Stories are told of boosters with all rares, or all foil premium cards. But those stories are strictly rumors. Legends. Tales told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Until now.
Take one last trip to Alara and collect all 539 foil premium cards, in this handsome foil booster. Each of these boosters contains fifteen foil, black-bordered cards from Shards of Alara, Conflux, and Alara Reborn.
These boosters will be available for a limited time, starting on January 8, 2010. And they're only $11.99!
Foil boosters go on sale January 8th. This limited edition product consists of cards from Shards of Alara, Conflux, & Alara Reborn. 15 cards per pack, $11.99 per pack.
Assuming it's normal rarity (11-Common, 3-Uncommon, 1-Rare/Mytic). Is it worth it? I'll buy 1 or 2, so sure. Wish Slave of Bolas looked like that (looks at my foil one, doesn't look as cool).
What an awful idea. Overcharge for foils of the worst block in years. Whoever's cousin came up with this needs to stop speaking up in meetings. lol.
They should do this for M10 and Zendikar.
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Cool idea, but a little overpriced for me. Maybe if it had a couple more uncommons it'd be worth it, but $12 for mostly a bunch of foil commons and (probably) a crap rare is too much for me. Maybe if they were 9$ I'd get a couple.
I'd say enough is enough... How much money do we need to keep up with all these products they keep anouncing? Sliver Deck, FTV, Duel decks, planchase, marketing tricks to buy an already self sellable product (Zen)... Man I can't cope not even for collecting pospouses...
Hey, I'm going to be buying tons of these, but not for any reason other than the fact that I NEED foils to make fake cards. Strip the face off of the foils, and you're set to print over.
They said "all 539 cards" in the block so obv there are rares and mythics. The question is: normal frequency? In normal boosters, it goes 1:2:4 between rares, uncommons, and commons that are foil. 1:3:10 is... worse.
Hmmm..as someone that loves foils, I would probably buy these, on occasion, if I still played.
Of course, it's kind of a weird setup, because the existence of something like this will make the very foils that you're trying to open alot less rare, and decrease their value, thus making this product itself less valuable.
It feels like these should cost 9.99, not 11.99. I assume that they come with the same C/U/R structure as a typical pack. Hopefully the Mythic Rare replaces a common, as is normal.
I do wish that they'd do this for a better set, though. Not alot of value in Shards Block. Hopefully they do it for Zendikar Block, to make it easier to get ahold of foil fetchlands. It's unreal how much foil versions of normal fetches cost, even today.
Of course it's a gimmick, but that's all that Magic is anymore.
Hey, I'm going to be buying tons of these, but not for any reason other than the fact that I NEED foils to make fake cards. Strip the face off of the foils, and you're set to print over.
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It's probably better to buy some basic land foils... but whatever floats your boat!
Everyone stop complaining. There is probably a lot of market research into what people want. If you don't want to buy it, don't buy it. People will buy it or else Wizards wouldn't print it. I think it's kinda cool. I hope it does mean that they are pushing EDH and I would be interested in checking it out if it became a sanctioned format. Although, FNM's would take like 3 days....
Foil boosters go on sale January 8th. This limited edition product consists of cards from Shards of Alara, Conflux, & Alara Reborn. 15 cards per pack, $11.99 per pack.
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I'd guess, given the 15 card count, it'll be the usual of 1 Rare / Mythic, 3 Uncommons, 10 Commons, & 1 Basic Land.
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I'd buy these at $4.
They should do this for M10 and Zendikar.
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I like foil cards, but its much cheaper to buy foil singles online unless you pull a planeswalker or something.
12 bucks means its about 80 cents per card, and most foil commons and uncommons from alara block are much less then that.
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That's something that would sell out the moment it was mentioned.
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Of course, it's kind of a weird setup, because the existence of something like this will make the very foils that you're trying to open alot less rare, and decrease their value, thus making this product itself less valuable.
It feels like these should cost 9.99, not 11.99. I assume that they come with the same C/U/R structure as a typical pack. Hopefully the Mythic Rare replaces a common, as is normal.
I do wish that they'd do this for a better set, though. Not alot of value in Shards Block. Hopefully they do it for Zendikar Block, to make it easier to get ahold of foil fetchlands. It's unreal how much foil versions of normal fetches cost, even today.
Of course it's a gimmick, but that's all that Magic is anymore.
I think they may end up doing it once Zendikar block is done.
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This. Who wants foil commons from Shards block? The non-foils are painful enough to open in packs.
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It's probably better to buy some basic land foils... but whatever floats your boat!
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Honestly, I'd prefer the Budget Boosters over this.
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