So this was brought on by several things, one of which was the 'Roleplaying Superstitions' thread in under the RPG section. But this isn't about roleplaying, and I can see it quickly spiraling into something non-related to Magic, so I put it here. The other thing that brought this on was opening Magic packs at the prerelease today.
Ok. So one night I was at Game Den to pick up J.T. and some kids were buying D&D mini packs just before he closed. One of them didn't get a rare he wanted and started telling his friend (who had picked out the pack for him) that it was his fault, and that he should have had J.T. pick which pack he bought because J.T. always picked him really good rares.
This lead to them discussing how having someone else pick your packs, (of D&D or Magic, whatever) could seriously affect what cards/minis you got. I kind of laughed, but I also thought... well what if it's like quantum theory, and the cards in any given pack aren't determined until someone opens the package and looks at them. So any varient in how that happens could change what cards are in a pack, including who picks the pack, who opens it (and therefore observes it), and where and when you open it.
So, is it superstition or quantum theory?