Do English booster boxes contain guaranteed hits?

I saw a TCG vending machine that was selling loose booster packs of English OP16. I'm curious to know if it's worth purchasing from it but I know that Japanese booster boxes contain guaranteed hits in them due to Japan's anti-gambling laws. So these TCG vending machine owners will often take out the guaranteed hit from the Japanese box and then sell the loose dead packs since they know there's nothing valuable in them.

Is the same case for the English version?

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u/Unsubscribed24 — 4 days ago

Pitch Black dead on arrival?

It releases this Friday yet I'm not seeing much hype for it. It's a pretty mid set in my opinion, a lot of the artwork just feels generic and uninspired. Most likely it'll be similar to Chaos Rising in terms of popularity, another set that was pretty mediocre. Even the popular pack rip livestreamers don't seem to have much excitement for it.

Heck there was a lot more excitement for the Ascended Heroes and Prismatic Evolutions restock that EBgames had a few weeks ago and that was only available for one day.

Everyone is clearly saving money for both the 30th Anniversary and Delta Reign which will be the real hitters.

What do you guys think?

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u/Unsubscribed24 — 10 days ago

What's the deal with this card?

I'm out of the loop, why is it going for $5k? Is it made out of solid gold or something?

u/Unsubscribed24 — 1 month ago

One Piece this Friday?

Sorry not sure where to post this, I heard that One Piece OP16 will be releasing this Friday, would stores like Big W stock it?

Or is it going to be another case of yesterday's bloodbath with the toy sale?

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u/Unsubscribed24 — 1 month ago

Not really feeling it with Pitch Black

It's no secret that Perfect Order was a dud set with its mid chase cards. Chaos Rising recently came out and while it's better than PO it still feels like another mid set.

I'm looking at PB and can't help but feel it's shaping up to be another mixture of PO/CR in terms of popularity. The main chase card being Mega Darkrai and... not much else in all honesty. The Slowbro card looks ok I guess but that's about it.

I guess we'll have to wait to see the set after it. If it has a Mega-Rayquaza as the chase card then I anticipate it to be another Ascended Heroes level of hype.

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u/Unsubscribed24 — 2 months ago

Why was Ascended Heroes so immensely popular?

It's only around 5 months old yet it's so crazy popular that I counted at least 12 cards in that set that go for hundreds and hundreds of dollars.

Was it supply issues?

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u/Unsubscribed24 — 2 months ago