I really want to start a collection for standard (I only have several year old cards, save a draft I just went to). I think a booster box would be a nice, fun way to start one once BFZ comes out. I here a lot of people saying it's not worth it, but... I have amazon prime. I can get it for around $107, free shipping.
I've never felt that buying a booster box is a good way to get your cards. You'll only get a part of a deck and still be missing quite a few cards. Or, you'll get cards towards a deck you're not particularly interested in building.
Always found it to be a lose lose for deckbuilding. Collecting/drafting/casual on the other hand it's great.
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Modern Warp / UR Control / UR Storm / Naya Breachshift / ElectroBalance
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Solidarity / Lands / Sneak and Show / Grixis Delver / Reanimator / Belcher / Storm / Dredge
Fair enough. Actually, I've been thinking of buying booster boxes at the deflated price from prime and then doing drafts with friends, charging them around $11 to join and letting them keep the cards. That way I can probably make my money back and get a fair number of cards.
If you are just looking to increase the number of cards you have, boosters are a great way to do so, but if you are looking for meaningful and powerful cards, you'll want to spend that 100 bucks on singles that you'll play.
If you are just looking to increase the number of cards you have, boosters are a great way to do so, but if you are looking for meaningful and powerful cards, you'll want to spend that 100 bucks on singles that you'll play.
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Furthermore I'd only enhance my collection this way if I liked the set enough to have multiple playsets of its commons. In other words: Don't preorder when you don't know what is in the set.
If you're spending $107 I think you can shop around for even better deals. It's not uncommon in my experience for boxes to be more like $99 with Prime shipping, or you could order from a store like ChannelFireball and make use of something like a 15% off your first order coupon code. Just google ChannelFireball or Star City Games (or whatever store you like) coupon codes and you should find at least one that works.
My approach would definitely be to buy the box and let your friends buy a share of the cards and draft with them if they're open to that. It's what my playgroup has historically done, although now we usually just take turns buying the box, whoever bought it keeps any cards they want, commons and uncommons are up for grabs, and expensive rares get resold to purchase more boxes.
There are two good reasons to buy boxes
-You are starting and like opening packs
-You want to draft
If you see yourself in any of these two then do it
While cracking packs never gets old paying around 100 bucks for mostly cards you will not play/need eventually does
However when that happens is usually when the new player discovers drafting, AKA the best format outside of Commander and when buying boxes to draft with friends becomes awesome (and a shared cost!)
Idk, I love cracking boxes personally. But I'd cheaper to just buy the singles you need. That being said if you want in on the cheap Standard is the last place you should be looking.
Opening a box for a collection isn't really the way to go, unless you like your collection to consist of 90% unplayable cards that you'll never be able to trade. Also, $107 is not a good price. Standard pre-order price is $99, and you can probably find them cheaper than that if you spend a few seconds looking around, perhaps even locally.
If you want to play Standard pick a deck and buy singles. If you want to draft with your friends, getting a box is the way to go. In general though, buying and opening sealed product is a terrible investment of your money and should be avoided.
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Always found it to be a lose lose for deckbuilding. Collecting/drafting/casual on the other hand it's great.
Modern Warp / UR Control / UR Storm / Naya Breachshift / ElectroBalance
Solidarity / Lands / Sneak and Show / Grixis Delver / Reanimator / Belcher / Storm / Dredge
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Furthermore I'd only enhance my collection this way if I liked the set enough to have multiple playsets of its commons. In other words: Don't preorder when you don't know what is in the set.
Yes, another list of decks sig.
R Daretti, Scrap Savant
WBR Zurgo Helmsmasher Equipment
BBB Erebos, God of the Dead Goodstuff
UBG The Mimeoplasm
URG All Creatures Animar, Soul of Elements
WB Teysa, Orzhov Scion sac and combo
WUB Sydri, Galvanic Genius
WUG Rafiq of the Many Aggro-Control
UBR Nekusar, The Mindrazer
WRG Mayael, the Anima
Casual:
BB Ad Nauseam Combo
BB Burn
My approach would definitely be to buy the box and let your friends buy a share of the cards and draft with them if they're open to that. It's what my playgroup has historically done, although now we usually just take turns buying the box, whoever bought it keeps any cards they want, commons and uncommons are up for grabs, and expensive rares get resold to purchase more boxes.
-You are starting and like opening packs
-You want to draft
If you see yourself in any of these two then do it
While cracking packs never gets old paying around 100 bucks for mostly cards you will not play/need eventually does
However when that happens is usually when the new player discovers drafting, AKA the best format outside of Commander and when buying boxes to draft with friends becomes awesome (and a shared cost!)
Nor will it beat budget decks of $50-60.