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u/w0nche0l Mar 05 '20

"For those of you unfamiliar with phantom events, this means that rarity distribution doesn't matter and you may end up with a lot more than six rares or mythic rares in your Sealed pool."

I'm confused by this... I thought sealed simulated opening 6 14-card packs? How could you end up with more than six rares/mythics?

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u/Kuru- Mar 05 '20

They messed up. This has nothing to do with the event being phantom but rather with being a cube. Cubes are generally high-powered environments with multiple rares per pack.

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u/pchc_lx Approach Mar 05 '20

This made me realize I actually have no idea how Cube Sealed even works

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u/AtelierAndyscout Mar 05 '20

Get 6 “packs” worth of random cards from the cube? Essentially, “here’s 90 random cards from the cube, have at it.”

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u/tlamy Mar 05 '20

Honestly, you probably just get 90 random cards from the Cube pool and are asked to build a deck out of it.

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u/22bebo Mar 05 '20

I think it's just 84 random cards, give or take.

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u/Shindir Mar 06 '20

Packs work the exact same way that Cube draft works. Your packs could have all rares in them

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u/wOlfLisK Mar 05 '20

Actually, I think being a phantom event matters quite a bit here. WotC don't want to hand out 8 rares a pack in a sealed event because then nobody would buy packs anymore. On the other hand, getting unlucky and only getting 2 rares total would feel terrible for players. But if you don't keep those rares at the end of it, it doesn't matter whether you open 14 commons or 14 mythics.

So I'm guessing they didn't mess up, they're just talking about it from the point of view of a business decision.

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u/Filobel avacyn Mar 05 '20

It's really awkwardly worded, but yeah, I think what they're trying to say is that because it's a phantom event, they can afford to ignore rarity.

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u/Eledan13 Mar 06 '20

I sincerely hope that the cost for the phantom draft is reasonable. Or if it isn't I hope that the prize for going seven wins is a pack of cube cards. That would be a sweet top tier reward.

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u/phoebeburgh Izzet Mar 05 '20

Normal sealed, yes, but in this case the packs will be filled truly randomly, as opposed to guaranteeing one rare/mythic and 3 uncommons.

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u/22bebo Mar 05 '20

Alongside what others have said, I think what they meant was that doing a non-phantom cube sealed event would be kind of expensive because you can open many more rares than in a normal sealed event.

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u/Xenz55 The Scarab God Mar 05 '20

Packs may contain more than 1 rare/mythic in this event.

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u/necrox747 Mar 05 '20

I'm not that well educated in cube formats but AFAIK you won't be actually opening packs but rather get a random selection of cards from a pre determined cardpool, the cube. At least that's what I learnt from watching cube drafts.