I bought one a couple of months ago, and I wanted to know if anyone's had the same luck with these things. The one repack I bought had the DD: Divine vs Demonic Angel deck, the Shadowmoor Overkill deck, the Eventide Sidestep deck, and the Izzet Gizmometry deck. There were other repacks there as well, with some of the highlights being the Chandra half of the Japanese Jace vs Chandra duel decks, the Demonic half of the duel deck, and the Liliana half of the duel deck.
Has anyone else seen something like this? I've heard of other people opening some worthless decks, so I'm really curious as of to what's been showing up in these repacks and what's in them.
Most of them are just old intro packs, but sometimes you find gems like duel decks or the Kamigawa Rat's Nest deck, which contains an Umezawa's Jitte. Sadly, some of the stores near me have started packing them with a few boosters, and use the boosters to obscure any chance you have at actually seeing what's inside.
Most of them are just old intro packs, but sometimes you find gems like duel decks or the Kamigawa Rat's Nest deck, which contains an Umezawa's Jitte. Sadly, some of the stores near me have started packing them with a few boosters, and use the boosters to obscure any chance you have at actually seeing what's inside.
Usually you just have to shake the hell out of them to see the decks. also most of them are worthless, at least around here.
I was at walmart for xmas shopping and stopped by the card section and saw a bunch of these. I one of them had the mimeoplasm and the goat commander so im assuming 2 of the decks inside were the commander decks. Too bad one of them wasnt the commander deck with scavenging ooze or else I would have grabbed one and made my money back along with having a bunch of extra cards to go through and see whats what.
I got one of those with 2 MBS intro packs, 50 of the 60 foil cards from Fire and Lightning (the 10 good cards displayed in the PDS package were missing) and the Kamigawa starter deck with a Sensei's Divining Top (snakes, I think).
I got one of the demonic decks in one. Koth deck and Inn intros are also common here. The thing that sucks is that they market it as two decks but often put in duel decks without the foil planeswalker, which makes it actually 59 cards and thus false advertising.
In that case, it might be one of those cases where people buy it (or just sleazily open up in the store), gut the good stuff and return it, saying it was faulty. If the distributor wouldn't take it back for a new one, they probably just take the decks out and repackage them in the "value" packs.
There was one at my local target that had a deck from a completely different game in it, too.
I bought one about 2-3 months ago 30$ netted me thr scavenging ooze, goat, and riku, commander decks along with a flameblast dragon M11 deck. Needless to say i was psyched.
Are those the repacks that are in those plastic clear cases? I've seen a couple at Wal-mart that have Avacyn Restored and M12 together for some reason in terms of boosters. Didn't get to see what was in there deck wise...
Still a ****ty thing to do and is technically false advertising.
how is it false advertising? they make no guarantee of what cards or how many that are there. further more wizards releases/ed 40 card decks so complaining about 59 not being a deck is foolish. if you want your foil planeswalker pay full price and buy it in the original box, other wise quit your crying.
as for the topic at hand, i have purchased 2 of the 6 that my local target had. one had an ajani vs bolas dual decks included (one of each) and 2 commander precons. the other also had 2 commander precons, the ajani deck, a shadowmoor deck, and then some random innistrad, scars of mirrodin, and new phyrexia cards mixed together, about 30 total. the remain packages had assorted decks from various expansions. i only picked up the 2 i did to get the commander precons.
No idea how they came about but theme decks get damaged a lot at retail places. It is probably easy for Target and Walmart to end up with dozens of damaged theme decks. I am guessing a contracting company got paid to re-package them for the retail outlets, maybe even an in-house repackager. I have seen them at my target. I didn't buy any and they got snapped up within a week.
They've always been sealed and it's been the case with at least 3 separate stores, each about 15 - 20 minutes away. I believe the issue is that the planeswalker cards are not in the same wrapper as the rest of the deck due to being displayed on the front of the box uniquely, so the vendor is just putting the wrapped 59 cards in the plastic box and doing lord knows what with the two special promos. Still a ****ty thing to do and is technically false advertising.
I tried that argument one time because I bought a pack that was 'two decks' packed together for $10. One pack had PDS: Fire and Lightning and the Zombie Planechase decks. Awesome!
The other pack I bought had two package's of lands. Boo!
I emailed WOTC who said they couldn't do anything since they don't package and sell those. I then emailed Fairfield (the company who DID package them together) telling them that two 60 card bundle's of land is NOT considered a deck and that I was furious for this (which I was, $10 for a hundred land is a ripoff when I throw stacks of lands away already) and they said basically tough tits.
Pretty much the vendor can do whatever they want. It's buyer beware.
I've gotten pretty lucky with the cheaper versions in the past, having gotten the planechase zombie deck which was a huge value. But I haven't dared try my luck with the new $30 repacks they are doing because of the aforementioned use of booster packs to hide what the precons actually are.
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I guess on my way to Casual at the LGS tomorrow, I'll have to check out the Target across the street and see if I can see what any of the decks in there are. Maybe I'll luck out on a Scavenging Ooze or a Jitte.
59 cards is not a legal deck to play in Magic: the Gathering unless you are drafting or playing sealed, which this is neither.
anything is legal in casual which these decks are. plus the tag doesnt mention anthing about legality of the decks included or the cards in general. and according to the wiki on multiple occasions wizards released 40 card theme decks. they also used to hand out little 30 card mono colored starter decks as well. yes, its a shame you didnt get your card, but at no point was that card promised to you.
