Case Results Report Thread

[jaredh]

Some people in the collectibles market will do sketchy things to “sealed” product. Reportedly, some of the old 1990s collectible card games weren’t really random—if you knew the formula, you could crack open a sealed booster box, open just one pack, and based on the rare card in that pack you could deduce which rare cards were in the other packs based on the packs’ position in the box. People would pull the packs with the high-value cards, then put the box out on the shelf to sell the other boosters by the pack.

This was DEFINITELY true of MTG in the Legends era (95ish). We did it all the time when the FLGS would crack open a box after we figured it out. Well to be fair, after we figured it out, everyone insisted on the box being dumped and randomly re-arranged after that....

NONE of us would buy Legends packs unless we were standing there when the FLGS took the wrapper off the box after that fateful day. There were exactly 3 types of Legends boxes.

You could literally open the pack on the top left and then accurately predict the ENTIRE BOX. It was insane. Every freaking card exactly put in all the packs throughout the case the exact same way. We went back and proved Antiquities, Arabian did it. Dark did it. Each of these had two types of boxes.

They broke this pattern with Ice Age. It also didn't occur in Unlimited or Revised. Can't comment on Alpha/Beta as the availability of those were zero when we figured this out. I know a guy who bought Arabian sealed boxes and cherry picked packs out of them and made SERIOUS money doing it....on BBS boards long before the internet at large even had thought about being created.

As for shaking...that's fair...if its the consumer doing the shaking. The moment the FLGS starts weighing/shaking before a customer can touch the product and then pulling based on that result? That's tampering and probably illegal. This comment about them opening and re-sealing is DEFINITELY illegal.

[BBShockwave]

JMpowell - thanks, never thought to check the Uncommon order too in bricks, I will go back and check mine!
My Bigby case had no duplicated Huge Uncommons oer brick but ton of such Medium duplications, they fixed this for Seas & Shores. I am curious if Phandelver had any such order.

[GreetingsGQ]

Here are the results of my case of Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk. I only had three of a small common (11) and two of my medium rares (38, 43) replaced an Uncommon. All of my medium rares in a brick were sequential.

001|1|1|1|1|Troglodyte (Medium, Common) (4)
002|2|1|2|0|Encephalon Gemmule (Small, Common) (5)
003|2|1|0|2|Zombie (Medium, Common) (5)
004|2|1|1|1|Zombie (Medium, Common) (5)
005|1|1|1|1|Zombie (Medium, Common) (4)
006|1|1|1|1|Goblin (Small, Common) (4)
007|1|1|1|2|Stirge (Small, Common) (5)
008|1|1|1|1|Psionic Goblin (Small, Common) (4)
009|1|2|1|1|Corrupted Villager (Medium, Common) (5)
010|1|1|2|1|Psionic Ashenwight (Medium, Common) (5)
011|1|0|1|1|Flameskull (Small, Common) (3)
012|1|0|1|2|Grimlock (Medium, Common) (4)
013|0|2|1|1|Wolf (Medium, Common) (4)
014|1|1|0|1|Nezznar the Spider (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
015|1|1|1|0|Drow (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
016|1|1|1|0|Drow Assassin (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
017|1|0|1|0|Helmed Horror (Medium, Uncommon) (2)
018|1|1|1|0|Crystal Grick (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
019|0|1|0|1|Elf Zombie (Medium, Uncommon) (2)
020|0|0|1|1|Duergar Zombie (Medium, Uncommon) (2)
021|0|0|1|1|Halfling Zombie (Small, Uncommon) (2)
022|1|1|0|1|Intellect Snare (Small, Uncommon) (3)
023|0|1|0|1|Goblin Psi Brawler (Small, Uncommon) (2)
024|0|1|1|0|Goblin Psi Commander (Small, Uncommon) (2)
025|1|0|1|1|Nothic (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
026|0|1|1|1|Blue Slaad (Large, Uncommon) (3)
027|1|1|1|0|Giant Spider (Large, Uncommon) (3)
028|1|0|1|1|Grick Alpha (Large, Uncommon) (3)
029|1|1|0|1|Cloaker Mutate (Large, Uncommon) (3)
030|1|1|1|0|Hook Horror (Large, Uncommon) (3)
031|1|0|1|1|Ettin Ceremorph (Large, Uncommon) (3)
032|1|1|1|1|Ochre Jelly (Large, Uncommon) (4)
033|0|1|1|1|Encephalon Cluster (Large, Uncommon) (3)
034|1|1|0|1|Otyugh Mutate (Large, Uncommon) (3)
035|0|1|0|0|Drow Priestess (Medium, Rare) (1)
036|0|1|0|0|Drow Matron Mother (Medium, Rare) (1)
037|0|1|0|0|Drow Shadowblade (Medium, Rare) (1)
038|0|0|0|1|Hashutu (Medium, Rare) (1)
039|0|0|0|1|Gibbering Mouther (Medium, Rare) (1)
040|0|0|1|0|Mind Flayer (Medium, Rare) (1)
041|0|0|1|0|Voalsh (Medium, Rare) (1)
042|1|0|0|0|Chishinix (Medium, Rare) (1)
043|1|0|0|0|Mind Flayer Clairvoyant (Medium, Rare) (1)
044|0|1|0|0|Roper (Large, Rare) (1)
045|0|0|0|1|Young Amethyst Dragon (Large, Rare) (1)
046|1|0|0|0|Oculorb (Large, Rare) (1)
047|0|0|1|0|Shambling Mound (Large, Rare) (1)

