u/LordTetravus

As someone who grew up as a giant Expanded Universe fan in the 90s, this is one of my favorite things I have in my collection!

As a massive Expanded Universe fan who grew up in the 90s, played the game and read the books, this is one of my favorite things I have in my collection!

Scaly sausage Winter, assuming a position the human spine can only dream of. 🤣

An intact sheet of perforated coupons that Google Lens/Translate suggests were redeemable for milk and beef in the cafeteria of Isuzu Motors.

Found neatly folded and used as a bookmark in an antique book on early Japanese history, and thus preserved for at least 50+ years.

It's not clear to me from the computer translation and limited information I could find of exactly when these date from, but it appears sometime post-1945 through the early 1970s.

An intact sheet of perforated coupons that Google Lens/Translate suggests were redeemable for milk and beef in the cafeteria of Isuzu Motors.

Found neatly folded and used as a bookmark in an antique book on early Japanese history, and thus preserved for at least 50+ years.

It's not clear to me from the computer translation and limited information I could find of exactly when these date from, but it appears sometime post-1945 through the early 1970s.

This is a thin book on the history of the Russo-Japanese War that is copyrighted 1904, and tries to be a serious history - but appears to have been published and rushed out the door *immediately* after the fall of Port Arthur in January 1905 as that is the last event discussed by the author!

Pretty fascinating snapshot in time, because the author writes at the very end of the book that the fall of Port Arthur 'marks the final chapter' in the war....

The Battle of Mukden and the naval Battle of Tsushima, certainly the most important events of the entire war, apparently hadn't happened yet when this book went to publication! 😲 Such a tiny window of time for this to be written.

Does your skink ever give off the "I am Dinosaur" vibes? 😂

I opened a sealed case of Arthurian Legends tonight with my daughter, that I acquired from a business partner.

We always open all the packs we buy, but she has been very interested in the art of pack weighing beforehand to predict foils and hits after seeing it on YouTube, and we've experimented doing it with Lorcana, Godzilla, and Pokémon with high success rates.

Now, the results of our Sorcery experiments appear to indicate that they can also be weighed to find foils. Honestly, this seemed obvious to me from the beginning as Sorcery foils plainly have more 'material' on them.

I don't see much previous discussion on this, so I share this information for transparency and anyone who might buy loose packs.

We opened 144 packs in total from the 6 box case, and as normal when we do this, we removed all the packs from their boxes, shuffled them, and weighed them in random order.

We first weighed some cards I already owned for reference, using a 100 gram jewelry scale that measures to hundredths.

A regular Sorcery card, nonfoil, regardless of rarity, appears to weigh about 1.70-1.72 grams. Thus, uniques, for example, could not be identified by pack weight, unlike early Lorcana sets.

Both an elite and unique foil from Arthurian Legends we checked weighed the same, 1.82 grams. Thus, we expected that the heaviest packs would contain foils.

In weighing the packs, we divided them into three categories:

- 26.60 grams and over - 24 packs

- Between 26.50-26.59 grams - 37 packs

- Under 26.50 grams (the largest pile by far) - 83 packs

The heaviest pack we weighed was 26.71 grams, and the lightest was 26.32 grams. This was a larger range than we expected.

Of the packs weighing at least 26.60 grams, 22 of the 24 identified contained foils, or 91.7%.

Of the 83 packs that were under 26.50 grams, only 4 contained foils, or 4.8%. The non-foil Ring of Morrigan was in this stack in a pack with no foil.

The middle stack was our best guess/maybe stack and was unpredictable - of 37 packs, 17, or 45.9%, contained foils. The foil Ring of Morrigan pictured came from this stack.

We compared the weights of the two Rings and found again that their weight differed by about a tenth of a gram - 1.71 and 1.82.

Ultimately, we concluded that a pack weighing at least 26.50 grams has a likelihood of containing a foil nearly two thirds of the time, and a pack over 26.59 grams was a high probability.

I don't know if this is limited to Arthurian Legends, just this print run, or if this is accurate for all Sorcery cards, but I hope this is helpful information to make you a more careful buyer and collector.

Happy to answer any questions if I can.

I'm shocked... shocked at this development, I tell you!

(Gotta rub it in a little bit. 😜)

Original Odyssey foils, [[Dwarven Recruiter]] on deck.

I'm a King collector and book dealer, and I'm constantly looking for restocks as I blow through Kings with my customers.

A colleague let me know about a man who had previously bought out a closed bookstore's inventory, and was looking to sell in bulk. I completely filled my car with Kings 😂

Mostly general stock, but any buy that has a Black Book is usually a winner, and this one had three! Not pristine copies, but still awesome.

My kiddo and I opened a case of Wilds Unknown today (four boxes) and opened three enchanteds, including two in the same box (both coincidentally featuring the same character, Isabella Madrigal).

We've opened a *lot* of Lorcana and this is a record for us in terms of enchanteds in a case (never more than two, and is only the second time I have ever opened two enchanteds in a box (First Chapter - Elsa and Mickey in back to back packs in what I assume was an error).

Having both occur in the same case seems very odd, has anyone else had this kind of surprising result with a single case of Wilds?

(Fourth card pictured is a Pete enchanted from Set 2; kiddo also picked out, as she often does, a lucky box and pulled it in the first six packs today.)

Guest starring her favorite stuffed animal Lambie, drawn by excellent artist Priscilla at Disney World yesterday!

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It turned out better than I could have ever expected! 🥰

We discovered freeze dried superworms being sold by a vendor at a reptile convention locally and Winter absolutely loves them. She will take them right from my hand very gently and crunch them with clearly great relish, and will root around for any pieces that fall from her mouth. They mix in well with food too!

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So much easier than live ones, which she turned her snoot up at.

Winter crawled into my slipper and eventually seemed to get a bit stuck when trying to turn around. She was not pleased. 😝 It did provide a good opportunity to trim her hypodermic needles... I mean nails, since she wasn't trying to run away.

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That's our silly girl's default setting, find a hidey hole, no matter how. 😂

Our northern bluey, Winter, seems to default to "under her water dish" (usually after befouling or walking through it 🤣) as her favorite place to rest. The dish is on the cool (right) side of her tank.

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Is this normal behavior, do they like the weight or something, like humans like weighted blankets? And could we offer anything that might replace the dish for this?

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I'm constantly seeing her with the dish literally on top of her head or making me nervous that it's squishing her or a limb on some fundamental way, but she's always going back to it.

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Any help appreciated, we want to give her comfort and security but also not have to worry about her hurting herself!