Curiuos-How many Boosters to get your first Planeswalker?

[Geezasaur]

Just wondering how everyone has fared, and how many Boosters it took to get their first Planeswalker. I've opened about 15 Boosters, have 168 (different?) Cards in my Collection, and still no Planeswalker.
I've played about 20-25 1vs1's, and have seen only one person (have or use) a Planeswalker, which he raged quit for some reason and the AI beat me..:-).

When you do get a Planeswalker in your deck, is it just like any other Card depending on a draw, or is it played automatically at the start of a duel?

TIA for taking the time to reply!

[MortyMnemonic]

I had Gideon in my second booster. (and actually scored a physical copy of Gideon in a booster today as well. :) ) <--- happy ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Planeswalkers are regular cards that are played for mana costs. The planeswalkers in Origins are kind of special in their aspect that they are creatures first and when certain conditions are met they become planeswalkers.
Normally Planeswalkers are played as Planeswalkers without them having to "transform" first.

[sithlordofsnark]

Liliana in my 3rd booster.

[AlleyViper]

it took me around ten to get chandra

[Mjollnir49172]

Liliana in what, the 10th booster?

Actually half way in the booster farming, and 3 planeswalker.
I don't even think they're so powerful. A few full sets of rare and uncommon in a good deck do more work than a planeswalker.

[Geezasaur]

I'll keep grinding...

[Rhym]

Got Jace around pack 50 as my first, so I'm quite unlucky. Normally you would have a 1/16 (5/80) chance of getting a planeswalker, with the chance increasing slightly for each other pack you open.

[Harmonica]

The only way we can guess at it is if people post how many mythics they have in their collection versus how many boosters they've opened.

So far my rate is about 1/7 boosters for a mythic, with no planeswalkers (but I have a Woodland Bellower and Archangel of Tithes, which are nice cards - and I opened a Nissa during a draft in normal Magic the other day!). But maybe it's like paper Magic, which is also about 1/7 (slightly different per set, and because there's a foil mythic in 1/72 boosters). I think each colour in Duels has 2 mythics including the planeswalkers. I also think that everyone receives a mythic in their first booster (yet to hear anyone say they didn't).

Based on that it seems like 1/11 would be a good estimate? (a 50/50 chance to open a planeswalker every 7 boosters - which increases over time.. but my maths is not good enough to work out how that affects it!).

[Mjollnir49172]

Originally posted by Harmonica:

The only way we can guess at it is if people post how many mythics they have in their collection versus how many boosters they've opened.

So far my rate is about 1/7 boosters for a mythic, with no planeswalkers (but I have a Woodland Bellower and Archangel of Tithes, which are nice cards - and I opened a Nissa during a draft in normal Magic the other day!). But maybe it's like paper Magic, which is also about 1/7 (slightly different per set, and because there's a foil mythic in 1/72 boosters). I think each colour in Duels has 2 mythics including the planeswalkers. I also think that everyone receives a mythic in their first booster (yet to hear anyone say they didn't).

Based on that it seems like 1/11 would be a good estimate? (a 50/50 chance to open a planeswalker every 7 boosters - which increases over time.. but my maths is not good enough to work out how that affects it!).

I didn't get a mythical in my first booster, it was slightly after the 10th.

And for the odds:

Originally posted by rhym:

Normally you would have a 1/16 (5/80) chance of getting a planeswalker, with the chance increasing slightly for each other pack you open.

[Harmonica]

That assumes the chance of the rare slot being a mythic is not otherwise weighted.

[Mjollnir49172]

Originally posted by Harmonica:

That assumes the chance of opening a mythic is equal to opening a rare.

Yes, assuming each card has the same chance to appear, with 70 rare and 10 mythical.
That's seems simple and believable.

[Vintage Viking Gamer]

5th booster, Gideon..a few later I got Nissa and I pulled a Liliana a couple of days after that. Havent bought that many packs..but as its all random, GL opening your Packs!

[Harmonica]

Originally posted by Mjollnir49172:

Originally posted by Harmonica:

That assumes the chance of opening a mythic is equal to opening a rare.

Yes, assuming each card has the same chance to appear, with 70 rare and 10 mythical.
That's seems simple and believable.

If that includes opening two of each rare, then it's likely correct. That's more or less what the ratio in paper Magic is like (per sheet they usually print more copies of each rare than the mythics).

[Creedence Cliffracer Revival]

Took me like 12 to get my first Mythic. No luck since

[franczesko]

Got Jace in first booster

[rubyeye]

In my first 20 packs I got Chandra and Nissa, so far.