quote:

---

Originally posted by mm1983:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by LandDestroyer:

If you get a tropical island you will either get a Bayou or a Warp Artifact. If a Bayou is the first rare you get a Trop. If a trop you get a warp artifact.

The order of the rares can be determined off this sheet
http://www.mtgartwork.com/uncut-sheets-for-sale.html

But yes, getting a trop and a bayou is the only chance of getting more than 1 dual in the pack and that is the most expensive pack you can get.

Fun fact: In a beta starter you can get a Black Lotus and a Mox Emerald in a single starter. Pic of uncut sheet here
]http://archive.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/45

---

Based on this information and looking at the uncut sheet, if you started at the bottom of a column and went up, that's how you knew what the 3 pack rares were? Did people use the uncut sheets to map out booster boxes if they didn't do the search method. If a Bayou was pulled from a booster box did that mean a Tropical Island was nearby in the same box? [/QUOTE]

So check out this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpnTN-7qubo
An alpha starter with the box open but not the package. Since a bayou was on top the price he paid reflected the expectation of a tropical island behind it.

It's also the reason the same people haven't opened the card package for this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2DytU-xJ-E
B/c we see the first is a Shivan Dragon was assume the next card is an island since unfortunately there was an Island on the rare sheet

quote:

---

Originally posted by LandDestroyer:

So check out this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpnTN-7qubo
An alpha starter with the box open but not the package. Since a bayou was on top the price he paid reflected the expectation of a tropical island behind it.

It's also the reason the same people haven't opened the card package for this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2DytU-xJ-E
B/c we see the first is a Shivan Dragon was assume the next card is an island since unfortunately there was an Island on the rare sheet

Unfortunately my computer is having problems opening videos right now or I'd link in more examples but check out the pictures you can find on the net of uncut sheets and then of people opening starters from a/b/u/r. You can usually guess the next rare. Unfortunately it's one more reason why product unless you see it pulled from a sealed box is never good to buy

---

quote:

---

Originally posted by jvs:
This is just based on my memory, but I think I remember revised starters mostly having 2 rares before eventually being switched to 3 as well. I think the MSRP changed at the same time?

jvs

---