All of us want the best pulls in packs and booster boxes, and cards put into those packs and boxes is totally random, what is your opinion on buying a set of booster boxes? Do you think you would have a higher chance to pull 'more good rares' if you were to buy a case (6 booster boxes) which were likely to be boxed and packed all from the same group of cards coming off the line, or would you be better off buying 6 individual boxes were were likely boxed and packed at different intervals coming off the line?

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boxes are NOT packed randomly.
wotc does very little to 'spread the wealth', because they almost always overlook a few rares that become money cards.
box mapping is a thing, and it lets you KNOW the pattern in which cards are packed into boxes.

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1. For those who talk about box mapping, can u give a link?

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Originally posted by jbark:
youtube? some 14 year old kid will show you how to map. 14 year old kids are the wizards of the interweb.

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Originally posted by Dancam1:
Fair enough, what do I type in magic box mapping?

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yes, not only do they show you how it works (minus the mathematical equations behind it), they also sell apps to allow you to do it as well.

Box mapping works great to get the best stuff out of a box, but it does require you to open the box to find out what pattern the cards are in. I don't know if there is anything for 'case' mapping yet, but for my own purposes, I want to do like Dancam mentioned above. Buy a case, open a few boxes for myself, and keep the other sealed boxes in a safe for 10-15 years and hope that MTG keeps its popularity as it has been for the last 20 years.

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Originally posted by humbleacolyte:
yes, not only do they show you how it works (minus the mathematical equations behind it), they also sell apps to allow you to do it as well.

Box mapping works great to get the best stuff out of a box, but it does require you to open the box to find out what pattern the cards are in. I don't know if there is anything for 'case' mapping yet, but for my own purposes, I want to do like Dancam mentioned above. Buy a case, open a few boxes for myself, and keep the other sealed boxes in a safe for 10-15 years and hope that MTG keeps its popularity as it has been for the last 20 years.

While I don't want to 'rip' anyone off, I do want to get the best cards that I can out of the boxes I open....and sell (what I hope) the boxes that didn't have great pulls. Its pretty much random chance I know, just wanted to know if there was a better pattern to it than buying a case. Box mapping would be the ultimate way to do that, open the rares that I want and hold the rest of the packs and sell them individually....but I couldn't live with myself if I did that, its like selling a lottery ticket to someone that you know won't pay off. They might not know the difference, but I would....and that is all that matters to me. At least with the unknown factor of boxes (or selling individual packs without mapping), I can feel good knowing that whoever buys it still has the same chance to get something decent.

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I wish I had known about that a year or so ago. I brought a box of worldwake for 150.00 and didn't get the Jace. I will prob get my cash back, but, did get a lot of good cards.