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They take cards from box breaks And buy all the bulk after the good pulls are gotten. The. They literally mix all of the bulk in a shuffler. Then shuffle all the bulk rares and they make the repacks. I've watched a card shop so it in person. Granted they did it with a little more finesse and order.. but it's the same concept.
They used to be all the same direction. I would guess it's because you can easily slide up and see what the rare is before you buy the pack. So they made it difficult to fish the rare out of the pack.
I've done chaos drafts with these and it is insanely fun. The power level is low, but generally the same with most colours. The card variety is so wide that multiple drafts won't become predictable as you play. When I was doing it regularly, the packs were $1 for 10 cards without a rare guarantee, and we drafted 6 packs to cover the potential for utter crap or unusual stuff like silver bordered cards. The rounds were best 2 out of three, with the players trading decks for the second round. It was very casual, and we always got a laugh out of what we were able to build.
That was one of those cards with crazy art that I'd always see in my friends middle school collections and have no idea what to do with it. But it can get crazy in Commander cuz it says EACH upkeep. Jeeeezus
I bought 12 a few months back, kept 4 for myself, 4 to a friend, and 4 to his son. We made decks with the cards we got, was a lot of fun actually. Change of pace from our usual games.
One card is at least 0.49$, 14 cards at least 0.29$ each, that's at least 4.55$ for each pack worst case scenario. So it should be really good for cube or draft sessions with friends
It's time for BEEJLANDER! You are allowed 5 packs. That's it. Make a 100 singleton deck. Have fun! Yes. power level is probably -1...But so is your opponent.
Beejlander honestly needs to be more widely played. I understand that lots of people don't want to invest that much time for one game, but still. It's so great.
I really want Beejlander to at least take off outside of LRR with content creators. Feels like it'd be the equivalent of one of those janky multi-player games for Magic...
I started playing magic because of these packs. Dollarama was my first job and I was intrigued when I happened across these so i bought our entire stock to play with my buddies. They didn't come with a guaranteed rare back then and there was many older cards to be found. Only card of notable value out of 30 packs was ashnod's altar. Back in 2014 it wasn't especially valuable yet even. Good times, thanks for the nostalgia!
As someone who owns 0 cards and wants to get into it but is having trouble due to price, I think this would be good for me. Like I would've been so excited to get that Beholder in particular, just because it looks sick.
My playgroup has fun from time to time with dollar store draft for just sheer chaos. Fun time was one person winning with an infect deck out of nowhere once.
My friends and I buy these all the time from Dollarama and we draft them and build decks with only these cards. It can be fun since everyone is on a similar power level, and you play cards you normally wouldn't play in a 60 card format.
I feel like the easiest explanation is either a shop or smaller dealer cracking packs for singles and then repacking anything they scan under a certain value.
I use to buy these with a friend, we would buy like 3 or 6 each and then combine them into a winston draft. It's actually pretty fun, and the random rares sometimes come in clutch and makes it crazy. I don't remember that many thriving lands but it definitely helps the draft concept.
This would be a cheap, fun way to have a janky, janky draft. It would probably feel really throwback, too, since the chance of getting a bomb is so, so low, so you'd have grindier games.
not gonna lie. the backwards and upside down cards was urking my soul so badly. it reminded me of the time my lady and i were cracking packs and some of the cards were backwards for some reason. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :p
What weird cards to show up in these packs. You guys should do a Commander Clash episode where each person gets like 15-20 of these packs and has to make their deck out of the contents of the packs! They can use basic lands and choose their commander from outside the packs.
They used to have packs of I believe 100 and I got a ton of white boarder cards in those. I have terrible luck of getting silverboarder cards in all the packs.
I remember back in 2007 when i just started playing MTG I picked up a menegroth treefolk from my local gane store for lile 2$ and then that weekend i picked up a few of these packs at my moms house. And got another 3 menegroth treefolk. Got a full play set for my horrible green treefolk deck with my scary 5/5 dinasour. Grade 9 was so long ago. But so many good memories of becoming a mtg player haha.
when i was in highschool over a decade ago, before commander had even became a format. there was a dollar store beside my highschool and i would buy a few of these because they were only a buck. pulled a metalworker from them. only found it when i was going through my bulk many years later
Came across these the other day and my first though was someone is buying boxes, opening everything, pulling the most valuable cards and dumping the rest.
Amazed these packs still exist. I remember Dollar Tree having them several years back(so for an actual dollar) and buying some. Most were jank but they had older cards, even the rares some times and few have now become valuable. I haven't seen them in quite a while so figured was discontinued
It's from some person or business that's doing box breaks. They probably have an automatic sorting machine and pull everything over a certain value for online singles sales. Then they package up the remains, slap their label on it, and sell them.
