Serial Serials: Colorado LGS Opens 2 RVR Serials In One Night

In modern-day Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast has implemented a new method of creating chase cards. This is what they've called "serialized" cards. Numbered in a limited subset of cards that exist in an expansion, these serial cards are tough to come by. Many players have never seen one in person; even fewer have opened them from packs. But one local game store employee in Colorado has done this twice over - in a single night!

On Monday, January 8th, Buster Ledet, an employee of Lakewood, CO's Mythic Games, opened fourteen collector booster boxes of Ravnica Remastered, the newest Magic set. Within the bounds of these boxes, each containing twelve packs, he opened a serialized, retro-framed Sacred Foundry. This was a big pull for the LGS employee, but there was more to come. Later in the pack-cracking adventure, he opened a copy of Stitch In Time, also serialized.

Above is the content breakdown of a Ravnica Remastered collector booster pack, the expansion from which the two serialized cards were opened. According to an article on DailyMTG, the odds of opening a Collector Booster of this set and finding a serialized Retro Frame rare or mythic rare is roughly 1%. Over the entirety of this evening, Buster opened all of 168 collector boosters from those fourteen boxes. While statistically it seems likely for him to open at least one, it's not as simple. The odds of finding a single serial card are 1 in 100 packs, but that is per pack. Each pack has the same odds as any other. That is, until the supply of serialized cards runs dry. Therefore, you can see why opening any serial card is a big deal, let alone two.

According to Buster himself, the store had opened just two cases to find these cards. Within just nine collector boxes (or within roughly 108 packs), Buster opened these serial cards.

When asked how this wonderfully unlikely event made him feel, Buster had this to say:

We rarely see serialized cards during our openings so we were all very excited! The serialized Stitch in Time was second and even though it isn't as playable, we were still in disbelief. Two serialized cards in the same opening is unheard of for us!

With "serial" luck like this, we wish Buster and his colleagues a warm congratulations!