Avid player and collector of Flesh & Blood, Sorcery and Star Wars Unlimited. I've been playing TCGs since 1994 and love opening packs. I'll open anything I can get my hands on and have the videos to show. I figured that if I was going to be opening packs, why not share the experience with anyone who wants to join. I occasionally go live and do box breaks for others as well. Visit my Patreon to become a member at: www.patreon.com/ErgosterolOpenings
I mean, I can't do anything about product distribution. Most of the LGSs in my area still have a lot of product in stock still, so at least for my area there isn't a shortage like there was for Spark.
Not gonna lie, I was jealous that my friend was hitting them and I wasn't. On the other side, I was happy for him because I hit many in set 1 and he hadn't had as much luck.
I still can't stop myself from opening🤣. I'm in love with this game and haven't beenbas exicted to open since I started playing MTG when revised came out.
I haven't removed any comments in a long time. My settings are set to not filter anything out. I would only remove it if it was something offensive, but I haven't had to do that in a very long time. What was it supposed to be?
You should be able to. I've linked to other videos that aren't mine in comments before. I have no restrictions set up on comments. I'm not sure if RU-vid is doing some sort of self restriction or not in this case. Maybe just comment the title and other channel if it is something to reference or watch.
Nice, hunter is one of my top showcases to get from this set! Do you think the showcases are more frequent from pre release kits like they seemed to be with Spark of Rebellion?
I'd say no this time, but that's just based on my experience and info from my LGS. They had 6 cases of prerelease kits, and the only known showcase from them was this one here. I was much luckier in getting them from Spark
@@ergosterol1fow Sounds like its spot on the 1 in 12 booster box odds then. I also had great luck with them in spark, opened around 30 and got 2 showcases.
To your point, i got 3 boxes and i got the same stuff/observed the same stuff down to the Kylo Showcase. I did not get Findlizer, but i got 3 Mandos, 3 Dryden, a DJ, Kylos Silencer x 1, 1 Wrecker...our boxes were incredibly similar (also got 2 second chance and Darksaber). I can't recall the rest, but colation may be a thing for sure.
It definitely is. It was found with the rares too. Iopentcgs made 2 videos about it where he calls it out and names a vast majority of the rares from sealed boxes. Sad to see this in a modern TCG
Hey man, nice vid as always! Your channel is really underrated, your pile discipline and table angle are on point as always, and you keep it coherent while still mentioning notable pulls 👌. I do feel like I have to mention that the collation issues of set 2 are looking worse than before. Iopentcgs made a couple videos about potential mapping of Rares too, allowing you to anticipate Legendaries in advance and snipe them out of the box without opening a majority of packs. Be advised not to buy single packs from sources you don't know/trust, as they might be selling dead packs ;_;
I just saw his videos today. Not much hope for surprise anymore. But I opened my cases before seeing his videos, so at least I'm surprised and happy when I open my boxes.🤣🤣
Only have time to watch box 1 this morning but what a box it was! And your buddy pulling a showcase!! Sweet. I finally get to open boxes tonight. Hopefully my group is lucky!
RIP on the low count legendary boxes. There is definitely a pattern to the Legendarys like set1 but set2 seems to have groups of rares that that can be predicted too. Also for how to pronounce Qi'ra, toss this title into youtube for some Solo spoilers Solo: A Star Wars Story - Qi'ra Contacts Darth Maul
Appreciate the feedback. I think I got it right in the rest of my videos. There is a bad pattern to Rares and Hyperspace cards in this print run. I bring it up in another video later on
Easily my favourite channel to watch pack openings. Question for you. After you are finished opening as many prerelease kits as you can find, would you send me the cardboard divider that comes in the deckbox? The one with the Shadows art on it? I’m trying to get a bunch more. I’ll pay for shipping of course. Let me know if that’s possible. Thanks.
