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the answer is yes. You are paying twice as much per booster as you used to and the cards themselves are of lower quality. Not to mention the sets they tailor to modern and EDH which they try to charge as much as 20 dollars a pack for. I mean, shit, how much is cyclonic rift up to now? almost 50 bucks? So much for commander being budget friendly way to play. Modern has had problems for a really long time, specifically with needing 1000+ dollars worth of lands to play.
Magic focus on making profit of "non-rotating" formats is what stir me away. Originally stoped playing modern and focused on comander but man was it got worse for me updating several decks and stuff. Honestly I rather they reprint most stuff and new cards will feel more impactful interested we get stuff so slightly the same with different names.
I agree but I will say for the foils of regular versions of cards have been very lackluster. I miss when they highlight the art and make it pop but they are just fully foil and the art is kind of lost. The lands and showcase cards in foil are incredible though
I opened a booster box and a prerelease box. 15 boosters total. 5 legendary creatures and two mythical cards. Definitely feel like they reworked the ratios. During Thunder Junction I got 8 legendary and three mythical cards.
BloomBurrow is a great set with very good artwork. Wizards will be printing this set for the next 18 to 24 months. Just wait awhile and there will be a lot of it out there. The biggest problem with the Play Booster box (36 packs) is that the price is almost $40.00 MORE than the now defunct Set Booster boxes (30 packs). I noticed that you are getting less rares and mythics in the Play Booster box. I preordered the 4 Commander Pre-cons for $119.99 back in April which is $30.00 per deck. I also got a great deal for the Collectors box. Thank. you for the video.
I’d say more than half of MTG’s card art these days is either AI assisted or straight up stolen. So saying that it’s the best it’s ever been is absolutely ridiculous.
Bloomburrow is a winning theme with a lot of appeal for old and new players. The prerelease I attended was a blast and the cards are fun, regardless of value. It’s just fun to play & I hope this continues with Duskmourn.
The regular singles from the set are worth almost nothing, it is almoat impissible to even break even on a play pack. No list, way lowered number of multirare packs, with this set people are paying set boosters prices for draft packs at the play pack level, terrible.
Cant tell if they are trying to make people switch to opening Collectors (unless playing sealed/draft) overall as ive heard nothing but bad things about play boosters, ive got boxes im about to open but kinda nagging myself that i didnt just grab a box of collector and the rabbit precon at this point. Really wanted jace and im hearing hes only even in collector packs. Fooey. 😂
The product isn’t even officially out obviously it’s gonna seem like it’s skyrocketing. You gotta wait till next week to see some better numbers I think
@@vilpef9162 Cards do not simply enter the market though, with the increased costs of packs and reduced “payouts” via shrinkflation there will simply be less packs getting cracked open.
What are you talking about? Prices for cards are dropping like a rock, and everyone I've talked to is upset about the massive reduction in Rare % chance in the Play Boosters. They're not at all worth the price. I'm certainly not buying any more than I got from the pre-release, and I'm considering not even drafting in this set.
Lots of hate on the set from the people who only care about resale value, ill be collecting the set and i know a lot of cards are going to see play in commander for sure if not other formats too. Its a win in my eyes, this set will age extremely well
I'm new to magic and started playing this year but my partner has been playing for over a decade. I can understand people being upset about the ratio of rares being lower but the amount of comments from people talking about the resale value is insane. Like play the game because it's fun not because of what you'll get out of it. We preordered the pre release set and a booster set and overall we're pretty happy with what we got. We each made a deck with the combo we like most and we still have plenty of cards to make a few standard decks or a commander deck or two. I think this set is attracting people because of the theme and that it has all 10 color combos available. A lot of people have nostalgia from movies or books that use cute anthropomorphic animals especially in a fantasy setting (ie Redwall, Secret of Nymph, Rescuers, Great Mouse Detective, Robinhood, etc) The fact that it has all 10 color types is a huge bonus too. Everyone is going to be able to find a type that works for them or may try a different play style to test and everything fits in a nice theme. I will say the one thing I'm disappointed about is that the commander decks and starter decks aren't all exclusively Bloomburrow cards. It's odd to have it marketed as a cute animal themed deck but then only maybe half are actually new Bloomburrow cards or they didn't bother to put in reprints of existing cards for most of the cards in the decks.
