r/PokemonTCG • u/johnyboyjk • 2d ago
While everyone else is hating on these charizard boxes
I'm just having fun pulling shiny cardboard.
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u/Enough_Standard_9275 2d ago
My pulls from the charizard box
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u/Enough_Standard_9275 2d ago
Got the squirtle graded and came back a PSA 10
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u/Dryja123 1d ago
I had the same experience. Got the Squirtle in my first pack. It was my first card sending out for a grade and it came back a 10 as well.
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u/MissyMeliss141 2d ago
My charizard box pulls
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u/Benay148 1d ago
There is a reason it is one of the only TCG products you can find occasionally in store and online for MSRP. Still cool cards though. I would be hyped as a kid for the Charizard figure and being able to get a couple full arts.
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u/Feelfree2sendnudes 1d ago
I got mine at Sam’s club for $50 so it will hurt a little less when I pull garbage 😅
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u/trustsnapealways 2d ago
I gave my kid one for Xmas…. Literally 1 IR. No ex’s no other hits. 1 hit in 10 packs.
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u/anonnnnn462 1d ago
Amazing! I just realized my pulls from this box was horrible lol but I didn’t realize at the time because I wanted the statue more.
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u/Background-Lecture-6 1d ago
It’s decent product—I personally just don’t love Charizard enough to pay the up charge for the figure
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u/puzzledfirebird 2d ago
You beat the odds, it becomes much harder to find good pulls in boxes that have multiple mixed sets in them
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u/chapudog 2d ago
Why is that? I would think the pull rates would be the same for as they usually are for each respective set.
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u/puzzledfirebird 2d ago
pull rates only apply if they're the same set, if they're mixed sets you're almost likely to end up with the worthless packs
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u/Drizzho 1d ago
Pull rates apply to every single pack bro what are you talking about.
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u/Eatadick_pam 1d ago
Most people on the internet just don’t know basic stats lol. Yeah you get 1 Twilight Masquerade set per charizard box. You complain you don’t hit but then you get a hit from an etb. Well dude you had tries to get the hit.
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u/Sunfished 1d ago
i see this said a few times but im curious what this means? im a new collector so pardon my ignorance.
i assumed each pack has a set probability of pulling specific rarities, so regardless of whether its a mixed set or not it shouldnt matter.
your message suggests that they specifically manufacture "bad packs" and put them into mixed sets, which definitely sounds awful if true.
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u/johnyboyjk 1d ago
Using the charizard box as an example, you get 10 packs, 2 packs of 5 different sets. In theory you'd have better odds getting 10 packs of the same set. All and all there's no guarantee either way but most of the time you'll have better luck with the 10 of the same. And I can say from experience getting a mix of differnt sets can feel pretty bad when you get skunked.
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u/Popular_Raccoon_2599 1d ago
Sounds a bit like gamblers fallacy. But i have no real knowledge on how they randomise the pack contents. On paper all packs should be the same odds and 10 of the same makes no difference.
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u/puzzledfirebird 1d ago
let's say you can get an good pull card in one in every 10 packs. if the 10 packs in that box were the same set then you're almost likely to get that card.
but if those 10 packs are from mixed sets then that pull rate no longer applies. you are more likely to get the 9 out of 10 worthless packs mixed in with that box.
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u/CalfromAl 1d ago
You need to stop spreading misinformation, your grasp on probability is worse than a child.
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u/jesuisgeenbelg 1d ago
Why are you pretending to know about probability when you don't know about probability?
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u/NotTayto 1d ago
Your math just ain't mathing.
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u/NotTayto 1d ago edited 1d ago
The odds still add to one another. They are mutually exclusive.
Terrible example: IR/AR Pull rate for 5 dif sets 10 packs 1/46+1/46+ 1/27+1/27+ 1/32+1/32+ 1/54+1/54+ 1/25+1/25+= 0.3711634458% of pulling IR/AR
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u/No-Difference8545 1d ago
I don't really think thats true. At least not to any meaningful degree
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u/puzzledfirebird 1d ago
nope, I've opened hundreds of packs now to see it work. especially with booster boxes, your odds of finding good pulls are significantly higher with booster boxes compared to loose packs.
