how do card packs wor?

[VirulenceQuietus]

honest question for trying to get as many unique cards as i can!
does the Basic pack give the exact same cards as the Epic packs?

i assume more rare cards will have better odds in the legendary/Epic packs, but i am curious if certain cards can be gotten through certain packs!
if so please say!
otherwise i will be spamming the Legendary Packs once i get them so i get the best chance at rarity

[Kyouko Tsukino]

Each tier of "pack" gives different art in the cards, for each of the monsters' evolution lines. The "rarity" of cards is determined by the "first edition/silver/gold/EX/ghost/foil/full art" modifier, not the pack they're from.

Thinking about it like Pokemon or other such "monster trainer" franchises, the "basic" pack are the base evolution forms, the rare pack is the second form, the Epic is the third form, and the Legendary ones are the "ultra" or "mega" or whatever, the most evolved monsters.

In short, you will not get cards from the basic pack from a Legendary pack, or vice-versa. "License-mon, gotta purchase em'all."

[VirulenceQuietus]

Originally posted by Kyouko Tsukino:

Each tier of "pack" gives different art in the cards, for each of the monsters' evolution lines. The "rarity" of cards is determined by the "first edition/silver/gold/EX/ghost/foil/full art" modifier, not the pack they're from.

Thinking about it like Pokemon or other such "monster trainer" franchises, the "basic" pack are the base evolution forms, the rare pack is the second form, the Epic is the third form, and the Legendary ones are the "ultra" or "mega" or whatever, the most evolved monsters.

In short, you will not get cards from the basic pack from a Legendary pack, or vice-versa. "License-mon, gotta purchase em'all."

what about the different variations of a card's rarity?
like full art or EX? if a card normally comes from the basic will the full art or EX variant as well?

[Kyouko Tsukino]

The only time artworks repeat between pack "tiers" is in the Destiny pack, but that's just because the Destiny cards use the exact same art as their counterparts in the "Tetramon" packs, but they'll count as different cards. A base card ugly blob thing will not be the same card as the Destiny one, even though the art looks exactly the same.

In any case, rarity is not tied to the artwork, and each pack has cards of different rarities, but all with the same artwork. Hope that's clearer?

In short, you will not complete your collection if you aren't opening all pack tiers, unless you get extremely lucky with the "customer trade" feature, or use a mod that makes card packs work the way they work in every other trading card game, virtual or physical.