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It's their big overpowered release of the year. Last year's was commander masters. I'm not sure what it was before that because I wasn't into the scene for a long time prior to that.
I have no idea how wotc calculates what they are going to charge retailers, but it certainly seems like they take card value into account, which is crazy because it hasn't released yet and they have no idea how much people will value the cards. So I guess they're just guessing that they will be highly sought after rares/mythics? I honestly don't know.
Maybe there is an actual scientific calculation that goes into it, using the number of rares in the set and the number of rare slots that can exist in a pack or something like that, with some qualitative value for card power.
But at the end of the day it's just "whatever Hasbro thinks it can get away with charging". The power level is probably just a result of the designers doing their best to give players a reason to pay the amount of money Hasbro wants to charge for each pack.
Scryfall is a great tool for looking at an entire set: https://scryfall.com/sets/mh3
You should scroll down and check out the borderless cards if you haven't yet. They are gorgeous.
There's a lot of cards in there that are reprints of stuff so old that even I recognize them, which is around the Alara era lol. Is this like a Greatest Hits thing without all the shit commons nobody used? Because that would explain why the average value would be higher than a brand new set.
Also yeah, pretty stuff.
Yeah I think it's kind of like the new version of "_th edition" sets, but specifically for modern, and with premium treatment. It brings new cards into modern with reprints and remixes of cards that were popular in older sets, as well as some brand new cards that enhance a certain play style in some new way. Cards in this set will be popular for a while.
Oh you're right. There's hardly any commons in the set. So that's going to be a shit ton of uncommons and rares in those packs. That definitely explains the price increase. Actually I think it might be just all the extra treatments for the other rarities that makes it seem like there's hardly any commons.