Okay, am I the only one who doesn't buy this crap?
Im sure its been talked about before, but do people actually believe theres power 9 in these things? I figure that in order to make money on randomly inserting even just 1 piece of power 9 in one of those packs, they'd have to sell like 800 dollars worth of them. So who would actually honestly put "real" power 9 in there? Let alone more then one piece.
My stupid friend use to buy them from time to time, and not once did she get anything more then a few dollar rares. Not even anything semi-decent like Upheavals, or Brushoppers. It was always totally useless crap rares no one could possibly use with a few useless uncommons (It was Odessey T2 at the time we were buying them).
I figure these repack people should be more honest, and admit they're not putting in power 9. And instead just put in a higher number of useable rares with maybe like a small amount of high end chase rares that arent P9 like Chrome Mox, Survivals, Kokushos, Extractions, Shackles, and actually ne honest and perhaps tell them the number of those cards VS the number of packs, sort of giving the buyers a good idea of what they're chances of getting something cool are.
So has ANYONE actually got any luck with these things, or is this really a big ole hoax thats been going on for too long?
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It's pretty hard to know for sure if there's anything in there unless you yourself buy every single repack offered at once - and even then there are still ways they could screw you over (besides maknig you pay like $1,000 for an Unl Mox and a bunch of crap rares and commons).
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I've never bought a repack and never plan on it unless it is 1000 for the set and theres a Black bordered Lotus and I can get them all. But at that rate I may as well buy the Lotus.
I like how Beta puts it. It is a stupid tax....
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The best things repacks are for is trying to get obscure old rares for a casual format. Around here, people open Grab Bags for a dollar each all the time, just to get obscure rares.
I've never bought repacks from anyone other than the local store owner. The only reason I did that was cause I knew he put P9 in the repacks; Some were already opened with P9 reciepts in them. Otherwise it's the biggest waste of Magic money that isn't buying precons (for the most part that is).
I know that repacks are not exactly the smartest thing to buy, but, for me, they combine
a) The fun of opening packs (come on, you goddamn spikes miss it, don't give me any of that bull )
b) The chance, no matter how small, of pulling something worth huge percents of what you paid.
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Religions that were originally made up to answer several scientific questions that mankind could not provide the technology to accurately answer at the time and that people still believe in even now when the religion is so old that many people are forced to believe in it being nothing more than a tall tale passed down from generation to generation make baby Jesus cry.
I dont open any big-time repacks, but at my local store they used to have a machine where you;d put in a quarter and get like 4-5 commons and an uncommon, and they weren't bad, considering they were $0.25. But anything where you have to pay more than $1 a pack is gonna be a rip-off
I don't buy them.
I don't think they really pack P9's (or even good stuff in it).
Buyers have no guarantee whatsoever that they really contain "the good stuff".
It might be a good way to get rares for casual/fun play, but it is probably a lot cheaper to go for grab-bag deals. Buying them online gives you 100 rares for less than 50$.
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These are the decks that I have constructed, and are ready to play:
01. Ankh Sligh to be exact.
At the Cok prerelease someone bought a repack and got a mox pearl beat to hell.
I cant remember how many Prerelease/Regionals ago it was, but someone playing a dice game(equivalent to a repack) get a Foil Exalted, Foil Intuition, and Foil Vampric Tutor in a row. Most of the stores around here use dice games instead, at least then if you really wanted to you could figure out the odds of winning something. They are an obvious scam, but it works well if half the people hear about the 1 in a million who win something good go and buy a repack/dice roll.
eBay repacks are almost all scams with the seller unloading their junk. Over the years I've seen only 3 or 4 sellers that actually guarantee a Power 9 card in their auctions and deliver.
The majority of the time the seller just keeps relisting their junk with the card quantities never going down (they keep adding new packs back in) or they stop reusing the auction when it gets to 300-500 packs left. When they say it is "random" on their picking their repacks "out of a box", that is pure BS. They know which repack has a Power 9 card (if they actually have a Power 9 in there!).
You're better off saving your money on repacks and instead just buying the Mox, power Blue, or Lotus yourself.
Old-school MTG player... I like to come back to play in Prerelease/Release Limited events since everyone is back on an even playing field with new game mechanics!
Watch out for the Dual Land repacks too, they tend to be a scam, but a more believable ones. If you read the reviews in some you will see people saying "OH WOW I GOT (INSERT CARD) I WILL DEFINITELY BUY MORE! Chances are that is a buddy of theirs that they had buy a repack and post a review to entice others...
Im sure its been talked about before, but do people actually believe theres power 9 in these things? I figure that in order to make money on randomly inserting even just 1 piece of power 9 in one of those packs, they'd have to sell like 800 dollars worth of them. So who would actually honestly put "real" power 9 in there? Let alone more then one piece.
My stupid friend use to buy them from time to time, and not once did she get anything more then a few dollar rares. Not even anything semi-decent like Upheavals, or Brushoppers. It was always totally useless crap rares no one could possibly use with a few useless uncommons (It was Odessey T2 at the time we were buying them).
I figure these repack people should be more honest, and admit they're not putting in power 9. And instead just put in a higher number of useable rares with maybe like a small amount of high end chase rares that arent P9 like Chrome Mox, Survivals, Kokushos, Extractions, Shackles, and actually ne honest and perhaps tell them the number of those cards VS the number of packs, sort of giving the buyers a good idea of what they're chances of getting something cool are.
So has ANYONE actually got any luck with these things, or is this really a big ole hoax thats been going on for too long?
Rasputina - A Quitter
its more or less a "stupid tax"...i.e. it only taxes the less intelligent of us.
I like how Beta puts it. It is a stupid tax....
a) The fun of opening packs (come on, you goddamn spikes miss it, don't give me any of that bull )
b) The chance, no matter how small, of pulling something worth huge percents of what you paid.
Religions that were originally made up to answer several scientific questions that mankind could not provide the technology to accurately answer at the time and that people still believe in even now when the religion is so old that many people are forced to believe in it being nothing more than a tall tale passed down from generation to generation make baby Jesus cry.
Jack-in-the-Mox ?
I don't buy them.
I don't think they really pack P9's (or even good stuff in it).
Buyers have no guarantee whatsoever that they really contain "the good stuff".
It might be a good way to get rares for casual/fun play, but it is probably a lot cheaper to go for grab-bag deals. Buying them online gives you 100 rares for less than 50$.
These are the decks that I have constructed, and are ready to play:
01. Ankh Sligh to be exact.
I cant remember how many Prerelease/Regionals ago it was, but someone playing a dice game(equivalent to a repack) get a Foil Exalted, Foil Intuition, and Foil Vampric Tutor in a row. Most of the stores around here use dice games instead, at least then if you really wanted to you could figure out the odds of winning something. They are an obvious scam, but it works well if half the people hear about the 1 in a million who win something good go and buy a repack/dice roll.
The majority of the time the seller just keeps relisting their junk with the card quantities never going down (they keep adding new packs back in) or they stop reusing the auction when it gets to 300-500 packs left. When they say it is "random" on their picking their repacks "out of a box", that is pure BS. They know which repack has a Power 9 card (if they actually have a Power 9 in there!).
You're better off saving your money on repacks and instead just buying the Mox, power Blue, or Lotus yourself.
I bought it from a Chinese website
I am not a trusting person.
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