Is It Worth It To Buy Double Masters 2022? A Magic: The Gathering Product Review 

Done and done 🍻

you actually CAN NOT get 4 mythics by design. they are getting in trouble for falsely advertising it

casually pulls a borderless imperial seal. currently going for $200. in a $70 pack. Nice.

Wish I could use this both for the benefit and to help out the channel. Alas, I cannot as I am already an Audible member and have been for a few years... 😅 Wish these companies would offer promos that would benefit existing members as much as new ones though. Oh well. 🙃

I signed up for a $60 draft at a local game store in Austin, TX for 1pm today 7/9/22. I'll edit and update after with my experience.

IKR. like at least put some edit being like "Nice"

I love his hesitation before moving to the next card. He was probably thinking “damn, this sends a misleading message of pack value”, but his integrity wouldn’t let him reshoot a different pack.

Even more impressive is the miscut foil Seasoned Pyromancer. You can see the alignment dot in the top right corner. Very cool.

@@goblinspy I don't understand how their foils are so bad compared to other card games.

@@reubensandwichthe1st it would be nice to see the behind the scene of that pack

He went to Tolaria West.

@@cax1175 TCC kicks TWC’s butt every year in the Wizard Bowl.

Disregard commons. Acquire legacy foils.

LOL

@@krugdalug Is that the Strixhaven sport-thing?

And they are both getting a ton of openings. Buy em when they hit the low and you'll be happier than if you opened sealed and didn't get either lol

I feel like I’m the only one who really likes the alt Consecrated Sphinx art

I almost had to stop watching a lot of MTG content because it made me want to get a box. Just gonna pick up a handful of cards that I actually want and not gamble lol

@@santiagoberkley920 I like it more than the og, but it's not my favorite from the set.

@@santiagoberkley920 i like it :)

I get that these 2X2 packs are more "concentrated" (double the rares) so they kind of count for two packs in some sense (a greedy WotC sense). but $70 is ridiculous

Expect that to continue until WoTC finds the upper limit for booster pack prices. Honestly, I think collector's boosters are a great idea to cater to whales while allowing them to reprint the normal versions at a lower price.

I mean, two years ago Double Masters VIP packs were preordering for $92 a booster ($370 a box). I'm honestly surprised 2x2 Collector Boosters are $65-70 right now instead of $100+...

Thanks to the idiots that keep buying them. WotC knows people are dumb enough to waste their money.

I bought 4 single packs of collectors for around 306 and saved about 30 ish dollars with my 10% discount. Got some really nice cards. Won't be buying these very often though unless they go on sale like at Gamestop.

You're the one whose money is thrown away now! (me too)

I thought that was an odd choice as well, but I can't fault him for it.

In this day and age, it's simple for kids to spend their parent's cash without the parents knowing. Cards are attached to electronic devices and parents get a $10,000 credit bill from kids chasing loot boxes. I think it was a good include because of the emerging danger of In Family Squandering. Yeah, it caught my attention, and made me realize it is a very important include for the accessibility of parent funds in the 21st century.

Magic the Gathering the premiere card game for ages 13+

"I thought it was going to be a segway into instead buying the TCC Deckbox by Gamegenix. (Looking forward to getting mine.)"

Is this dick move even legal 😳? That's just disgusting.

I called the store today to ask for an audience with the manager to discuss what happened and why it was so abrupt… store manager has been selling the product allocated to me at 325 instead of holding it for me…

I'd probably post a review on Yelp or Facebook or wherever, then just never give this place business again. Any business that does this does not deserve their customers. I don't care how the price fluctuates, if they sold a pre-order at a particular price, then that's the price. If they don't want to DEAL with that kind of thing, then they should not be in the business of accepting preorders. Fuck 'em. Bad LGS is bad.

Maybe you and your friends missed a very crucial part of this whole thing. Buy singles. If you want to draft with your friends, then do it when Dominaria comes out and it isn't a huge rip off.

Simple. Never go to them again. Buy online.

So cool

This is precisely why I love draft

Dude for real lol

MPC proxies are even cheaper than that and they look and feel like real cards

Might i suggest Perusing other avenues of Creating?

Facts. Get you some photoshop too.

Sounds like some people missed out on the original prices. 🥸

Then the 17$ pack will be 22$. The biggest mistake wizards made is removing MSRP. The people buying the product cant police anymore if some vendors are trying to price gauge. Now it’s possible.

