I like the idea as the MSRP is about the same as 3 packs with as many foils as you'd usually get in 9 packs. I like foils as much as I dislike chaff nonfoils.
Yet being available only at big box stores means they won't be on sale like regular packs are
As a Magic fan and consumer, I personally am firmly against any change that pulls their customers towards the tempting yet treatcherous booster lottery. I dislike boosters like these and showdown boosters that are only made for cracking and hoping to get lucky, and I dislike masterpieces because they increase the value variance and at the same time tempt gullible people, those that are willing to take a chance even though they know that the house always wins, to buy boosters and hope to get a lottery card.
Why? Because not getting rewarded for those gambles, which is the average result, leads to disappointment and the feeling of having been duped, and those feelings do not create long lasting customers and new loyal Magic players. It provides a short term cash grab, but turns people away in the long term. That's not a good long term plan for the game as a whole.
Look at it this way, there are 2 golden tickets in each pack! Less **opens booster** “meh”, and more ** opens good stuff ** “YEAh!!!!!!”
Triple the rares at more than triple the price does not increase the meh to yeah ratio. Even if we disregard the commons and the fact that you can't use this to play limited, which is actually some of the inherent value of regular booster packs, you basically get a random uncommon and a random foil for $1. Would you buy that?
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Dropped by walmart on saturday and no collectors boosters to be seen. There were still some of those crappy repack plastic boxes left though...........
Dropped by walmart on saturday and no collectors boosters to be seen. There were still some of those crappy repack plastic boxes left though...........
My Wal-Mart still hasn't recovered from Christmas, practically the entire card section is barren.
I finally found official mention of the collector’s boosters. On the ravnica allegiance product page under additional products they list the collector’s boosters. So far i have been very lucky with this set and i hope to find some collector’s boosters in the next few weeks to increase my payroll!
—- update —— There are a few videos on youtube that show the packs and what is inside. I like the fact you get foils in every pack. The guy that opened the japanese box got 2 rare foils, 2 planeswalkers, 3 shocklands and some pretty good rares and uncommons. Basically a booster box with three times as many foils, 12 extra uncommons and the only commons were foil!
I got one of these from a store that I visit from time to time here in Tokyo. As you can see from the photos I got 3 rares, 2 foil commons and 1 zombie token as well as some uncommons (no photos). The price was about $10 US.
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Huh, dump for cash and run situation. Those are not cheap...
Well, looked up the legal on it and he should have called the police if he suspected foul play. He can actually get charged with receipt of stolen goods because of what he said and did.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
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3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Usually I can't stand listening to that guy. I mute it and watch the openings as he acts like an annoying spaz. I see he has some other videos opening 3 Collector Boosters from over a month ago. They seem to be sold out at this time and were only test sold at certain Meijer Stores here in the US and places in Japan as well.
I was really looking forward to these. One of the few products I get pumped for and you have a better chance at winning the Lotto than finding these packs.
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Yet being available only at big box stores means they won't be on sale like regular packs are
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My Wal-Mart still hasn't recovered from Christmas, practically the entire card section is barren.
—- update —— There are a few videos on youtube that show the packs and what is inside. I like the fact you get foils in every pack. The guy that opened the japanese box got 2 rare foils, 2 planeswalkers, 3 shocklands and some pretty good rares and uncommons. Basically a booster box with three times as many foils, 12 extra uncommons and the only commons were foil!
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Do we think these may have had a limited printing? I'm afraid the scalpers got to the stores first and I'm never going to see them.
He doesn't even know what he is opening. And yes those are probably stolen boosters from WM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Bx_WmpbKs
STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Huh, dump for cash and run situation. Those are not cheap...
Well, looked up the legal on it and he should have called the police if he suspected foul play. He can actually get charged with receipt of stolen goods because of what he said and did.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
I was really looking forward to these. One of the few products I get pumped for and you have a better chance at winning the Lotto than finding these packs.
STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."