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[BBShockwave]

Thanks a lot for also showing the results! A picture is worth a thousand words, as the saying goes!

I see you got a nice balance of Large Uncommons, 3 of everything except Ochre Jellies. Only 3 Flameskulls though, ouch.
And indeed only 2 of a lot of Medium Uncommons. I feel in the long run this will make Uncommons worth more.

Thanks for the Rares replacing Uncommons info, seems this is starting to be an (unwelcome)trend in later sets. Hope not so in Planescape.

[GreetingsGQ]

Here are the results of my case of Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse. One box had two Uncommons (31, 16) and two of my Medium Rares (30, 35) replaced an Uncommon. All of my Medium Rares in a brick were sequential again.

001|1|1|2|0|Harmonium Peacekeeper (Medium, Common) (4)
002|1|1|1|3|Duodrone (Medium, Common) (6)
003|2|1|2|0|Quadrone (Medium, Common) (5)
004|1|1|1|2|Kelubar Demodand (Medium, Common) (5)
005|1|1|1|1|Lantern Archon (Small, Common) (4)
006|1|1|2|1|Razorvine Blight (Medium, Common) (5)
007|2|1|1|1|Rilmani Cuprilach (Medium, Common) (5)
008|1|1|1|1|Farastu Demodand (Medium, Common) (4)
009|1|2|1|1|Modron Slot Machine (Medium, Common) (5)
010|1|1|1|1|Vargouille Reflection (Small, Common) (4)
011|1|0|1|2|Swarm of Cranium Rat Squeakers (Medium, Common) (4)
012|2|1|1|1|Darkweaver (Medium, Common) (5)
013|1|1|0|1|Tridrone (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
014|1|1|1|0|Angel Batter (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
015|2|1|1|0|Monodrone (Medium, Uncommon) (4)
016|1|1|1|0|Doomguard Rot Blade (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
017|0|1|1|1|Mezzoloth (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
018|0|1|1|1|Swarm of Sunflies (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
019|0|1|2|1|Bariaur Wanderer (Medium, Uncommon) (4)
020|0|1|0|1|Hands of Havoc Firestarter (Medium, Uncommon) (2)
021|0|1|0|1|Avoral Guardinal (Medium, Uncommon) (2)
022|1|0|0|1|Gate Warden (Medium, Uncommon) (2)
023|1|0|0|1|Kolyarut (Medium, Uncommon) (2)
024|1|2|1|1|Aurumach Rilmani (Large, Uncommon) (5)
025|1|2|1|1|Baernaloth (Large, Uncommon) (5)
026|2|1|1|1|Shemeshka's Bodyguard (Large, Uncommon) (5)
027|1|1|2|1|Octon (Large, Uncommon) (5)
028|1|0|1|2|Maelephant (Large, Uncommon) (4)
029|1|1|1|1|Warden Archon (Large, Uncommon) (4)
030|0|0|1|0|Vecna Impersonator (Medium, Rare) (1)
031|0|0|1|0|Cranium Rats in Disguise (Medium, Rare) (1)
032|0|0|0|1|Demilich (Tabaxi) (Small, Rare) (1)
033|0|0|0|1|Doomguard Doom Lord (Medium, Rare) (1)
034|1|0|0|0|Hound Archon (Medium, Rare) (1)
035|1|0|0|0|Harmonium Captain (Medium, Rare) (1)
036|0|1|0|0|Gertrude, Caker Troop Leader (Medium, Rare) (1)
037|0|1|0|0|Time Dragon Wyrmling (Medium, Rare) (1)
038|0|1|0|0|Mind's Eye Matter Smith (Medium, Rare) (1)
039|0|1|0|0|Hexton (Huge, Rare) (1)
040|1|0|0|0|Decaton (Large, Rare) (1)
041|0|0|0|1|Ettin Warlord (Large, Rare) (1)
042|0|0|1|0|Shator Demodand (Large, Rare) (1)

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During sales in March I bought a case and two bricks.

