I'm Not Playing This Game: The $500 Collector Booster Box Game Is Not For Me | Lord Of The Rings 

I am giving away 24 Collector Booster Boxes of Lord Of The Rings this Friday, June 30 at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="180">3:00</a>pm Pacific! Sign up using my link and get a $15.00 credit to use on whatever you want: www.whatnot.com/invite/tolariancollege

The Professor basically going “I dunno, is this even worth anything? A couple bucks maybe?” is literally every Magic player and I love it.

That's so rough to know its $42 per pack and seeing the Pack: $2.62 in the corner

500 dollars for 12 packs is complete insanity. Thank you professor for being here for us and thinking about us, the consumers. You truly are a gift to the community.

actually like this format a lot better. Hearing the professor chatting along side with us. More wholesome.

As someone who just wants cool art cards for collecting, I’m excited that most of them are going to resell under 10 cents each. And the really cool ones are even under $1

It's amazing how close Prof was to guessing the value of the box

The fact that you were at $213 right up to the last card is genuinely impressive.

I want to thank the professor for doing these types of videos, because it convinces me not to buy these boxes/packs and just buy the singles I want

In the first 30 seconds of this video, i saw on the profs desk 12,500$ "worth" of magic products. I bet the return of that is less than 2000$. This is the state of gambling wizards has conditioned us into.

I love that commentary hasn't been edited out so we could hear the Prof's delightfully wholesome thoughts about card values and how he thought the set could be better executed

This man is a legend. A content creator who's remained very true to his morals in both word and conduct for years now. Much love to the Prof. For taking a stand for what he feels to be right

Here in Brazil, we have a collector booster for almost R$300 and a collector booster box for R$3.500. Just to give an idea the minimum wage in this country is R$1.320 (a good part of the population receives this value per month) so some people need to work for almost 3 MONTHS to buy a single box.

I like that it looks like the Prof is more comfortable doing these off-the-cuff videos. Seems less anxious than the first few.

Meanwhile, Yugioh! is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a MASSIVE all-foil reprint that is nothing but staples in 3 different base rarities for all 79 cards in the set (super, ultra, and secret rare) with ultra and secret rares having special rarities (collector's and platinum secret rares, ultimate ultra rares), so the basic cards are going to be mega cheap in super rare while letting the nerds have our super shiny foils! The biggest win Konami has ever done. It seems like WOTC dropping Ls all over the place.

I don't really play Magic, but I really like the Professor's videos. He combines his love of the game as well as a professional eye towards the game that is refreshing over other creators who seem to only be able to bank on negative news. And even when "negative", the Professor usually has well thought out fixes/suggestions. As someone who has worked in TTG industry, it is nice to see someone who understands a lot of how products are made.

I love the transparency, honesty, and integrity the Professor shows in the opening

Anyone else just enjoying this longform box opening and unwashed commentary on the set? Need to do this more in the future.

Seeing the price on the first pack really helps put things into perspective, unless you're hitting a lottery card, you need a good box topper mythic in pretty much every pack to have a box be worth it, which just isn't gonna happen

I love this format, it's so much more personable and it feels like im opening up a box with a friend. Please do this more often.

I absolutely love the 'Ungoliant's Lineage' side-panel that appears during the discussion of Shelob's card. Bravo, editor!

12 packs for $500 ? That is crazy

Good decision to skip the booster box game on this set! Enjoyed the commentary and price guesses. You were surprisingly close with the total!🤯

Man this format is great, feels like a chill time hangin with the prof

I think I like this banter format better for the booster box game in general. It's always fun listening to you :D

Remember when you could crack a collectors box of MH2 and sometimes double your money without hitting a lottery ticket?

The nice part about this set is that, while the boxes are all overpriced by a mile, so many people are chasing the one ring that singles will be bottomed out eventually. I imagine the boxes will go from $500/box to nothing the moment the one ring is confirmed to have been found.

I really enjoy hearing your real-time commentary as you open the packs! Definitely more reminiscent of my own experience, where you remark on things like artwork and admiring the various treatments rather than price alone.

I like this almost more than the booster box game just because I enjoy your commentary so much! It's refreshing to hear from someone who cares more about the joy of the art and card mechanics than the "value" of the cards. Such a fun video as usual!

Love how Prof overshoots the estimated value of individual cards throughout the box opening but his guess for the total was extremely close.

Imagine how much the facilities at Tolarian Community College could be renovated with that huge pile of cash the Professor is sitting on right now

I just personally love when you can see the editor's personality come out in little bits too

I really like listen to the Prof talk over the pack openings. It’s nice to hear his insights on the game and what he thinks of MTG as a whole.

