Excellent! It has been forever since someone besides myself has made an edit not related to gemp, and I have to say it's nice to see that someone's actually reading the stuff I put up!
I think most of the changes you made were justifiable (in a lot of cases they added info that I simply didn't have), but in some cases I think we have a conflict of info here. So, we'll just need to duke it out in here to get our sources in order. I'm going to go edit-by-edit in this topic, since there's no wiki talk page that I'm aware of within the wiki itself.
I'll start with
http://lotrtcgwiki.com/wiki/rarity . I'm using the compare feature; you can follow along by
following this link here.
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First three edits are solid. I've been meaning to write more detail about foils myself, since I found a starter rulebook paragraph that actually listed the exact chances of each type of foil (1 in X for common foil, 1 in Y for uncommon, etc), which only averages out to the 1 in 6 figure that everyone refers to.
Out of curiosity, do you have a link to the ebay auction (at least, I assume it was ebay) where 0P127 sold for that much? That kind of thing would be good to link as a reference.
These were distributed in 18-card booster packs composed of 2 random rares from //Reflections// and 16 random cards from all previous sets (this was a way for Decipher to dump some of their overstock).
Now, I can't seem to find where I pulled my info from, but I imagine if you edited this then you've got solid info. Just wanted to clarify: are you getting that from having opened boosters yourself, or from information from elsewhere? Not challenging you, just want to be aware of the source.
Starting with the //Shadows// set, alternate versions of select cards were reprinted as the "Legends" series, which served to decrease the number of cards available to collectors because the parallel foil sets were discontinued. Legends-series cards were always foil, and marked with the RF rarity to differentiate them from their non-Legends counterpart.
(your changes in red, just like it's shown in the comparison).
I think this is one part where my original didn't express itself properly. Where it said "increase the number of cards available to collectors", I had originally meant the total number of numbered cards to collect, as in, collectors now had a larger checklist before their collection was "complete". However, I can see how that could have been taken in the exact opposite meaning (probably because of the word "available"), as your edit maintains.
I would therefore propose something like this (edits in green to mean proposed but not pushed changes):
Starting with the //Shadows// set, alternate versions of select cards were reprinted as the "Legends" series meant to represent particularly popular cards or concepts. This increased the total number of cards to collect while at the same time making these additions quite rare, as eventually during the set's lifetime these alternate cards would be discontinued. Legends-series cards were always foil, and marked with the RF rarity to differentiate them from their non-Legends counterpart.
Thoughts? The remaining edits on that page are all solid (formatting excepted, but I've already fixed that).
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Next with
http://lotrtcgwiki.com/wiki/starter pack ,
compare here.
First edit's solid.
The rest is mostly solid (I liked the bit about printing, I had never even thought about that), but I do want to bring up these lines:
To offset the fact that veteran players would not need the starter packs, Decipher included cards that could only be found in starters inside most boxes.
Unlike other starter sets, Deluxe starters did not include starter-only cards.
At first I thought you were referring to the S rarity cards in Shadows/Black Rider, but that second line means this is referring to Movie block as well (since that's when the deluxe starters existed). I didn't think this was the case during Movie block, and I'm 80% certain that I've received
The One Ring, The Ruling Ring in a booster before (the other cards aren't as prominent for me to recall whether or not I ever received one in a booster). Do we have any other info confirming this? I mean, it makes sense, I've just literally never heard it before.
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Thanks again for your input! It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy to have more than just me looking into all this.
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