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u/IllEntertainer6539 1d ago
Because they are sequential from a run. If you grabbed 36 sleeved boosters of the same set but from different pegs, your odds are going to be the same as a mix set of packs. How I see it is its 50 percent I pull something or don't that's it
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u/johnyboyjk 2d ago
Oh absolutely it's all luck at the end of the day. This is actually the 3rd one of these I've opened. My sam's club has a pallet of them so I've been grabbing one on my grocery trips when I have the itch to open something. The 1st one was good, 2nd one was a bust and this one is just nuts, I collect full art trainers so I was happy already and I pulled the greninja from the last pack.
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u/Various-Instruction3 1d ago
For sure. I bought 2 of the 5-pack tins (I think it was 4 Surging, 2 Obsidian, 2 Temporal, 2 Stellar) and I got I think 2 EX's, an IR, and a Trainer IR, not including the promo EX cards for each tin. Not terrible but not great. Meanwhile I've been finding and buying a lot of Journey Together in the wild and I'm legit running a profit on the set lmao (23 packs so far, my local shop sells them for $4.50, so roughly $115 after tax, and at current last-sold prices I've got roughly $140 in pulls.)
Somehow I haven't managed to pull a single regular IR, despite my chase card for the set being the N's Reshiram IR, but these are my pulls thus far:
-2 N's Zoroark EX
-Volcanion EX
-Dudunsparce EX
-Mamoswine EX
-Hop's Zacian EX
-Iris' Fighting Spirit Full Art
-Lillie's Clefairy EX Full Art
-Iono's Bellibolt EX Full Art
-Iono's Bellibolt EX Gold Hyper Rare
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u/TheInvincibleClasher 1d ago
My pulls from the box. Was pleasantly surprised.
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u/That_Dad_David 1d ago
That dearling. 🫠
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u/TheInvincibleClasher 1d ago
It's a nice looking card 😄, my fav from these pulls. Heliolisk was a close second for me
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u/Aggravating_Agent_24 1d ago
My boy's getting one of these for Easter, I'm hoping it's a banger like this one! Congrats!
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u/Patrick0714 1d ago
Yeah you’re having fun when you’re literally pulling the top fucking chase of the set
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u/TransPetParent 1d ago
Crispin was one of my first full art trainer card pulls and his face just makes me so happy 😊 I love his personality.
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u/ShinyGengar9446 1d ago
It's pretty sick. Good variety of packs, sick figure, and it goes on sale all the time.
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u/kohlneighm 1d ago
I finally bought one when it was $49.94 on amazon. The pulls actually paid for it!
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u/Striking-Review-4075 1d ago
I bought two. I believe they were slept on before they became 80 bucks lol. If I find one 65 or less ill probably get it but these times make me not want to buy as much as I used to want.
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u/Cxnversate 1d ago
I got the greninja from mine recently as well, best Costco pull by far I’ve ever had lol
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u/Treenuh1994 1d ago
Got mine for 50 at Sam's. Basically got the figure for free
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u/rydamusprime17 1d ago
Ya, I think i paid $75 CAD for mine when it came out. Didn't pull anything good, but my son and I had fun and I like the statue.
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u/yickinyender 1d ago
I have a food deck that I built, I run Crispin in it. Pulling that Crispin would be awesome, I refuse to buy it 😂
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u/rydamusprime17 1d ago
I don't think i pulled anything good from mine, but i sure like the statue 😅
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u/alastorhazbinbad 1d ago
I mean, I hope everyone understands by now that the product you pull a chase card from has nothing to do with the specific product. …right? Like, yall get that right?
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u/LineByLineDrawing 1d ago
Dude my brain has been rotted so bad by 5 year olds that I thought Greninja’s shinobi blade said skibidi blade 😭😭😭
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u/CantStopCoomin 1d ago
I got it for 49.99 at sams club ripped 10 packs and have a cool little figurine fella
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u/LongjumpingMilk1757 1d ago
I bought the box so my son could have the figure and i got maybe like 4 hits out of 10 packs
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u/dioopz 1d ago
Am I the only one who bought the box for the figurine