Werewolf and Villager set worth it?

wink
wink Posts: 136 Tile Toppler
edited October 2016 in MtGPQ General Discussion
Is the werewolf and villager set worth getting? For 600 crystals, you get 2 guaranteed rares, but only a total of 30 cards. If I get a SOI big box for 600 crystals, I get 1 guaranteed rare, but I get 70 cards total. Assume for this question that I have all of the uncommons and commons in each set. (I don't really, but I figure the question gets much easier if we make that assumption.)

Basically, is the drop rate so low that getting the extra guaranteed rare is worth 40 fewer chances to get a rare?

I really would love to get Silverfur Partisan, Geier Reach Bandit, and Wolf of Devils Breach, but I don't know if this set is the right way to go about getting them.

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  • Mangus 73
    Mangus 73 Posts: 109 Tile Toppler
    I got the set and pulled a bandit and partisan plus a few other rares I had already
  • speakupaskanswer
    speakupaskanswer Posts: 306 Mover and Shaker
    I got Hanweir Militia Captain and Silverfur Partisan (which I had already). Hard to say if it's worth it, but it's not 600 but 300 crystals, so it's a relatively good bargain, I think.
  • octal9
    octal9 Posts: 593 Critical Contributor
    I bought one of the 300s, got Geier Reach Bandit, Wolf of Devils Breach, 2x Hanweir Militia Captain, and Silverfur Partisan.

    Your mileage may vary. I'm sure there are droves of people that purchased and got jack & squat out of it.
  • wink
    wink Posts: 136 Tile Toppler
    Right, it's 300 crystals for one box, or 600 for two. That's why I was saying you get two guaranteed rares, one from each box.
  • Feyda
    Feyda Posts: 105
    Opened two, got 2 copies of the militia and jack all else..... gotta love RNG only games.
  • glggwp
    glggwp Posts: 202 Tile Toppler
    i got militia too! why are they pushing out this card?...
  • ZW2007-
    ZW2007- Posts: 812 Critical Contributor
    I got three militia captains in one 'box'. The fact that 3 of my 13 cards (the last 'pack' was the guaranteed rare and no other cards) were all the same rare that I already had was very annoying. I know the odds of this are actually relatively high considering there's only 4 rares in the set and 3 mythics but it's still lame, especially when I'm missing two of the mythics and two of the rares. Steep cost for basically nothing in my eyes. My experience with all packs has been so terrible that I'm starting to think the people who post about good pulls from packs are not real players and it's all just one big conspiracy to get us to keep wasting crystals on packs.
  • Ohboy
    Ohboy Posts: 1,766 Chairperson of the Boards
    ZW2007- wrote:
    I got three militia captains in one 'box'. The fact that 3 of my 13 cards (the last 'pack' was the guaranteed rare and no other cards) were all the same rare that I already had was very annoying. I know the odds of this are actually relatively high considering there's only 4 rares in the set and 3 mythics but it's still lame, especially when I'm missing two of the mythics and two of the rares. Steep cost for basically nothing in my eyes. My experience with all packs has been so terrible that I'm starting to think the people who post about good pulls from packs are not real players and it's all just one big conspiracy to get us to keep wasting crystals on packs.


    For every super bad pack pull there's going to be a super good one. That's just the nature of rng.

    But people will always be more ready to complain that to show off their luck.
  • shteev
    shteev Posts: 2,031 Chairperson of the Boards
    A quick guide to whether or not you should buy themed expansions:

    Can you get Harness the Storm, Behold the Beyond, Descend upon the Sinful, Tamiyo's Journal, Devil's Playground, Haunted Cloak, Fevered Visions and Corrupted Grafstone out of them? No? Then no.

    Other power cards are available. Terms and conditions apply.
  • ZW2007-
    ZW2007- Posts: 812 Critical Contributor
    Ohboy wrote:
    ZW2007- wrote:
    I got three militia captains in one 'box'. The fact that 3 of my 13 cards (the last 'pack' was the guaranteed rare and no other cards) were all the same rare that I already had was very annoying. I know the odds of this are actually relatively high considering there's only 4 rares in the set and 3 mythics but it's still lame, especially when I'm missing two of the mythics and two of the rares. Steep cost for basically nothing in my eyes. My experience with all packs has been so terrible that I'm starting to think the people who post about good pulls from packs are not real players and it's all just one big conspiracy to get us to keep wasting crystals on packs.


    For every super bad pack pull there's going to be a super good one. That's just the nature of rng.

    But people will always be more ready to complain that to show off their luck.

    This isn't paper magic where one booster box of bad pulls means the good cards are elsewhere. This is digital and by the very nature of rng, there could never be a super good pull. If the devs stated that there was X amount of specific cards in X number of packs purchased across all players, then I'd say you are right but they have never given any indication as to how drop rates work or what the % chance of a rarity is within a certain product. That's where the frustration comes from. I'll still keep buying packs with crystals because what else is there to do with them when you already have the planeswalkers you want? I don't post about super good pulls because I have never had any. I would just like to see some disclosure about how the drop rates work. Currently we're gambling without even knowing the odds and that pill is starting to get hard to swallow.

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