I've been looking forward to this since I heard about it months ago, and I'm totally hype to get import some, but so far I've had little luck finding the information I'd like to get. Right now I know there are 100 cards in the first set, 16 packs in a box (which is less then half of what a Pokemon box would be, 36 packs), and the two starter decks have cards you can only get in them (or are at least marked differently maybe?). However, that's not really enough information to make an informed decision.
I'd like to get at least one of each card in the set. If there was someone who was just selling a complete set I'd probably buy it if it was a reasonable price, however I haven't had any luck with that. So I need to buy boxes. I don't know however how many I should get to have a reasonable chance to get all of them. For one thing, I'm not sure how many cards are in a pack, for starters. Pokemon has 10 per booster pack, but I'm guessing this will be less. This should be something I should know, but I haven't been able to find it out, and obviously almost anyone here could probably tell me, so I'll just ask.
After that I'd like to know what sort of rarity the set has. I'm guessing the Common/Uncommon/Rare rarities are still present as they basically are for all TCGs, but I don't know if there are any higher, special tiers then that that I should be worried about. Since some cards seem to be going for like $30 I'm guessing there are, which is just awful but $$$ and all that. If there are I'd need to know the rate of getting those to determine how many boxes I need as well
So does anyone know any of these numbers so I can make a guess? Or if someone just has first hand experience that'd be nice too <.> Right now, just as an estimate, I'd think three boxes and the two starters should be enough to get me at least one of each, or at least enough of similar rarity that I can trade or buy the rest without breaking my bank any more then it already will be. But that's like... $250, at least, which is a lot if I go over, and if that's not even enough... I might want to just bail and buy one box and be happy with whatever I get <.>; I throw down like $180 on Pokemon every time a new set comes out I can't manage anything much more
Anyway, hope this is okay to ask. I found this forum when I was looking around and you guys seem to know way more then I'm going to be able to find out on my own