Someone gave me the wrong info then about FNM, I didn't realize that they would give out packs for FNM instead of single cards as they're doing right now. Or do they give the packs to the store and the store decides how to split the cards, I'm kind of confused by the article because at the end they said that the stores will have final say on how they give out the promos, which is a little bit scary.
The EV for Japanese boxes is probably double the box cost so about $220-240 per box since I've noticed that in a box you will usually get either 1 gideon, 1 liliana or 1 bolas.
And there are a lot of teferis in Japanese boxes (I opened two boxes and got 1 in each box, my friend opened 4 boxes and got one in each box as well which is 6 teferis in 6 boxes, I don't think that's a coincidence).
Also my friend got 3 bolas and 1 liliana out of his 4 boxes which also makes me think that my previous estimate of one BIG mythic per box is true. I also opened two boxes and got 1 Alt art Gideon in each box which also matches my theory, although this is for Japanese boxes only.
As for being able to trade the cards I live in Tokyo so people here want Japanese cards more than English ones, so my original post was also correct about trading the Alt walkers while they're hot and before people get more of them and then the price will go down.
the way i understood the article is that 'promo packs' would be replacing all different promos for any events. the store then gets to decide how they rewards the packs, as in they technically shouldnt be opening them. im basing this off the article saying 'But they'll be in packs of four, giving players more cards'. from what comments ive seen from lgs owners though, is that unless you are one of the biggest most popular stores that can meet the new WPN requirements then stores wont be getting many packs overall (compared to how many promo cards they got).
yeah, my apologies, i assumed you were in the US/NA out of ignorance. if you live in tokyo then they will be everywhere
Yeah, that's why I said that there's a chance that the lgs owners or whoever runs the tourneys will crack those packs of 4 cards and give them out to the players one each or two each to make it reach more players for that month. If they only get 16 packs in a month and they're running 4 fnms and 4 standard showdowns then they're ok, but if they only get 6-8 packs per month and they're running those tourneys it might be better to crack the packs and split the cards so everyone in the top 4 gets something at every tourney.
I'm not a store owner so I don't know if they'd do that, but since wizards is leaving it up to them to decide how to give out the goodies I'm pretty sure the opening of packs and splitting of cards will happen somewhere.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
The mothership has an article up today featuring an interview with Amano-san about the alternate art Liliana, which is also the wallpaper of the week. Needless to say, if you're a fan of Amano-san's work, that wallpaper should be an instant download for you because viewing it in card size does not do it justice.
The alternate art won’t just be for the first printing, right? If it isn’t, I’ll just wait for the cost of the packs to go down after more have been opened.
So, would Amano have made Ob Nixilis look a bit like Garland?
"I, Ob Nixilis, will knock you all down!"
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Currently on vacation in Japan I thought about spending my ME refunded 250$ on japanese boxes of WAR. Somehow it seems that there are no japanese boosters anywhere in Tokyo available. (English is also nearly everywhere out of stock.)
Is it known when there will be a restock?
Will travel to Osaka in about 3 days. Maybe I will be luckier there.
Currently on vacation in Japan I thought about spending my ME refunded 250$ on japanese boxes of WAR. Somehow it seems that there are no japanese boosters anywhere in Tokyo available. (English is also nearly everywhere out of stock.)
Is it known when there will be a restock?
Will travel to Osaka in about 3 days. Maybe I will be luckier there.
Try machida station, store is named amenity dreams, they have Japanese boxes for 14,000 yen, so about $140 us each.
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I have a chance to buy a Japanese box for around 170 euros, I’m not really into the prices what do you guys think? I think is neat the alt art and there are some quite nice and I’m afraid it will get almost impossible to get one sealed box in the near future..
I have a chance to buy a Japanese box for around 170 euros, I’m not really into the prices what do you guys think? I think is neat the alt art and there are some quite nice and I’m afraid it will get almost impossible to get one sealed box in the near future..
I think there is too much craze at the moment, war of the spark is a print on demand set so we will be able to buy boxes for a long time, in 6 months we will be getting japanese boxes at normal prices. WotC already is distributing japanese boxes around the world BTW, stores here in Mexico already got some.
I have a chance to buy a Japanese box for around 170 euros, I’m not really into the prices what do you guys think? I think is neat the alt art and there are some quite nice and I’m afraid it will get almost impossible to get one sealed box in the near future..
