Or you can do like my husband and I did: we have seven children, four of whom are old enough to play Magic. They play with us, and they spend their own money on cards, too. You haven't lived until you've opened a booster box with your teens while holding a baby.
With the cost of healthcare and childcare, not to mention post-secondary education in the US, I'll never have more than two kids unless I win the lottery.
The reliable sellers I know about don't send sealed product to my country.
How many boxes are you looking for? I could work with you, if you're willing to pay the shipping costs, to get you a few if you pay up front. I'll buy them, you pay me, I'll ship them to you. Let me know. I don't mind the time/work if it will help ya out.
I have neither the skill to correctly and accurately analyze this set in the context of current and future formats after 12 hours of exposure, nor the hubris to delude myself into believing that I do.
It's hard to speculate or make any judgement on what a good price will be until the set is spoiled (remember the Modern Event Deck). I think it's dangerous to pre- purchase until you know what you're buying. Also, MM2015 is not a normal release and as such has a shorter print run. I would be surprised to see MM2015 10% above wholesale like normal sets are.
I just spent today going to every LGS in my area and not a single one had a definite answer for how much MM2015 they are getting or if they are getting anything at all. I am kinda getting worried here.
Looks like boxes are consistently at $224 now. Dangit I knew I should have waited. I'm not going to buy any more boxes until I either get an ebay bucks multiplier or they go under $210 including shipping.
I was in Japan during MM1 and was at a card shop in Akihabara which had packs on display for MSRP and it didn't seem like anyone was hoarding (so I poorly assumed I could just buy them in the states or at least draft at MSRP) I bought Japanese packs instead for the novelty and as gifts for friends. So the guy saying 24000 yen is probably true, Magic from what I saw isn't as large compared to other card games and so depending on the shops they just sit there.
I was in Japan during MM1 and was at a card shop in Akihabara which had packs on display for MSRP and it didn't seem like anyone was hoarding (so I poorly assumed I could just buy them in the states or at least draft at MSRP) I bought Japanese packs instead for the novelty and as gifts for friends. So the guy saying 24000 yen is probably true, Magic from what I saw isn't as large compared to other card games and so depending on the shops they just sit there.
This has been asked probably a half dozen times in the last ten pages. And answered well yesterday. Please do some reading back before just asking a question that was already answered recently.
Here in Japan they are currently taking orders for boxes at 24,000 yen per box. I have to check if that sign is up next week, if it is the print run will probably be very big.
That's really cheap 24,000 yen = $201.82 dollars. If boxes are really going to be that cheap in Japan then store owners should not be selling for more then msrp of $240 at all. In fact we all should be getting cheaper then MSRP MM boosters boxes. $200 is also still more then double the price of a normal $90 booster box for any standard set.
It's not entirely surprising- the MSRP for Duel Decks there is ¥1500.
I just wish I had gone when they were selling Modern Masters instead of Duel Decks!
The exchange rate for dollars to yen is really high right now, too,
which is a large part of why it's so cheap.
But they aren't printing MM in Japanese, right?
I'm assuming Japan will just get the English versions?
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Oh wow, now I'm *really* upset I didn't go to Japan a little later-
You can't beat cards that cost less than they do in America, yet are worth quite a bit more!
I remember reading it would be available in three languages,
but I'm extremely surprised Japanese is one of the three, given Japan isn't a huge market.
Maybe they all just sell them to Westerners for a huge profit
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Actually, I'm under the impression that there is actually a pretty huge MTG following in Japan, they certainly produce a lot of fanart for it, and make a lot of references to it. Yu-Gi-Oh after all is based on a comic, which originally had lots of different games in the early storyline, and one of the games was MtG with the serial numbers filed off for the sake of copyright issues and such, to avoid getting in legal trouble, which turned out to be a popular part of the storyline that took everything over, and then was turned into an actual card game based on the modified rules and cards found in the comics. And I'm pretty sure the designers of Pokemon cards also based it off of MtG, except they set out to do something more explicitly different than Yugioh did, and had a more restrictive creature base to work with since they had to base it off the video games.
