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Metalizard said:
@Dragon Pokémon: The images of the tins and the sellsheet show, most likely, placeholders for the real artwork, as usual...

@Rotomdabomb:

Don't you pay attention to the japanese sets? Just askin'...
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The tins will be worth it if they're new cards, but they won't be playable.
Well, off to my Next Destinies prerelease, guess I'll be able to see how rare EXs seem to be for me.
 
Out of 28 packs (between me and my uncle) I got 3 EXes, one of them being a FA! I could have just been lucky, but about 90% of the people pulled atleast 1 EX.
 
One interesting thing that I've noticed is that the letter abbreviation for this set, NDE, is the same as the three letter Acronym for Near Death Experience. It's like they're saying that's what you're going to have if you open up a booster pack and see that the rare is a Mewtwo EX. And then that it's a full art. XD
 
At my prerelease yesterday, I saw only two people that didn't say they pulled an EX. Some people might not have that I didn't know about, but my poinmt is that EXs are pretty common. The only EXs I didn't see were Reshiram-EX and Reshiram-EX full art. I saw regular and full art forms of everything else though. I pulled an EX of my own! The most valuable, and arguably the most playable card in Next Destinies: Mewtwo-EX! Yay! The only thing better could have been the full art version.
I would have posted earlier, but I got home a few minutes after the Super Bowl started.
 
I'm literally counting down the hours untill I get to go to the store and buy all the tins!
 
Just got a confirmation emal, saying they've put my order in the mail.
Expecting 10 ND boosters, 2 explosive edge decks and the ND trade binder.

Should arrive tommorow :)
 
I find it weird that people are saying they saw a ton of people get EX's and that they're really common when there are only 3 in a box. One thing to keep in mind, though, is that 6 packs are given out to each person, and there are 36 packs in a box. Let's say there are 6 people at a table; each person gets 6 packs, which is the entire booster box. If there are only 3 EX's in a box, that means 3 of those people are going to pull an EX (unless someone's lucky an gets two). So that means half of the people at that table got an EX. Now spread that out to the entire prerelease; half of the people attending will get an EX (theoretically).

But then you have to think about how many packs were gone through and how many EX's were pulled. Now let's say 36 people showed up to the prerelease and half of those people got one EX each; so that's 18 EX's pulled. But all of those 36 people opened 6 packs. 36 x 6 = 216 packs opened, and only 18 EX's were pulled. That's FAR from being common. They were just imaginary common at the prereleases due to the large amount of people and the even larger amount of packs being opened.
 
Theoretically, that is correct. However, no matter how you explain it, out of 20 or so people I asked at my PR, only 2 did not pull an EX. It cannot be a coincidence that at almost every PR people go to 75+% of people pulled an EX, its simply to large an amount to be a coincidence. If they are indeed confirmed to be 3 a box, that's odd, but cannot explain the numbers pulled at PRs.
 
Depends on how the packs, etc. were sorted before being handed out. At my PR, the initial 6 packs for each player were already removed from the booster boxes and put into each player's ND deckbox. That location was also having 2 PRs. Depending on how the packs and subsequent filled deckboxes were handed out, one PR might have ended up with more EXes than the other. There's also the 2 packs at the end to factor in; I didn't get an EX at the start, but I did get one in my last 2 packs. And those were just handed from a big cardbox box containing a bunch of loose boosters.
 
Yeah, I forgot to mention that I didn't factor in the additional 2 packs at the end. (It was just easier without them. Ha ha.) So on top of half of the people getting EX's, let's assume only a few people who DIDN'T get any before pulled one each at the end. Two more booster boxes would need to be used in order to give 36 people 2 packs each, so that's 6 more EX's. In total, assuming nobody who pulled an EX got more than one, that means 24 out of 36 people got an EX. (That's 67% or 2/3 of the people.) So it's possible that this theoretical assumption could explain why the prereleases gave the illusion of EX's being fairly common.

I'm pretty much just trying to make sense of things when people are saying so many people got EX's. Ha ha. But at the same time, I'd like to remind people that pulling EX's won't seem as common outside of the prereleases. In a booster box, 3 EX's out of 36 packs means it's a 1 in 12 (or 8%) chance of pulling one.

Also, it might be possible that some boxes have 4 EX's. But from what I've seen, it's 3. A few pages back I posted a link to TheCatsMeowth's (aka capeter3ncsu's) ND booster box opening. She got 3 EX's in the box. And at my prerelease, out of the 6 people near me who got packs from the same booster box, only 3 of us pulled an EX. (Surprisingly, I was one of those 3.) Again, it's possible some boxes have 4, but so far, I've only seen 3.

Here's the link to that video, in case anyone hasn't seen it and is curious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0pO5y9QbBA&list=UUohhrJ5lRGoZK9fUX1rAKdQ&index=23&feature=plcp
 
I'm sure the numbers will probably clear up a bit once the set is officially released and more people are posting their pull rates. My box should be waiting for me when I get home tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to it! I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll only end up with 3 EXes, but I'm still hoping for a shiny! (and for Mewtwos, of course *knocks of wood*)
 
Verbivore said:
The boxes come on the release date? I thought that's when they shipped.
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Depends who you buy it from. Most stores get them early, so if you preordered them, they arrive on the release date. That's not always the case, things can be delayed or even sometimes rushed. For instance, my Triumphant box actually came the day before the actually release date for the set.
 
Friend got his box in the mail this morning. Here's What he pulled.
1 Regigigas EX
1 Mewtwo EX
1 FA Zekrom EX
1 Shiny Emboar

8 Holos (3 Reverse)
3 DCE
5 Prism (1 Reverse)
2 Skyarrow
3 Heavy Ball (1 Reverse)
4 Level Ball
5 EXP Share


He got a pretty awesome box with a lot of good stuff. Hopefully I'll be just as lucky.
 
I just got some packs (and both theme decks) and I didn't pull a single EX. Nothing else very good besides holo Cinccinno and holo Lucario, though I traded for Lucario at prerelease. I hope to get more EXs in the future.
 
Are all boxes supposed to arrive today? Or just ones that are near T&T's (or wherever you got it from) headquarters?
 
Although I don't like this set due to TPCI's decision making (though there are some things to like about this set...), I do wish the best of luck to all who preordered boxes.

Also, thank you, ChaosBlack. It's good to know that shinies don't replace any EX's.
 
Verbivore said:
Are all boxes supposed to arrive today? Or just ones that are near T&T's (or wherever you got it from) headquarters?
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Depends on where you're buying from, how far away you are, and what kind of shipping service you ask for. I ordered my ND box (like most of my English pre-orders) from Collector's Cache, since they're relatively close to me and so I tend to get my booster boxes on release day.
 
Out of the 10 ND packs I got, I pulled a Zekrom EX Full Art and 3 DCE (1 of these was reverse holo)

I also got 3 Triumphant packs, one of which had Mew Prime in it.

Guess I just got lucky
 
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