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Posted By: warshawlaw

I once heard (I think it was on Star Trek) that the simplest explanation, all other things being equal, is usually the right one. Leaf used 49-card sheets to print its cards. The cards were then cut, collated and packed. The collation is the point where randomness failed. The cards were not perfectly collated. I purchased a large Leaf boxing collection from the original owner and had a similar experience: as many as a dozen of certain cards and none of some others. It isn't short prints or mathematical models of randomness, it is lousy collation.