Kind of surprised I didn't see a thread about this. An article on the Mothership today previewed the 2015 Holiday Gift box, which now comes with five, instead of four booster packs! The MSRP remains the same at $19.99, so it's a pretty solid value, especially considering all of the lands that are included in each box.
Anyhow, here's the image of it:
They updated the article - the MSPR is actually $24.99
Can't say I'm a fan of the price increase. I'm not sure why the extra booster was necessary (at least increase it to 6 so you and your friends can each buy a box and play some Sealed). Now after conversion to $CDN, with the currently bad exchange rate, I'll be spending around $35 on one (or more likely, spending nothing). That being said, if the land pack is full-art, I might be tempted to buy it and keep the land pack sealed (to sell in the future to make back some of that money).
Can't say I'm a fan of the price increase. I'm not sure why the extra booster was necessary (at least increase it to 6 so you and your friends can each buy a box and play some Sealed). Now after conversion to $CDN, with the currently bad exchange rate, I'll be spending around $35 on one (or more likely, spending nothing). That being said, if the land pack is full-art, I might be tempted to buy it and keep the land pack sealed (to sell in the future to make back some of that money).
The booster is in there to justify the price increase. Seems like those boxes took up too much space while making too little profit for wizards.
I'm SO SICK of the "too strong for Standard" argument. It's the new "Dies to removal". We can have a two mana 4/4 with a zillion abilities, but we can't just have Accumulated Knowledge. Makes sense.
I just hope the quality of the box has improved, from what I can tell the RTR one was indeed the strongest and best designed, Theroes was very shoddy, and the Khans one looked like they just stuck a fat pack in the middle...
I really like these and would like some that are somewhat sturdy they are the perfect size for my EDH decks and fits great in my backpack.
I'm pretty sure the Eldrazi on the left is oblivion sower, which leads me to believe the one dead center will be the most bad-ass of the set and the one on the right about the same power-level as sower.
Ehhh, still a good deal as long as the land pack is full art.
NO full art lands in holiday boxes. Per a member of Wizards: See Here
"A number of people have asked about full-art lands in the BFZ Gift Box. I can confirm that there will NOT be full-art lands in The Gift Box."
Thanks for linking that. Well, looks like it's the ol' Fat Pack rout for me. And if full arts aren't in the holiday box that probably means they aren't in Starter Decks either...shame.
Ehhh, still a good deal as long as the land pack is full art.
NO full art lands in holiday boxes. Per a member of Wizards: See Here
I would be suprised if they were excluded from the fat pack. So far they seem to be following the same template as the original Zen release and I believe those Fat Packs had full art lands.
"A number of people have asked about full-art lands in the BFZ Gift Box. I can confirm that there will NOT be full-art lands in The Gift Box."
I think this indicates that full arts wont be in fat packs either.
I will have to buy 3 boxes of boosters to hopefully get 20 of each basic land type
Wizards needs to really pay attention to the little details. Would it really have been difficult to put full-art basic lands into this?
If they want Full-art lands to be collectible and worth anything at all it would have been pretty difficult, yeah.
Remember that this product does NOT target the kind of audience that you would expect to have an MTGSalvation account. It's something you buy your nephew for christmas and for that it looks fine, actually. Especially if the quality of the box is acceptable.
Remember that this product does NOT target the kind of audience that you would expect to have an MTGSalvation account. It's something you buy your nephew for christmas and for that it looks fine, actually. Especially if the quality of the box is acceptable.
Well, surprise, cause I did buy 2 previous Boxes ;). Well, they are good for storage and I like the promos. Also, my LGS gives an option of putting any kind of boosters you like inside.
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They also appear to have changed the name to just "The Gift Box".
I guess even "Holiday Gift Box" was too exclusionary?
Well seeing as they will be haveing at least 2 large sets a year instead of just the holidays anymore they may realeas two boxs a year. And seeing as you can give it as a gift any time of the year, calling it a holiday box never really made sense anyway.
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They also appear to have changed the name to just "The Gift Box".
I guess even "Holiday Gift Box" was too exclusionary?
More likely they, correctly, figured that dropping the word holiday simply lessens the odds of people complaining either way
"Holiday" makes the product look out-of-date once the calendar changes. I'm sure they'd prefer these sell year-round, rather than be relegated to the clearance corner after January 10...
The quality of the Theros and Khans boxes was atrocious so that inflated MSRP had better mean improved quality. Paying $5 more for 1 additional booster isn't a good deal if the boxes remain horrible in quality.
This is not a very good price at all. It's basically buying 5 boosters at retail price of $4 each and adding overprinted non-full art lands into a likely flimsy box. I am not expecting a better box for the price increase.
They also appear to have changed the name to just "The Gift Box".
I guess even "Holiday Gift Box" was too exclusionary?
More likely they, correctly, figured that dropping the word holiday simply lessens the odds of people complaining either way
"Holiday" makes the product look out-of-date once the calendar changes. I'm sure they'd prefer these sell year-round, rather than be relegated to the clearance corner after January 10...
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They updated the article - the MSPR is actually $24.99
The booster is in there to justify the price increase. Seems like those boxes took up too much space while making too little profit for wizards.
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I really like these and would like some that are somewhat sturdy they are the perfect size for my EDH decks and fits great in my backpack.
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I'm pretty sure the Eldrazi on the left is oblivion sower, which leads me to believe the one dead center will be the most bad-ass of the set and the one on the right about the same power-level as sower.
NO full art lands in holiday boxes. Per a member of Wizards: See Here
"A number of people have asked about full-art lands in the BFZ Gift Box. I can confirm that there will NOT be full-art lands in The Gift Box."
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booster price in my country is unreal enough, in my point of view. Full art lands are not in and the extra booster ajusted the price up...
And into the dust collecting club it goes, hope it enjoys that comfy seat on the shelves.
Well, that ceased being a good deal pretty quickly...
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I think this indicates that full arts wont be in fat packs either.
I will have to buy 3 boxes of boosters to hopefully get 20 of each basic land type
Thanks for linking that. Well, looks like it's the ol' Fat Pack rout for me. And if full arts aren't in the holiday box that probably means they aren't in Starter Decks either...shame.
Wizards needs to really pay attention to the little details. Would it really have been difficult to put full-art basic lands into this?
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If they want Full-art lands to be collectible and worth anything at all it would have been pretty difficult, yeah.
Remember that this product does NOT target the kind of audience that you would expect to have an MTGSalvation account. It's something you buy your nephew for christmas and for that it looks fine, actually. Especially if the quality of the box is acceptable.
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More likely they, correctly, figured that dropping the word holiday simply lessens the odds of people complaining either way
Well seeing as they will be haveing at least 2 large sets a year instead of just the holidays anymore they may realeas two boxs a year. And seeing as you can give it as a gift any time of the year, calling it a holiday box never really made sense anyway.
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STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
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"Holiday" makes the product look out-of-date once the calendar changes. I'm sure they'd prefer these sell year-round, rather than be relegated to the clearance corner after January 10...
Good point