Rarity of runes.

[nobodys home]

How do you know the rarity of the runes? There doesn't seem to be any way to tell.

[Xiere]

Rarity is color-coded, as represented by the bands wrapping the left and right of each rune's artwork. Yellow is common, red is uncommon, blue is rare, purple is exotic, green is legendary, and white is limited.

[nobodys home]

Well poop...I've been looking right at it. Thank you.

If I could bother you for one more thing ( for now ). Do all players get the same runes in the same sequential order as they play or are they given in a truly random order?

[Xiere]

The runes you get at the end of a match are drawn randomly from an equal-odds pool of all Core Set Runes; the reward is not weighted by rarity. This makes factions with the most higher-rarity runes, such as Ironfist Stronghold, more efficient to farm for end-of-match rewards. I had done the math at one point but lost the .rtf file with the results. If I recall correctly, although K'thir Forest and Forglar Swamp have an additional legendary rune each, Ironfist has a higher average rarity, which pays off more.
Bonus tip: (Something I learned late) For maximum value, gold is best spent on the "Dancers in the Snow" preconstructed deck, because it has the highest Shard value in the Rune Forge.

[akiboo]

Originally posted by Boozie:

Do all players get the same runes in the same sequential order as they play or are they given in a truly random order?

all players have the same chance to get this or this or what ever for cards bye playing or buying ingame booster ----
for new players.... they should do the "training" matches/ mission to get their first Decks/Cards.

or like Xiere said - buy with 5000 ingame gold -> the Deck "Dancers in the Snow" to forge the Cards into shards - so you will save a lot of time