Booster/Box Contents & Variations (Holo/Foil/Len)

[Mirth]

So, after buying 8 of the 'Card Power Packs' and looking a little closer at the contents, I came up with a few interesting observations.  First, there is an interesting variation with the "Circle of Fire" (Foil, 37B) card.  I sort of remember someone mentioning this in another thread, but I never saw a pic, so here is the variation:



As you can see, the variant card is much more flexible/powerful than the normal version.  Kinda cool.  Not sure if this card can be played 'as-is' or if there is some sort of errata for it.  Anyways, I was surprised to see the difference when I was sorting it into my set.

The second observation goes back to my theory on the 4/4 (normal/special) breakdown for each of the colored blocks of ability cards.  (Look at the first post for more detail)  In my 8 packs, I got no (zero) normal cards from the second half of each color block.  So to put this another way, besides the holographic and foil cards, the where absolutely no cards from any set in the 29-32, 37-40, 45-48 blocks.  This is a major bummer, imho.  I guess in order to maintain the rarity of the cards within the sets, the special ones seen in the front of the card packs can not be found as normals inside.  Now, I could have been astronomically unlucky (something like (1/2^40), and got 40 normal cards just the first half of each block by chance, but when you consider the rarity issue, it just makes sense that they would do it that way.  

Actually, it doesn't make sense, not totally...  from each set there are 12 cards in the 'normal' blocks and 12 cards in the 'special' blocks.  Since each pack contains 5 of 7 cards from the normal block and 2 of 7 cards from the special block you end up with many more cards (2 and a half times more) from the first half of each block.  Now there may be something else in place which equalizes out this discrepancy.  Perhaps the "Card Power Houses" have a higher rate of second block cards, maybe the figures themselves come with more second block cards.  I don't know.  Maybe no one else thought about it and the rarity for the second block is just skewed.

And my third observation is that I found my first card that would break my theory for a foil/foil/holo/holo special block.  Pack 20020689 (Dan's Launcher/Summon Wave) has been the only pack where there is a card which breaks the cycle.  Summon Wave #40 is the 4th card in second half of the blue ability card block, and it appears in this pack as a Foil, when it should be a Holographic version.  I'm pretty close now to a set of foil/foil/holo/holo for all the blocks in each set (missing 6 as of now) and besides Marionette which I haven't seen, all the others I'm missing seem to fit the pattern.  So, what does this mean?  I'm not sure, maybe there's a Holo Summon Wave as a random holo from the "Card Power House", maybe its just a mistake, or maybe my theory for special cards within the sets is wrong.  I don't know, but if you happen to see a holographic Summon Wave, I would like to find out where it came from.

Hope some of this was interesting.    

Cheers~
 Mirth

[Mirth]

nice work. The codes can be used to track the contents of the 5 card packs as well. So let me know if you find any packs of the regular 48 card set ( no letter )

Ya, I kinda sucked up all the packs from the first set that I could find in my local area.  Walmart had them on clearance for $1 back around February and that's when I opened alot of those packs.  That's also when I noticed there was the UPC code for each set.  Didn't really think about cataloging what was in them at the time.  But I still keep my eyes open when I travel around.

Cheers~
 Mirth

[Lux]

My CoF card has completley different artwork... Is that a special version, save for the fact that one is foil?

[Mirth]

My CoF card has completley different artwork... Is that a special version, save for the fact that one is foil?

Card #9/15A has the same name but comes from a different set.  Does it look like this:



Otherwise, I don't know. 

Cheers~
 Mirth

[Obito]

i bet thats it. becaus in the bakudome i remember someone saying "i use circle of fire, (insert color here) version." thanks for showing us the 2 cards, cause i've only seen the blue version.

[Mirth]

Sorry for this double post.

Power House Pack with barcode R2 variation.
Holo Sub Terra 2 and Lenticular Marionette in front of box.