I'll have a couple for you. Just send me your address to my contact info in the description and I'll get them out. I have already recycled some of the boxes, but I'll have a few
I appreciate your commentary on pack construction. I'm always interested in how they do the logistics on pack slot distribution. I have one more prerelease today and may pay closer attention to where the hyperspace are. ;) I've attended five prereleases over the weekend and I saw five showcases pulled, three in one event! All of our events are 25-30 people, so a lot of kits opened.
Very nice opening, I should get today also some kits for opening. Prerelease Event where really nice, I really like the cards in the new set. But we had only 3 legendaries + 1 Hyperspace Legendary in 9 Prerelease Kits at our event...
Hope you have some good pulls. That's rough to only get 3 regular Legendary in 9 kits. Typically, they're an average of 1 pre kit. Sometime you don't hit one, but other kits have 2. At least that has been my experience.
@@ergosterol1fow I had 2x Kylo Ren, 1x Evacuate and 1x Endless Legion foil. All within 4 prerelease packs, so I agree the "usual" amount should be ~ 1 Legendaries / pack (I had one pack without any legendary and one pack with 2 legendaries) so we where very very unlucky at our event.
An excellent box! I just opened a case and only got a single unique foil in the whole case! :( It was a nice one, a Ruby Core foil, but it didn't make up for the lack of unique foils in the other boxes. Have you finished a non foil Beta set of standard/exceptional/elite/uniques yet, and if so, how many boxes did it take? I've have opened 16 boxes and now only need 13 uniques but am wondering how many more boxes it might take?
Agreed. I opened almost 2 whole cases in a row at one point without a Unique foil. But I also opened boxes like this with 3+ Unique foils. I finished my full playset within 2 cases. I got lucky there, but I was also opening whole cases, so the distribution was a little better for me.
I may have the rest of the Uniques you need if you don't want to have to buy more boxes. Hit me up in the contact info in the video description with a list, and I'll see what I can do.
@@ergosterol1fow I have 7 boxes waiting to be opened! :) I'm now spreading the love buying 1 or 2 boxes from different sources on eBay to avoid clumping. Hopefully i find the missing cards in these boxes since finding Beta boxes that aren't the new summer variety is going to get more and more difficult ( i don't want to mix standard beta with beta 2.0). Thanks for the offer and i may get back to you in a few weeks if i don't find what i need.
Nice memories - Everfest was the very first set I dared buying a whole case of and then didn’t hesitate much to buy another one. Some good cards, many beautiful looking ones. First CF fabled I got my hands on. I had good time looking for all the cf talismans.
It was also my first set where I bought a full case. I started playing in Tales, but didn't know if I would like it. Wasn't until Everfest and a bunch of loose boxes that I finally went deep into buying cases.
I use the US branded Perfect Fit for the inner sleeves and Ultra Pro for the outers on all my decks. Too much junk from my hands, tables and playmats ends up inside the out sleeves, so the Perfect Fits help protect the cards even more.
@Tommydabomby sorry, just saw your message. They're KMC branded with the English label on them. That's what I probably should have said. Here a link to a listing: www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=www.moxboardinghouse.com/kmc-topload-perfect-fit-sleeves-100ct/&ved=2ahUKEwjd29LI2JiHAxXovokEHf-8CLEQFnoECDIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw324L4-UFU7DcZ2k6V18CVM
I grew up in the Junk Era, so I remember it being a kid's hobby to me since nothing was really collectible for value. Now it's all about chase cards and that is it.
The Krenic showcase came from a single box from my LGS. The Hera came from the 3 I bought off of TCG from a different seller. I just released the 3rd box from that set of 3 today.
I always start on the left side and open all of those and then go down the right side. Only exception was my recent openings on the new FaB set since the potential for a gold pack was typically at the bottom. I can try to fit it on screen in future openings.
How do you predict the legendary cards? I've heard you talk about cards being "next in line" and I haven't heard about this before. Clarification would be appreciated!
I had noticed early on, probably around the end of case 2, that I opened that I would get the same Ls in a box. Someone on Reddit confirmed it with a list. iopentcgs here on RU-vid has a video on it as well and does a great explanation/visual with the cards.
