When a single draft costs $30 and the majority of the time you're not going to even come remotely close to $30 of cards that creates a lot of feel bad moments. Limited print runs and high MSRP are antithetical to a good draft experience.
It was kind of fun but most of that came from the novelty of seeing these cards together. Set is grindy as hell. Almost every game I played took FOREVER except for a couple of one sided blowouts due to mana screw. I doubt I'll ever do another one of these drafts unless there's a massive print run (and even then probably not) so I guess I'm just glad a lot of singles prices are going down?
If the set has a limited run, most of the lowered prices will rise again surely. Just look at Goyf all three of its reprints. I've yet to draft the set, and it does seem overly pricey as a safe way for LGS to hedge their bets. As I've said before, I've bought to packs and made the value back, probably not buying many more sealed product - just loading up on my EDH staples (Cyclonic Rift, Venser, Paths, Fetchs etc.).
We'll see what the second one brings later this week.
For me it was Goyf (foil), Damnation, Abrupt Decay, Death's Shadow, Niv-Mizzet, Restoration Angel, Domri, Obzedat, Goblin Guide (which makes it my fifth overall), Zur, Venser, Terminus (foil), Evil Twin (foil), misc other rares that I can't recall of the top of my head. No fetches unfortunately, but I didn't really need them. But overall I am happy, I got two legends I wanted (Nivvy and Venser), a planeswalker I needed for my commander deck, and Damnation. The foil Goyf I opened in my first pack made me go Holy S#!t!!!, and it just went on from there. Loved it, well worth what I spent on it (roughly 250€, a little expensive, but affordable). I am not sure I am going to get a second box, we shall see after Amonkhet releases.
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It's about time for the reserved list to die, for the sake of Vintage and Legacy (And Commander).
Opened 7 packs between drafts, prize packs, and 1 on a whim.
Cracked 3 fetches.
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big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation
3 boxes broke:
Values with all cards $1 and above
Box 1- $102 (0 fetch-lands)
Box 2- $278 (3 fetch-lands)
Box 3- $84 (Scalding Tarn and next highest $ card was Path to Exile, lol)
Have a 4th box I'm going to draft heads-up with a friend. But ATM wishing I only bought a single box.
It's an instant speed 5/5 trampler for 4. Wtf do you people want seriously? It has applications in populate/ above the curve beats decks, or in Bant control/ flash. I seriously think anyone mad at this card for any reason other than losing an attacker to instant speed wurm, should go home and make their own awesome card game and leave the rest of us alone.
Box 1: About S250 in worthwhile cards, about half of which is in the foil Liliana of the Veil. Next highest value cards were Verdant Catacombs and then Blood Moon. Still waiting to crack my second box until this weekend when we can draft it.
My friend's box, cracked right after mine, came to about $120 in worthwhile cards almost entirely in two fetches (catacombs and flats), goblin guide, and foil serum visions.
I have seen 11 boxes cracked open and every single one had at least one foil signet in it. Terribly small sample size I know, but I found it very amusing... and lucrative, I now have 7/10 signets foiled out. Declined to pick up the foil Azorius Signet from MM3, I'll shell out the $5 extra for a Rav block foil and actually get white-blue art.
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Ugh. Couldn't have had a much worse box. My 4 most valuable cards were Linvala foil ($45 TCGP Low), Marsh Flats ($25), Death's Shadow ($7) and Abrupt Decay ($4.50). Mythics were Temporal Mastery ($4), Olivia ($2.25) and Entreat the Angels ($2.50). When your 4 best cards barely crack $80, you know the box is garbage. I probably didn't reach $110-120 in EV. Didn't even get much back in the way of UC's: 1 IoK and 0 Path's. I could have pulled a Damnation, or Blood Moon AND another Fetch and the box STILL would have been meh. Meanwhile my friend opened 4 boxes and pulled 16 fetches and a foil fetch.
I know it's the luck of the draw, but between my Eternal Masters box (which I paid $200 for) that only yielded $100 EV (most expensive card was a $12 Sylvan Library), and my MM17 box, which I paid $170 for, I paid $370 to barely get $200 back. I think I'm done with Master's boxes, the risk is too high for the reward. I'm tired of being a sucker to WOTC when they have the balls to charge $10 MSRP per pack for a set where 30 out of 53 rares have a value of less than a dollar.
