Hey i was going to buy around $70 worth of packs. I have no idea what packs i should get i have a even amount of each stander set and all i want is stander cards so im leaveing it up to mtgs what ev packs have the highest post imma get.
dont waste your $$ on packs. if you need cards to build a standard card pool, buy sets off ebay. If you need specific singles, buy those specific singles.
The chances of you pulling $70 worth of stuff out of those packs is vanishingly small. Especially give the horrible dollar value of SOM, MBS, and ISD.
If you want to play the lotto I would say M12. Angelic Destiny and Garruk Primal Hunter, with Solemn's and Phantasmal's. At this point you might as well wait for Dark Ascension in a month and buy a box of that.
wait out the month and get DA, the odds of cracking your 70 bucks back in anything standard is really low, but at least with dark ascension you can know that new cards make for good trading material
Buy singles or wait and buy a box of DKA. Good Mythics/Rarea from DKA may end up valuable due to short draft period ("Worldwake phenomenon"). Then again maybe DKA won't have any good Mythics (sarcasm).
...not only is the total number of players expanding very quickly, but at the same time a greater and greater number of those players are being pushed to only desire a small subset of the available cards. These combined forces drastically increase demand for those cards and cause the values of just those specific cards to often balloon out of proportion.
It really does depend on what you are trying to get, but before you go spend $70 on packs, you really outta save $30 more and just buy a booster box.
$70 for packs = 16-17 packs = $4 a pack
$100 Booster box = 36 packs = $2.78 a pack
That is before taxes, of course, but for less than %50 more money, you get more than %50 more packs. At least that's how it would be in my area. Just some food for thought.
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You can get an entire playset of commons and uncommons from any of the standard expansions and M12 for about $30 - $40. That way, you'll have a basic foundation for just about any deck and then all you'll need to do is add in the specific rares that you want as finishers or to fill out the rest of your deck.
You can do that for about $100 total and in the end, you'll have a competitive deck instead of just a bunch of cards that may or may not be good for anything constructed.
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The chances of you pulling $70 worth of stuff out of those packs is vanishingly small. Especially give the horrible dollar value of SOM, MBS, and ISD.
$70 for packs = 16-17 packs = $4 a pack
$100 Booster box = 36 packs = $2.78 a pack
That is before taxes, of course, but for less than %50 more money, you get more than %50 more packs. At least that's how it would be in my area. Just some food for thought.
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You can do that for about $100 total and in the end, you'll have a competitive deck instead of just a bunch of cards that may or may not be good for anything constructed.