Academically Speaking | An FDS Review 

EDIT Jan 2024: Gamegenic just announced that the 133+ and the 266+ will be coming to stores in March of 2024! twitter.com/Gamegenic_/status/1744041210610901323 Academic is coming to retail in 2024! The Professor's team just sent out an update from the Kickstarter! This is fantastic to hear!

Prof on his channel said, if you want one. ASK YOUR LGS TO ASK GAMEGENICS FOR IT! CREATE DEMAND!

Thank you for this honest review! You explained all the features on point! We always appreciate the feedback of our community and take it to heart! We wish you a lot of fun games with your Academic. Keep on gaming! Your Gamegenic Team

Ahhhh, more reasons to never take a break from this hobby. You miss The Professor’s kickstarter and have to experience extreme joy and happiness at him knocking this out the park while also experiencing the kicker that is you weren’t around for it so now everyone’s deck box is just strictly better than yours. I sincerely hope that he is getting some extreme appreciation from the community because this box is bonkers, really think it might be the best out there for most folks.

I love how versatile this box is. I hope they make this into a shelf product.

Its out! Available for $60 Canadian so about $50 US!

This is the best review for this deckbox on youtube. APS was boring, and did little to no research on the product, and conducted himself in a way that shows that he doesn't really care either way and had no personality, and the other 2 were done on really terrible cameras and was doing a first impressions review rather than a review which is what you did. It's clear that you took the time, and it's also clear that you're a true fan of the professor, his product, and you rated it as unbiased as you could. Is it the perfect deckbox? It seems like it's the closest and most feasible deckbox for commander players which is where this product was targeted towards. Yes I can also put my yugioh, digimon, pokemon, and other trading card game decks into the box, but he made this for the magic audience who play commander primarily because that's the professors favorite type of game in magic, and he wanted a deck box that was purpose built for people who play commander. You're either stuffing the boxes and having to carry other product to put the dice, tokens, sideboard, and other things that you will need at a base level to play commander. Yes I can just circumvent that myself but he wanted an all in one package, and to do that with minimal space but more than enough to secure a complete commander deck that looks incredibly attractive is a win. Not only did he make this deckbox for honestly a really cheap price, but he did it with one of the most reputable companies in the industry to forge them for him. Not only that but he got the best designer in all of TCG accessories to help him with the box and multiple revisions. The guy in question had worked on all the top level products we love today, and he knows the types of materials would work best. At a base level this deck box is as good as the competition with all of those things sorted out. It wouldn't make sense for a company like Game Genic and the designer of his calibur to produce anything less than a deckbox that already exist on the market. For that reason I can only see it being as low as the best deck box but for commander specifically, this is the best deck box. I'm personally keeping mines for the collection to have a history in trading card games where a youtuber who has been grading products and is the known best person at it, is the most respected gets the opportunity to make his own deck box with things that he wished were there, with the most prestigious designer in TCG history, and a top level company, I feel that objectively this is one of the highest quality deck boxes we will have for a very long time. I'm not even sure how you can progress this deckbox further than what it is. It's so well optimized, and it feels that everything that I needed was thought out and things that I didn't know I needed were also thought out. The professor is someone who truly respects card games and loves them dearly even though MTG is destroying its own fanbase. He could easily continue this relationship with Game Genic and make a lot more money, but what he wants is a collectors piece for those who believed in this project, and I appreciate him for it. It's because of things like this that make this an easy purchase. I purchased 5 deckboxes and I wish I could've bought more. I think I'm missing one of the 133+ exclusives but I have everything but the early bird box. I can't wait to see the hand signed box. This will be my black lotus. I would accept a silly offer to take it off my hands but I think I'm going to end up keeping this box until I go in the grave. 10/10 Review

Finding the right card storage solution is the real hobby for TCG players. Fantastic editing!

Thanks for this review. I ordered 3 of these and have been like a kid waiting for Christmas morning ever since the Professor announced that fulfilment started.

I dropped a full box with loose cards, dice, and tokens; it hit the sidewalk HARD. The corner was a little dinged up, but the box didn't fling open to scatter my cards, tokens, and dice into the street. As far as a deck box goes, I am quite happy with owning a handful of these.

I didn't know about the alternate storage location for the acrylic divider! Thanks! ...now I have to figure out where I put the divider.

It looks very well thought out. I can't wait for mine to arrive.

I'm SOOOOOOO jealous! I'm still awaiting my shipping confirmation. When I first began paying Magic in 2015 (ish? I can't remember my coffee from two hours ago I'm supposed to remember when i started playing Magic?) The Professor was one of the few channels in existence. (I think he and the Command Zone podcast were about all I could find content wise. There were a bunch of pro tour videos but to a new player who began playing commander deck. (I like dragons and a game of commander was like a session of D&D from when I played that in the late 70's. God I'm old......) Those pro tour videos were like deciphering ancient Sanskrit, but the Profession's videos made sense. Thanks for the review. Thanks for making Magic news fun.

