What makes a pack blessable
Doctrinally, all packs are equally blessable and equally unaffected. The pack gods are fictional and impartial, and mostly fictional. What varies is comedic potential, which our clergy measures across three axes. The stakes of the open, the audience watching it, and the narrative weight the opener has foolishly attached to a sealed piece of cardboard.
A blessing performs best where hope is highest and reason is furthest away. This is why nobody blesses a common. You bless the pack somebody has been saving on a shelf for a special occasion, which the pack does not know about, because it is a pack.
The official rankings
The last pack of the box. Maximum narrative, maximum delusion. Thirty five packs have yielded nothing and the opener now believes the box owes them. The box does not, packs are independent, and that is precisely what makes this blessing the funniest one we sell.
The gas station pack. Bought under fluorescent light next to the beef jerky, of uncertain provenance and vintage. Blessing this pack is like fitting a rowboat with a figurehead. Deeply honorable and completely pointless. Related honorable mentions include the pack your friend hands you to open for them, which transfers all blame and no odds, and the birthday pack, opened under the highest emotional stakes cardboard can legally carry.
The on camera pack. Opened live for an audience, where the pull rates remain identical but the consequences are public. A blessing here changes nothing about the outcome and everything about the drama, and we are, at heart, a drama business.
A reminder from the compliance wing of the church
None of the packs above open better after a blessing. No pack ever has. Blessings, curses, and candles on this site are entertainment, and the contents of every pack were fixed at the factory long before any ritual occurred. If a blessed pack hits, that is variance wearing a costume. We will absolutely take credit in the group chat, but not in writing, except this writing, where we take none.
How to actually choose which set to buy
Now the real advice. Pick sets where the cards you would be happy pulling are cards you actually want, because most of a pack's value to you is whether its contents make you happy. Check estimated pull rates and rough EV for the products you are considering, compare special sets against standard ones at current prices, and remember that older sought after sets often carry pack prices far above their expected contents.
Before buying anything sealed, price the singles you actually want from that set. If your whole wishlist costs less than a box, that is your answer, and it is usually the answer. Buy sealed for fun from reputable retailers, treat loose vintage packs with suspicion, and let the blessing be the garnish, never the strategy.