Every infect card I own including rares came from dollar store packs. Even my three mimic vats. What was once junk usually finds a home with later set interactions.
I knew about these year ago. They always had interesting cards, and like you said limited is bonkers with the dollar store packs. I got a Primal Surge in one of those packs: it went for less than 1$ at the time. I think it is the best pull I got from them.
Story time: my playgroup and I would occasionally buy a bunch of these packs because they were so cheap, and essentially play limited, draft, and at one point, 100 card limited with them. 90% of the time, they were the slowest, jankiest, absolute horseshit decks you could imagine, and then the 10% of the time you got a synergy going, you felt like a genius king sitting on a throne of garbage. We nicknamed the format "Dollar Storm". Good times.
There are plenty of rares out there for pennies and penny commons/uncommons so it actually surprised me that you got as much out of it as you did despite it still not being a good deal, very interesting nonetheless.
Back when I lived in Joliet IL and was at Job Corps, I would buy all the Dollar store packs and run draft tournaments with them. Some of the decks were so off the wall, but it was a lot of fun.
When they first came out years ago you could get a spectrum of everything from every year of magic. They had as many older card as new and now it's all newer cards with less rares.
do u think i could maybe hav a couple of those cards?? mainly just the mad song treachery's, that wizardcycling spell, and maybe the shadowblood ridge?? plz n thank u :3
I'd love to know what game store has a deal with the store to unload their bulk like this. This is bulk cleanout and I honestly don't mind it at the price. I think the value per pack is mostly fair and it's great for new to the game players looking to fill out a collection for cheapish. And you have to think the benefit to the card owner is liquidating bulk that won't move quickly and exposing more potential players to the game.
Being a noob at MTG since january 2024, I bought about minimum 50-60$ Canadian$ worth of those before taxes at Dolorama... got all the videos of unpacking, but haven't yet produced the opening videos. I listed them in excel sheets and each had their value confirmed with a Moxfield account listing "decks" from a batch of cards pull of those. Stats being the angle I'm aiming at to differentiate my opening videos i still haven't edited them yet. Will cite your opening video in my references now that i have seen your take on those.
They are also very good for people just getting Into commander that want to build up a card pool. I pulled a Sepulchral Primordial at one point, probably the biggest thing I've seen in those.
Buying dollar store packs is like playing the penny slots. You're not doing it cause you want to make money, you're doing it for the cheap dopamine hit.
There is no value but i keep a few handy in case we ever draft and thy can fill the gaps. The company has never and would never put anything of value in them its purely a way for them to get rid of their bulk
I’ve bought the Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokémon packs from the dollar store. The Pokémon ones used to be good, got $6-20 reverse foils or foils every few packs, but they’ve dropped off. Yu-Gi-Oh! ones depend on if some bulk cards got good over the last year or so.
These are made from picked bulk bought from an LGS then picked again before being assembled. So in essence a card needs to survive multiple pick runs before you get to them, making getting something worth any real amount is super low.
My dollar tree never has anymore. In the past I've pulled some ok stuff. Path to Exile and silent arbiter and Sulphur springs that was like like 30 packs though.
They probably from damaged products from warehouses like crushed boxes or precons etc. Often times the distributors or the retailer will buy them and package them as repacks.
dollar stores near me have counterfeits in them. friend of mine has some in his trades binder for the laughs, snapcasters, moxes and stuff like that, opened from dollar store packs
Oh wow me and some friends did like 3 weeks of drafts using these packs a couple years ago and yes, all the cards were garbage, but, the drafts were hilarious!
Used to get packs like this around the time of 8th edition for 2.50 and it was like 27 cards and completely random from what set to rarity I was pulling stuff from 4th edition to 8th and everything in between
I've not bought these specific packs, but I have bought packs from Dollar Tree in the past; they were mostly decent-ish, on a rough parity with these. Edit: as for the "old" cards, I'd expect those to be List reprints
My LGS used to sell $1 repacks, which was basically how I got into Magic. I'd go there to play D&D and buy a $1 repack or two, and open them up and read them during the game, I just liked looking at the art and thinking about what you could do with the cards. I opened an Aetherflux Reservoir in one of them (I think Kaladesh block had just come out recently, it must not have been worth anything yet) which captivated me, and from that moment on I wanted to build a deck around it. After I got big into Magic around WAR, a combo deck with Aetherflux Reservoir and Bolas's Citadel was one of the first "real" decks I made.
No worst Sets Wizards of the Coast made were in 2000s where all numbers are in a different place pictures were really big and cards play was in a very small fancy white around font where even a magnifying glass is not going to help. Nobody bough then packs and were found until packs ran out in the Walmart super packs of 3 more rare--uncommon random cards and 3 packs for price of 2 decks when new.
