A play booster box contains the following:
- 1 box topper card
- 30 packs (14 cards + 1 token in each)
For The Hobbit, the box topper is one of 40 "Middle-Earth classic artist cards." (See all 40 cards here.) I pulled a foil Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff, currently selling for $20.
Simplistically, a pack contains 14 non-token cards: 7 commons, 3 uncommons, and 3 wildcards of any rarity, and 1 land card. But there are nuances in each category; the below table directly from the Wizards site explains more. Buckle in, folks. It is going to be complicated.
- 14 Magic: The Gathering cards
- 7 Common cards
- There are 60 common cards from the main set that can be found in these slots.
- There are 2 scene cards that can be found in these slots (7.8%).
- 3 Uncommon cards
- There are 55 uncommon cards from the main set that can be found in these slots.
- There are 4 scene cards that can be found in these slots (5.5%).
- There are 6 Dragon hoard cards that can be found in these slots (10.9%).
- 1 Wildcard of any rarity
- A common (74.17%), uncommon (3.9%), rare (17.3%), or mythic rare (2.3%) card from the main set
- A common (less than 1%), uncommon (less than 1%), or rare (less than 1%) HOB scene card
- An uncommon (less than 1%), rare (less than 1%), or mythic rare (less than 1%) Dragon hoard card
- A rare (less than 1%) or mythic rare (less than 1%) book cover card
- 1 Rare or mythic rare card
- A rare (82.9%) or mythic rare (11.1%) card from the main set
- A rare scene card (1.8%; does not include rare cards from Scene Boxes)
- A rare (2.3%) or mythic rare (less than 1%) Dragon hoard card
- A rare (less than 1%) or mythic rare (less than 1%) book cover card
- 1 Traditional foil card
- A common (59.8%), uncommon (29.3%), rare (7.1%), or mythic rare (1%) card from the main set
- A common (less than 1%), uncommon (less than 1%), or rare (less than 1%) HOB scene card
- An uncommon (less than 1%), rare (less than 1%), or mythic rare (less than 1%) Dragon hoard card
- A rare (less than 1%) or mythic rare (less than 1%) book cover card
- 1 Land card
- A non-foil (26.7%) or traditional foil (6.7%) default frame basic land
- A non-foil (13.3%) or traditional foil (3.3%) Middle-earth journey basic land
- A non-foil (40%) or traditional foil (10%) common dual land
- 1 Non-foil double-sided token
They use a few terms related to card treatments. Let me explain:
- main set: cards with 'normal' card frames.
- dragon hoard: cards with the dragon hoard card frame unique to this set. There are 25; see them here.
- scene cards: there are two types of scene cards; "HOB" and "HOC." You can get only HOB scene cards in play boosters. There are 15; see them here.
- book cover cards: cards with an old school fantasy book art frame. There are 10; see them here.
- Middle-earth journey basic land: full-art basic lands with the company traveling through Middle-earth. There are 5; see them here.
For each of the above, the cards could be non-foil or traditional foil (surge foils are available only in collector boosters).
I don't know how the math works anymore (it has been too long since my statistics class). But at a high level, combing over the above and making some guesses, in a given pack:
- you get two rares (or one rare/one mythic) ~20% of the time
- you get a scene card ~15% of the time
- you get a dragon hoard frame ~12% of the time
- you get a book cover frame ~1% of the time
This largely tracks with my experience, though I beat the odds in a few categories. In 30 packs, here is what I pulled:
- two rares in at least six packs (I think seven . . . I don't remember)
- 7 scene cards
- 5 dragon frame cards
- 2 book cover cards
My overall haul is pictured below.
A final observation: two of my 'two-rare' packs had the same rare in them (one regular and one foil). I've seen this happen in other sets . . . I wonder what the odds are of that.
Until next time . . . keep exploring.
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