Eberron: Rising from the Last War case. One box had two Medium Uncommons (19, 22). Three of the four Corpse Flower (30) broke off the base and one Cloaker (26) was missing the face.

001|1|1|2|1|Warforged (Medium, Common) (5)
002|1|1|2|1|Karrnathi Skeleton (Medium, Common) (5)
003|1|1|1|1|Shifter Rogue (Medium, Common) (4)
004|1|2|1|1|Iron Defender (Medium, Common) (5)
005|1|1|1|1|Kalashtar (Medium, Common) (4)
006|2|1|0|1|Kalashtar (Medium, Common) (4)
007|2|0|1|0|Dwarf Artificer (Medium, Common) (3)
008|1|1|1|1|Tarkanan Assassin (Medium, Common) (4)
009|1|1|1|1|Karrnathi Zombie (Medium, Common) (4)
010|0|2|1|1|Dwarf Magewright (Medium, Common) (4)
011|1|1|1|2|Shifter Artificer (Medium, Common) (5)
012|1|1|1|1|Undying Soldier (Medium, Common) (4)
013|1|1|1|1|Dolgrim (Medium, Common) (4)
014|1|0|0|1|Warforged (Medium, Uncommon) (2)
015|1|1|1|1|Karrnathi Skeleton (Medium, Uncommon) (4)
016|1|1|1|0|Shifter Rogue (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
017|1|1|1|0|Homunculus (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
018|1|1|0|1|Changeling (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
019|0|0|1|2|Shifter Druid (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
020|1|1|1|0|Dusk Hag (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
021|1|1|0|1|Tsucora Quori (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
022|0|1|1|1|Human Artificer (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
023|0|1|1|1|Clawfoot Raptor (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
024|1|0|1|1|Dolgaunt (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
25a|0|1|0|1|Half-Ogre (Large, Large) (2)
25b|1|0|0|0|Half-Ogre (Large, Large) (1)
026|1|1|1|1|Cloaker (Large, Uncommon) (4)
027|0|1|1|1|Gray Render (Large, Uncommon) (3)
028|1|1|1|1|Living Spell Lightning Bolt (Large, Uncommon) (4)
029|1|1|1|0|Living Spell Cloud Kill (Large, Uncommon) (3)
030|1|1|1|1|Corpse Flower (Large, Uncommon) (4)
031|1|1|1|1|Ankheg (Large, Uncommon) (4)
032|1|0|1|1|Radiant Idol (Large, Uncommon) (3)
033|0|1|0|0|Lady Vol (Medium, Rare) (1)
034|0|0|0|1|Undying Councilor (Medium, Rare) (1)
035|1|0|0|0|Hashalaq Quori (Medium, Rare) (1)
036|0|0|1|0|Kalaraq Quori (Medium, Rare) (1)
037|0|0|1|0|The Lord of Blades (Medium, Rare) (1)
038|0|1|0|0|Bone Knight (Medium, Rare) (1)
039|1|0|0|0|Belashyrra (Medium, Rare) (1)
040|0|0|0|1|Dyrrn the Corruptor (Medium, Rare) (1)
041|0|0|0|1|Cadaver Collector (Large, Rare) (1)
042|0|0|1|0|Valenar Horse (Large, Rare) (1)
043|1|0|0|0|Shambling Mound (Large, Rare) (1)
044|0|1|0|0|Sul Khatesh (Large, Rare) (1)

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Mythic Odysseys of Theros brick. One box had two Medium Uncommons (15, 22) and another had two Large (25, 41).

001|1|0|0|0|Returned Palamnite (Medium, Common) (1)
002|2|0|0|0|Akroan Hoplite (Medium, Common) (2)
003|1|0|0|0|Oracle (Medium, Common) (1)
004|1|0|0|0|Anvilwrought Raptor (Small, Common) (1)
005|2|0|0|0|Nymph, Lampad (Medium, Common) (2)
006|1|0|0|0|Basilisk (Medium, Common) (1)
007|1|0|0|0|Nymph, Dryad (Medium, Common) (1)
008|1|0|0|0|Nymph, Alseid (Medium, Common) (1)
010|1|0|0|0|Leonin Swiftclaw (Medium, Common) (1)
011|1|0|0|0|Two-Headed Cerberus (Medium, Common) (1)
012|1|0|0|0|Nyx-Fleece Ram (Medium, Common) (1)
014|1|0|0|0|Returned Sentry (Medium, Uncommon) (1)
015|1|0|0|0|Nymph, Naiad (Medium, Uncommon) (1)
016|1|0|0|0|Medusa (Medium, Uncommon) (1)
017|1|0|0|0|Centaur Ranger (Medium, Uncommon) (1)
018|1|0|0|0|Ghostblade Eidolon (Medium, Uncommon) (1)
020|1|0|0|0|Siona, Captain of the Pyleas (Medium, Uncommon) (1)
021|1|0|0|0|Nymph, Oread (Medium, Uncommon) (1)
022|1|0|0|0|Triton Master of the Waves (Medium, Uncommon) (1)
023|1|0|0|0|Leonin Iconoclast (Medium, Uncommon) (1)
025|1|0|0|0|Griffon (Large, Uncommon) (1)
027|1|0|0|0|Emissary of Thassa (Large, Uncommon) (1)
028|1|0|0|0|Chimera (Large, Uncommon) (1)
029|1|0|0|0|Nightmare (Large, Uncommon) (1)
030|1|0|0|0|Catoblepas (Large, Uncommon) (1)
031|1|0|0|0|Thought-Render Lamia (Large, Uncommon) (1)
033|1|0|0|0|Emissary of Erebos (Huge, Uncommon) (1)
035|1|0|0|0|Aphemia, the Dissonant Song (Medium, Rare) (1)
041|1|0|0|0|Abhorrent Overlord (Large, Rare) (1)
042|1|0|0|0|Hythonia the Cruel (Large, Rare) (1)

