What Are Play Boosters?
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Arriving in 2024 with Murders at Karlov Manor, the Play Booster combines everything fans love about Draft and Set Boosters.

“The Set Booster and Draft Booster are being combined into a new type of booster we’re calling the Play Booster.”

  • EchEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    Regarding the specific chances, considering they detailed the odds for the List spot but not the wildcards, I think it’s more reasonable to assume chances are equal to the percentage of rares in a given set, which can vary dramatically, but I believe it’s usually about 33%.

    As for the math, I definitely went about it wrong (I was using 1-pn for some reason, and I also did that wrong somehow). The right result would be closer to 16 rares per pod.

    • @[email protected]
      4•1 year ago

      I think it’s more reasonable to assume chances are equal to the percentage of rares in a given set, which can vary dramatically, but I believe it’s usually about 33%.

      Why would they not adjust for rarity in this slot? They do it in all the other slots - it seems like a big leap to think that any specific common that can appear in this slot is equally as likely as any specific mythic.

    • @[email protected]
      4•1 year ago

      Sorry for the double post, but I thought you might be interested to see this.

      MaRo has posted the odds. So looks like 8.88 packs per draft will have 2 rares, 0.96 packs per draft will have 3 rares, and <0.24 packs per draft will have 4 rares, for resulting in roughly (8.88 + 0.96*2 + 0.24*3 =) 11.52 extra rares per draft.

      • EchEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        All good! Thanks for sharing. Ultimately still too much variation, imo.