I am still waiting for mine to arrive. I cannot wait to use it!

Thanks for this review. It’s made me extra excited for mine to arrive!

The Prof is a big reason i got into MTG

Expandable dividers are cool! I usually just put a folded piece of paper that accordions out a bit.

I bought seven boxes for myself, and my sisters. I left one basic box in the packaging. I got the double sided one, one of each color, and the rest were just the bundles. I find the design beautiful. My sisters were also satisfied.

Can confirm. It is the BEST deck box I own and it is making me design a deck from heads to tails. Getting the tokens, the dice, the alt arts etc. I had the chance to use Profs for a while and love it. Now that mine is on the way, I am tempted to give it back to him.

I ordered 2 of these deck boxes during the kickstarter (one for draft as you mentioned and the other is for my pioneer deck(s) because it looks like it will be perfect for holding a pioneer deck, tokens, sideboard, and dice/counters).

My man, if you keep making content of this quality, your Channel will blow up. Keep up the good work! 🎉

A lot more people will be searching for reviews, I recommend renaming the video to add more of the product name to help with RU-vid SEO! Your channel deserves more views

I use my Academic as my draft kit + my accessory base station for all of my decks.

Woot I got pretty much all of them lol and I got the purple one just for a draft kit cause of your videos I show everyone your draft kit video before there first Sunday draft!!! The satin tower dragon shield and Doce and Done collect the lands as you need as you draft and then flex when can start filling in with full art lands

Oh I have the box and I didn't know about the other compartment to hide the divider, thank you!

Completely agree, what an impact and I was glad to support his work through the Academic. I was bummed to not be one of the first and get the foil shiny stuff. I like how you do your stuff too! Keep up the good work

I love this product and I use it every week. I however have some faults with the product. If you have a large collection of decks that you like to transport every week using multiple of these boxes is inconvenient. The box is also quite space intensive in your bag which can make it hard to fit other stuff along side it. Despite these things this box feels amazing to use and I never leave home without it so its still a 5/5 for me 👍

I'm glad you got yours, I'm still waiting for mine to get here.

I love your review of this. I'm in the UK, and I ordered 1 each of the 133 and 266 Academics. Still waiting on them to arrive, and I only got standard colours, but your review helped me survive till they get here.

I'm so mad at myself for not getting this when the kickstarter came out but at the time I was not playing EDH I was playing yugioh and even a double sleeved yugioh deck can fit in any deck box on the market. Now I have 15 double sleeved commander decks and struggle to find good storage options that aren't just get a dozen GG XL watchtowers/squires. Also for the 400+ box I use that to store the warhammer 40k precons as it fits all 4 double sleeved up perfectly.

“I can’t control what you think” …then what’s the mind control machine for, bud? But seriously, good feature review! Thanks for putting this out.

I went with the red too! Haven't received it yet but looking forward to it!

I'm glad to hear you took some of the legitimately genuine feedback from the Lair 400 video (I'm sorry people were unfairly ragging on you for your opinions) and went out of your way to understand it, tons of respect for that. Seems like between this and their new Lair 1000 Gamegenic is seeing that some people want the Lair idea but with the Dungeon space. If they could extend that to the 600 then I'd have the perfect game night box.

First time seeing you channel and its amusing bc my first thought when i saw the deckboxes was that it would be great for draft and i dont remember seeing many people saying the same thing when it launched. I usually go to draft directly from work and I dont like the idea of leaving my stuff in my car or bringing all my stuff into work to leave in a locker since Ive been using an arkhive for the past couple years and my bag ends up taking a fair bit of space. Being able to bring a smaller box that can hold a commander deck to play before draft or inbetween rounds and having all of my draft stuff with me sounded really nice and i can bring it into work a lot easier, ironically still planning to use the Arkhive for playmats but i dont mind leaving that in my car if i have to. Worked ok the other week, still need to condense down some of the stuff im bringing with me, for example i had too much commander stuff to fit my draft sb but having everything together in one place and not taking up too much table space is really nice

So I know I'm a bit late to this, as I have just received my box, but I had two somewhat nitpicky things to add. 1st: the cover won't stay on if you peel up one side of it and bend it over the box to open it. The magnets aren't strong enough to allow the cover to flip open like this without falling off. Not a big deal but worth knowing. 2nd: The expandable dividers scrape against the bottom of the boxes' material when squished/expanded while sitting in the deck compartment. I'm not sure how durable the lining material is, but I suspect it won't hold up to fairly hard plastic scraping it over time.