And despite those two games, I more often see references to MtG itself in other anime and manga and fanart than I do to pokemon cards or yugioh cards, unless it is fanart specifically of pokemon or yugioh characters.
WotC is actually pretty popular over in Japan, Slayers (originally a series of short stories in the Japanese dragon magazine, later turned into light novels, then into an anime and stuff) is actually originally based on a D&D campaign played by some of the people who wrote the Japanese version of Dragon magazine.
They just tend to do things somewhat differently than we do over here with it. Their metagame is very different I've heard, and they have different inexplicably popular cards, like scaled wurm rather than storm crow. There is a reason why Japan got a unique set of anime style arts for Jace vs. Chandra duel deck, there demand is really high enough to produce enough demand to satisfy the costs of creating alternate printings like that.
The Modern Masters 2015 GP in Chiba is already sold out at 4000 people which was about the same time Vegas reached 4000 people. Utrecht on the other hand is barely over half full.
I wonder how big GP Japan could have been if they had a bigger venue.
No chance. I don't say that lightly. It won't go down to $100. I can see it dropping to $130 if we're lucky, $140-150 is potentially the floor, it already dropped down to where you can get it for about $165 on a good day, but i think that's a reaction to the speculation about it dropping when the new version is officially available. Within a year it will still be a $175+ card. That's just my guess, on everything but the $100. I really don't think there is any chance of that kind of drop, the rest is just a wild guess.
How low do you think Tarmogoyf will go down in price once this set releases? Anyone think it will go down to the $100 mark?.. I'm really hopeful..
When Modern Masters was coming before, June 2013, I remember reading an article where the President of Starcitygames flat-out said they will not be lowing the prices simply because a limited print-run set.
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With the cost of healthcare and childcare, not to mention post-secondary education in the US, I'll never have more than two kids unless I win the lottery.
How many boxes are you looking for? I could work with you, if you're willing to pay the shipping costs, to get you a few if you pay up front. I'll buy them, you pay me, I'll ship them to you. Let me know. I don't mind the time/work if it will help ya out.
At least you can get your money out of playset of goyfs!
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Print run must be A LOT higher this time around.
Playing Magic (and other games) with my kids is one of the reasons I really want one at some point.
This has been asked probably a half dozen times in the last ten pages. And answered well yesterday. Please do some reading back before just asking a question that was already answered recently.
It's not entirely surprising- the MSRP for Duel Decks there is ¥1500.
I just wish I had gone when they were selling Modern Masters instead of Duel Decks!
The exchange rate for dollars to yen is really high right now, too,
which is a large part of why it's so cheap.
But they aren't printing MM in Japanese, right?
I'm assuming Japan will just get the English versions?
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Looks like it'll be in Japanese.
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/arcana/announcing-modern-masters-2015-edition-2014-12-08
Oh wow, now I'm *really* upset I didn't go to Japan a little later-
You can't beat cards that cost less than they do in America, yet are worth quite a bit more!
I remember reading it would be available in three languages,
but I'm extremely surprised Japanese is one of the three, given Japan isn't a huge market.
Maybe they all just sell them to Westerners for a huge profit
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
And despite those two games, I more often see references to MtG itself in other anime and manga and fanart than I do to pokemon cards or yugioh cards, unless it is fanart specifically of pokemon or yugioh characters.
WotC is actually pretty popular over in Japan, Slayers (originally a series of short stories in the Japanese dragon magazine, later turned into light novels, then into an anime and stuff) is actually originally based on a D&D campaign played by some of the people who wrote the Japanese version of Dragon magazine.
They just tend to do things somewhat differently than we do over here with it. Their metagame is very different I've heard, and they have different inexplicably popular cards, like scaled wurm rather than storm crow. There is a reason why Japan got a unique set of anime style arts for Jace vs. Chandra duel deck, there demand is really high enough to produce enough demand to satisfy the costs of creating alternate printings like that.
I wonder how big GP Japan could have been if they had a bigger venue.
As was pointed out earlier, Path to Exile was printed in a duel deck prior to MM1 in about the same time frame.
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When Modern Masters was coming before, June 2013, I remember reading an article where the President of Starcitygames flat-out said they will not be lowing the prices simply because a limited print-run set.