As early influencer openings of the upcoming Battles of Legends: Monster Mayhem have been releasing, fans quickly noticed that European openings were far more valuable than the American counterparts. Starlight Rares, which are known for being hard to read and even harder to obtain, blessed the booster boxes of streamers and content creators, but only if their country was smaller than most states and they could speak at least three languages. American influencers, however, pulled exactly zero Starlight Rares from their openings, which is much more in line with the usual number of the illustrious rarity.
Konami was quick in their response, releasing a statement on the site currently and always known as Twitter three minutes after someone calculated that Europeans pulled 68 Starlight Rares versus the Americans pulling none. Konami’s statement has a lot of words, and we’re not gonna read all of it, so we’re just gonna screenshot it and add a red rectangle for retention.
The reasoning behind the delay is simple – to ensure proper value for customers, Konami have to take time to replace all Primite cards and Starlight Rares with reprints of Artifact Lancea and Call of the Earthbound
As discourse around the removal of Starlight Rares intensified, all European openings of the Battles of Legend Monster Mayhem set were scrubbed from YouTube, while the American videos remained. Several influencers also reported seeing burly men with the Pinkerton logo around their homes, but that was ruled as a coincidence.
Cards, in order of appearance:
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