Midnight box breaks

Alright, this was a nite to remember! So, i get the news my friend is feeling a lil blue, i tell him to come over so we can open some star wars galaxy 7 cards. I had bought two boxes for $20 apiece at this flea market i frequent. He gets to my house about 12:30 am, and by 1:14 ish we get a big hit out of our what was supposed to be a one box break. Well as luck would have it i pulled a luke skywalker sketch card, or so we thought! Turns out its 1:231 packs ratio sketchagraph card not only is it an original sketch of mark hamil,l but its also signed by mister hamill himself and the artist sarah wilkinson! Well this journal is less about my big hit, but more about the ferver that insued shortly after. So high on foil wrappers, and cardboard glory he starts suggesting we open more boxes! At first i was reluctant, but i soon caved in because his magic is undeniable. So i tell him i have two clone wars widevision retail boxes, and i explain to him taht retail boxes are not like hobby boxes the ratios are double the odds, basically hobbies have 1:24 packs odds and retails 1:48 packs odds ( for sketches). Well at 24 packs per box our odds were low..... Or so i thought out of the two boxes we got two sketches one of which i like the other bein so-so. So still not satiated my friend says whats next?!?!?!? I tell him he's crazy! He tells me 1 more...so i break easier than the boxes we just cracked...i admit to having 3 topps transformers rots boxes....he proceeds to "read" each box, and settles on 1 in particular....i tell him autographs are rarer, 1:91 packs! Seeing how i opened two boxes previously, and did not get a hit i figure our odds are good....i tell him also that some autos dont command big bucks like peter cullen and shia lebeouf...close to the end he pulls a shia lebeouf autograph, well im not a fan of shia and i was happy to pull it, but i was dyin for an optimus cullen card....but still it was better than nothing. All in all it was a goodnite and opening packs of cards is reinvigorating and exciting brings me back to my youth....thanx for reading..... Oh yea just in case some people say this is comic collectors site well one weekend my contact wasnt there at the flea market so i ended buyin y the last man's 12-18 for 50 cents apiece so there nyah!

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