You should see what boxes go for, divide that by 36 and then the divide the result by half. When dealing with loose packs you have to give such a huge discount for it even to be worth it. Some stores can sell them because it is not crucial to their business and they already have a rapport with clients. For the average joe forget about it.
You need to have the trust of a rather large number of high dollar investors for selling loose packs to be worth it. These people are not easy to come by. You would also have to ask yourself why is this person in such a rush to sell? It just sounds too good to be true.
The problem with ZEn 2.0 is not the inventions it was the design. Those sets simply had too many poorly designed cards. The original eldrazis where big and expensive mana wise. So when you push creatures so high on the mana curve there is an inherent fairness to them because of how long it takes you to actually cast them
For the new zendikar they had the same idea of pushing creatures but now it happened at much lower CMCs. I really despised the fact that they brought allies and landfall back and then purposely made it too bad for standard play. That was a big insult to the people who remember what made original zen great. If they did not want those mechanics to define a format why bring them back at all?
The other problem that ZEN had is that it simply had too few cards that had appeal outside standard, These sets were mainly made for draft and that along with the massive overprinting made huge swaths of cards no one wanted.
What I do think is that Kaladesh was a much better execution of a block with super mythic. There are lots of good casual cards, the flavour is superb. I think we are going to look at this block very fondly in the years to come. Aether Revolt is probably going to be the landmark set where WOTC realised they need to create powerful cards at all rarities (Especially uncommon) and this along with the added value of super mythic will make sets great like they never where before.
Imagine for one moment that MTG released tins every month of the year. A tin with let's say four standard booster packs, a promo (AND A NICE ONE!). Some sort of code you could redeem on MTGO and maybe also things similar to figures or pins.
Sell it for a competitive price to stores and let everyone make money again. Something like 15 - 20 dollars, US to stores. Let them either sell it sealed for 25 or 30 or let them break the product to see if they can maximise profit.
There is so much money to be had if they could do the type of sealed product that Nintendo makes.
Anticipate seems often times better than the crane. Sometimes getting an extra land of a cantrip is the difference between comboing on turn 4 or just dying with three lands in play. Efficient Construction is also worth considering how soft we are to a counter spell and especially how soft the Reservoir is to disallow
You need to have the trust of a rather large number of high dollar investors for selling loose packs to be worth it. These people are not easy to come by. You would also have to ask yourself why is this person in such a rush to sell? It just sounds too good to be true.
I'm talking about affordable casual product put out either monthly or bi-monthly.
For the new zendikar they had the same idea of pushing creatures but now it happened at much lower CMCs. I really despised the fact that they brought allies and landfall back and then purposely made it too bad for standard play. That was a big insult to the people who remember what made original zen great. If they did not want those mechanics to define a format why bring them back at all?
The other problem that ZEN had is that it simply had too few cards that had appeal outside standard, These sets were mainly made for draft and that along with the massive overprinting made huge swaths of cards no one wanted.
What I do think is that Kaladesh was a much better execution of a block with super mythic. There are lots of good casual cards, the flavour is superb. I think we are going to look at this block very fondly in the years to come. Aether Revolt is probably going to be the landmark set where WOTC realised they need to create powerful cards at all rarities (Especially uncommon) and this along with the added value of super mythic will make sets great like they never where before.
Sell it for a competitive price to stores and let everyone make money again. Something like 15 - 20 dollars, US to stores. Let them either sell it sealed for 25 or 30 or let them break the product to see if they can maximise profit.
There is so much money to be had if they could do the type of sealed product that Nintendo makes.
I want to play with my textless Incinerates again.
Or at least Darksteel Ingot
That dwarf and the BOB variant is going to be excellent .
Also worth noting with this in play all critters you control with a counter can tap for mana, not just those with +1/+1 counters