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

  • prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I think it’s just 8 extra rares/mythics per pod.

    Assuming all the special guests are r/m, The List slot has 3.12% chance of being a rare.

    About 1/7 (14.3%) foils is r/m.

    We don’t know the distribution of rarity in the wildcard slot, but I’ll use the same distribution as the foils for a reasonable estimate.

    That makes (3.12+14.3+14.3 ~=) 32 extra rares per 100 packs, or just under 8 per 24 packs.

    • Ech@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      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.

      • prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        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.

      • prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        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.

        • Ech@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

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