I think there is too much craze at the moment, war of the spark is a print on demand set so we will be able to buy boxes for a long time, in 6 months we will be getting japanese boxes at normal prices. WotC already is distributing japanese boxes around the world BTW, stores here in Mexico already got some.
Is that true? Problem is that stores will always bump up the price and I don’t think there’s an actual way to buy these strait from wizards.
I have a chance to buy a Japanese box for around 170 euros, I’m not really into the prices what do you guys think? I think is neat the alt art and there are some quite nice and I’m afraid it will get almost impossible to get one sealed box in the near future..
I think there is too much craze at the moment, war of the spark is a print on demand set so we will be able to buy boxes for a long time, in 6 months we will be getting japanese boxes at normal prices. WotC already is distributing japanese boxes around the world BTW, stores here in Mexico already got some.
Is that true? Problem is that stores will always bump up the price and I don’t think there’s an actual way to buy these strait from wizards.
They'll also be offered in the FNM prize packs for I believe M20 season making them more available which will drop the price. I want the whole set but I'm waiting for the packs to be distributed before jumping on them. I don't think you'll be able to get the foils though.
I have a chance to buy a Japanese box for around 170 euros, I’m not really into the prices what do you guys think? I think is neat the alt art and there are some quite nice and I’m afraid it will get almost impossible to get one sealed box in the near future..
I think there is too much craze at the moment, war of the spark is a print on demand set so we will be able to buy boxes for a long time, in 6 months we will be getting japanese boxes at normal prices. WotC already is distributing japanese boxes around the world BTW, stores here in Mexico already got some.
Is that true? Problem is that stores will always bump up the price and I don’t think there’s an actual way to buy these strait from wizards.
They'll also be offered in the FNM prize packs for I believe M20 season making them more available which will drop the price. I want the whole set but I'm waiting for the packs to be distributed before jumping on them. I don't think you'll be able to get the foils though.
Yes but it only shows up 1/4 in those packs and only going to be around for roughly 2 months and you cant just get unlimited supply is just for FNM purposes.
I would just wait some months, after everyone gets theirs the prices will come down, ordering all of them from a Japanese site looks like the best thing to do instead of buying boxes.
I played a draft yesterday and opened alt art Sorin and teferi out of my three packs. The draft cost $15, the value of the two rares is about $30.
Feels good man!
The price of Japanese packs is up to almost $5 each now, so playing a draft for $15 is the same as buying packs basically but you have a chance to win more.
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I've managed to get a hold on one Japanese box this week and only got to open today, overall got lucky and really happy with the pulls. Also the japanese cardboard stock look's to be a lot better then the regular boxes.
Just main pulls on pic, got a lot more alternative art of the uncommon one's too.
PS: The Teyo japanese alternative art one is foil..
I've managed to get a hold on one Japanese box this week and only got to open today, overall got lucky and really happy with the pulls. Also the japanese cardboard stock look's to be a lot better then the regular boxes.
Just main pulls on pic, got a lot more alternative art of the uncommon one's too.
PS: The Teyo japanese alternative art one is foil..
Additionally, people may notice an additional stiffness in the cardstock, and the very observant might note that the cards will fluoresce differently under UV light than previous Japanese printings.
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I've managed to get a hold on one Japanese box this week and only got to open today, overall got lucky and really happy with the pulls. Also the japanese cardboard stock look's to be a lot better then the regular boxes.
Just main pulls on pic, got a lot more alternative art of the uncommon one's too.
PS: The Teyo japanese alternative art one is foil..
that's a lot of walkers. nice box
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I've managed to get a hold on one Japanese box this week and only got to open today, overall got lucky and really happy with the pulls. Also the japanese cardboard stock look's to be a lot better then the regular boxes.
Just main pulls on pic, got a lot more alternative art of the uncommon one's too.
PS: The Teyo japanese alternative art one is foil..
Nice box, the Japanese boxes are crazy, you got an alt Liliana and two teferis from one box? That is about $200 right there in 3 cards. Great box, I opened two boxes last month, one was the God box with the foil alt Liliana and the other was a normal box but I pulled an alt art Gideon and Teferi out of it and other good cards..