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Snowbound brick.

001|1|0|0|0|Chardalyn Berserker (Medium, Common) (1)
002|1|0|0|0|Demos Magen (Medium, Common) (1)
004|1|0|0|0|Hypnos Magen (Medium, Common) (1)
005|1|0|0|0|Skeletal Sentinel (Medium, Common) (1)
006|1|0|0|0|Duergar Hammerer (Medium, Common) (1)
007|1|0|0|0|Psychic Gray Ooze (Medium, Common) (1)
008|1|0|0|0|Griffon Hatchling (Small, Common) (1)
009|2|0|0|0|Myconid Adult (Medium, Common) (2)
010|1|0|0|0|Bullywug (Medium, Common) (1)
011|2|0|0|0|Dust Mephit (Small, Common) (2)
012|2|0|0|0|Ice Mephit (Small, Common) (2)
014|1|0|0|0|Coldlight Walker (Medium, Uncommon) (1)
015|1|0|0|0|Deva (Medium, Uncommon) (1)
018|1|0|0|0|Dryad (Medium, Uncommon) (1)
019|1|0|0|0|Gnoll Fang of Yeenoghu (Medium, Uncommon) (1)
020|1|0|0|0|Chardalyn Pseudodragon (Small, Uncommon) (1)
022|1|0|0|0|Dhergoloth (Medium, Uncommon) (1)
023|1|0|0|0|White Dragon Wyrmling (Medium, Uncommon) (1)
025|1|0|0|0|Locathah (Medium, Uncommon) (1)
026|1|0|0|0|Ice Troll (Large, Uncommon) (1)
027|1|0|0|0|Spitting Mimic (Large, Uncommon) (1)
028|1|0|0|0|Snow Golem (Large, Uncommon) (1)
030|1|0|0|0|Axe Beak (Large, Uncommon) (1)
032|1|0|0|0|Hill Giant (Huge, Uncommon) (1)
033|1|0|0|0|Stone Giant (Huge, Uncommon) (1)
034|1|0|0|0|Warforged Titan (Huge, Uncommon) (1)
037|1|0|0|0|Spellix Romwod (Small, Rare) (1)
042|1|0|0|0|Bullywug Royal (Medium, Rare) (1)
045|1|0|0|0|Awakened Tree (Huge, Rare) (1)

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[BBShockwave]

Welcome to the forum, and thanks for the great case results - especially for sharing the photos!
Looks like my fears were confirmed, same as in Seas & Shores and Phandelver, very often the Rare takes up an Uncommon slot instead of a Common, resulting in less Medium Uncommons per case, annoyingly so. Glad I bought some Tridrones and Monodrones cheap on KingsofLight already.
And as I predicted, only 6 Large Uncommons means 4-5 of all of them per case. Kinda pointless with the Baernaloth and Aurumach since those are not really encountered in groups, but good to have lots of Maelephants and Octons. Still, it is never a good incentive for buyers if you can expect not one but sometimes 2 of the same Large in a brick, as it was here in Brick #2.
I see also some bricks with 2 of the same Uncommon in the same brick. And the Modrons and Cuprilach seem to suffer from bended legs. But that can be easily fixed.

It also indeed seems that the Rares being in sequential order per brick is a distribution strategy that is going to continue. So you can at least estimate which 2 you are gonna get per brick with a 25% accuracy.

Huh faceless Cloaker, odd issue. Sadly seems many times the factory workers forget to use glue, I had 3 minis missing heads or faces in Seas & Shores.
The Corpse Flowers are notorious for breaking, the tendrils are too short and the transparent pole cannot support the weight. I recommend cutting out a bit from the pole, and gluing it and the tendrils to the base.