These were the cards wrapped together with the Sub Terra 2 in this order.
Holo Sub Terra 2 47/48b
Foil Power Triangle 38/48c
Lenticular Summon Wave 40/48
Perfect Aim 27/48b
G-Power Increase 36/48c
Flowing Waters 42/48c
Marucho's Launcher 27/48c
Unexpected Guest 28/48b
G-Power Boost 34/48
Force Wind 3/48b
Sirenoid 12/48c
Lock & Load 18/48c
Dusk 5/48
Low Energy 4/48b
Gargonoid 9/48

Marionette wrapped cards
Lenticular Marionette 31/48b
Foil Darkus 2 45/48b
Holo Clean Slate 29/48b
Haos 2 42/48b
Pyrus 41/48
Masquerade's Launcher 26/48c
Blaze 36/48
Touch with Fire 41/48c
Dark Growth 36/48b
Catch-Up 17/48G
G-Power Exchange 22/48b
Powder Keg 2/48c
Terrorclaw 12/48
G-Power Swap 17/48c
Rattlenoid 13/48c

Hope you get some nice info from this.

Thanks for providing the list.     I didn't have all the cards from the box written down but at least I see that special variation cards you pulled matched up with the ones I pulled from the same type of box.  As I listed in the first post, I got Len Summon Wave (40), Len Marionette (31B), Holo SubTerra 2 (47B), Holo Clean Slate (29B), Foil Power Triangle (38C), and Foil Darkus 2 (45B).  So at least this means there isn't random special cards below the 2 cards in the window.  That narrows down the possible variation cards at least.

Cheers~
 Mirth

[Stronger]

Glad I can be of some help. I'll post more when I get some more.

[Stronger]

It was on sale for $9 at my Walmart so I felt like I had to lol.

Just bought another Card Power House Pack R2.

Dans Throw 30/48 Holo
Triangle of Power 37/48c Foil
Special Crush 39/48b Lenticular
Runo's Throw 27/48
Darkfire Color Shift 33/48c
Tigrerra 44/48b
Help From Friends 43/48
Runo's Launcher 25/48c
Brushfire 35/48c
Light-Burst 3/48
Monarus 9/48c
Tricky Gate 20/48b
Special Help 22/48c
Elevated Field 2/48b
Fourtress 11/48c

Shun's Launcher 31/48c Lenticular
Darkus 45/48 Foil
Bee Striker 47/48c Holo
Siege Switch 42/48
Darkfire Color Shift 33/48c
Masquerade's Launcher 26/48c
Lightwind Color Shift 34/48c
Aquos 44/48
Julie's Launcher 28/48c
Duck & Win 18/48
Lone Wolf 14/48c
Aquos Vortex 1/48c
Harpus 10/48c
Stand off 20/48
Vacuum 5/48c

[Seiki]

So want the Monarus Gate.

[RyCon]

Alright, today I found the New Vestroia Card Powerhouse boxes at Target. They were on sale sorta... They had four different boxes. These were the only ones they had so I got them all. lol



Here is the UPC coding.

• New Vestroia Card Powerhouse Boxes
  T64340_0019_20021759_GBL_WB_R1
  Contents
  39i Lenticular, 29e Lenticular, 46i Foil, 37i foil, 32i Holo, 45e Holo,
  36i, 44i, 36e, 27e, 41e, 42i, 16i, 17i, 12e, 2e, 22i, 17e, 45e, 29e, 37i, 34i, 28i, 25e, 44e, 33e, 27i, 9e, 4i, 5e, 19e, 10i, 3i,
  
  T64340_0019_20021760_GBL_WB_R1
  Contents
  46e Lenticular, 31i Lenticular, 40i Foil, 29i Foil, 48e Holo, 39e Holo,
  34i, 44e, 27i, 42e, 5i, 20e, 11e, 4e, 13e, 18e, 35i, 28i, 43e, 44i, 36e, 27e, 12i, 2i, 21e, 20i, 9e, 3e,
  
  T64340_0019_20021761_GBL_WB_R1
  Contents
  37e Lenticular, 45i Lenticular, 32e Foil,46i Foil, 40e Holo, 31e Holo,
  36i, 26e, 43i, 41e, 35e, 26i, 12i, 2e, 23e, 19i, 11e, 1i, 29e, 41i, 34e, 25e, 33e, 43e, 6i, 18i, 10e, 3i, 15e, 19e,
  
  T64340_0019_20021762_GBL_WB_R1
  Contents
  46e Lenticular, 29e Lenticular, 37i Foil, 29i Foil, 39e Holo,48e Holo,
  28e, 43i, 35e, 34i, 42e, 41i, 13i, 19i, 10i, 4e, 21i, 17i, 33i, 25i, 26i, 42i, 35i, 26e, 9i, 1i, 7e, 17e, 11i, 1e
  
  
  

[Admin]

you rock!!! lol  great info  i gotta check my target friday and see if they gottem....