I’m so glad I budgeted buying this set over like a year or so so I didn’t feel I just spent a crazy amount of money on the set at once and I don’t regret it that and this was the only set I bought this year maybe some duskmourn but not as much
Yup the drop rate of rates has been reduced back down to closer to draft booster. Only 23% have 2 rares or more now. Previously with OTJ it was 32% with 2 rares or more
I do feel like people wanted the set in theory but won’t be coming back to buy more. MH3 I keep wanting to buy another box. And am looking for a good price on lci or woe or lotr. I expect it to come down in price
I'll admit when I was wrong. I was really down on Bloomburow a while back, but the community was on it and everyone was glazing it to the point that this ol' cranky Golgari player got excited enough to buy the Squirreled Away precon 💚🖤💚🖤
This set is going to crush people on value......the Collectors will make out ok but based on play sales there should be a lot of singles entering the market. This is one set I might not preorder because those singles prices will crash hard kind of like what happened with thunder junction. The good news here is that this proves that MTG can explore worlds with no humans or human-like creatures and still maintain that MTG feel.
They already have been. I was about to pre order some cards a couple days ago and im glad i didn't because a bunch of them are literally around half the price they were 2 days ago.
@impulsegunner Prices crashed within a couple of days of tons of people going to pre releases where they all got a bunch of cards for the first time thus flooding the market a bit. I think that's why it happened. I've also heard pretty consistently to never pre order single cards because the prices almost always crash hard after release.
I ordered some Play Booster boxes of Bloomburrow and regret it. WOTC made them so much closer to Draft boxes than Set Booster boxes this time around. Fewer mythics and rares per box than the last set. And the Special Guest cards average one per two boxes. I think I will be staying clear of boxes in the future (apart from the bundle box) and just stick solely to singles. I do absolutely adore the art of this set though.
One per two boxes!? Dang people were lucky during g prerelease and prize packs, I saw like 12 of them pulled prerelease night, super cool and didn't seem nearly that rare
@@MerpDerp-hz9tt Same experience for me so I think your assessment is accurate. It simply feels like there was less reward for the Bloomburrow play booster box.
Personally I really like lost caverns of ixalan. I love the God card cycles (shout out to Theros block) and not to mention the Jurassic Park cards. That set gave me hope for the future of the game.
I turned some cardkingdom credit into a bloomburrow collector box that is supposed to arrive Wednesday. Was planning on opening but might have to hold onto it and see if I can’t flip it for even more in 2-4 years
Given what I am hearing from people opening the set, the flavor is fantastic and limited is very fun, but financially it's terrible. The reduced rares make this a 150 dollar draft box and I'm not sure what kind of legs the set will have at that price as people figure this out. Great set, at 100-115 a box.
Yup, I would be OK paying $100 for this iteration of the Play Booster box. I paid $125 per box and, while I love the art, I was quite disappointed with the the lack of mythics and rares (but at least every pack comes with a full art land now lol). I’m glad I didn’t pay $140-150 like some people are.
nail on the head. I haven't had the chance to draft it but the aesthetics, flavor and overall feel so far seem great for limited; I really enjoyed my pre-release (3 events total) and had a great time. This set seems to connect with A LOT of people and it's a rather "simple" set. The archetypes aren't complicated and there's a tribal theme within each one; not a set where splashing and 3-color is a sought after strategy but it's still doable. Let's see how this comment ages but I have a feeling this as you said, will be a great limited set with a touch of a few cards holding a bit of money, not like OTJ or previous other ones.
I’m glad you’re explaining why it’s still valid to look at a metric that isn’t inclusive of all sales. I notice you’ve been repeating that a lot which means people have been making comments to you. As long as outside factors remain constant or at the very least don’t change a lot, then analyzing trends on TCG Player, even if it only represents a portion of the market is a VERY valid way to trend extrapolate. Keep it up Josh. In addition to people being excited about the set and that’s what’s causing the very early pre-orders, I think it’s also setting in for folks that tightening of collector box print runs is finally a thing!
I’m glad they seem to be focusing on collector boxes being more collectible and leaving play boosters for playing the game. With foundations and steady power creep, not having to worry about the cost of old sets is great
As someone who isn't 100% sure how this got into my feed as I never heard of the TCG. I do love watching booster boxes being opened. I watched through the video however as someone with ZERO context of what this box cost or what items are of value at some point I think it would be great if you added prices of the better cards on the screen or a total of how you did vs the price of the booster at the end. At this point I have no clue if screenwatcher33 here did good or not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Shortage here in Australia is real. Most local stores don’t have any packs or boxes to sell. I’ve managed to find a few places that had some with a lot of searching. But a few weeks now from launch, and it’s good luck finding anywhere with packs to sell. Most places are using what stock they have for now for store events.
