pulled my first ex in 15 years lapras ex ruby sapphire! Quite possibly the best card in the set!
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heres to a pop 32!
Mewtwo ex would like to have a word with youā¦but Lapras is definitely #2, and an amazing pull. It feels awesome to pull an ex, doesnāt it? Pulling that Swampert felt amazing, seeing the silver border pop up. Crazy nostalgia. I gotta find more heavy ex series packs to open lol.
yeah mewtwo is probably more popular but lapras has fewer psa 10s
I can see why people open heavies but dang its risky
Great thread! Opened two Legend Makers a while back, one was 16.3 and the other 16.85 - made me believe that the 85 is heavy. Both were light 
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Yeah; the Ruby Sapphire exs look to be super tough to grade. Very low proportion of PSA 10s relative to other sets. But I hope you get the 10 on it, though I know that many pack fresh exs donāt get 10s. My Swampert, for instance, is perfect except if you shine a direct light on the bottom border, thereās a very small horizontal print scratch. I really hope they miss or overlook it, because itās soooo much nicer than the PSA 9 exs Iāve owned. Unfortunately for the Ruby Sapphire exs, the bottom silver border is so much larger that I think thereās less of a chance they miss flaws, and the pop report seems to bear this out.
My real hope, though, is that my reverse holo TMTA Squirtle comes back a PSA 10, which will make it the only one in the world. The pop reports for the early EX-series cards are so low, which makes me want to open packs even more lol.
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Think I should be safe with a 17.5 one then
my legend maker 17.85 was light
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anybody know if 17.55 is heavy expedition?
I donāt believe so, i think expedition heavies are 17.70+
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I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has contributed to this spreadsheet so far!
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Iāll have to take my unseen forces pack to my campus lab to weigh
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But you gotta also open it, or else that data will be no good 
FWIW, Unseen Forces is a tough set to weight accurately (itās one of the sets with heavy and light print runs, it seems). So you might as well give it a shot, for science.
Is there a distinguishable heavy and light weight for the heavy run as well as the light run or are the different print run weights too close or muddled up to be able to tell?
Iām not sure specifically for Unseen Forces, but for certain sets (namely Holon Phantoms), the weights are different enough that you can generally distinguish. For Holon Phantoms, thereās a print run where light is ~16.2g and heavy is ~16.5g. And thereās also a large portion of packs that are from a print run where the light weight is ~17.3g and the heavy weight ~17.6g. But sometimes you see packs that are, say, 17g and itās just not possible to tell. But for a pack that is, say, 16.6g, you could probably be confident that itās heavy ā and likewise for a pack thatās 17.6g+. So, to answer your question, the weights can become muddled and unclear for certain sets. Though itās interesting because some sets donāt seem to have different print runs at all. Like, for FRLG, Iāve never heard of a pack below 17g or above 17.6g ā so itās pretty clear-cut whatās heavy and whatās not. But for sets like Holon Phantoms (and also Unseen Forces, I believe), you pretty much need to compare the pack from other packs from the same box to accurately assess whether or not its heavy (unless the weight is very extreme in one direction).
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Opened a 17.44 Deoxys pack and it was light. The sacrifice we made for science, lol.
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I applaud your bravery and am sorry for your loss. What was the art btw?
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Oof, sorry to hear that . TRR and Deoxys seem to have higher weight thresholds for heavy for some reason ā TRR packs at 17.6g have been light, and the Deoxys pack that I bought as light (or medium-light, canāt remember) from TCAGaming ~7 months ago was 17.4g (and it turned out to be light once it was opened).
But thank you very much for your contribution to the burgeoning scientific field of pack weighing 
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deoxys:)