I'm sure some of you have seen the new 3-pack bundles they've been selling recently for $12.48 that come with 2 bonus cards, one of which is a shiny promo, and the one you can't see that is normally crap. Most of them haven't looked all that exciting, but I spotted two tonight that had both Return to Ravnica and Khans of Tarkir (and BFZ, but...well you know). I love throwing chaos drafts, so I picked them up. I had bought one of these previously, and my second 'bonus' card was a Mountain. This time though, behind the foil promo was a Dromoka's Command! I was pretty pumped, so I immediately ripped the other one open, but it was just a Zulaport Cutthroat.
Moral of the story: well, nothing really. I guess, occasionally, these things have cross-format all-stars hiding in them.
Side note, I used to find all kinds of crazy good deals at Wal-Mart and Target, but I haven't happened upon a really good one in a few years. Bummer. A couple of years ago I was finding intact Divine vs. Demonic Duel Decks and the otherwise crappy intro deck that had Umezawa's Jitte. Those were the days...
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Yeeeessss! My favorite topic! I concur, haven't seen much at tar-mart for weird and desirable, but I did buy this morning a atarka foil front three booster surprise. (Would love to have found a paper tiger or similar!). Anyway , pulled a foil Mythic.
Even though they're not that valuable or always super payable, I kinda like collecting the retail promos. I now have way too many copies of Knight Exemplar, Xathrid Necromancer and Genesis Hydra. Either way, these particular 3-pack bundles had RTR and KTK packs, so two chances at fetches and shocks.
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So update nerdz. I've bought may be 6 of these. Double bonus 3 packs, all sucked! One even had a land as the second card! The packs have also been crap, one mythic in 18 packs! Junk mythic too. Anyway variance b lag blah......
Just picked up a three booster (dragons, maze and reforged) with a harbinger of the hunt, foil from dragons, not the star promo.
Odd, still haven't cracked it yes, thinking it's not a ton, but curious
Is it the intro pack foil? I could see suppliers repackaging those instead of tossing them when they pull the old intro packs apart to sell in bundles.
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I've bought a few. I've gotten more foils than usual from the Return to Ravnica ones and one Hallowed Fountain but other than that my luck with these have been pretty bad.
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My fiancée seems to be a whiz at cracking packs from retail stores. Recently she opened a foil Tamiyo, Field Researcher. Before that, it was a Kor Haven expedition.
I don't know how she does it. My luck with retail store packs is dreadful.
Y a, I'm not talking about the contents inside those packs, but the cover card, I've heard about the paper tigers and other oddities, that's what it's about. I mean I've had some luck with the contents to know they aren't being mapped out, of course the variety of packs they sell is somewhat dubious.....
That being said I did once find a legions pack in the middle between two recent rotated sets in a 3 packer.
Smuggler's Copter and a Cataclysmic Gearhulk were two out of my rares out of my last 3 boosters from WallyWorld.
Haven't seen a single Masterwork yet between me and my friends and that is over 100 boosters, although that also includes boosters from comic store.
Well, technically the odds are about 1 in 144 for a masterpiece, so it seems like you've still got some more packs to go! Or you could have probably just bought one by now outright.
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I bought another one of these today, just because I wanted the Thalia's Lancers promo and some more chaos draft fodder. And the second bonus card was....Goblin Welder! It was the Commander 2014 version, obviously, but still! There are good cards to be found in these things, though a couple weeks ago I got a Shiv's Embrace, so it's a crapshoot.
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My best pull from a walmart has been actually finding a copy of Breed Lethality buried in the depths of a thousand Open Hostility and Stalwart Unity. I know it doesn't sound like much, but wow is that deck hard to find at all in stores. I should probably pick up the other three commander decks while they still are floating around, actually.
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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!
Okay, so one time I bought a three pack two promo bundle thingy, and the second card was a random common. I thought I got screwed so I contacted the distributor and explained what came in my packs, and showed them the barcode.
Fast forward a couple weeks, I get four of those bundles in the mail, an de it turns out all of them only have one promo and then one crap card. I don't know what happened, or if there was a giant misunderstanding, but I pulled a nykthos and two fetches from the packs
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Think my best pull from these packs was me wanting to get Broodmate Dragon. Purchased it, cracked it got some fun rares until I got the Innistrad pack, wasn't expecting much except for Liliana of the Veil which was in the pack. This was when her unfoiled was sitting at all time, sleaved her up and shes still running around in my Jund EDH.
my target had little plastic cubes with some presealed decks in it, i believe they are repacks of damaged/returned product. One of them had an obvious commander deck so i bought it. For $30 i got the mono blue commander deck, vraskas half of a duel deck, an event deck and an intro deck.
my target had little plastic cubes with some presealed decks in it, i believe they are repacks of damaged/returned product. One of them had an obvious commander deck so i bought it. For $30 i got the mono blue commander deck, vraskas half of a duel deck, an event deck and an intro deck.
Target has done these for a while. It is not damaged product--it is unsold product. The best I got was had Kaalia of the Vast, The Mimeoplasm, and a third Commander deck. This was in ~2013 or 2014. Let's just say I always check those boxes now. I have gotten quite a few commander decks this way, though that first pack was the only one I've found with 3 commander decks. Sometimes they contain fat pack land packs too. If you check regularly, you'll start knowing decks by their front card...
The best dumb luck that I've had at a big box was foil Wooded Foothills out of a single KTK booster that I got on a whim (also found a $100 bill in the parking lot). My best clear box find was the Freyalise commander deck in one of those clear box with paper liner boxes (got Kruphix in one of the boosters).
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Moral of the story: well, nothing really. I guess, occasionally, these things have cross-format all-stars hiding in them.
Side note, I used to find all kinds of crazy good deals at Wal-Mart and Target, but I haven't happened upon a really good one in a few years. Bummer. A couple of years ago I was finding intact Divine vs. Demonic Duel Decks and the otherwise crappy intro deck that had Umezawa's Jitte. Those were the days...
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Just picked up a three booster (dragons, maze and reforged) with a harbinger of the hunt, foil from dragons, not the star promo.
Odd, still haven't cracked it yes, thinking it's not a ton, but curious
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Haven't seen a single Masterwork yet between me and my friends and that is over 100 boosters, although that also includes boosters from comic store.
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I don't know how she does it. My luck with retail store packs is dreadful.
That being said I did once find a legions pack in the middle between two recent rotated sets in a 3 packer.
Well, technically the odds are about 1 in 144 for a masterpiece, so it seems like you've still got some more packs to go! Or you could have probably just bought one by now outright.
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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!
Fast forward a couple weeks, I get four of those bundles in the mail, an de it turns out all of them only have one promo and then one crap card. I don't know what happened, or if there was a giant misunderstanding, but I pulled a nykthos and two fetches from the packs
3 a 3 pack promo blister today, inside? shadows, dragons, and ....... SHARDS OF ALARA!
the only thing to do was crack it, so i did, violent ult and a foil strix, not bad, the other packs were meh....
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