TOPIC: Rarity of Winter Runestones

I think I have purchased a lot of tokens this year. Granted, what I consider "a lot" may not be nearly as much as some folks who read this board, so that's why I'm asking. Out of all the packs I have opened, I have seen exactly zero Winter Runestones. I have several duplicates of all the other seasonal runestones (aka, the Rare ones), but nada on the chilly ones. Has anyone else experienced this or did I just get "lucky"?

first of all, odds/distribution/randomness is weird that way.<br /><br />that being said, my split seemed to be fairly even.  =|

Out of my 120 packs, I received 2 Autumn runestones, 1 (platinum) Spring runestone, 1 Summer runestone, and 1 Winter runestone.  Depending on how many packs you bought, I don't think it's unlikely you didn't find one type.

It's pretty normal to get lots of some tokens and few or none of others.  I opened a LOT of tokens and didn't get a single Ring of Shock Resistance, for example.  

Mike speaks the truth.  I didn't get a single Ring of Feather Fall or Commander's Lorica Segmenta in my packs.

I noticed really lopsided rarity in my Platinum distribution.  None of several, and big stacks of a few.  Despite buying several thousand dollars worth of tokens in each of the past three years, I have never gotten a full set of Rare Platinum tokens without trading to fill in the gaps.  <br /><br />Given a big enough sample, I think the distribution does tend to even out.  I didn't notice any Runestones being any rarer than the others.  But it's basically a property of random distributions that you'll sometimes have gaps in one place and multiples elsewhere.  <br />

How many packs did you open?  From this number I can calculate the probability of your event occuring.  It might be small, but it will always be finite, and therefore, will happend to somebody.<br /><br />Jim

People naturally underestimate the power of randomness in something like this. You would have to buy a wheelbarrow load of tokens to push the statistical chance of not getting a single rare to significance.