What are the odds of that?

[Alessara]

I literally just created this nation. What was the first thing I did after sorting out the formalities in Metternau? Answer the first issue in my set. And what was the first thing that happened after I answered that issue? Get prompted to open my first ever pack of cards on this nation. And what were the first cards I ever drew? These ones. What are the odds of you getting a pack of cards in your first ever issue, and then having every single one of those cards be Uncommon or rarer (actually three Rare, only two Uncommon)?

[Hippie Kiwis]

If I understand card rarity correctly, which I might not, the rarities of cards are not necessarily related to actually how rare a specific card is, but is instead mostly tied to the amount of badges (top 10/5/1%) etc a country has. So Uncommons aren't actually very uncommon at all. In my experience I seem to draw uncommons about as often as commons. So fun luck for your first draw, but I don't think the odds are something particularly outlandish.

[Riemstagrad]

Every issue has a 20% chance to generate a pack of cards.

There are 6 tiers of rarity. Starting to count down from the highest tier, Rare and Uncommon are tier 4 and 5.
With a junk value of 0.40, this set is probably slightly better than the average pack.

[Il Sonno della Ragione Genera Mostri]

You're sure more lucky than me, because I usually get 1 uncommon and 4 common per pack!

[Unogonduria]

Dude. HOW DID I GET ALL SEASON-TWO CARDS AT THE SAME TIME!!!!! JUST NOW!!!

[Il Sonno della Ragione Genera Mostri]

Dude. HOW DID I GET ALL SEASON-TWO CARDS AT THE SAME TIME!!!!! JUST NOW!!!

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This is another lucky catch (0.5% chances).
The packs are by default all of the same season, so you earn always 5 cards of the same season, even when it's season 1.

I also feel the same could apply for CTE cards: when I notice one card of the pack is CTE, I notice also the other 4 are CTE or they have been CTE at least once (really low number of copies in game or in Lazarus/Badler region). Anyone can confirm this, or it's just my crazy mind?

[Riemstagrad]

I also feel the same could apply for CTE cards: when I notice one card of the pack is CTE, I notice also the other 4 are CTE or they have been CTE at least once (really low number of copies in game or in Lazarus/Badler region). Anyone can confirm this, or it's just my crazy mind?

That's correct.
There are two possible cardpools from wich cards are drawn when you open a pack:
in 90% of the packs, the cardpool contains only cards from living nations.
in 10% of the packs, the cardpool contains ALL cards of the season.

So: First the season is decided: 99% S3; 0.5% S2; 0.5% S1.
Next the cardpool is decided as described above.

A consequence from this is that the chance to pull a legendary card increases through the season: Near the end of the season, when a large part of the commons and uncommons have CtE'd, there are relatively more legendaries in the "alive" cardpool. Early season packs contain on average less junk-value than late season packs.