Prof is very price-optimist, bless him xD. I think the prices he gave added up to over 500, but in the end he did say "200 bucks" xD

I love the Professor's integrity. Please never lose it.

This style of video was very fun (and oddly relaxing) to watch! Maybe you could do it again for any future (non-collector) booster box games? Your commentary and general thoughts added that extra “prof style” to the video!

What is the most disturbing is that a Company got ahold of that many Boxes and gave them away... heard stories about financial sector guys sending interns out to buy up all boxes in one city, MtG is shaping up to be a Investment MORE than a game soon and it feels like WoTC is cheering it on.

THAT was much more fun than the regular game 🙂

I dabbled in Magic years ago and ended up falling out of it but seeing all the hype of this set lately has brought me back in. I’m not going card chasing, but think the LoTR collab is nice so wanted to figure out what I should buy vs steer clear of. Stumbled on your channel and instantly subscribed, lots of great info for me being less than clueless coming back into MTG. Looking forward to the Whatnot live!

That is really awesome you are giving back to the community more than wotc ever did. You are one of the most respected opinions in the magic community for a reason and we, the fans, appreciate you.

Surprised how close he was to the total value

Ok I love this premise. It really gives the feeling of every player opening packs. Essentially "Did I get THE bomb? No? Oh...well" Only thing I wanted to see though was Profs reaction to whether he was right or wrong.

These cards have beautiful art on them, it's such a shame that almost no one will ever see it apart from screenshots, or in a video like this.

Such a joy to watch your videos…you are the best mtg streamer on RU-vid…and I can’t wait to check out your whatnot…your positive vibes are cosmic….thank you so much for everything you do prof

I just want the next set to some out so i can forget about the financial discomfort this one gives

The announcement of this set got my partner obsessed with MTG. She's a huge LOTR fan and wanted to learn to play before Prerelease. After years or zero interest, she's now deeply in love with pauper, commander, and limited. This set brought us closer together. The game has taught us so many new things about each other. For being so calm and peaceful, I would have never guessed her to embrace chaos and agro decks! So to celebrate how special to set is to us, we built a 6-3-1 set cube! I found bulk core booster boxes (without mythic and rates) for 20 bucks each on eBay. A couple of those, two fresh collector booster boxes (did not spend even close to 500 on them), and we were 95% there. Thanks to the hype, and everyone ripping through these boxes, I was able to build this set cube on the cheap! We'll be spending the long holiday weekend playing 2 person draft formats! Despite all of the hype... this set is perfect!

I really love that you took your time with this one. Its more like we are opening the packs with you and can take a proper look at the cards. And nice tie ;)

Wow! I am new to magic and had no idea that you donated to that charity. That is so very nice of you. I'll definitely be at your stream, which will also be my first. Thank you for being so kind hearted

I really like the concept of this game more than the normal booster. Box game. More of this game please.

I like this informal pack opening/discussion format you did this time around, Prof.

Signed up and used your code. Great stuff! And love your thoughts, info, and care with Magic stuff. Thanks to RU-vid for the algorithm powers bringing me here. Excited about these cards…but the market is wilding.

You know, one of the reasons MTG attracted me in the first place, was the beautiful art on the cards. It's nice to see someone talking about how beautiful these are. They're all beautiful little paintings we use to play our game. Very cool when you stop to think about it.

Gotta say prof, been watching for years. Every time i watch a vid of yours i find myself proud of the direction you've continued to take with your content, your views on the game and the charities you support. brilliant stuff, keep it up.

Love this format, so relaxed and really enjoy the commentary on the art

The intro was the amount of chaos that I have come to truly love from The Professor.

I want a RU-vid channel where The Prof just cracks packs and guesses prices. I need more videos like this!!!

I love this casual style, and the blind pricing adds a layer of GLORIOUS irony!

I really enjoy how casual you are with this opening. Its just exciting to open up packs of set I've been wanting for soooo long..

I'm 8months late and still, this has to be the coolest video on RU-vid. I can't believe MrProff gave out this insane pile of the coolest cards printed in a while. One can only hope the people who got them weren't regular box openers and new players. A box like this can really get a collection going. Amazing Sir. Well done. **doffs cap**

Thank you for all you do for the mtg community Prof. It really means so much to all of us to see people who care so much about their community.

You’re a gentleman and a scholar sir, the Magic community can only be better with your videos and have gotten me through some rough times so thanks! It’s sad that magic has become a stockholder money grab instead of love for the game.

