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...that there seem to be about as many rares as commons in a given set?
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Anyone Else Find It Odd...
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Personally, not really, if you consider that they do have to give out 1 rare per pack. It would seem that they're trying to make it so that the rares are still fairly rare with the sheer numbers of unique rare cards, so you're not getting the same rare every third pack.
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Rarity isn't about how many of them are in the set, it's about the likelyhood of pulling a given card from a pack. There could be 20 commons in a set and 20 holographics, and the ratio of pulling a holo from a pack can still be 1:4 as opposed to commons, which is more like 7:1.
On an aside, there is a kind of sub-rarity within cards, where you are more likely to get a specific rare card than you are any others. The best example I can give is from the Japanese Lost Link set, the most recent set released in Japan; there are four prime cards in that set, all with the same rarity symbol (ultra-rare), but you are much less likely to pull a Mew prime than any other prime.
On an aside, there is a kind of sub-rarity within cards, where you are more likely to get a specific rare card than you are any others. The best example I can give is from the Japanese Lost Link set, the most recent set released in Japan; there are four prime cards in that set, all with the same rarity symbol (ultra-rare), but you are much less likely to pull a Mew prime than any other prime.