Your Theros double Large situation is intentional. The Abhorrent Overlord is a Large, but is not among the "Large Rare slots" but among the Medium Rare slots. This same thing is true of MM3 and F&T as well, leading to 2 Larges, or a Huge and a Large in one booster. Even MotM has this with the Gauth.

[jaredh]

I thought it has always been true in Icons that rares replace ab uncommon?

Also, I opened two boosters today and they are perfectly identical to two of those pictured above. From the same brick

[BBShockwave]

No, up until Seas & Shores, they always replaced one of the two Common a in the booster. I have the per booster distribution results for pretty much all previous sets and it used to be that way. S&S2 was the first set where I noticed Rares replacing Uncommons this way, though even then it was not always so, just 40% of the time.

[Kezghan]

001|1|1|2|0|Harmonium Peacekeeper (Medium, Common) (4)
002|1|1|1|2|Duodrone (Medium, Common) (5)
003|1|1|1|1|Quadrone (Medium, Common) (4)
004|2|1|1|1|Kelubar Demodand (Medium, Common) (5)
005|1|0|2|1|Lantern Archon (Small, Common) (4)
006|2|1|1|2|Razorvine Blight (Medium, Common) (6)
007|1|1|0|2|Rilmani Cuprilach (Medium, Common) (4)
008|1|2|1|0|Farastu Demodand (Medium, Common) (4)
009|2|1|1|1|Modron Slot Machine (Medium, Common) (5)
010|0|2|1|1|Vargouille Reflection (Small, Common) (4)
011|2|1|2|1|Swarm of Cranium Rat Squeakers (Medium, Common) (6)
012|0|2|2|2|Darkweaver (Medium, Common) (6)

013|1|1|0|0|Tridrone (Medium, Uncommon) (2)
014|1|0|0|1|Angel Batter (Medium, Uncommon) (2)
015|1|0|0|2|Monodrone (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
016|1|0|0|1|Doomguard Rot Blade (Medium, Uncommon) (2)
017|0|0|1|1|Mezzoloth (Medium, Uncommon) (2)
018|0|1|1|1|Swarm of Sunflies (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
019|1|1|1|1|Bariaur Wanderer (Medium, Uncommon) (4)
020|0|1|1|1|Hands of Havoc Firestarter (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
021|1|1|1|0|Avoral Guardinal (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
022|1|1|1|0|Gate Warden (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
023|1|1|1|0|Kolyarut (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
024|2|2|1|0|Aurumach Rilmani (Large, Uncommon) (5)
025|2|2|1|0|Baernaloth (Large, Uncommon) (5)
026|1|0|1|2|Shemeshka's Bodyguard (Large, Uncommon) (4)
027|1|1|1|2|Octon (Large, Uncommon) (5)
028|1|1|2|1|Maelephant (Large, Uncommon) (5)
029|0|1|1|2|Warden Archon (Large, Uncommon) (4)

030|0|0|1|0|Vecna Impersonator (Medium, Rare) (1)
031|1|0|0|0|Cranium Rats in Disguise (Medium, Rare) (1)
032|1|0|0|0|Demilich (Tabaxi) (Small, Rare) (1)
033|0|0|0|1|Doomguard Doom Lord (Medium, Rare) (1)
034|0|0|0|1|Hound Archon (Medium, Rare) (1)
035|0|1|0|0|Harmonium Captain (Medium, Rare) (1)
036|0|1|0|0|Gertrude, Caker Troop Leader (Medium, Rare) (1)
037|0|1|0|0|Time Dragon Wyrmling (Medium, Rare) (1)
038|0|0|1|0|Mind's Eye Matter Smith (Medium, Rare) (1)
039|0|0|1|0|Hexton (Huge, Rare) (1)
040|0|1|0|0|Decaton (Large, Rare) (1)
041|0|0|0|1|Ettin Warlord (Large, Rare) (1)
042|1|0|0|0|Shator Demodand (Large, Rare) (1)

Brick 1:


Brick 2:


Brick 3:


Brick 4:

[BBShockwave]

Thanks for the info!
Wizkids really needs to instruct the chinese booster packing team about this problem where sometimes they would substitute the Medium Rare for a Medium Uncommon... it results in getting only 2 of several Medium Uncommons only per case, here too the number of those is too high. I remember in the case results of older sets, I'd only ever get 2 of one Medium Uncommon per set before.

Interesting, the cases where this happens and the Rare is substituted for an Uncommon are all the same location:
Brick #2, Booster top row #3
Brick #3, Booster top row #3

And perhaps Wizkids manufactured too many Bariaur Wanderers? This is the third case I see where there are 4 of them in a case.

