If you are playing for fun and want a solid collection that you can build fun silly decks with... BOX. If you spacifically want individual rares to play competitive... SINGLES.
If you want to draft for hours with friends... BOX If you don't want to drop $90 on a potentially bad box... SINGLES.
Yeah it depends on what you want need. If you want to Draft etc get a box.
Basically,
Buy a Box if:
*You want lots of useless cards
*You want 10 copies of most of the commons, a couple copies of some Uncommons, some Rares, and like 2 Mythic Rares(Maybe 1 you need, but you still need 3 MORE :o)
*Your a new player/need collection, so that you can say you have more cards than your buddy
*Your Favorite format is Limted/Sealed, Casual
*You want to play in a sanctioned or non-sanctioned draft amongst enemies or friends
* You want to spend hours and hours looking for the actual useful cards, then spend hours sorting them
*You want to anger your loved ones by leaving them all over the place
*You need a cardboard box to store your cards in (although they sell nicer ones seperately)
*You love cracking packs
Buy Singles if:
*You love constructed Want to compete in constructed Standard/Legacy/Extended/Vintage
*You want to spend less in the long run
*You want to know exactly what you are getting
*You want to build good decks and win packs that you can crack anyway if you like doing that, OR MORE SINGLES!!!
I dunno, it depends on who your friends are and what they play. My friends love EDH and casual, so they'll trade tourney cards for casual rares. Cracking my box of RoE should yield some good stuff and lots of trade fodder. Last week I traded an m10 Underworld Dreams for a Misty Rainforest.
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I dunno, it depends on who your friends are and what they play. My friends love EDH and casual, so they'll trade tourney cards for casual rares. Cracking my box of RoE should yield some good stuff and lots of trade fodder. Last week I traded an m10 Underworld Dreams for a Misty Rainforest.
Or you could just buy those tourney cards right away or buy the casual rares for half a buck instead of the 2-3 bucks the booster it comes from would cost you
Singles; unless you're gonna play limited with them.
To reliably come out anywhere near even on just outright cracking a box, you need to either be a retailer or pull off some pretty dirty trades with people that don't know better.
WARNING: Cracking boxes can become very addicting. This leads to further purchases which leads to brokeness.
Opening boxes is a very good way to get rares you wouldn't normally get and build deck around them. There is no way I'd have half the decks I'd do right now, hell probably a third of them, if I just bought singles. Giants deck? Treefolk? Nope, left over rares that make fun decks!
Just my opinion, but boxes are more expensive, but yields to more fun.
A birthday present from my girlfriend was originally a Zendikar box, but either the company or USPS is lying and she was refunded her money.
Should I then spend that ninety dollars on a box from a different store or should I just buy singles?
I want a few Zendikar cards, such as bloodghasts, Iona, DoJ, and fetches, but the odds are pretty low of pulling those.
What is your opinion?
Singles all the way!
Bloodghast x4 $15-$20
DoJ x4 $20-$24
Iona x2? $10
Fetches x4 $35-$40
+ or - depending on Ebay
That is assuming you need playsets on the first two. If you are just filling in here and there you can get extra fetches and depending on the fetches you need they may be more like $8
Do you have specific needs at the moment for your decks? If you do, buy singles.
Buying a box is pretty fun, and you get a good amount of cards for trade fodder. I cracked two boxes of RoE, have full common playset, almost a full uncommon playset, and a bunch of rares/mythics that will be going on my trade list (and a few going into my cube).
If you have buddies that like to play, get a box and just casually draft it instead of just cracking the box. Obviously you'd still keep the cards opened, but you'd get some play time out of the packs.
i loooooove to crack boosters, its intriguing, (dunno if i spelled it right, i fail :D) and most of the time,i get the money i spend and much more than buying singles (iv opened foil cobra,jace 2.0,gideon,2 mythic eldrazis,persecutor,BSA....they call me Lucky B.). its fun to open ,or you can say addicting, boosters and check what you get, personally i feel like a 2 years old kid opening my christmas presents, its that fun
also with boxes you can draft with friends, get trade stuff,if you're lucky spend less for cards you want (but almost never get x4 unless you trade)
but that's just for me, a casual player, if you want to be competitive get the best cards etc, you gonna spend MORE money(playsets,chase rares), get LESS cards,but you will get what you WANT, 100%
if your going to get a box just for trade fodder and the hope that you get cards you need, only pre-order them. i can pre-order boxes at my local shop before pre-releases for about $90 each, instead of the usual $110-115. Each box will get me accouple cards i'm looking for, resupply my trade binder, and net me on average only a $5 loss, if i've been getting completely unlucky like the last 2 pre-order boxes i opened. (RoE box; not a single titan, only cards above $5 were sarkhan the mad and transcendant master. foil rare was tajuru preserver. WWK box; not a single persecutor or jace 2.0. best card i opened was a foil celestial colonnade.)