[Stronger]

you rock!!! lol  great info  i gotta check my target friday and see if they gottem....

Dang, I gotta go too then. I need more NV cards.

[AquosPlayer]

ive got no n.v cards yet, gna look out for them though

[Mirth]

Alright, today I found the New Vestroia Card Powerhouse boxes at Target. They were on sale sorta... They had four different boxes. These were the only ones they had so I got them all. lol

• New Vestroia Card Powerhouse Boxes
  T64340_0019_20021759_GBL_WB_R1
  Contents
  39i Lenticular, 29e Lenticular, 46i Foil, 37i foil, 32i Holo, 45e Holo,
  36i, 44i, 36e, 27e, 41e, 42i, 16i, 17i, 12e, 2e, 22i, 17e, 45e, 29e, 37i, 34i, 28i, 25e, 44e, 33e, 27i, 9e, 4i, 5e, 19e, 10i, 3i,
  
  T64340_0019_20021760_GBL_WB_R1
  Contents
  46e Lenticular, 31i Lenticular, 40i Foil, 29i Foil, 48e Holo, 39e Holo,
  34i, 44e, 27i, 42e, 5i, 20e, 11e, 4e, 13e, 18e, 35i, 28i, 43e, 44i, 36e, 27e, 12i, 2i, 21e, 20i, 9e, 3e,
  
  T64340_0019_20021761_GBL_WB_R1
  Contents
  37e Lenticular, 45i Lenticular, 32e Foil,46i Foil, 40e Holo, 31e Holo,
  36i, 26e, 43i, 41e, 35e, 26i, 12i, 2e, 23e, 19i, 11e, 1i, 29e, 41i, 34e, 25e, 33e, 43e, 6i, 18i, 10e, 3i, 15e, 19e,
  
  T64340_0019_20021762_GBL_WB_R1
  Contents
  46e Lenticular, 29e Lenticular, 37i Foil, 29i Foil, 39e Holo,48e Holo,
  28e, 43i, 35e, 34i, 42e, 41i, 13i, 19i, 10i, 4e, 21i, 17i, 33i, 25i, 26i, 42i, 35i, 26e, 9i, 1i, 7e, 17e, 11i, 1e
  
  
  

Wow, Very nice! Thanks!  In a way sort of surprised that these are from only card sets E and I.  I guess that means set D will be exclusive to coming with the marbles only.  This also means that certain variation cards get doubled up since they are only spread out over 2 sets.  I noticed that, unlike with the first set of boxes, you got doubles of certain special variation cards; (Len29E, Holo39E, Len46E, Holo48E, Foil29I, Foil37I, and Foil46I).  But, on a more positive note, if you picked up boxes 59, 60 and 61, you would have all the different variation cards, since 62 will just contain repeats.  Also looks like variation cards will stick to appearing in the last half of each color block only (29-32, 37-40, and 45-48).

Thanks again, very nice info!   

~Cheers,
 Mirth

[Mirth]

Picked up a few more Card Power Packs, here are the contents:

20020678
39C Special Bump (holographic)
27   Runo’s Throw
34B G-Power Bonus
43C See The Light
26B Meeting Place
46C Ground (foil)
3   Light Burst
10B Ravenoid
19C Lift
7  Tornado Alley

20020684
38B Special Boost (holographic)
28  Shun’s Throw
33B Flash
44 Aquos
41C Touch Of Fire
30B A Hand Up (foil)
4   Tsunami
9B  Limulus
20  Stand Off
24 Stand Your Ground

20020685
47C Bee Striker (Holographic)
26B Meeting Place
35C Brush Fire
41B Aquos 2
34B G-Power Bonus
29C Stealin’ (foil)
2B Elevated Field
11C Fourtress
17B Drag
14C Lone Wolf

20020687
40C Special Boost (holographic)
26 Julie’s Throw
33C Darkfire Color Shift
44B Tigrerra
41B Aquos 2
30C Combo Battle (foil)
2  Muddy Ground
9C  Monarus
20B Tricky Gate
22  Card Force

Cheers~
 Mirth