Why would I talk you out of it? I don't know you. I don't care if you buy them. If you have the money to spare and you want them, then buy them. If you need strangers on the internet to talk you out of it, then you probably shouldn't get them...
As far as playing goes, do you think you'd enjoy playing them as much as the decks you already have sitting around? Also, you use sleeves, right? I haven't tried it but I would imagine a foiled-out deck would be a little annoying to play without sleeves.
Myself... I don't care for the decks themselves usually but there are some cards in there I like and I maintain a collection of every color spindown they release so I pick them up (also From the Vaults) as they release them.
The slivers deck has almost no value. The other two have about $30 worth of legacy staples in them each. Buy them if you want to play them casually. If you want to break into legacy playing burn you should buy 3-4x the fire and lightning deck, the rest of the deck can be had for about 50 bucks. I'd much rather put $100 into a custom casual deck, or a budget deck for a format than buy the 3 different premium decks, especially seeing at $100 for all 3 doesn't actually seem like that much of a bargain (I managed to get 3x fire and lightning the last month for $20 each. Now that was a bargain.)
Particularly the slivers deck should be nowhere near retail, and retail is only $35. Hell, you can order the 3 decks from Star City Games right now for $95.
Why would I talk you out of it? I don't know you. I don't care if you buy them. If you have the money to spare and you want them, then buy them. If you need strangers on the internet to talk you out of it, then you probably shouldn't get them...
yet you clicked on the thread and made an entire post, reasoning to the op all the reasons you don't care to spend time to talk someone you don't know out of something.
on topic: The best way to not buy something is to wait 2 weeks and see if you still want it. If you still want it after 2 weeks, get it. If not, you've saved 100 dollars. I do that with all my major purchases. Of course, the larger the purchase, the longer you should wait.
It's not really al that worth it, even for casual play. Sure the decks are fun, but then you'll want to streamline them and make them better decks... which suddenly then makes you feel weird for having a half foil deck... it's a slippery slope, and not really worth it IMO. For the same money you can likely build something more to your playstyle or tweak out one of your other decks you already enjoy playing.
For me it all depends on what you're going to do with them which is not something we can decide for you. Personally I only purchased Graveborn and that's because the Entomb alone was worth the price of admission and I could use it in my EDH decks and many other decks moving forward. Not to mention the Reanimate, Sphinx, etc.
Slivers is the least utility of the bunch and useless unless you want to play Slivers. If you do, then it's probably worth it.
Fire and Lightning wasn't bad but at the same time not very good. It probably sold the worst of the 3 and is why you could find them in all sorts of clearance sections. I saw them for 50% all over the place and still not selling. I'd suggest buying the singles if you really need them on that one.
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I think you are overpaying for them. Slivers has no value to them. Fire and Lightning can still be gotten on sale at my local Target for $20. Graveborn is probably the only premium series deck worth buying because of Entomb.
I think the cards are pretty ugly, and I'd get a lot more enjoyment out of collecting the original versions and playing them. I've noticed that all the non normal set release stuff for mtg recently has come out of a different printer or something. All of the cards just look and feel a little off, and are weird to play with.
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Myself... I don't care for the decks themselves usually but there are some cards in there I like and I maintain a collection of every color spindown they release so I pick them up (also From the Vaults) as they release them.
Particularly the slivers deck should be nowhere near retail, and retail is only $35. Hell, you can order the 3 decks from Star City Games right now for $95.
yet you clicked on the thread and made an entire post, reasoning to the op all the reasons you don't care to spend time to talk someone you don't know out of something.
on topic: The best way to not buy something is to wait 2 weeks and see if you still want it. If you still want it after 2 weeks, get it. If not, you've saved 100 dollars. I do that with all my major purchases. Of course, the larger the purchase, the longer you should wait.
Slivers is the least utility of the bunch and useless unless you want to play Slivers. If you do, then it's probably worth it.
Fire and Lightning wasn't bad but at the same time not very good. It probably sold the worst of the 3 and is why you could find them in all sorts of clearance sections. I saw them for 50% all over the place and still not selling. I'd suggest buying the singles if you really need them on that one.
(side note - I own all 3 but bought slivers from someone on MTGS opened for less.)
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