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> The modern ones with carefully created low drop rate "rare" cards are lottery scratch card gambling. I was going to disagree with you because the odds are pr
by castlecrasher2 7y ago
> The modern ones with carefully created low drop rate "rare" cards are lottery scratch card gambling.
I was going to disagree with you because the odds are printed on packs but now that I've thought about it you're absolutely correct. I used to buy basketball card packs and the recent Beckett magazine and see how much each pack was worth, and only now am I seeing the tendencies that caused in me later in life.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoI think stated odds are actually where I get uncomfortable. There were always accidentally rare cards, purely from the luck of how packs were filled, and what was rare in one region was probably the common one in another from random chance in distribution. A lot of the card sets had a way to send off 5p or so for the last couple you missed, to fill the album at the end of the year. Somewhere that morphed into artificial scarcity, and kids everywhere being set up to buy five sets worth of cards, to maybe get a full set.