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doublecross
Unfettered
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 588 Location: London, UK
Poor card ratio for wave 3 I've bought some new packs of cards from London stores. They have a different cover (slightly) so at least you know you're in with a chance of wave 3 cards.
However, the ratio is very poor in the packs I have bought. In 8 packs I only got 7 wave 3 cards. As that implies the packs are mixed between the waves. They all now say 'Wave n season 1'. It seems that wave 3 cards only appear in about one in three packs, and then only about one in three in those packs - i.e. about one in nine cards. Poor show!
Two of my seven were silvers - who knew?!
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:04 pm
ryandrew
Unfettered
Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 575 Location: Manchester
Pah, its not that bad. I bought 14 packs. That included 30 wave 3 cards, 3 of which were silver.
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:38 pm
locqust
Unfettered
Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 545 Location: Gloucestershire UK
Well its gonna be obvious that silvers are a bit more common now by having 10 in this wave along with the other 12 or so from previous waves, I seem to remember the probability of a silver wave 1+2 was 1 in 9 packs? The probability mentioned above seems to conclude that the rarity has dropped by a lot..
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:54 pm
Uhtoff
Veteran
Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 75
Mind you I have to say this is a poor show, there's no reason not to supply wave 1, 2 and 3 totally seperately...ah well, box of boosters arrives tomorrow, will keep an eye on ratios
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:51 pm
Adam G.
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Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 71 Location: England, Bristol
got my four packs from firebox just now and had 3 red, 2 orange, 1 blue, 1 purple and 1 black so 8 of 24 is 1/3 so it worked out exactly for me
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:03 am
perfecto2002
Greenhorn
Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 9 Location: Bristol
I got my six packs delivered today - 12 from wave 3, 11 wave 2 and 13 wave 1. So 1/3 works for me as well. Although one pack contained all wave 3 whereas a couple of packs contained just wave 1+2, all outer packaging was the same so i reckon its gonna have to be a booster box next time as single packs are just too risky
Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:21 am
fretty
Decorated
Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 281 Location: South Yorkshire, England
Got 3 packs today, two packs had two wave 3 cards in, 1 pack didn't have any so 2/9 of my cards were wave 3. I got a yellow, a green, a blue and a black so it looks like the reds and oranges are getting rarer.
Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:36 am
Monk-ish
Greenhorn
Joined: 01 Feb 2006 Posts: 7 Location: West Sussex
Poor card ratio for wave 3 I just got my 8 packs from firebox, unfortunately only 4 out of 48 cards were wave 3 cards, 2 Blacks and 1 Orange and Red. Weirdly the four cards I received were in 2 of the packs so 6 packs free of wave 3 cards.
I better order some more cards then.
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:22 am
dps05
Boot
Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 47 Location: Aberystwyth
I bought 12 packs and ONLY got 16 wave threes: 1 red, 3 orange, 5 yellow, 4 green and 1 black...
lots of purple and black wave 1 & 2 duplicates though
BUT NO WAVE 3 SILVERS...
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:33 am
Uhtoff
Veteran
Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 75
Just opened a box of boosters - got about 1 third wave 3 (69 cards, 1 third exactly would have been 72). Of course no wave 3 silvers...and 24 duplicates, so 21 cards to get including all the silvers...
Going to wait for my 12 packs of all wave 3 and then get the rest off ebay I guess :/
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:20 am
animus
Guest
I got 20 packs, 6 were wave 3, 3 green and 3 yellow!
Total disappointment
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 7:35 pm
corrina
Boot
Joined: 21 Dec 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
On Violets on-line diary www.quirkyaquity.com there's a riddle on the entry for April 6th. Once solved it links you through to a hidden page on Firebox where you can buy Wave 3 only packs.
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:09 pm
doublecross
Unfettered
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 588 Location: London, UK
Thanks (it's 'acuity', actually) but they are currently sold out.
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:34 pm
maevey
Veteran
Joined: 21 Dec 2005 Posts: 106
They're not sold out. Obviously they don't have any in stock because they haven't been printed yet. They are available to pre-order. Firebox just won't take any money off you until they actually have them in stock.
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:38 pm
corrina
Boot
Joined: 21 Dec 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
They aren't sold out. They're only printing them after they've finished the mixed pack. They will be released towards the end of this month. You can pre-order them. Don't know whether it will be too much of a wait for most people but it is worth not having piles of wave 1&2 everywhere! Sorry about spelling. Still a bit hungover.
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:38 pm
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