I did a draft on tuesday.
it makes all boxes amazing by comparison.
noteworthy opens
linvala (there were other mythics but i dont recall them)
blood moon
damnation
1 or 2 fetches (mesa and flats i think)
foil restoration angel
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big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation
Opened 1 box, pulled 2 Goyfs, Snapcaster, 3 Fetches, Voice of Resurgence and a Foil Linvala, thing is the rest of the box sucked not 1 Path or IoK. My other rares were junk (Except Decay).
Opened 1 box, pulled 2 Goyfs, Snapcaster, 3 Fetches, Voice of Resurgence and a Foil Linvala, thing is the rest of the box sucked not 1 Path or IoK. My other rares were junk (Except Decay).
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(W/U)(B/R)GForm of Progenitus, Shape of a Scrubland
BRGJund Tokens with Prossh, the Magic Dragon Foil
URGAnimar, the RUG CleanerFoil
RRRFeldon of the Third Path 2.0 Foil
BG(B/G)Not Another Meren DeckFoil
UR(U/R)Mizzix, Y Control and X Burn Spells
(W/U)(B/R)GHarold Ramos - The 35 Foot Long Twinkie (In +1/+1 counters)
UB(U/B)Dragonlord Silumgar
Single fetch saved by some nice mythics.
We'll see what the second one brings later this week.
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For me it was Goyf (foil), Damnation, Abrupt Decay, Death's Shadow, Niv-Mizzet, Restoration Angel, Domri, Obzedat, Goblin Guide (which makes it my fifth overall), Zur, Venser, Terminus (foil), Evil Twin (foil), misc other rares that I can't recall of the top of my head. No fetches unfortunately, but I didn't really need them. But overall I am happy, I got two legends I wanted (Nivvy and Venser), a planeswalker I needed for my commander deck, and Damnation. The foil Goyf I opened in my first pack made me go Holy S#!t!!!, and it just went on from there. Loved it, well worth what I spent on it (roughly 250€, a little expensive, but affordable). I am not sure I am going to get a second box, we shall see after Amonkhet releases.
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Opened 7 packs between drafts, prize packs, and 1 on a whim.
Cracked 3 fetches.
pucatrade
big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation
3 boxes broke:
Values with all cards $1 and above
Box 1- $102 (0 fetch-lands)
Box 2- $278 (3 fetch-lands)
Box 3- $84 (Scalding Tarn and next highest $ card was Path to Exile, lol)
Have a 4th box I'm going to draft heads-up with a friend. But ATM wishing I only bought a single box.
My friend's box, cracked right after mine, came to about $120 in worthwhile cards almost entirely in two fetches (catacombs and flats), goblin guide, and foil serum visions.
I have seen 11 boxes cracked open and every single one had at least one foil signet in it. Terribly small sample size I know, but I found it very amusing... and lucrative, I now have 7/10 signets foiled out. Declined to pick up the foil Azorius Signet from MM3, I'll shell out the $5 extra for a Rav block foil and actually get white-blue art.
URGRiku, Sorcerer SupremeGRU
Who needs permanents anyways?
WUBRGDeckbuilder's ToolboxGRBUW
Warning:Contents include 34 decks and growing
A guy at the store later opened a foil Goyf – he yelled so loud I thought his head was going to explode.
I know it's the luck of the draw, but between my Eternal Masters box (which I paid $200 for) that only yielded $100 EV (most expensive card was a $12 Sylvan Library), and my MM17 box, which I paid $170 for, I paid $370 to barely get $200 back. I think I'm done with Master's boxes, the risk is too high for the reward. I'm tired of being a sucker to WOTC when they have the balls to charge $10 MSRP per pack for a set where 30 out of 53 rares have a value of less than a dollar.
it makes all boxes amazing by comparison.
noteworthy opens
linvala (there were other mythics but i dont recall them)
blood moon
damnation
1 or 2 fetches (mesa and flats i think)
foil restoration angel
pucatrade
big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation