I’m not going to separate out the boosters by product. I could but I’m not. That’s too much work.
How many packs have I had to crack open?
- 36 packs in booster box
- 6 packs in prerelease box
- 10 packs in bundle
- 2 packs in Planeswalker deck
I make that 54 boosters in total. So over a few posts I will be posting photos of the rares/mythics, foils that I pull.
Cracking packs is addictive. Once you start it’s very very hard to stop.
Here are some stats from the massive cracking open of packs I did:
- 13 foils
- 6 legendary creatures
- 8 of the new double faced cards
The following does not include the foil basic lands I pulled.
- 12 swamps
- 8 mountains
- 7 forests
- 7 islands
- 8 plains
Tokens:
- 23 treasure
- 12 proxy cards
- 14 vampires
- 3 pirates
- 6 dinosaurs
- 2 plants
- 3 illusions
- 3 merfolk
Plus the Planeswalker from the Planeswalker deck.
How did I do on my hit list for Ixalan?
- Vanquisher’s Banner
- Raiders’ Wake
- Demolish
- Dual Shock
- Firecannon Blast
- Star of Extinction
- Sunbird’s Invocation
- Crushing Canopy
- Gishath, Sun’s Avatar
- Huarli, Warrior Poet
- Tishana, Voice of Thunder
- Vraska, Relic Seeker
- Unclaimed Territory
I don’t think that’s a bad dent in my hit list.
In the Player’s Guide there is “The Top Ten Coolest Ixalan Cards”, how many did I pull?
- Jace, Cunning Castaway
- Gishath, Sun’s Avatar
- Raptor Hatchling
- Vanquisher’s Banner
- Walk the Plank
- Dowsing Dagger/Lost Vale
- Revel in Riches
- Deadeye Quartermaster
- Bishop of Rebirth
- Kumena’s Speaker
As you can see I did rather well (ones I pulled in bold) with that list. With three I didn’t pull, but I’d got one from the prerelease weekend (in italics).
John the owner of my FLGS The Hobbit Hole did say on Friday when I was picking up everything that players at the store were going mad for “Hostage Taker”. His three copies were being snapped up in seconds. I managed to get one.
So I’m happy with that haul. I’m surprised that I didn’t pull one Planeswalker in this lot. But six legendary creatures or future commanders as I like to think of them, I’m happy with that. But two of them are doubles that I can trade/sell for others.
I won’t be getting any more packs now for Ixalan until we start our next Magic League in November. We finish the current Amonkhet one next Saturday, with a Commander session on the 21st October as a casual fun break from the league.
Next set to think about…
Plus some stand alone products like duel decks that are coming out.