I love hearing you talk more than just music, you're hilarious. I hope all future box openings are like this!

the way you did this video is absolutely perfect - thank you so much! :)

I can't imagine what a home run box of this looks like without a serialized card.

You should do this every now and again for new sets. The commentary and edits were great!

love the commentary with this, hope you do more openings like this in the future

That's so cool that you gave these away

That joke about the landfill got WoC so mad they nuked the site lmao.

I'm building some casual LOTR only magic decks to play with my friends. This is also my first time getting into magic so i was really excited to hear about this set. It seems super fun to me 😁

Thanks Professor! I enjoyed that video quite a bit. You should do more guessing the prices

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="615">10:15</a> Returning MTG player here. You have no idea how shocked/surprised I was to learn that I could not Effectively play my entering set, the new set, and my FAVORITE set (other than Brother's War), because it was NOT playable in Standard. You hit the nail on the head here. There are so many uniquely cool cards and synergies in this set, especially for red/blue/black. (Edit: at least WOE is standard and will have some at-least-minorly inherent synergies with LOTR cards moving foward :) It would have been INFINITELY better as a Standard Set. No contest.

Prof guessing card values has the same energy as the quote "How much could a carton of eggs cost, ten dollars?" 😂😂😂🥚🥚🥚

Love this format of the profs just guessing One Dollar multiple times and random number of dollars for the rest. 👌🏿🖤 And also great example why you should just buy singles

Love the commentary, hopefully we can get more box openings w/ commentary like this in the future!

I have to say Professor, while watching you price the cards individually was hilarious..."six dollars and sixty nine cents" as the graphic showed .99 cents. Your overall assessment of the value of the cards you opened was nearly spot on. Very impressive!!!

That was very impressive. He almost got the total box worth dead on!

Oh please let this be the once in a decade time I get lucky!!!! Alarm set!

This was a great video format! Really enjoyed 😁 more of this would be great

Great video. Very helpful in understanding what a collector pack looks like.

I was so excited for this set. It's such a shame how now it's not friendly for regular consumers.

I've donated when you've done streams on its behalf but thank you for shouting out such a wonderful charity, it breaks my heart to think how many young people feel like they don't belong. You are loved. You have value and couldn't be more beautiful, each and every one of you. We all stumble and make mistakes.

I really enjoyed this format of video. I don't normally watch the booster box games as I prefer to listen to videos on RU-vid. Having your commentary on the price of cards (with corrections on screen), the art of cards and the playability was a very good listen for me. Is this what the whatnot streams are like?

honestly I do enjoy this time of "booster box game" where we get Prof just opening and discussing the contents of the packs and I hope we get more of it!

@the prof, did you crash Whatnot with your give away stream?

Brings me sooooo much joy finally seeing a streamer trying to help the mtg and LOTR community instead of just jumping in on the hype. Thank you! ❤

Great video. You did well and appreciate all you do for the community. Catch ya on the flippity !

Just watched the video. Love your guesses and the fact of how close you were on the day of. Your what not show is on my mother's bday. I just lost her in march, but she raised me as a gamer and a lover of fantasy. She started me off with lotr back in the early 80s. Thank you for the chance man

I still have no idea what cards come in what product lol

As a LOTR fan, I love this set. I just wish they wouldn’t have made shiny cardboard so expensive 🥲

I actually really like the showcase (ring frame) art styles. I understand his point, but I personally love how the showcases for the past year or so have been really artistically stylized. They are great art pieces. Shout out Dom Mayer!

Prof, you got me into magic at 42 years old, I love your energy, your channel, and your guests. Thank you for existing.

Prof I think you crashed the WhatNot site. I’m trying to check out the stream and the site is being very unresponsive

Nazgul seem artificially too hard to find for an uncommon. Either a mistake with curation or artificially on purpose. I'm leaning towards the curation part with the 9 versions of them.

Thank you for pouring your heart and soul into this content for us! it means allot to us and allot to you too I can see that!

This is my first comment on any pack opening video. The style of this kept me watching the entire time, not skipping anything. Do more of these imo. Great job Professor keep it up!

Your avid support for trans and gay communities as well as your honesty about WOTC is one of the reasons this will always my favorite Magic YT Channel. Love you Prof

Why can't you give to an actual charity like children's cancer society?

Prof, I wish there were more people in the world like you. Thank you.

Great show prof! Looking forward to that Whatnot stream too! 👀

Please always give commentary on your unboxings. Love it.