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We all heard about the "god packs" during Journey into Nyx prereleases. The awesome packs that rather than having a normal distribution instead had all 15 god cards. I didn't see one opened myself, but it must have been awesome for those who got one.
Now it seems we have "god boxes" to add to that list.
I know I'm jealous of Reddit user cstrand31, who shared his story of opening this awesome box here. And get this: he's not the first. The same thing popped up last week as well.
There's no official word if this is a distribution error or something done intentionally by Wizards. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised either way. Mistakes in print runs do happen, but on the other hand Wizards is awesome enough to slip something like this in.
What I do know is I don't really care. I just want my next box to look like this.
The organizer of the convention I used to visit back in the early 00’s once opened a god box. He was disappointed: it was a box of Fallen Empires and he was looking to replenish the money commons… One of the people listening in confirmed he suddenly had a lot of FE in his binders a while ago.
Knowing him I highly doubt it was a made up story.
Closest thing I’ve come to strange card allocation in packs was the same common 2x in a Ravnica Tournament Pack (both non-foil). Not exactly spectacular even if Lurking Informant wasn’t half bad if you had the goods to go Dimir mill (unfortunately I didn’t have quite enough of it in that sealed pool).
For me it was over 12 years ago when I witnessed a guy open a box of Nemesis and every card in it was foil.
Too bad Nemesis was such a jank set.
Closest to a god box I ever witnessed = box where boosters of one of the columns had the 3 uncommons replaced by rares (so 1/3), leaving 6 people with double amount of rares in their sealed pool (*)!
(*) Each of them received two rows = 2 good boosters (2×4) + 4 normal boosters
I was present in 1994 for the opening of a “God” box of Legends. It was a store box and freshly opened with a number of people around waiting for legends packs (which were already scarce) so a number of people got into it for packs before someone scooped the remainder realizing what had happened.
This is a great tactic to encourage people to open more boxes. I saw someone open a Japanese RTR box with 18 foil rares and 18 foil mythics. It was nuts.
I opened a god starter deck of revised back in 95. It had the normal 3 rare slots but instead of having the basic lands, like it should have, all of those slots were also rares.