I was thinking of titling this thread... Elder Copper Dragon - very rare... I mean "common". Mostly because I have opened 9 boxes and now own 3 elder copper dragons. Roflol.
I think I'm going to name them "Huey, Louie and Dewey".
I've also picked up a dracolich, nalfshnee tyrant, mindflayer noble, 2 dragonborn elementalists, daegoloth abomination and your friendly neighborhood Yeenoghu.
I've been hoping for a blue dragon. 
Oh, and hello everyone!
John
This set is aptly named. Not only in terms of how many strange creatures there are that have various mind-altering abilities, but also in how they were boxed up. I too have found more rares than I expected. Oddly enough, I've had a couple of ones that are supposed to be common that I have only found one of.
I haven't found the big blue dragon yet either, but I do have four trebuchets. I'm working on a castle siege scenario to use them with. I've also gotten pretty much all of the rares you mentioned.
At first, I thought the nalfshnee tyrant was some newfangled, weird joke that someone at WOTC had pulled on us. Until, that is, I saw it in one of the old Monster Manuals.
I think my favorite mini from this set so far is the kobold slinger. He might not be the most powerful, but I love the way he is sculpted with his sling stone in flight. Very dynamic design for a common mini.
What is your favorite mini from this set?
The thing that I really like about this set is the way the commons are constructed. Looking at them, you have:
town guard
kobold slinger
orc archer
skeleton
zhent soldier
I usually get 1-2 of these commons in every box and I find that (a) the sculpts are decent enough to use and (b) you can pretty much substitute them into any campaign you want. (I prefer to use them for campaigns rather than skirmishes). Of course, its not perfect - I have a mess of kenku warriors that I have no use for. For the moment I'm calling them "gnolls" even though they really don't look like gnolls.
Even better is that some of the commons - the zhent soldier, the orc archer have "commander" units in the Zhent cavalry and the orc warchief. To this point I have one of each of them.
I came here from collecting Axis and Allies War at Sea minis, and I found their formula to work well. 5 minis wherein you get 1 rare, 2 uncommon and 3 common in a set. Rares were "named" ships - the USS Enterprise or the IJN Yamato. Since all ships were part of a class (frequently 2 or more ships) you could double up on "named" ships to a limited degree. The one "useless" rare I have - the USS North Carolina - is useless because the other named ship in its class has already been released and "oops" I own it.
Uncommon ships were ships (or planes) that were released in somewhat greater numbers (cruisers or bombers, for example). Uncommons also comprised the smallest percentage of a complete release (8 of 40 minis) so you were going to get at least one of each if you bought, say 9 boxes. But they're the meat of your navy.
Commons are where the genius comes in. Commons are the smallest ships, subs and 95% of your planes. This is WWII. Planes were ubiquitous. You could buy the USS Enterprise but its #$$@#$@# useless without fighters and bombers. The same goes for destroyer escorts. And if you look at some of the task forces in the pacific, there's a lot of destroyers in them! So you might get 10 of one type of destroyer and think you've got a lot of duplicates - until you realise that they employed 30+ in a small task force.
If (when) they start releasing sets again, they could do a lot worse than adopt this policy. Make the commons the sort of monsters / people who you expect to see a lot of - the grunts. You can make the uncommons (since they appear to be uncommon in DDM unlike in WaS) either campaign specific or monster specific or, like they've done here - make them commander units for some of the commons. And the rares and very rares.. they should be the "named" units. Lords of Madness comes close to this idea where a lot of the previous sets don't. We'll have to see (if they kick out another set) whether this is a fluke or the state of things to come.
Oh and as for what I like, I don't have all the figs yet - I'm VERY partial to blue dragons but i also like Mephistopholes and Manshoon.. from what I do have.. I like the stone giant. He just looks "right"
The Blue is one of the best artwork in minis ever...but the set was hard to complete, with all these extra rares
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ok. this is just silly. i got another Yeenoghu. That's 3 copper dragons and 2 yeenoghus in 11 boxes to go with the 2 crown wings and 3 neogi slavers. I think it may be time to start trading. anyone want 1 yeenoghu, 2 crownwings & 3 slavers? (or some combination thereof?) Send me a pm
And we should probably have a trading sub-forum on here.
check out the trade thread over at MM for those lookin for the Blue.
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