Real Talk: Codex Pulls Aren't All Spectacular...
The first pic is my Strixhaven Codex Box's top ten pulls. Pretty mediocre to downright sad, if you ask me. I was fortunate to get mine at MSRP, so it wasn't a total loss, and hey... Let's be honest: Cracking packs is its own form of payoff.
So after cracking my Codex and weeping--as is much more commonly the case than what we see here--I hit up my local comics and games shop, and snagged three boosters of Mirrodan Besieged, to lick my wounds.
Yeah, I'm a degen, like the rest of you 🤣
Anyhow, the second pic shows the pulls from three plain old, non-set, non-collector boosters. I somehow pulled [[Green Sun's Zenith]] and [[Darksteel Plate]] in back-to-back packs. And honestly, some of the uncommons and even [[Fangren Marauder]] remain powerful and useful commander cards, to this day.
This is all just to say that there is hype and there are cards that wreck games, threaten board states, and pull a Houdini-esque victory out of [[Ms. Bumbleflower]] 's bumble... Don't mistake hype for power. Don't always just buy the hype, but DO keep rolling the dice.