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Originally Posted by bailey
How do you know which cards are more rare than others. Is Sisk more rare than Pipp? Are not all the iron unsung hero cards equally rare?
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The odds of pulling each should be the same, but there are bound to be some cards pulled more frequently than others. A couple weeks ago on the TWIPT stream Kris noted the diamond cards that had been pulled the fewest times. Every diamond historical card has the same chance of being pulled, but statistically the frequency of each card pulled will fall under a normal distribution. The same thing happens with the iron cards.
For example, if the average iron unsung hero was pulled 10 times, most will have been pulled between 8 and 12 times. Fewer would have been pulled 6-7 or 13-14 times. Still fewer 5 or less or 15 or more. But there are those outliers.
EDIT: The market is telling us which cards are rare, or at least which cards were rare at the start. If a card was initially rare and had a higher price, subsequent cards will see that market price and be listed at that high price even if the frequency pulled comes closer to the mean.