I bought two of these, and regretted it, even though they were to add to the cardpool that I've been teaching my friend how to play with. They came in the clear case that people described earlier. Both had 4 boosters, 2 decks, and 80 lands. I got 4 m12 boosters, 1 dark ascension, 2 innistrad, and one New Phyrexia. Only thing of note that I got was a chandra. The four precons are awful too. One is the m13 nefarox. One is the innistrad 'Repel the Dark'. The other two are 'Monstrous Surprise' which pretty much explains the whole situation.
My Wal-Mart currently has this, but what that turns out to be is M12 packs, DKA, and AVR packs around Koth vs. Venser. (I did not buy them, I could see the symbol quite clearly.)
I remember seeing the same two KvV decks for months, but never got them. I should have asked for a discount for how long they were just sitting there.
The best one I ever got had Heavenly Inferno deck inside.
The one I got for Christmas had Political Puppets as well as Knights Vs Dragons (minus the foils of course). Also had a the Skirsdag High Priest starter deck and something from an M11 Deckbuilders Toolkit. So 5 "things".
In my experience the repacks with the packs in them have worse decks.
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I bought two of these, and regretted it, even though they were to add to the cardpool that I've been teaching my friend how to play with. They came in the clear case that people described earlier. Both had 4 boosters, 2 decks, and 80 lands. I got 4 m12 boosters, 1 dark ascension, 2 innistrad, and one New Phyrexia. Only thing of note that I got was a chandra. The four precons are awful too. One is the m13 nefarox. One is the innistrad 'Repel the Dark'. The other two are 'Monstrous Surprise' which pretty much explains the whole situation.
Unless you see one of the decks that are worth getting, which can be hard to see in the newer ones of these, then i wouldnt even think of dropping 30$ on these. Without some extreme luck youre not even going to get 1$ worth of bulk junk.
The best one I ever got had Heavenly Inferno deck inside.
The one I got for Christmas had Political Puppets as well as Knights Vs Dragons (minus the foils of course). Also had a the Skirsdag High Priest starter deck and something from an M11 Deckbuilders Toolkit. So 5 "things".
In my experience the repacks with the packs in them have worse decks.
Yeah the ones where the decks arent in their deckboxes are most likely worthless intro packs, and none of the ones in any walmart ive been to recently (quite a few looking for things like night of the ninja and such) have had anything remarkable at all.
The ones at target that contain 4 decks and are in a longer clear case's often have the best stuff. I have seen ones with 3 commander decks and a intro or duel deck before but more often it's just 2 commander decks and 2 intro decks. Still a great deal for 30 dollars considering the commander decks are otherwise impossible to find for said price.
Where did you find out who packages & stocks this stuff? Is that company the one that's handling all these items everywhere?
I'm not sure if they're the ones doing these in the plastic cases but they use to package decks together in blister packs. It was two decks for like ten bucks at Target. They came out several years ago.
Has anyone else seen something like this? I've heard of other people opening some worthless decks, so I'm really curious as of to what's been showing up in these repacks and what's in them.
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Usually you just have to shake the hell out of them to see the decks. also most of them are worthless, at least around here.
Not bad for $30.
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In that case, it might be one of those cases where people buy it (or just sleazily open up in the store), gut the good stuff and return it, saying it was faulty. If the distributor wouldn't take it back for a new one, they probably just take the decks out and repackage them in the "value" packs.
There was one at my local target that had a deck from a completely different game in it, too.
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how is it false advertising? they make no guarantee of what cards or how many that are there. further more wizards releases/ed 40 card decks so complaining about 59 not being a deck is foolish. if you want your foil planeswalker pay full price and buy it in the original box, other wise quit your crying.
as for the topic at hand, i have purchased 2 of the 6 that my local target had. one had an ajani vs bolas dual decks included (one of each) and 2 commander precons. the other also had 2 commander precons, the ajani deck, a shadowmoor deck, and then some random innistrad, scars of mirrodin, and new phyrexia cards mixed together, about 30 total. the remain packages had assorted decks from various expansions. i only picked up the 2 i did to get the commander precons.
Anyone know how these things came about or how long they've been out? These packs seem like good deals (except for some, it looks like.)
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I tried that argument one time because I bought a pack that was 'two decks' packed together for $10. One pack had PDS: Fire and Lightning and the Zombie Planechase decks. Awesome!
The other pack I bought had two package's of lands. Boo!
I emailed WOTC who said they couldn't do anything since they don't package and sell those. I then emailed Fairfield (the company who DID package them together) telling them that two 60 card bundle's of land is NOT considered a deck and that I was furious for this (which I was, $10 for a hundred land is a ripoff when I throw stacks of lands away already) and they said basically tough tits.
Pretty much the vendor can do whatever they want. It's buyer beware.
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I remember seeing the same two KvV decks for months, but never got them. I should have asked for a discount for how long they were just sitting there.
The one I got for Christmas had Political Puppets as well as Knights Vs Dragons (minus the foils of course). Also had a the Skirsdag High Priest starter deck and something from an M11 Deckbuilders Toolkit. So 5 "things".
In my experience the repacks with the packs in them have worse decks.
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Unless you see one of the decks that are worth getting, which can be hard to see in the newer ones of these, then i wouldnt even think of dropping 30$ on these. Without some extreme luck youre not even going to get 1$ worth of bulk junk.
Yeah the ones where the decks arent in their deckboxes are most likely worthless intro packs, and none of the ones in any walmart ive been to recently (quite a few looking for things like night of the ninja and such) have had anything remarkable at all.
I'm not sure if they're the ones doing these in the plastic cases but they use to package decks together in blister packs. It was two decks for like ten bucks at Target. They came out several years ago.
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I once found the plastic shell of the repack with commander decks in them, but someone had opened it and stole the cards.