Store promo for this set is Snorlax, possibly the best main set stamped store promo I’ve seen since I started in 2016! So far in the UK only spotted at WH Smith stores (likely around a £10 minimum spend). Waterstones and others might have it though after lockdown ends on December 3rd.
In Europe currently only, sometimes they do come to the USA though. Every three months for each main set. Detective Pikachu had some store promos also.
Apparently it’s possible to open modern booster boxes and not pull any Secret Rares… sigh Just opened my English Vivid Voltage booster box. I wasn’t expecting the Hyper Rare Pikachu Vmax of course (which has 1/1000 pull rate from what I’ve heard), but at least one Secret/Hyper Rare would have been nice, lol. What a bust.
Quick summary of what I got:
1 FA Supporter Ultra Rare
2 Amazing Rares
2 Vmax Ultra Rares
1 V Ultra Rare
3 regular V’s (including the 3 USD Pikachu V, yay… at least one out of four Pikachu cards I guess)
33 Reverse Holos + 2 Amazing Rare in the rev holo slot would be 35 packs right? Maybe the secret rare is in the missing pack?
Jokes aside my luck is terrible with modern packs too but it definitely sucks if you have a chance at not getting a single secret/hyper from a modern box, i thought that was the whole point in buying a sealed booster box. Would it be considered an error box or just bad luck?
I’m hoping eventually they will do something to either replace the Holo Rare pulls or enhance them in some way. They usually make up half the hits of a box, and they dont give you any satisfaction as a hit (99% of the time).
Oops. Nope, that’s just me who miscounted the Reverse Holos. There are 34. I also counted the wrappers just in case, and there were indeed 36 packs, as expected.
And I don’t know. I also thought it was guaranteed a Secret Rare per box, but apparently not. Or I got very unlucky to get an error box.. They make a lot of printing mistakes, so wouldn’t really surprise me if I do indeed have an error box.
Ah well, at least I’m reminded again to just buy singles like I usually do and just ignore boxes..
@quuador oof bad luck. I got a secret rare in all (5) boxes that I opened, but 3/5 were the gold foil trainer cards I really don’t collect. And of course no rainbow pika for me either