You of course all remember my 2012-13 OPC Hockey box break review in which I pulled not one, but two patches that are seeded roughly one in 3 boxes.
Well, I just happened to be by a card shop the other day, and I decided to buy, among other things, four more packs of this year's OPC as I'm still working on the base and retro sets.
I picked up a couple of legends and a rookie, so 3 SP's in four packs wasn't too bad........... and then in pack three I found this.
This surprise, unannounced insert set consists of 36 cards and are found at a rate of 1:960 packs.
Or, 1 in 30 boxes, which is 2 1/2 cases.
The chances of pulling a Brett Hull is 1:34560 packs.
That's a lot of packs.
The cards are 2/3 the size of regular cards, and the auto is a facsimile.
My apologies for the crappy scan. Due to the white borders it won't scan, and I can't crop out the dark background I used due to the deckel edge.
EDIT: Just for Casey, the checklist....
1 | Alexander Ovechkin |
2 | Alexandre Burrows |
3 | Antti Niemi |
4 | Bobby Orr |
5 | Brett Hull |
6 | Carey Price |
7 | Claude Giroux |
8 | Curtis Joseph |
9 | Daniel Alfredsson |
10 | Drew Doughty |
11 | Eric Lindros |
12 | Erik Karlsson |
13 | Henrik Lundqvist |
14 | Ilya Kovalchuk |
15 | Jaromir Jagr |
16 | Jason Spezza |
17 | Joe Sakic |
18 | John Tavares |
19 | Jonathan Toews |
20 | Jordan Eberle |
21 | Mario Lemieux |
22 | Martin Brodeur |
23 | MilanLucic |
24 | Nicklas Lidstrom |
25 | Ondrej Pavelec |
26 | P.K. Subban |
27 | Patrick Roy |
28 | Patrick Sharp |
29 | Pavel Datsyuk |
30 | Pelle Lindbergh |
31 | Roberto Luongo |
32 | Ryan Nugent-Hopkins |
33 | Sidney Crosby |
34 | Teemu Selanne |
35 | Wayne Gretzky |
36 | Wendel Clark |
Yes, I would say that OPC loves you too.
ReplyDeleteVery nice pull!
With luck like this, you should buy a lottery ticket soon!
ReplyDeleteWow! That is a gem.....with those odds, I am surprised they didn't get actual autos, but then again....wow..
ReplyDeleteWait a minute...the insert set is a standard, un-numbered insert set that while cool, has odds equal to a 1/1 auto/patch/rookie/blood sample card in most releases, and it's a FACSIMILE AUTO!!!??? What is going on here? I thought O-Pee-Chee was the "master collector" set? No way anyone would be able to complete that insert set without some major coinage. Plus, the autos aren't even real. Despite how cool that card looks, the existence of this sort of outrages me in a passive resistance kind of way.
ReplyDeleteNever tell me the odds!
ReplyDeleteAwesome pull... congratulations!
ReplyDeletecongrats!
ReplyDeleteI really like that card. I'm too lazy to look it up, so I'll ask you: do you know the checklist?
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