I already own an Academic, but this box... I swear to God that once you have one, you'll want MORE OF IT.

Can the drawers compartment (without the drawers itself) hold any boulder boxes?

I'm still waiting for my rewards to arrive, so I've been lurking the interwebs to vicariously open it multiple times before it arrives. 🙃

Just received mine yesterday. I think the box is great but I was one of the people who splurged to get a signed box, and that signature was a D+ at best. That one kinda hurt.

I need to double check [but I'm at work as I type], but I don't think you can fit large cards such as Planechase or Vanguard in the storage area, which if anything, is the only bad thing I've come across. Unfortunately timed too, as the deck box arrived shortly before the Planechase Commander decks.

Love the idea of a grab and go draft night box. I am always shoving loose cards in places since they can't fit into a sleeve box and end up bringing my whole commander night bag so I have nice and tokens. This is wayyyyy better of a system!

I’m still waiting on mine, I can’t wait!

Awesome review as always! I feel like prof inspired a lot of us to play and enjoy magic. Won't pay 500$ but anyways a really nice box.

CATAPAULT! First time seeing one of your videos and you just earned yourself a fan.

Amazing video, i really hope they bring this to LGSs!

Great review!

I would love to know where my cards are at all times!! Alas, ADHD… just found a mox on the kitchen counter 😂

I have one and love it but think it’s better for actual storage than a deck box and for that wish I had the much bigger one

I got mine today March 27 2023, its good thing I don't do reviews or I would have been screwed!

How many double sleeved cards do the dice/card trays hold?

This does look very close to the Cards Lair 400, and I think it could have been released as just a "Cards Lair (v2) 133" and may yet. Was the 400 just really close but we didn't get it or is this really that much better?

Can't believe these are a kickstarter exclusive. Been in the hobby for 20+ years. Took a few months break when I had to travel overseas for work and had nobody to play with. Have been malding ever since.

This is my only Kickstarter I've ever done and tbh it really seemed to take forever and the process of thirty trillion emails / of checking orders / double checking / the tax debacle / and finally signing for everything will keep me away from any other Kickstarter project in the future........but the box is amazing I can't argue with that.

I'm still waiting on the 7 boxes I ordered

does the main compartment fit 2 60+ boulders?

...I may be using mine incorrectly, which means I could fit more decks in it! Thanks for your thoughts!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH I WANT MINE! UHG! Still waiting. I'm expecting to get mine sometime late last month, spent nearly 500 bucks on this kickstarter! over if you counter shipping and tax!

I ordered the academic specifically to be a draft kit

I got myself one each of the gray/red, teal/pink and extra large versions of the box. Unfortunately I'm also horrible distracted and have left them in their packaging after opening them up quickly and making sure everything's whole and in place. I'm gonna try to fix that, though. I think my Alesha deck is going to be the first to find a home in an Academic, but the question is if it should be the gray/red one to (kinda) match her colors or the teal/pink for the (kinda) trans pride color scheme.

I am sad that there was no large version with red color,would have backed it then

It is both too large and too small. I would expand it so it more comfortable fits 2 commander decks in the main body. The drawers on mine are stiff to remove.

Could you do me a huge favor? Could you try to fit two 100 cards deck into the 133+ box? Ive seen some videos where they seem to fit, but I just want to double check! Great video man

I also hate gamegenic’s material 😭 I buy ultimate guard just because of that - but would buy one of these in a heartbeat!

I'm surprised you actually got it. I'm still waiting.

Still waiting for mine...

My biggest issue is that I was also a backer and have still not gotten shipping info. I understand it's out of the prof's hand, but hot dog am I envious and frustrated with it.

Did you buy it directly or?

I didn't back this kickstarter because the price was too much for me at the time AND the deckbox looks too big for my need. I never need that much drawers and room for token or multiple decks. I think the box is good but it's, like always, not for everyone, despise what the marketing from the professor said :D

I can't wait to get mine, but it still hasn't arrived

Got mine this morning … half my order was completely missing. #FML

Why does everyone hate the Nexyofiber? Just curious.

still waiting on mine....

I'm not sure if I would ever put a deck box inside a deck box. It feels like this is a gimmick. Otherwise 10/10

Damn _straight_ it's not an A+. This bad boy's SSS!!

Catapult 😂

I'm still waiting for mine. Such b.s.

500$ 😂😂😂😂😂😂 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣…..🙃

👏🏻🫶🏻👍🏻

so many cuts in the video literally every 3 seconds theres a cut, made me dizzy lol

Too expensive for a deck box. Not waterproof. Stitching is mid