@@33elkyeet91 there was plenty of price gouging before as well, the majority of vendors do it. I bought this set for the equivalent of $250 for a box. Try and find that price now.

Wizards needs to let go of the drafting ideal in general, it makes 2/3rds of every set deeply boring

@@gunfighter009 Some people really enjoy drafting new sets, me included. I think having set boosters as well as draft boosters is meant to address the issue you mentioned, so that the drafters can draft and the constructed players can open value. I know that means that the commons, uncommons, and some rares that are designed for each set may be more "boring", but there is a real and sizeable audience who enjoys drafting sets with those "boring" cards in them. The preferences and demands of constructed players and limited players do not always line up perfectly, but I think both groups deserve to get something out of each set.

Gambling on packs makes me release the big dopamine that makes me feel good

On Amazon I think the regular boosters (packs aka 15 cards) were up to almost $50

I’ll be honest, the collector booster draft sounds terrible since it’s not made for draft. Wonder how the gameplay was

Everyone would just hold the most expensive shit, even if it's not playable. Same goes for regular draft too I think.

The LGs I go to didn't manage to get even a single pod, but they did sell a lot of boxes to 3 people total and I got a lot of the cards I want dirt cheap.

It was 4 draft pods in the end, the last one didn’t fire until after 7. Was a good draft though :)

@@joshholmes1372 thats why 2 cards when you open one for price/edh decks you might need one card for the draft gameplay

I gave up on attending Drafts years ago, for similar reasons. Almost never is the experience financially worthwhile to me, and the cards that I get out of it are typically not very good. I'd rather just crack a booster box all by my lonesome, and build from there. It's more expensive that way (on average), but my collection definitely goes a lot further, and is competitively less frustrating, by a mile! That being said, I'm not buying this boxed set. $350.00 for a booster box is beyond the borderline of ridiculous!

@@jacob4920 I think there's something that could really help you build and tune your decks while spending less money. Buy. Singles. ;-)

I pulled both.. in the same pack.. 🥲

Me 2, that's crazy

An employee at my LGS actually told me it might be smart investment to buy a box (or a case), wait 10 years for the price to go up, and sell it without opening it. He told me he did that with another box and it has gone up in value threefold. I know him, and he doesn't seem like the kind of person who would say that just to sell me a box if he didn't think it was true. I'm tempted, but I have decided against it (and anyway, if I did buy a box, I would want to crack it!)

As someone who "stupidly" started this game in 2011 and said "I want to collect all of the promos" (back when promos were a way more niche thing for PTQs and Judges) buying singles is the ONLY way I've been able to continue this endeavor now that every card each set comes in 3 or more different styles. What I used to only need 1 copy of for edh, I now have to get multiple copies of staples cuz ,this one's full art, that ones textured, this one is mystical archive, don't forget secret lair art... Moral of the story TLDR buying singles is the correct way to go 👍

Most of the product I’ve bought is going to stay in storage.

you are a finance-aware person. But magic is full of people addicted to cracking packs, so good for you, and good for us buying singles.

I’m a new player to magic, all my friends spent $300-500 on this and were super hyped. I Spent $120 buying 2 draft sets and one collector. I dunno I kind of regretted it, got maybe $40 worth of cards. So I’ll probably do just one pack from now on. What’s funny is I have $80 worth of singles on my wishlist that could actually improve my precon deck, and have been hesitant on ordering them. But the hype of my friends made me choose these instead lol. Lesson learned

Try months. As the prices drop on singles, so will the sealed, and more people will be able to rip and sell causing multiple spikes and declines in price. It's a snake eating it's own tail.

I just swooped in and grabbed 2 Teferi’s and a Smothering Tithe for $63 total on TCG. I would have put $50 towards a draft of the set at a LGS, but I figured I’d just use that money and a little more to guarantee the cards I actually want at a reasonable price.

@@BakaGrappler incorrect. With a limited supply product, as more boxes are opened sealed value will only climb up with time. Very generally, increased openings will lead to greater singles supply but less sealed supply, and thus greater sealed value.

