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blurb=In the first of a series of weekly articles on the Pokémon Trading Figure Game, Archaic launches an in-depth analysis of the boosters themselves, uncovering some unsettling problems with the distribution of figures. }} | blurb=In the first of a series of weekly articles on the Pokémon Trading Figure Game, Archaic launches an in-depth analysis of the boosters themselves, uncovering some unsettling problems with the distribution of figures. }} | ||
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Hello everyone. This will be the first of a series of weekly articles I intend to write on the [[bp:Pokémon Trading Figure Game|Pokémon Trading Figure Game]]. Let's see if I can actually manage to keep to that. ^^;; Most will thankfully not be quite as serious as this, but I felt that there wasn't any good reason to delay on publishing this information, as a warning to other people who've already started to get into the game. | Hello everyone. This will be the first of a series of weekly articles I intend to write on the [[bp:Pokémon Trading Figure Game|Pokémon Trading Figure Game]]. Let's see if I can actually manage to keep to that. ^^;; Most will thankfully not be quite as serious as this, but I felt that there wasn't any good reason to delay on publishing this information, as a warning to other people who've already started to get into the game. | ||
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It's also interesting to note that the trainer cards seemed to come out at a nice even average of 1 in every 8 boosters. Before now, we didn't have any idea exactly how rare those were. Though, considering that this would mean the number of boosters you'd need to purchase just to get 8 cards, while all the 8 cards in the base set may be labeled as "common", it's going to be difficult for most to complete the full set. Thankfully, you can get 3 cards each in the 4 figure starters, but these tend to be the same 3-4 cards. In the boosters I opened, the only card which isn't commonly found in boosters was the Long Throw. Of course, without further data, we can't be sure on the real relative rarity of these cards, so further speculation there will need to be left for another day. | It's also interesting to note that the trainer cards seemed to come out at a nice even average of 1 in every 8 boosters. Before now, we didn't have any idea exactly how rare those were. Though, considering that this would mean the number of boosters you'd need to purchase just to get 8 cards, while all the 8 cards in the base set may be labeled as "common", it's going to be difficult for most to complete the full set. Thankfully, you can get 3 cards each in the 4 figure starters, but these tend to be the same 3-4 cards. In the boosters I opened, the only card which isn't commonly found in boosters was the Long Throw. Of course, without further data, we can't be sure on the real relative rarity of these cards, so further speculation there will need to be left for another day. | ||
As far as the distribution of the figures goes...as we had guessed, there is an obvious issue here. While there are 59 figures in the Next Quest set total (including 6 "Crystal" versions of the EX rares, 10 "Pearl" figures of the normal rares, and an extra Referee figure that's only available in the 9 figure starter sets), out of the 64 figures pulled from the boosters, only | As far as the distribution of the figures goes...as we had guessed, there is an obvious issue here. While there are 59 figures in the Next Quest set total (including 6 "Crystal" versions of the EX rares, 10 "Pearl" figures of the normal rares, and an extra Referee figure that's only available in the 9 figure starter sets), out of the 64 figures pulled from the boosters, only 18 of the figures in the entire set were represented. As further insult to injury, 4 of these figures (Charizard, Feraligator, Murkrow and Pikachu, being 2 EX Rares, a Rare and an Uncommon respectively) are found in the standard 4 figure starter packs, thus making their value in boosters dubious at best. TCG players might wish to think of them as being along the lines of a 1st Edition base set Holographic Machamp. | ||
The breakdown of the figures is as follows (ordered by set number) | The breakdown of the figures is as follows (ordered by set number) | ||
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Absol x 4 | Absol x 4 | ||
Dratini x 5 | Dratini x 5 | ||
Murkrow x | Murkrow x 2 | ||
Corsola x 2 | Corsola x 2 | ||
Golem x 3 | Golem x 3 | ||
Mudkip x 2 | Mudkip x 2 | ||
Pikachu x | Pikachu x 5 | ||
Zangoose x 6 | Zangoose x 6 | ||
Doduo x 1 | Doduo x 1 | ||
Machop x 1 | Machop x 1 | ||
Marril x | Marril x 9 | ||
Nidoran M x 4 | Nidoran M x 4 | ||
Sentret x 5 | Sentret x 5 | ||
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EX Rare x 7 | EX Rare x 7 | ||
Rare x 14 | Rare x 14 | ||
Uncommon x | Uncommon x 18 | ||
Common x | Common x 25 | ||
Eliminating duplicates, we arrive with the following distributions of figure rarity | Eliminating duplicates, we arrive with the following distributions of figure rarity | ||