So for those of you who are actually getting their boxes:
What time did you first attempt to purchase it, and what time did your payment finish processing? I'm trying to get a general idea of when the 12,000 limit was reached.
I first tried to order at around 12:00:45 Pacific time, but my payment was pending and eventually got canceled. I then managed to "successfully" buy two at 12:23.
I wonder if my initial order was within the first 12,000 attempted, after discounting all the bots.
Well... Hold on a moment. This is partly about when you tried to buy and partly about actions taken during purchase. I've been looking over this thread and the various (innumerable) Reddit threads about what exactly people did during this rush. If you waited more than 5ish seconds for your payment to process you should have canceled the whole thing and went through the process again. I have yet to see someone say they waited more than 5 minutes for payment and got a positive confirmation for that purchase.
Why?
Because your API call was hung. It seems to me that clicking "buy it now" and moving to the next window does not reserve you a box, it just moves you to the next window to process payment. If your payment hung until past when 12000 boxes were sold then you missed it. This is why you needed to cancel and redo the purchase; it makes another attempt to get a good API call through the payment system. Once your call is hung though, there's nothing to pick it up from that state, it's just dead. There's no point in waiting for it.
Source: Am confirmed on 3 boxes via 2 congrats emails, did not use a bot, and refreshed my API calls every 5ish seconds during the initial minutes of the rush.
Imagine a drive through like McDonald's with an infinite number of lanes through which you order, pay, and pick up. You pull up to the window and order (click buy it now), move to the next window to pay and spend 20 minutes paying (or however long). While you were doing that thinking you were secure to pickup your product at the next window the other infinite lanes were processing payments faster than you and some 1000 people could sneak through the whole process before you could pay. Now once you go to the window with your receipt in hand because your payment processed, it simply says they are out of stock. Processing your payment was not putting you in anyone's way, so when someone found a faster lane than yours they could cut in line ahead of you. If your payment window was slow, it was beneficial to leave that window entirely to find a faster window even though this required driving around the whole process again.
This is not like an ordinary store where you go to pay with your product secured in your hands. Despite there being a "cart" it does not act like an actual cart.
Edit: as for the actual time 12000 was reached, I saw it stop at 11,995 sold at 5 minutes after open. It stayed that way for some 10 minutes then a bunch of chaos happened and I stopped tracking it.
I waited roughly 20 seconds but after 10(ish)minutes it was canceled.
The second one is still pending.
I think nobody is safe until he holds the box in his hands - 42.000 have been sold but only 12.000 exist. I fear a lot of people will be disapointed when their confirmed orders are canceld and their transfered money will be pay back
Embarassing.
Two different computers (Mac & PC), two different payment methods (Card & PayPal)... 21.00: bought 4... 3 minutes later: order not successful.
Shameful.
Edit. I realize that it’s suoer expensive to ship over seas and this 250 ox is closer to 350-400 for non North Americans. That sucks. I’m sorry for all of you.
But it’s still a luxury and a master piece Nicol Bolas doesn’t win any faster then a pack version.
WAT?
150$ shipment? Really? I want to buy one or two, but for 249.90$+30/40$, not 150...
To be fair, these *are* Masterpieces as categorized by Wizards. They even say "Masterpiece" on the bottom of the cards.
On a long term-note, I wonder if they will do more Masterpieces like this. I vastly prefer this distribution method of getting these kinds of cards. It just so happens that they started this with planeswalkers due to the story arc of planeswalkers. If they do this again with another set (maybe every set if they only give us 8 promo cards) it can be anything with any frame treatment.
And it's super weird that's the case. WotC already had a line called "Masterpiece" and, from what I remember, they said it was on hiatus and not shelved entirely. Does that mean WotC considers the Mythic Edition to be a continuation of the Masterpiece series, and as such the old way is never coming back? Because that would be deeply disappointing. The Mythic Edition is hot garbage in my opinion, and honestly I'm surprised people buy it.
Hot Garbage? Alt-art full-frame foil Jace TMS +Ugin + other 4 played pw + other 2 pw + 24 last-set boosters is Garbage? I don't think so, honestly.
I'm going to try and buy one. I can't see any problems with them shipping to Europe.
I think the biggest problem will actually be getting through the checkout before they are all sold out.
Garruk!
Wait a minute, is this what Rosewater meant when he said they had a plan for Garruk?
I hope not.
He needs a little more love in the story department instead of killing planeswalkers who bother him and getting his corruption halted semi-offscreen.
This is another Mythic Edition...
Does anyone know if this will be available in Europe?
I waited roughly 20 seconds but after 10(ish)minutes it was canceled.
The second one is still pending.
Lucky you.
My orders are still pending.
Also Europe (Italy), already had a feedback, no signs of email (positive nor negative).
I got a feedback from Hasbro
That would be disappointing for sure.
Oh my god they're still there.
Two different computers (Mac & PC), two different payment methods (Card & PayPal)... 21.00: bought 4... 3 minutes later: order not successful.
Shameful.
Do you know the shipping price to Europe?
WAT?
150$ shipment? Really? I want to buy one or two, but for 249.90$+30/40$, not 150...
Hot Garbage? Alt-art full-frame foil Jace TMS +Ugin + other 4 played pw + other 2 pw + 24 last-set boosters is Garbage? I don't think so, honestly.
This is another Mythic Edition...
Does anyone know if this will be available in Europe?
Not in HD:
https://twitter.com/victoradameart/status/1118991534605709318?s=19