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[brat-sampson]

[NEWS] Wave 3 release Confirmed - 6th April

[Rand0m]

I had a brief (but friendly) exchange of emails with Firebox today in which they made with the wide-eyed innocence and said they wouldn't hear from Mind Candy until the actual day. The strongest they'd say was "fingers crossed" some time this week.

The phrase "the Mind Candy guys keep their cards very close to their chests (literally)" was used.

Without brat-sampson doing a Paxman on them, I would have suspected the 6th was a limited release and people like Firebox were having to wait until Friday. But "available everywhere" sounds pretty unambiguous...

[oliverkeers13]

Clarification, in response to an email I sent them:

[sackofpotatoes]

I just noticed these for sale on Deck Boosters:

Perplex City Card Pack Wave 3
Perplex City Card Packs Wave 3 - 4 Packs
Perplex City Card Packs Wave 3 - 12 Packs

All are expected to be in stock on April 5th.

Seems too good to be true, based on what we've been hearing.

Anyone local want to call them?

[European Chris]

Hmm, that sounds unlikely. I think I'll be waiting for Firebox.

[Rand0m]

[duckiemonster]

I like the way that the release date matches the week that my student loan comes in...

[European Chris]

Sounds like fate to me. I can feel it in my spec.

[Scott]

As a minority voice, I'm quite pleased they are making waves 1 and 2 available still. Bear in mind, there's an awful lot of us americans who don't have such sweeping access to many many cards, and so as buyability improves here, it would be nice if older cards would still be available to newer players. I fFinally hooked one of my older fFriends just yesterday, in fFact. And I was like "Boy did you get in at the right time!"

Naturally I realize not everyone is so thrilled. I know. I get it. you gotta buy how many more packs to get how many of the same cards? gah! I understand. I'm saying, tho, try and see the good side fFrom our perspective as well.

Ok, resume your ranting

[Jakeo]

So, I think all the suppliers I've spoken to have either confirmed that the packs will be mixed, or haven't been able to confirm either way. None of them have been able to say whether they will be mixed per pack in the box or by cards within the pack.

That being likely the case, I was wondering what people who had most/all of the cards were planning to do? An even distribution would mean that even buying 3 full boxes (£240) would be unlikely to net all the wave 3 cards. Is anyone planning to 'bite the bullet' and shell out for a box even if 2/3 of the cards you'll already have?

[Reptile]

i'd rather wait for the wave 3 only packs

[Juxta]

Speaking personally? No.

Scott: I can entirely see the potential benefits for newer players, and the US market, and some other groups of players. I think that in general, the response hasn't been particularly rant-y. Now, I can't definitely answer why this is the case - that the people who will be most aggrieved at this turn of events (aka "the players who have thus far spent the most money on collecting the cards") are not complaining.

Maybe they are suffering from the shock of being handed a virtual repeat performance, despite previous assurances, of the Wave 2 release, which also penalised the people who had gotten involved earlier and had already collected Wave 1 in it's entirety.

Perhaps they are waiting for the big announcement on release day with regards to

[sackofpotatoes]

Excluding inflation of the silvers, I'd bet it's cost-effective to buy all your cards on eBay. The stack of duplicates that all of us must have is worth something, even if reds go for $0.25 or less. It does take the fun out of opening a package though. I'd bet individual Wave 3 cards show up really fast.

I'm waiting for the Wave 3 only packs, and hope that MC helps out the dedicated players by allowing us to purchase these sooner rather than later.

[zaeil]

[number9dream]