I had heard the two mini-decks inside had different boxes than those free planeswalker decks that are floating all over the place, so I wanted to see for myself. This turned out to be true (no codes on the boxes however Tim):
As you can see in the above pic, the boxes are attached on the backside, with instructions to "separate along seam" to get the deck boxes apart (I didn't bother).
Inside the black deckbox, I found the following:
and after opening the two cellophane packs, the cards were:
Inside the red deckbox, I found the following:
and after opening these two cellophane packs, get:
Now, the first thing I noticed after opening the first of the four cellophane wrapped 10-card packs, was that the card stock felt and looked somewhat different than other M12 cards I had opened. The black seemed richer, and the surface slightly glossier/smoother. I decided to open up the boosters that came with these decks, and the cards inside the boosters were similar to other M12 cards I've opened previously (both in cardstock, and colouring). I decided to compare any duplicates from the 10-card cellophane decks, with the cards just opened in the boosters, and found these 4 which seem to show that the font appears "richer", and I feel like the lettering appears to be slightly thicker.
So my questions are this for members here:
1a) Has anyone else ever opened one of these things?
1b) If so, were the 4 10-card cellophane packs the same cards that I opened?
1c) Did you notice slight differences amongst the cards in the cellophane wrappers, relative to M12 opened in booster packs?
Gary: From the two booster packs I opened, the T/T I found seemed to already be on your M2012 spreadsheet, so I at least did not open any new combinations out of these two packs. I am thinking I want to buy another of these battle packs (assuming the 10-card packs aren't identical), and if I do, I'll keep checking the T/T to see if any new combinations arise out of the boosters included in the battle packs.