[GreetingsGQ]

Here are the results of my case of Fangs & Talons. One Huge Rare (38) and the Large Rares (39-41) were treated as Medium, replacing a Common. There were four of each Small Common (2, 3, 4, 5), and three of the Medium Commons (9, 12, 13) had only three of each like an Uncommon. Three of a Medium Common (6) were in sequential boxes One box was missing a Large, most likely 27.

1|1|2|1|1|Goliath Fighter (Medium, Common) (5)
2|1|1|1|1|Kobold Inventor (Small, Common) (4)
3|1|1|1|1|Twig Blight (Small, Common) (4)
4|1|1|1|1|Almiraj (Small, Common) (4)
5|1|0|2|1|Boggle (Small, Common) (4)
6|1|0|2|2|Animated Armor (Medium, Common) (5)
7|2|1|1|1|Skeletal Alchemist (Medium, Common) (5)
8|1|1|1|2|Giant Wolf Spider (Medium, Common) (5)
9|0|2|1|0|Lizardfolk (Medium, Common) (3)
10|2|1|1|1|Ambush Drake (Medium, Common) (5)
11|1|2|1|1|Pack Mule (Medium, Common) (5)
12|1|1|0|1|Skulk (Medium, Common) (3)
13|1|1|0|1|Vine Blight (Medium, Common) (3)
14|1|0|1|1|Goliath Fighter (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
15|1|1|0|1|Kobold Inventor (Small, Uncommon) (3)
16|0|1|1|1|Fire Genasi Fighter (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
17|1|1|0|1|Human Wizard (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
18|0|1|1|1|Gloom Weaver (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
19|1|0|1|1|Berbalang (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
20|0|2|0|1|Thayan Apprentice (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
21|1|0|2|0|Mimic (Door) (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
22|1|0|1|1|Vampiric Mist (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
23|1|1|1|0|Banshee (Medium, Uncommon) (3)
24a|0|1|0|0|Kobold Scale Sorcerer (Small, Uncommon) (1)
24b|1|1|0|0|Kobold Scale Sorcerer (Small, Uncommon) (2)
25|1|0|1|1|Water Elemental (Large, Uncommon) (3)
26|1|0|1|1|Earth Elemental (Large, Uncommon) (3)
27|1|1|0|0|Air Elemental (Large, Uncommon) (2)
28|0|2|1|1|Fire Elemental (Large, Uncommon) (4)
29|1|1|0|1|Marid (Large, Uncommon) (3)
30|1|1|0|1|Tyrannosaurus Rex (Huge, Uncommon) (3)
31|1|1|1|0|Yuan-Ti Anathema (Huge, Uncommon) (3)
32|1|0|1|1|Dire Troll (Huge, Uncommon) (3)
33|0|1|1|1|Ki-rin (Huge, Uncommon) (3)
34|1|0|0|0|Tabaxi Fighter (Medium, Rare) (1)
35|0|0|0|1|Tridrone (Medium, Rare) (1)
36|0|0|1|0|Incubus (Medium, Rare) (1)
37|1|0|0|0|Green Hag (Medium, Rare) (1)
38|0|0|0|1|Flail Snail (Huge, Rare) (1)
39|0|1|0|0|Green Slaad (Large, Rare) (1)
40|0|1|0|0|Gas Spore (Large, Rare) (1)
41|0|0|1|0|Aboleth (Large, Rare) (1)
42|0|0|0|1|Fire Giant Skeleton (Huge, Rare) (1)
43|0|0|1|0|Young Blue Dragon (Huge, Rare) (1)
44|1|0|0|0|Young Red Dragon (Huge, Rare) (1)
45|0|1|0|0|Nightwalker (Huge, Rare) (1)

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Edit: The gallery page has 5 and 6 swapped.

[Kezghan]

Here is the break down of my case. Looked fair I think. It did come with 2 broken from base minis (well one was simply missing a base all together), and a couple of pieces doing the limbo.

A really fun set to open up, getting Venger and Uni in the last brick was joy.

Brick 1 - Green Knight
Brick 2 - Fiend
Brick 3 - Sheila
Brick 4 - Uni & Venger


Commons

Lemure 5E 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 4
Lemure 1E 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 4
Bugbear 5E 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 4
Bugbear 1E 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 5
Goblin 5E 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 4
Goblin 1E 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 4
Kobold 5E 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 5
Kobold 1E 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 5
Blink Dog 5E 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 4
Blink Dog 1E 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 5
Gnoll 5E 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 4
Gnoll 1E 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 4

