@Wipqozn huh, I didn't know this was a tactics game.

I thought it was just gonna be like the Avengers game again

@Yuuki It is a pretty good game. It's a bit like XCOM, but instead of the RNG being whether your soldiers hit the enemy, it's about what cards you draw from your deck

@Fredy31 We have a site for card games related questions right?

I should check if a question I had in mind for quite a bit would be on-topic there.

@Fredy31 Are you familiar with terms like pack weighting, box mapping etc?

wonder what?

> But they are a retail worker who lives in Toronto, they said in a statement provided to CBC News through an agency they've hired to handle the once-in-a-lifetime sale.

The "retail worker" thing... I don't get if it means "generic worker in any retail shop" (why should that be relevant in any way? Is "retail worker" seen as a synonym for "poor desperate guy" by the article author so that by including that line we should be happy that a "low-life hobo" found the card???) or actually an employee of the LGS that sold the booster, which... I would be very suspicious of

LGSs sometimes open packs for singles, so they have specific cards that people can buy individually

So it's not that suspicious, presumably they decided before hand that whoever opened it got to keep it

If you're the kind of person with gatcha addiction, volunteering to open singles and sort them is a free way to scratch that itch

@SPArcheon I don't know what exactly is on topic, but most of the questions are rules and mechanics related, probably some questions related to etiquette, such as table talk when playing bridge.

@Ronan See previous comment, are you familiar with concepts like box mapping (hopefully obsolete), weighting, scanning etc?

There are multiple ways to check if a pack contains a foil card and in some cases you were also able to detect what specific card it was.

That is why I would never ever again touch a CCG with a ten meter long pole.

It was far to easy for a shop to scam customers and sell "sorted" boosters.

I don't know if things changed in the last few years.

That was my point in being suspicious if the card was "found" by an employee.

years ago I personally saw a shop that was caught weighing packs. They blamed a specific employee and moved forward like it was nothing. And they probably still cheat players up to today , had multiple friends never again buying card there after noticing how unlucky they were with booster bought in that shop.

Seems like a pretty short sighted strategy for a game store tbh

@Ronan when most players don't realize this....

After all... if you can do mapping then you are just picking out the hundred dollars cards - the ones no one would be surprised to NOT get.

if you are just able to do foil cherry picking... it is easy enough to not get too greedy to be noticeable

The shop I mentioned was indeed very stupid in being so blatant

I mean, if someone is suspicious enough to realize they are very likely to be scammed then they would not invest in CCG in the first place.

@SPArcheon Absolutely not lol

so... current even apparently has Kaeya and Collei. At the same time.

I want to see what will come out of this.

Apparently Eula is there also, so hopefully her rage can be redirected on the idiot.

My steam deck arrived today and I'm surprised how good it feels to use

Not that I was expecting it to be bad but it really is seamless

@SPArcheon From what I've read, MTG fixed box mapping years ago.