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I've managed to get a hold on one Japanese box this week and only got to open today, overall got lucky and really happy with the pulls. Also the japanese cardboard stock look's to be a lot better then the regular boxes.
Just main pulls on pic, got a lot more alternative art of the uncommon one's too.
PS: The Teyo japanese alternative art one is foil..
Nice box, the Japanese boxes are crazy, you got an alt Liliana and two teferis from one box? That is about $200 right there in 3 cards. Great box, I opened two boxes last month, one was the God box with the foil alt Liliana and the other was a normal box but I pulled an alt art Gideon and Teferi out of it and other good cards..
Yeah, I didn't even realize it when I was opening the cards that they had so much value, some of the cards even in regular version japanese are worth a bit more than their english version, at least here in Europe markets. Double alt Teferi was crazy good.
So do we know when the next wave of Japanese boxes are coming from Wizards? Would love to get another one but im hopping it will be a bit cheaper this time with the restock.
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Yeah, that's why I said that there's a chance that the lgs owners or whoever runs the tourneys will crack those packs of 4 cards and give them out to the players one each or two each to make it reach more players for that month. If they only get 16 packs in a month and they're running 4 fnms and 4 standard showdowns then they're ok, but if they only get 6-8 packs per month and they're running those tourneys it might be better to crack the packs and split the cards so everyone in the top 4 gets something at every tourney.
I'm not a store owner so I don't know if they'd do that, but since wizards is leaving it up to them to decide how to give out the goodies I'm pretty sure the opening of packs and splitting of cards will happen somewhere.
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Class: Hieromancer
Skills: Barrier, Cover, Bind
Jace Beleren
Class: Telepath
Skills: Scan, Image, Vanish, Control
Liliana
Class: Necromancer
Skills: Fear, Doom, Zombie
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Skills: Fire, Fira, Firaga
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Class: Time Mage
Skills: Slow, Haste, Stop
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
I see Ajani more a green/white mage hybrid: some healing but also buffing through spells like Bravery, Faith, Shell, and Protect
Standard - Some kind of control
Modern - UB Mill (casual)
EDH - Meren's Grave Shenanigans
That’s probably gonna be the youngest card to be sought after by far especially for fans of this guy
"I, Ob Nixilis, will knock you all down!"
And to be fair, he did literally knock three of the original
Light WarriorsGatewatch founders down.Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
Is it known when there will be a restock?
Will travel to Osaka in about 3 days. Maybe I will be luckier there.
Try machida station, store is named amenity dreams, they have Japanese boxes for 14,000 yen, so about $140 us each.
Check out my Youtube channel where I upload MTG content videos twice a week!
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I think there is too much craze at the moment, war of the spark is a print on demand set so we will be able to buy boxes for a long time, in 6 months we will be getting japanese boxes at normal prices. WotC already is distributing japanese boxes around the world BTW, stores here in Mexico already got some.
Is that true? Problem is that stores will always bump up the price and I don’t think there’s an actual way to buy these strait from wizards.
They'll also be offered in the FNM prize packs for I believe M20 season making them more available which will drop the price. I want the whole set but I'm waiting for the packs to be distributed before jumping on them. I don't think you'll be able to get the foils though.
Yes but it only shows up 1/4 in those packs and only going to be around for roughly 2 months and you cant just get unlimited supply is just for FNM purposes.
Feels good man!
The price of Japanese packs is up to almost $5 each now, so playing a draft for $15 is the same as buying packs basically but you have a chance to win more.
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Just main pulls on pic, got a lot more alternative art of the uncommon one's too.
PS: The Teyo japanese alternative art one is foil..
as for the card stock: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/new-japanese-cardstock-2016-09-19
UWGSnow-Bant Control
BURGrixis Death's Shadow
GWBCoCo Elves
WCDeath and Taxes(sold)that's a lot of walkers. nice box
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Nice box, the Japanese boxes are crazy, you got an alt Liliana and two teferis from one box? That is about $200 right there in 3 cards. Great box, I opened two boxes last month, one was the God box with the foil alt Liliana and the other was a normal box but I pulled an alt art Gideon and Teferi out of it and other good cards..
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Yeah, I didn't even realize it when I was opening the cards that they had so much value, some of the cards even in regular version japanese are worth a bit more than their english version, at least here in Europe markets. Double alt Teferi was crazy good.