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Hello everyone. I'm new to this card game and bought myself a ton of cards since I thought it was interesting. I noticed that out of the 560 cards I've obtained that I only gotten 8 Lost souls cards in total.
I was wondering what the chances are of getting lost soul cards because based on what I got it'd only be a 1.43% chance. I find to be extremely low since I learned you need 1 soul for every 7 cards in your deck. This percentage feels like it'd be meant for rare and ultra rare cards.

In case it's important I had bought a card grab box, 5 Patriach booster packs, and gotten a free Priest booster pack.

So was my luck just that bad or is this normal? I find it confusing since I was able to obtain quite a few ultra rare cards, but barely any souls.

Quote from: YukiNeko9 on June 19, 2017, 10:22:08 AM

Hello everyone. I'm new to this card game and bought myself a ton of cards since I thought it was interesting. I noticed that out of the 560 cards I've obtained that I only gotten 8 Lost souls cards in total.
I was wondering what the chances are of getting lost soul cards because based on what I got it'd only be a 1.43% chance. I find to be extremely low since I learned you need 1 soul for every 7 cards in your deck. This percentage feels like it'd be meant for rare and ultra rare cards.

In case it's important I had bought a card grab box, 5 Patriarch booster packs, and gotten a free Priest booster pack.

So was my luck just that bad or is this normal? I find it confusing since I was able to obtain quite a few ultra rare cards, but barely any souls.

Just seems like bad luck. i have way too many souls that i've gotten from packs. Did you buy a box of cards? if so, what set? did you buy a large lot of cards from someone?

I got the 500 card grab box and got 6 booster packs. All were obtained from Cactus website.

Most people start with the starter decks and get 14 lost souls off the bat.  Getting no ability lost souls out of packs is usually considered a bad thing for this reason, so there are probably less of them in there for that reason.

There were no Lost Soul cards printed in Patriarchs so that's why you didn't get any in those packs. There were a handful of Lost Souls printed in Priests but it was a very large set so getting a Lost Soul in that pack is unlikely (when you only have one).

If you bought the grab bag from Cactus, I believe that is put together from sets that did not have very many Lost Souls which is why you got so few.

So I think it was more just the particular items you purchased that don't have as many Lost Soul cards as some other sets do.

If you're just starting out, I highly recommend purchasing a starter deck set. That will give you two ready to play decks (50 cards each) that contain 7 Lost Souls each.

Oh I see. Sigh, guess I should've done more research. I just assumed there'd be a lot of lost souls in any of the sets since they're needed in all decks. 😬

If you're looking to get a variety of Lost Soul cards with special abilities, I'm sure someone could put together a fairly inexpensive package for you. While there are a couple of Lost Souls from the most recent sets that are much more expensive, a lot of the older ones are still useful and not very expensive.

I could even probably come up with something if you're interested in doing that.

threelionsgaming.com has multiple lost soul packs you can buy for relatively cheap that are fine for beginners

https://www.threelionsgaming.com/deck-builders

here is the link to their deck builders page where you can find packs with specific themes you may want to try along with soul packs that also come with dominants!

this is a pretty great deal for $20 as it includes everything you would need for a better than average starter deck

https://www.threelionsgaming.com/_p/prd4/4080167241/product/souls-n-sites

Argh...that is being worked on.

Quote from: kariusvega on June 19, 2017, 11:41:46 AM

threelionsgaming.com has multiple lost soul packs you can buy for relatively cheap that are fine for beginners

https://www.threelionsgaming.com/deck-builders

here is the link to their deck builders page where you can find packs with specific themes you may want to try along with soul packs that also come with dominants!

this is a pretty great deal for $20 as it includes everything you would need for a better than average starter deck

https://www.threelionsgaming.com/_p/prd4/4080167241/product/souls-n-sites

Thanks for the link. I'll take a look at it.
Haven't really looked through that site much so didn't notice that. Mainly due to the website being very laggy and freezing a lot. 😓