Uncommons

Dwarf 1E 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 2
Dwarf 5E 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 3
Elf 1E 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 2
Elf 5E 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 3
Shadow Demon 1E 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 2
Shadow Demon 5E 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 3
Chest Mimic 1E 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 2
Chest Mimic 5E 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 2
Skeleton Knight 1E 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 3
Skeleton Knight 5E 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 2
Githyanki 1E 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 3
Githyanki 5E 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 3
Glabrezu 1E 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 3
Glabrezu 5E 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 3
Ki-Rin 1E 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 2
Ki-Rin 5E 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 3
Green Slaad 1E 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 2
Green Slaad 5E 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 1
Pit Fiend 1E 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 3
Pit Fiend 5E 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 2
Flail Snail 1E 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 3
Flail Snail 5E 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 3

Rares

Mordenkainen 1E 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 1
Mordenkainen 5E 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 1
Strand-Von-Zarovitch 1E 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 1
Strand-Von-Zarovitch 5E 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 1
Lolth 1E 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 1
Lolth 5E 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 1
Acererak 1E 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 1
Acererak 5E 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 1
Vecna 1E 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 1
Vecna 5E 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 1
Eidolon 1E 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 1
Eidolon 5E 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 1
Efreet 1E 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 1
Efreet 5E 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 1
Young Gold Dragon 5E 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 1
Young Gold Dragon 1E 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 1

I posted Brick pictures in the 50th thread.

[BBShockwave]

Nice haul, thanks! As I expected, with so many Medium and Large Uncommons in the set, you will only get 2-3 of each as opposed to 2-4 which is the more usual for Large Uncommons. In fact I see you only got 1 5E Green Slaad, that's a first, only getting 1 Large Uncommon of a type per case!

I am curious if the cartoon chases are maybe always in the same brick, we do know the Fiend and Paladin in Hell are not paired in the same way.

Guess we can also rule out that 5E and 1E versions of the same Rare are always in one brick, this was only true for Vecna and Acererak.

[Yoshua]

50th Anniversary Case Results. Weird Case for me. I am missing 2 rares and these are the numbers from the bottoms of the minis. The only mini I did not have a number/name match for was 40 as I was missing that one and it didn't line up with what is on the Page here on the site. I believe it is Vecna 1E as I did not get that one.

The third brick I opened had 1 of every chace in it and very few rares.

I am missing Acererak 1E and Vecna 1E and have multiple of some chases. At this point with this case it feels like the chases were the rares and the rares were the chaces.

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01 |1|0|0|2| Lemure  5e - Medium Common x3
02 |1|1|1|1| Lemure 1e - Medium Common  x4
03 |1|1|0|1|  Bugbear 5e - Small Common  x3
04 |1|2|1|0|  Bugbear 1e - Small Common  x4
05 |1|1|1|1|  Goblin 5e - Small Common  x4
06 |0|1|1|1|  Goblin 1e - Medium Common  x3
07 |2|1|1|2|  Kobold 5e - Medium Common  x6
08 |1|2|0|1| Kobold 1e - Medium Common x4
09 |1|1|0|1|  Blink Dog 5e - Medium Common x3
10 |1|1|1|1|  Blink Dog 1e  - Medium Common  x4
11 |1|1|1|1|  Gnoll 5e - Medium Common x4
12 |2|1|1|1|  Gnoll 1e - Medium Common x5
13 |1|1|0|0|  Dwarf 1e - Medium Uncommon x2
14 |0|1|0|1|  Dwarf 5e - Medium Uncommon x2
15 |0|0|0|1|  Elf 1e - Medium Uncommon x1
16 |1|1|1|1|  Elf 5e - Medium Uncommon x4
17 |1|0|0|0|  Shadow Demon 1e - Medium Uncommon x1
18 |0|2|0|1|  Shadow Demon 5e - Medium Uncommon  x3
19 |1|0|1|1| Mimic 1e - Medium Uncommon x3
20 |0|1|1|0| Mimic 5e - Medium Uncommon x2
21 |1|0|0|0| Skeleton Knight 1e - Medium Uncommon  x1
22 |1|1|0|0| Skeleton Knight 5e - Medium Uncommon  x2
23 |1|0|0|1|  Githyanki 1e- Medium Uncommon  x2
24 |1|0|1|1| Githyanki 5e - Medium Uncommon x3
25 |1|1|0|1| Glabrezu 1e - Large Uncommon x3
26 |0|1|0|1| Glabrezu 5e - Large Uncommon  x2
27 |1|1|1|0| Ki-Rin 1e - Large Uncommon x3
28 |1|0|0|1| Ki-Rin 5e - Large Uncommon x2
29 |1|0|0|0| Green Slaad 1e - Large Uncommon  x1
30 |0|1|0|0| Green Slaad 5e - Large Uncommon x1
31 |1|1|1|0| Pit Fiend 1e - Large Uncommon x3
32 |1|0|0|1|  Pit Fiend 5e- Large Uncommon   x2
33 |0|0|1|1| Flail Snail 1e - Large Uncommon  x2
34 |0|1|1|1| Flail Snail 5e - Large Uncommon  x3
35 |1|0|0|0|  Mordenkainen 1e - Medium Rare  x1
36 |1|0|0|0| Mordenkainen 5e - Medium Rare  x1
37 |0|0|1|0|  Strahd-Von-Zarovitch 1e - Medium Rare  x1
38 |0|1|0|0|  Stradh-Von-Zarovitch 5e - Medium Rare  x1
39 |0|1|0|0|   Lolth 1E - Medium rare x1
40 |0|0|0|0|  Vecna 1E?  x0
41 |0|1|0|0| Acererak 1e - Medium Rare  x1
42 |0|0|0|0| Acererak 5e - Medium Rare  x0
43 |0|0|1|1| Vecna 5e - Medium Rare  x2
44 |1|0|1|0|  Lolth 5e - Large Rare x2
45 |0|0|0|1|  Eidolon 1e - Large Rare x1
46 |0|0|1|1|  Eidolon 5e - Large Rare x2
47 |0|0|1|0| Efreeti 1E - Large Rare x1
48 |0|1|0|0|  Efreeti 5e - Large Rare x1
49 |0|1|0|0|  Young Gold Dragon 5E - Large Rare x1
50 |1|0|1|0|  Young Gold Dragon 1e - Large Rare  x2
51 |0|0|1|0|  A Paladin in Hell - Medium Chase x1
52 |0|0|1|0|  A Fiend in Hell - Medium Chase x1
53 |0|0|1|0| Red Warrior - Medium Chase x1
54 |0|0|1|0|  Blue Wizard - Medium Chase x1
55 |1|0|1|0| Green Knight - Medium Chase x2
56 |0|1|1|0| Sheila - Medium Chase x2
57 |0|0|1|0|  Bobby - Medium Chase x1
58 |0|0|1|1|  Uni - Medium Chase x2
59 |0|0|1|0|  Dungeon Master - Medium Chase x1
60 |0|0|1|1|  Venger - Medium Chase x2

