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Re: Case Results Report Thread

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It is weird if you get 1 of a Rare in a brick but possibly also only 1 of a Common... that makes the Rare less rare, so to speak.

So, Quests from the Infinite Staircase! This was the other case I got at a discount from MiniatureMarket with Planescape, and as it is my luck, this had a far better distribution of Uncommons and Commons than Planescape, which was the set I was most looking forward to. But I am not complaining, this set has some great minis too, and I got enough of everything to keep me satisfied.
I have purchased an extra Chasme from an ebay seller who lists everything for bids starting from 1$, well in advance, since I prefer the 5E art to the 3E one, and this is a better mini than the RoD one - I love the iridescent paint coating on the carapace and the wings. Definitely wanted more than one of these.
The Rarity of the minis is otherwise, pretty perfect in this set, with the exception of the Fire Myrmidon - but as I am not a huge fan of Myrmidons and only decided to keep one of these since I already have 1 of the other 3 types, 1 is all I needed.
The only other misplaced mini is the Worker Robot - ideally that should have been an Uncommon and the Combat Robot a Rare... or both Uncommons, as you encounter several of each type together. Boggles the mind why it is a Rare, both Robots have tentacles and complicated arms, so it cannot be that.

With 7 Large Uncommons, you'd think 1 of each in every brick would be a given... But I have instead gotten them terribly mixed up between bricks, with 2 bricks specifically having 2 Clay Golems, while others having 2 Rugs of Smothering and 2 Phase Spiders and 2 Saber-Toothed Tigers. Overall I got 4 of each except for 5 Clay Golems and 3 Rugs of Smothering.

The Medium Uncommons were less well packed. There were 5 boosters with a Rare replacing the Medium Uncommon.
To offset this though, there were also 3 boosters where there were 2 Medium Uncommons in 1 booster.
Overall, this means I got only 2 Troglodytes, Animated Armors, Swarms of Gibberlings, Combat Robots, Hobgoblin Warlords and Leprechauns. That's 6 out of 12 - and that is a pretty terrible statistic. Something needs to be done about the Medium Uncommon distribution, since many of these creatures you will want more than 2 of. Maybe when we will have 10 boosters per brick, things will be better?

The Medium Rares had an odd distribution too. 2 bricks had 3-3 Rares each, one had 2, and the last one only 1 single Rare.
Also, apart from Brick #3, the Rares were not in numerical order, either.

Quality-wise, the bubbles are a terrible idea for packaging, as I mentioned before. Almost all Large minis were rattling inside the booster, especially the heavier ones like the Water Weirds and Trolls, but sometimes the Phase Spiders too.
Luckily, only 2 things were broken - one Water Weird had the water-tendril on the back broken off due to falling out of the bubble. It was there and I could glue it back. One Mummy's leg also came off the base.
The only major issue was with a Troll - his face is straight up missing. Was likely not glued in and fell off during packaging.


001 |2|1|1|1| Vegepygmy (Small, Common) (5)
002 |1|1|1|1| Vegepygmy Thorny Hunter (Small, Common) (4)
003 |1|1|1|1| Goat (Medium, Common) (4)
004 |1|1|2|1| Pech (Small, Common) (5)
005 |1|1|1|1| Bunnoid (Small, Common) (4)
006 |1|1|1|1| Derro Raider (Small, Common) (4)
007 |1|2|1|0| Giant Frog (Medium, Common) (4)
008 |1|1|1|2| Grick (Medium, Common) (5)
009 |1|1|1|1| Cockatrice (Small, Common) (4)
010 |1|1|1|2| Gibberling (Small, Common) (5)
011 |2|1|1|1| Android (Medium, Common) (5)
012 |1|1|1|1| Mummy (Medium, Common) (4)
013 |1|1|1|1| Barkburr (Medium, Common) (4)

014 |1|0|0|1| Swarm of Gibberlings (Large, Uncommon) (2)
015 |0|1|1|0| Animated Armor (Medium, Uncommon) (2)
016 |1|0|1|1| Invisible Stalker (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
017 |1|1|0|1| Android (Boxing version) (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
018 |0|1|1|0| Leprechaun (Small, Uncommon) (2)
019 |0|1|1|1| Thorny Vegepygm (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
020 |1|1|0|1| Powered Armor (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
021 |0|1|0|1| Combat Robot (Medium, Uncommon) (2)
022 |1|0|1|1| Giant Fire Beetle (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
023 |1|0|1|0| Troglodyte (Medium, Uncommon) (2)
024 |0|1|0|1| Hobgoblin Warlord (Medium, Uncommon) (2)
025 |0|1|1|1| Githzerai Traveler (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
026 |1|1|1|1| Troll (Large, Uncommon) (4)
027 |1|1|1|1| Minotaur (Large, Uncommon) (4)
028 |0|1|1|2| Saber-Toothed Tiger (Large, Uncommon) (4)
029 |0|2|0|1| Rug of Smothering (Large, Uncommon) (3)
030 |2|1|1|0| Phase Spider (Large, Uncommon) (4)
031 |2|0|2|1| Clay Golem (Large, Uncommon) (5)
032 |1|1|1|1| Water Weird (Large, Uncommon) (4)

