Upper Deck recently announced a new item available in-game for players to claim using
UDE points accrued from collecting the
World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. The item,
Landro's Pet Box, is a grab bag of sorts that can randomly give the character one of the following loot items:
Papa Hummel's Old-Fashioned Pet Biscuit,
Path of Cenarius,
Sandbox Tiger,
Dragon Kite,
Ethereal Soul-Trader, or
Bananas, the Monkey. Items previously available through UDE points were limited to
a selection of epic tabards,
permanent fireworks, and a
Carved Ogre Idol that turns characters into ogres for 10 minutes.
According to the product description, Landro's Pet Box will more commonly give out Pet Biscuits, Paths of Cenarius, or the Sandbox Tiger, but will occasionally grant the rarer vanity pets. Players will not receive duplicates of vanity pets already obtained through the Pet Box. The item can be purchased through the UDE points store for 2,000 UDE points (the same cost as tabards) and is only available on US and EU realms. Landro's Pet Box marks the first time items previously available only through loot cards would be made available through UDE points, allowing players who miss out on elusive loot cards another shot at obtaining the items.
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Filed under: Items, Fan stuff, Odds and ends
Dec 28th 2009 at 4:00PM 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Cliff Dec 28th 2009 4:15PM
This is interesting but kind of weak in my opinion. Those who have supported the WoW TCG (by buying lots of cards) and thus accumulating a ton of those points, probably already have most of the pets anyway. I can tell you from experience that they will already have more than they need of the consumable items like the Path of Cenarius.
Does anyone happen to know if you can mail the Pet box before you open it? If I could send these as a gift to friends without them having to deal with redeeming and picking up the item that might be worthwhile.
Tremelizzer Dec 28th 2009 4:13PM
Too bad I have only 1000 UDE points :/ Ethreal trader would be cool :)
Moonkinmaniac Dec 28th 2009 10:58PM
its way more than that, I got five of these and no pet. Had been saving the points for few years and figured hey a kite pet would be great and I boy was I kicking myself. The pet biscuits seem to be rare as well. If you want a useless path go gor it, otherwise a waste.
Alchemistmerlin Dec 28th 2009 4:18PM
I really wish I could just throw 10 bucks Blizzard's way and get the Ethereal Soul-Trader.
It's such a cool item that is relegated to a rare-realworld drop from a really really bad card game.
Rilgon Dec 28th 2009 4:39PM
Agreed. Hell, I'd be willing to amp it up to something like $25 for something as big and animated as the Soul-Trader. :(
Neuroxin Dec 28th 2009 5:02PM
WOW TCG is not a bad game. But the card is still difficult to obtain
Nazgûl Dec 28th 2009 5:54PM
No, it is a bad game. The loot cards ruined it, really. The value of cards got skewed for crappy cards that had codes for in-game items because people were more willing to pay for them. Thus you get very, very few collectors, and very, very few people who actually play the game. The game never reaches a high popularity point where you can find many people to play with, and slowly dies except in small circles in remote corners of the globe.
Alchemistmerlin Dec 28th 2009 7:19PM
I play a lot of trading card games.
I mean a LOT. My group of friends from college has a terrible "We make each other make terrible purchases" thing going on, and we ultimately wind up waste deep in new card and board games all the time.
The WoW Game is really bad. Not as bad as the History Channel Anachronism game, but still not good.
rainbowblack Dec 28th 2009 4:21PM
this has been available for at least two weeks now, I had to option to buy this but decided to go with the tabard of frost for my Nelf rouge, it looks so sweet on her
ZMES_Matt Dec 28th 2009 4:31PM
I love this item, makes me want to start playing the card game again. :P
I bought 6 of Landro's Pet boxes as I had 12k points left on my UDE account rotting, and I received:
3 - Pet Biscuits
2 - Path of Cenarius
1 - Sandbox tiger
I was really hoping for the ethereal trader. :(
Rich Dec 28th 2009 4:51PM
HAH - I have about 15k in points sitting around after I got my Ogre suit - I'm so going to gamble on this.
peagle Dec 28th 2009 4:53PM
I can't imagine an Ethereal being too happy about those accommodations.
Neur0xin Dec 28th 2009 4:57PM
I've done this a few times and so far I have only gotten the consumable items. Has anyone gotten any of the pets yet?
thaloryder Dec 28th 2009 5:09PM
I've never gotten any of these cards yet; but it seems like some fo these are pretty nifty....like The Path of Cenarious :D
Neuroxin Dec 28th 2009 5:48PM
If you buy the new Scourgewar Epic pack, you get 5 boosters (each with 100 UDE points), a Scourgewar art playing mat and a Tiny mount loot card with gives you a "small" mount with 50 charges.
aleandaxes Dec 29th 2009 7:14AM
I took one look at this and went "HAHAHAHAHA... Hell no..."
The loot cards would be ok, IF, there was alternate means of getting the same items..
Tygress Jan 10th 2010 3:46AM
I bought 3 so far, I'm a pet collector and I'd love a chance to get the pet without shelling out a zillion dollars. I got 3 "Sandbox Tigers" packs of 50. I don't know how I can possibly use 150 Sandbox tigers.
The Landro box AND the items in it are soulbound immediately, so it's not even like I can AH the tigers or give them to guildies or friends. I would like to know the drop rate on these things, I would have enjoyed the Pet Biscuits as a crappy drop but 3/3 were sandbox tigers. What percent has a pet? Is it 1 in 100? 1 in 1000? It would be nice to know. All other forms of gambling give you the odds - why doesn't UDE tell us what the drop rate is?
Damien Feb 22nd 2010 8:00AM
Loot cards should have made it glaringly obvious that the suits at Blizzard and Upper Deck care very little about the card game, and are more concerned with keeping the cash flow going. I'm sure there are some very creative and passionate people working on the TCG, but - rather obviously - they aren't the ones making the decisions.
It took Magic: The Gathering YEARS of round-table talks to finally put chase cards in their packs. The logic was - the rare cards ARE the chase cards, putting "collectors items" in the regular packs will arbitrarily inflate the packs people think have the highest chance of seeing a return on. Also, it floods the market with crappy commons and drives up the price of the useful rares, since "collectors" are buying by the case and the actual players are buying pack-to-pack.
For a more relevant example, look what happened to VS. System. Speculation and collector greed killed what was actually one of the best card games since Magic itself.
"Trading Card Games" in general - much thanks to the Internet - have become a speculative playground much like any collectible item these days. Even having played Magic when I was a kid, these days, I would never let my kids anywhere near any of the card games, especially World of Warcraft TCG. The sad thing is, while the company does see a return on their investment, the actual scalpers out there selling the cards are seeing even more, since the company doesn't get a cut of whatever the chase cards end up going for on eBay. If they really cared about the player, they would make the loot cards a reward for invitationals or tournament play, instead of stuffing them into packs and calling it a day.