[BBShockwave]

I am a bit late with this, but only just got all my Sand & Stone minis - it was from a CSI sale and could only be shipped to my friend in the USA, who opened and packed them inside various boxes like Baphometh's and HasLab Deathsaurus, so they arrived in several assortments. I can only provide per case numbers, thus, not per brick.
No breaks or issues. One Mummy had a leg come off the base, that's all.



001 Violet Fungus (Medium, Common) 5
002 Galeb Duhr (Medium, Common) 6
003 Priest of Osybus (female) (Medium, Common) 5
004 Hyena (Medium, Common) 4
005 Dust Mephit (Small, Common) 4
006 Mummy (Medium, Common) 5
007 Rust Monster (Medium, Common) 4
008 Dimetrodon (Large, Common) 4
009 Yuan-Ti Broodguard (Medium, Common) 5
010 Nagpa (Medium, Common) 4
011 Young Kruthik (Small, Common) 4
012 Flying Snake (Small Common) 6
013 Pteranodon (Medium, Uncommon) 3
014 Basilisk (Medium, Uncommon) 3
015 Thri-Kreen (Medium, Uncommon) 3
016 Earth Elemental Myrmidon (Medium, Uncommon) 3
017 Priest of Osybus (male) (Medium, Uncommon) 3
018 Swarm of Insects (Beetles) (Medium, Uncommon) 4
019 Swarm of Insects (Wasps) (Medium, Uncommon) 3
020 Wereboar (Medium, Uncommon) 3
021 Death Dog (Medium, Uncommon) 3
022 Jackalwere (Medium, Uncommon) 3
023 Giant Scorpion (Huge, Uncommon) 4
024 Djinni (Large, Uncommon) 3
025 Bulette (Large, Uncommon) 4
026 Lamia (Large, Uncommon) 4
027 Giant Vulture (Large, Uncommon) 3
028 Efreeti (Large, Uncommon) 3
029 Spirit Naga (Large, Uncommon) 3
030 Camel (Large, Uncommon) 4
031 Weretiger (Medium, Rare) 1
032 Blue Dragonborn (Medium, Rare) 1
033 Medusa (Medium, Rare) 1
034 Adult Kruthik (Medium, Rare) 1
035 Harpy (Medium, Rare) 1
036 Bone Knight (Medium, Rare) 1
037 Brass Dragonborn (Medium, Rare) 1
038 Yuan-Ti Malison (Medium, Rare) 1
039 Mummy Lord (Medium, Rare) 1
040 Triceratops (Huge, Rare) 1
041 Androsphinx (Huge, Rare) 1
042 Chimera (Huge, Rare) 1
043 Gorthok the Thunder Boar (Huge, Rare) 1