You can still get a lot of tradables out of drafting and playing sealed formats. You can also get trade material by buying sets of cheap singles that you think are underrated.
Buying packs and drafting them gives you a better understanding of certain cards' strengths than just reading constructed forums and busting packs for constructed cards. It also puts casual rares and nonmythics in the secondary market, but you get more value out of your pack buying dollar.
WARNING: Cracking boxes can become very addicting. This leads to further purchases which leads to brokeness.
Opening boxes is a very good way to get rares you wouldn't normally get and build deck around them. There is no way I'd have half the decks I'd do right now, hell probably a third of them, if I just bought singles. Giants deck? Treefolk? Nope, left over rares that make fun decks!
Just my opinion, but boxes are more expensive, but yields to more fun.
We call this "The Fever." It's been known to induce multiple people to buy boxes and open them with us.
Everything has been covered by everyone else. If you want trade bait, get a box. If you like drafting, get a box. If you like opening packs, get a box.
But, if you just want specific cards, buy the singles.
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Should I then spend that ninety dollars on a box from a different store or should I just buy singles?
I want a few Zendikar cards, such as bloodghasts, Iona, DoJ, and fetches, but the odds are pretty low of pulling those.
What is your opinion?
If you want to draft for hours with friends... BOX If you don't want to drop $90 on a potentially bad box... SINGLES.
Basically,
Buy a Box if:
*You want lots of useless cards
*You want 10 copies of most of the commons, a couple copies of some Uncommons, some Rares, and like 2 Mythic Rares(Maybe 1 you need, but you still need 3 MORE :o)
*Your a new player/need collection, so that you can say you have more cards than your buddy
*Your Favorite format is Limted/Sealed, Casual
*You want to play in a sanctioned or non-sanctioned draft amongst enemies or friends
* You want to spend hours and hours looking for the actual useful cards, then spend hours sorting them
*You want to anger your loved ones by leaving them all over the place
*You need a cardboard box to store your cards in (although they sell nicer ones seperately)
*You love cracking packs
Buy Singles if:
*
You love constructedWant to compete in constructed Standard/Legacy/Extended/Vintage*You want to spend less in the long run
*You want to know exactly what you are getting
*You want to build good decks and win packs that you can crack anyway if you like doing that, OR MORE SINGLES!!!
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Vintage:
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Modern:
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Amen, this is the #1 result of buying boxes in my house
If you adopt early the attitude that sealed product is for playing sealed formats, you will save a lot of money in the long term.
Or you could just buy those tourney cards right away or buy the casual rares for half a buck instead of the 2-3 bucks the booster it comes from would cost you
To reliably come out anywhere near even on just outright cracking a box, you need to either be a retailer or pull off some pretty dirty trades with people that don't know better.
Opening boxes is a very good way to get rares you wouldn't normally get and build deck around them. There is no way I'd have half the decks I'd do right now, hell probably a third of them, if I just bought singles. Giants deck? Treefolk? Nope, left over rares that make fun decks!
Just my opinion, but boxes are more expensive, but yields to more fun.
Singles all the way!
Bloodghast x4 $15-$20
DoJ x4 $20-$24
Iona x2? $10
Fetches x4 $35-$40
+ or - depending on Ebay
That is assuming you need playsets on the first two. If you are just filling in here and there you can get extra fetches and depending on the fetches you need they may be more like $8
Buying a box is pretty fun, and you get a good amount of cards for trade fodder. I cracked two boxes of RoE, have full common playset, almost a full uncommon playset, and a bunch of rares/mythics that will be going on my trade list (and a few going into my cube).
If you have buddies that like to play, get a box and just casually draft it instead of just cracking the box. Obviously you'd still keep the cards opened, but you'd get some play time out of the packs.
also with boxes you can draft with friends, get trade stuff,if you're lucky spend less for cards you want (but almost never get x4 unless you trade)
but that's just for me, a casual player, if you want to be competitive get the best cards etc, you gonna spend MORE money(playsets,chase rares), get LESS cards,but you will get what you WANT, 100%
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Buying packs and drafting them gives you a better understanding of certain cards' strengths than just reading constructed forums and busting packs for constructed cards. It also puts casual rares and nonmythics in the secondary market, but you get more value out of your pack buying dollar.
*Want all cards are in MINT condition (or NM+ if some problem of MtG)
*Want to test how lucky you are with your friends
We call this "The Fever." It's been known to induce multiple people to buy boxes and open them with us.
Everything has been covered by everyone else. If you want trade bait, get a box. If you like drafting, get a box. If you like opening packs, get a box.
But, if you just want specific cards, buy the singles.
Whatever I feel like building.