My question is this: is it possible for a player to pull the following in a Dragon's maze pre-release limited pool?

1) Boros Reckoner (Gatecrash Rare)
2) Foundry Champion (Gatecrash Rare)
3) Firemane Avenger (Gatecrash Rare)
4) Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius (Return to Ravnica Mythic Rare)

Essentially, it was brought to my attention that a player in tonight's pre-release had all 4 of these cards in their deck. He chose Boros as his “primary” guild, and received Izzet as his secondary. He claimed to have received the Boros Reckoner and Niv-Mizzet in his Izzet guildpack, Foundry Champion and Firemane Avenger in his Boros guildpack.

Thanks in advance!

Nathan Stanley the Magnanimous

Well, considering that you would only get one rare per pack AND you couldn't get a RTR rare in the same guild pack as a GTC rare, I'm going to say no.

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While I don't know for certain what it's possible for the guild packs to contain, considering he's claiming to have received a Gatecrash rare in his Return to Ravnica guild pack–a rare would have been off-color for that guild pack, no less–in addition to double rares in not one but both both guild packs, I'd say chances are pretty darn good he's lying through his teeth and needs a good DQ.

Yeah, that's kind of what I figured. Thanks for the prompt responses.

It does seem there are a number of people who genuinly get 2 rares in their guild boosters:

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=506786

That still wouldn't explain a rare from a set that isn't aligned from that guild in that particular guild pack.

And from another guild …

Just curious as to if there is an answer to this and if not, what was the end result of the situation for you? (don't need to detail anything post-decision)

During the prerelease, I had a player who opened up 2x Deadbridge Goliath (rare) in his pool.

Edited Dennis Xiao (April 28, 2013 11:37:04 AM)

Although it does seem that some of the pre-release packs aren't quite right, this one seems like a particularly big stretch.

In all of the reports of multiple rares that I've heard, I've never heard of getting any from a different guild, much less a different set and a different guild. I'd be calling shenanigans on that one (and by shenanigans, I mean something more serious)….

I won't comment on the original question, as I don't know. However, two comments that I do have:
1) it's a good practice to tell players “if you open packs with an unusual distribution, please tell a Judge right away.”
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2) it still comes back to investigation; either you believe the player's story, or you decide to DQ. I'll note that it's an easier investigation if the player with the “special” pool did NOT inform a Judge right away.

I have had a player in my prerelease who had a faulty rare distribution in her Rakdos guildbooster (only commons), so I guess the guildboosters are somewhat prone to being wrongly configured…

It certainly sounds a bit odd to me - i was onhand this weekend for a total 4-5 pre-releases in my area and didnt hear of any cases of double rares or cross-set rares showing up in guild packs.

What seems more odd to me is that he essentially had 3 Boros rares to the 1 Izzet rare. The foundry Champion and firemane avenger are most definetly ‘boros’ but it strikes me as very odd having the Reckoner coming out of an Izzet guild pack. This has been the only case ive heard of even online of someone having a cross set rare in their RtR pack.

If I'm not mistaken, the guild packs only contain cards with your guilds watermark in the text box. So it would be impossible to pull a Boros card in the Izzet pack. Additionally two of them would have to be the foils of the pack. I may be wrong, but even if you could get any rare in the guild pack, the chances of this are close to astronomical.