Card Rarity and Distribution
Each card has rarity information printed along the bottom to indicate how common it is. The rarity was previously denoted by the number of small dots appearing at the bottom of the card, according to the following legend. More recently, the dots have been replaced by the relevant letter.
| • or C | Common |
| •• or UC | Uncommon |
| ••• (non-foil) or SE | Starter deck exclusive |
| ••• (foil) or R | Rare |
| •••• or UR | Ultra Rare or Promotional (dots only) |
| P | Promotional |
| ~ | Reprint (Battle Packs only) |
Starter decks are semi-random, with 29 fixed cards and 31 random cards. This includes some exclusive cards which are only available through that starter and not available in booster packs. In each 10-card booster pack, there are 6 commons and 3 uncommons, with the remaining card being either rare or ultra-rare. There are also very rare boosters made up entirely of rare and super rare cards, colloquially known as "god packs". Lastly, each box of starter decks or booster packs contains a single "box topper", which is a special promotional card and not part of the standard card set.
Promotional character cards, foil variants of commons and uncommons, and specially-designed cards are also obtainable by participating in hobby league tournaments and/or special events.
The 120 cards provided in the Penny Arcade Battle Box follow a fixed distribution, without any element of randomness. The rarity system is adapted differently in these; one dot for a card that the box has four copies of, two for a card of three copies and three for a card of two copies (the "rarest"). Any Battle Pack card reprinted from a previous release will have a tilde symbol - ~ - in place of dots.
Until the release of Tekken 6, all regular rares, ultra-rares and promotional cards were foiled. Beginning with Tekken 6, foil cards were retired, and all rarities appear in non-foil form only.
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