Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Rarity breakdown in War Drums

From Stephen Schubert, Wizards R&D:
War Drums is a starter set, and to increase diversity of commons that you might pull out of a starter box, there are more commons in the set than would be in a standard expansion set.

Our desired distribution is 24r, 24uc, 12c in an expansion set. (used in Deathknell, Angelfire, and Underdark)

In this starter set, the number of commons is increased to 16, while the number of uncommons and rares are 21 and 23, respectively. This is the same distro as Aberrations, and was inferred in the War Drums Previews series when those articles indicated that there were only 7 uncommon commanders.

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