033 |0|1|0|0| Mind Flayer Scientist (Medium, Rare) (1)
034 |1|0|0|0| Nafik (Medium, Rare) (1)
035 |0|0|0|1| Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (Medium, Rare) (1)
036 |0|0|1|0| Worker Robot (Medium, Rare) (1)
037 |0|0|1|0| The Gardenere (Medium, Rare) (1)
038 |0|0|1|0| Silver Dragon Wyrmling (Medium, Rare) (1)
039 |0|1|0|0| Eldritch Lich (Medium, Rare) (1)
040 |1|0|0|0| Grim Champion of Bloodshed (Medium, Rare) (1)
041 |1|0|0|0| Fire Elemental Myrmidon (Medium, Rare) (1)
042 |0|1|0|0| Unicron (Large, Rare) (1)
043 |0|0|1|0| Dracolisk (Large, Rare) (1)
044 |1|0|0|0| Chuul (Large, Rare) (1)
045 |0|0|0|1| Chasme (Large, Rare) (1)

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Re: Case Results Report Thread

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Are we supposed to get 2 chases in a case or 1? I had 1 box that was missing a medium/small. I got 1 chase, but the correct ratio for all the other minis. Thinking if we are supposed to get 2 chases in a case that is what was missing from mine. Boo. Otherwise I got 1 of every normal mini which is what I really cared about. The Chase I got was not one I was hoping to get and my kid who has played through the game multiple times groaned when I told him I got the Enver chase lol

Quite a few larges were loose, nothing was broken. I purchased the case from Miniature Market in January as a pre order. I did not receive any of the promos and that is the only reason I stuck with Miniature Market's cost when other sites were lower. I emailed them, will see if I missed out on Mizora and the Emperor.... will not be happy because I purposely didn't snag Mizora when I had the chance. Boo.

The 3rd brick I opened is the one that was missing a mini, total count for that brick was 31.

(Update on Promos from Miniature Market: I sent them an email letting them know I pre ordered in January and asked them to send the promos as advertised. They responded within 24 hours apologizing for the oversight and shipped them out. I have not received them yet but it looks like they sent all 5 that were supposed to come with the case)

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01 |2|1|1|1| Goblin Sharpshooter - Small Common x5
02 |1|2|1|1|  Goblin Novice - Small Common  x5
03 |1|1|1|2|  Bugbear Assassin - Medium Common  x5
04 |1|1|2|1|  Duergar - Small Common  x5
05 |1|1|1|2|  Imp - Small Common  x5
06 |2|1|1|1| Intellect Devourer - Small Common  x5
07 |1|2|1|1| Doppleganger - Medium Common  x5
08 |1|1|2|1|  Githyanki - Medium Common x5
09 |1|1|2|1|  Flaming Fist Soldier- Medium Common x5
10 |1|2|1|1|  Reaper of Bhaal - Medium Common  x5
11 |1|1|1|2| Necromite of Myrkul - Medium Common x5
12 |2|1|1|1|  Fist of Bane - Medium Common x5
13 |0|1|1|1| Omeluum - Medium Uncommon x3
14 |1|1|0|1|  Sovereign Glut - Medium Uncommon x3 
15 |1|1|0|1|  Priestess Gut - Medium Uncommon x3
16 |1|1|1|0|  Dror Ragzlin - Medium Uncommon x3
17 |1|1|1|0|  Merregon - Medium Uncommon x3
18 |1|0|1|1|  Gnoll - Medium Uncommon  x3
19A |1|0|1|0| Dark Justicar - Medium Uncommon x2
19B |0|0|0|1| Justicar Avenger - Medium Uncommon x1
20 |0|1|1|1|  Hollyphant - Medium Uncommon x3
21 |1|1|1|1| Bulette - Large Uncommon  x4
22 |1|1|1|1|  Minotaur- Large Uncommon  x4
23 |1|1|1|1|  Lump the Enlightened -  Large Uncommon  x4
24 |1|1|1|1| Worg - Large Uncommon  x4
25 |1|1|1|1| Shambling Mound - Large Uncommon x4
26 |1|1|1|1|  Strange Ox - Large Uncommon  x4
27 |1|1|1|1| Brown Bear - Large Uncommon x4
28 |0|0|1|0| Spectator - Medium Rare x1
29 |0|0|1|0| Halsin - Medium Rare  x1
30 |1|0|0|0| Zevlor - Medium Rare x1
31 |1|0|0|0| Raphael - Medium Rare x1
32 |1|0|0|0|  Minthara - Medium Rare    x1
33 |0|1|0|0|  Jaheira - Medium Rare  x1
34 |0|1|0|0|  Dame Aylin - Medium Rare  x1
35 |0|0|0|1|  Ulder Ravengard - Medium Rare  x1
36 |0|0|0|1|  Volo - Medium Rare  x1
37 |0|0|0|1|  Sarevok Anchev- Medium Rare  x1
38 |1|0|0|1|  Yurgir - Large Rare  x2
39 |0|1|0|0|  Phase Spider - Large Rare x1
40 |0|0|1|0|  Slayer of Bhaal - Large  Rare  x1
41 |0|0|0|0| ??? - Chase  
42 |0|1|0|0| Enver Gortash - Medium Chase
43 |0|0|0|0| ??? - Chase  
44 |0|0|0|0| ??? - Chase  
32/32/31/32
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Re: Case Results Report Thread

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Thanks, this is reassuring - seems you got 1 of every Large Uncommon in every brick, and you got 3 of all the Medium/Small Uncommons! The latter means you get only 6 Medium Uncommons per brick, instead of 8... meaning the Rares still replace the Uncommon... annoying. I dunno why we cannot go back to what was the normal distribution before S&S.
Also, getting exactly 5 of all the Commons seems almost... preternatural. The distribution is now planned pretty exactly, it seems. The good news is, this seems to mean you will get 1 of every Common with a brick (which is my aim).
And I guess you havr 50-50% chance of either getting 2 or 3 Medium Rares in a brick.

Bummer about the missing mini... and so far I think you and someone else are the only ones who reported case results, that person did get 2 chases in his case, but 2 are not enough to base a statistic on.
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