@@BakaGrappler look at original Double Masters for a great example of this

@@bmitchell922 Prices WILL dip, and then increase over the LONG TERM. After an initial dip, there will be mass purchases, causing a rise. Then after that rush, there will be another dip. Maybe there will only be two dips, maybe more. But THE PRODUCT ITSELF INCLUDING THE CARDS are going to have dips, then rises, and eventually, a slow increase in price of the sealed boxes until it's rarity makes the boxes more valuable than the contents. And, quite possibly, the prices on the Draft Boxes are already greater than the price of the contents after the initial Gold Rush for the set dies down. The Single Cards are going to see their prices go down significantly after the initial rush of FOMO Players snatch up what they want, and people keep ripping packs for what they are looking to resell. The Commons and Uncommons are all going to be dirt cheap because no matter how rarely printed they are, there are far fewer commons and uncommons in this set. Only Path to Exile may be treated like Solve the Equation was. And a large number of Legendary cards will see enormous price drops. I'm looking forward to snatching up a Kaalia, myself. Seal, Extortionist, Mana Vaalt, and a few others are going to remain super expensive because they have intentionally throttled printings. But for the most part, MANY of these cards will see downs, ups, more downs... and then creep up in price. Like MTG products ALWAYS do. Because people keep ripping packs for the endorphins.

Summertime, and the livin's easy

Wait for the next Prof video or playing Magic. There's so many options to choose from!

You are first to get your lecture finished duhhh, we all gotta get our degrees!

I'm just gonna get singles of the cards I don't have. Too expensive to leave to chance

It's not even out of my financial reality and I still wouldn't buy it. $70 for 1 pack? Ridiculous. I could spend that on an entire box of something else or another TCG.

Same thinking can be applied to the Reserve List. Wotc would only make more money if it would be abolished or if booster packs could be more affordable.

unless...

I prefer to have 4 pack with 3/4 good stuff value than 12 packs with 10 bad pack

Half the price and double the print run please.

@Sleepy Rick but the thing is it’s not, masterpieces were way more exclusive, fancy full art fools of garbage rares are Nothing

Thank you!

people love this channel and you're still right

Underrated? xD Besides kenobi and commandzone hes the largest creator in the scene iirc

That sounds like a great idea tbh

Doing the exact same. Got some great value and commanders to help build up my cube

@@deandrewilson1413 commanders! That's gold. And with baldurs gate crashing, and the CL legendaries still fairly cheap, you can can get a lot of great options. Have a real Sanderson-Cube going

I was thinking the same thing. Would you do it again for 350 (including tax)?

Hopefully enough gets *printed* to bring prices down.

Dominaria will bring a lot of good cards and nostalgia. Save up for that

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byeeeeeeee

Can't blaim you. It is a disgusting product and it puts terrible anti consumer behaviour on full display. Wizards has no business selling expensive cards (with ridiculous profit margins) directly into the secondary market. This is a far cry from what Richard Garfield had in mind when he created the game. If the goal really was to make reprints more affordable: then they could have given you much more product for the money and lowered their profit margins to show some respect to their customers!

Just buy singles

Ugh, that sucks. I called around and found mine for $300.

@@michaedove3562 even still, I get it it’s loaded but damn, some of us are still broke fcks who wanna draft 😂

My lgs has a box at 400 and I'm seriously tempted to get it but I just can't justify that

@@trav3rsy yeah, did six drafts so far. $50x2 and $45x4. Drafted a total of around $250 in cards. And while this is very expensive, if I compare it to drafting standard sets the expected return is higher with this with a decent shot at making money. The two $50 drafts I made 120 in cards. Three of the $45 drafts I came out with $40 in each. Then the one dud of

Pappa Hasbro said so

It's because lgss can

Most of the print run is now in the hands of private owners who want to sell it for more than they paid

It’s almost useless to look at it at the per box scale. Not big enough sample size it’s too hard to tell. For example, when I drafted it last Friday my pod pulled 2 imperial seals out of the same box and they were the only ones pulled out of 48 players.

Thankfully, that small sample size is not a measure of the rest of the world.

Very nice, I pulled borderless mana vault and phyrexian altar in my 5 packs

@@timdose72 tbh I wasn't even hunting for the seal I really wanted an allosaurus shepherd but ill certainly take it

yeah prolly a month tbh they are flooding the market already

It's completely understandable that a card basically only played in Commander and already has cards that are the same if not better is dropping in price. The reason this card cost so much in the first place was just that it was not available. It's not comparable to something like manacrypt where there's not many other things that do that