Our LOF Pre-Release Experience
2025/07/3-07/11: Gameplay videos and pull rate stats included.
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Table of Contents
Total Breakdown (← feel free to skip to this if you’re only interested in the stats)
7/08 - Here’s my playlist for the LOF pre-release gameplays and a deck building video at Cardboard Games:
How much we preordered
tl;dr: We preordered four boxes, three loose packs, and one each of the Spotlight decks. We also had banked packs from Magic & Monsters.
We finally used up Alyssa’s $200 store credit from her SHD PQ Finalist prizing to preorder two boxes and one each of the Spotlight decks.
![[Alyssa] Finalist at Las Vegas Planetary Qualifier](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3ukU!,w_140,h_140,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F111b548d-f412-41a7-a82b-d70159b056b8_1600x1066.jpeg)
We also used my JTL PQ judging’s $200 store credit for two boxes and three loose packs.
We also had some banked up LOF packs (31 packs total) from playing at a weekly and a store showdown at Magic and Monsters.
Our Three Pre-Releases
7/05 - Psycho Turtle Collectibles
Format: Bo3, 4 rounds (played until there’s an undefeated player), 19 Players. https://melee.gg/Tournament/View/334800
We both went 2-2. Alyssa squeezed into 8th for prizing, I placed 9th.
Our Two Kits:
Legendary: 2 regular, 1 HS, 1 foil
Rare: 10 regular, 1 HSF base
Our Two Packs Prizing:
Legendary: 0
Rare: 2 regular, 1 HS
7/05 - Magic & Monsters
Format: Bo3, 4 rounds (idk, there were two undefeated), 20 Players.
https://melee.gg/Tournament/View/331532
We both went 3-1. We each got three packs as prizing.
They apparently added more packs to the prize pool (idk how many more) and prized out to all X-1 and better.
Our Two Kits:
Showcase: Barriss Offee
Legendary: 3 regular
Rare: 7 R, 1 foil, 1 HSF, 2 base,
Special: 1 foil
[Prizing + banked packs details below]
7/08 - Cardboard Games
Format: Bo1, 5 rounds, 28 Players, https://melee.gg/Tournament/View/335328
Alyssa went 3-2, I went 4-1. Prizing is pack-per-win.
Our Two Kits:
Legendary: 2 regular
Rare: 9 regular, 2 foil, 1 HS, 1 base
Our Seven Packs Prizing:
Legendary: 2 regular
Rare: 5 regular, 1 foil
Special: 1 foil
7/10 - Cardboard Games
Format: Bo1, 5 rounds, 8 Players. https://melee.gg/Tournament/View/338781
Alyssa went 1-3, I didn’t play.
Her Kit:
Legendary: 1 regular
Rare: 3 regular, 2 regular base, 1 foil base
Her One Pack Prizing:
Rare: 1 regular
Our Preorder Pull Rate Stats
Two Boxes + Three Packs (Fire and Dice)
Legendary: 10 regular, 1 foil, 1 HS
Rare: 38 regular, 2 foil, 3 HS, 1 HSF, 3 bases
Special: 1 Foil
Thirty Nine Packs (Magic & Monsters)
[31 Banked packs + 8 pre-release participation/prizing packs (1+3 each)]
Showcase: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Legendary: 8 regular, 1 foil, 1 HS, 2 HSF
Rare: 28 regular, 1 foil, 4 HS, 3 bases,
Special: 1 HS, 1 foil
Two Boxes + Two (Spotlight) Packs(Knight and Day Games)
Didn’t open these yet.
Total Breakdown
Recap on total opened products:
Two boxes
Seven pre-release kits + 58 packs (participation/prizing/banked) = 100 packs = ~4.16 boxes
Others:
2 Showcases
36 Legendaries
50 Rares
5 Specials
Total cost (pre-releases + preorder): $320 pre-releases + $406.29 ($400 were store credit, and, again, didn’t open two boxes + two Spotlight decks yet)
The Magic & Monsters’ JTL events for banked up packs: +$40
Conclusion
I’ve already traded away the Obi-Wan showcase for my Set 5 wants so far. I’m still looking to sell/trade away the Barriss Showcase and any of my LOF extras.
Onto LOF playtesting for GC!