User blog comment:Sentomaru/Are Devil Fruits too common?/@comment-4754162-20121022021429

Yeah, it was to be expected. DF's were indeed rare and people who lived outside of GL (Paradise and NW) would not see it very often. However, if you are following one DF user in his quest to become the best of the best, you will most certainly encounter the other rare DF (users) along the way, its inevitable.

Its like your country has produced one very fast 100m sprinter, and you may think "Its rare to see people that can run that ridiculously fast" but then if you follow him into the Olympics (to become best of the best), you will find that there are more (getting common) almost equally (ridiculously) fast sprinters in the world... ^_^