't get what I wanted, why didn't I choose Conflux? NOOOOOOOOOO"
so then you'd feel that lost not because of deck construction skills or play skill differences, but from pack choice differences. Which shouldn't really be part of the game, imho. Everyone should have the same potential card pool.
And knowing your luck, Chaos, I'm sure you'll have no problem exclusively cracking Noble Hierarch after Noble Hierarch.