Let's Play A Vintage Booster Box Game! Return To Ravnica - Gatecrash - Dragon's Maze | MTG 

Last weekend I posted my 8 year anniversary celebration video. In case you missed it, I just wanted to thank you and all of the Magic: The Gathering community for all you have given me over that time. You can watch it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g-7vGJR53-0.html

0 Dragon Tokens in the whole box of Return To Ravnica is absolutely absurd. No wonder they are more expensive than most rares.

Dragon's Maze is literally a box of bulk.

You got the Voice of Resurgence! Professor! You literally pulled the chase- the best mythic from the whole set! And you would have made more in an hourly wage sorting those cards into the bulk bins at the LGS than selling them on eBay!

Many Magic: The Gathering players don't think Return To Ravnica block (nearly ten years old!) should be referred to as a 'Vintage' opening. What's a better term? 'Modern' Booster Box Game sounds like a Masters set. Classic? Retro? I want to do more of these so let me know the better label. If I do Scars block or original Theros block next, what are we calling it?

"As a youtuber, unlike as a college professor I have a retirement account and health insurance" sadest sentence right there(not because he now has it, but because he didn't as a college level educator)

24 packs in at $0 was physically painful :(

Ah, my favorite vintage set, Dragon's Maze. Right next to the Homelands boosters at my old LGS.

Laughing at that final Voice of Resurgence - I remember when it was going for $40-50 back when it was in Standard. How the mighty have fallen.

THAT DRAGON'S MAZE BOX WAS SO SAD 😭

Being a relatively new player to magic, it is FASCINATING to see some of the older card design. Art has always been top tier.

Professor really branching out with his choice in music in this one.

You're a hero for keeping that Dragons Maze box off the shelves. A true man of the MTG people, single handedly removing all of those garbage packs from being bought by others.

No amount of musical encouragement is going to make me want to dance if Dragon's Maze is involved.

Love the cute story about your wife winning game day while pregnant. I'm 8 months pregnant now and my husband and I can't wait to show our daughter how to play magic. (Wish we could be smashing out games at our LGS) The question is, will she play simic/mono green or dimir/orzhov 🤔🤣

What I learned from this video is that Dragon's Maze is on track for being the next $1000 box.

I counted a grand total of 60 cluestones in that box. That's over 1.5 cluestones per pack lmao

I know these cards aren't worth a lot but I still just love them. They hold a lot of nostalgia for me as gatecrash was my first ever draft display. They sparked my interest in Boros and led to my first ever try with a commander deck with Aurelia who is now included in my Feather deck.

I'm so glad you're opening one of my favorite blocks. This, Theros block, and Khans were my formative sets in my first 2 years of playing. I have set/block cubes of all of these sets, so I will always be able to experience them.

Box #1: The Professor, undisputed master of Rakdos Box #2: The Professor, shock land magnet incarnate Box #3: "Why are we still here? Just to suffer?"

This did so much for me proph. I started playing magic during ravmica. It was the 1st set I ever bought. When i started playing, I lived in a situation where I had no access to buy singles at the time, and I played with these cards with one friend for the better part of a year. This set means so much to me. Even though that dragons maze box hurt my soul, each card in all these boxes have so much value to me.

What hurt the most wasn't the $17 box but when Prof was reminiscing about Game Days. Left during Amoneket and it was the biggest surprise when I came back this year that they binned them off!

I loved Return to Ravnica/Innistrad era. That's when I got back into magic big time. Legacy was still played and I got hooked on Commander. Good times.

I got into Magic after Gatecrash but before Dragonsmaze came out, and I was so excited for my first set, I bought like 5 boxes of Dragons Maze, I feel ripped off almost 10 years later 😅

Your frustration at the end is Priceless Professor ...when cards go BULK...Loving It!!

I unironically love Dragon's Maze and offer no apologies. It's a set for those with jank in their heart.

This was my first full block after returning to MTG after about 8 years. I remember RTR draft being one of the best limited experiences I ever had. Good times.

i LOVE vitage cubes so i love all this cards ^^ (100% proxies of course i am not made out of gold)

This takes me back. Playing madcap skills in limited was brutal.

Funfact: Prof opens his valuable Vintage Displays, so he can stock up his shelves with Modern Horizon 2 and Mystery Booster Display for new content in 10 years so that our Children can watch too.

Drafting Return to Ravnica with my friends was my return to magic. Drafted a really bad Rakdos deck and lost every single game 0-2. When i opened my consolation price booster i not only found an Epic Experiment, but a foil Sphinx's Revelation too. Worth it!

Watching you go through that box of dragon’s maze was such a throwback for me. That was the first set I ever played and so many of the cards in those packs are seared into my memory and my collection. Thank you prof for doing that so I didn’t have to

Much like Graham for LLR when talking about Homelands, Dragons maze may have been a dumpster fire looking back on it....but its still the best booster box I ever got. Its where I started right after being gifted a deckbuilders tool kit and haven't stopped since

Hey prof, to let you know, the Vraska Assassin token is worth like a dollar, some of these vintage sets have tokens that have value actually. I think it's good to highlight those in booster box games

The Voice of Resurgence sarcastic price flourish effect made my day.

Return to Ravnica was when I started playing magic. Many happy memories staying up late with my housemates drafting and playing. I also remember never beating my friend’s Boros battalion deck until that one lucky day when I had a fog in hand and a forest untapped. Good times :)

I returned to Magic with Return to Ravnica. What a wonderful time!

Could've kept the Dragon's Maze box sealed and had a nice doorstop. Thank you for opening it so I don't have to.

I love Gatecrash, started playing with the set and won Aurelia, the Warleader in draft prices. She was my first EDH deck, I kept it even during my MtG hiatus. Now she is getting her deserved upgrade :) Oh the memories , GO BOROS!

woooww that is the first time I have ever seen a dragon's Maze box not have a single shockland in the guildgate slot. I remember the average being like 3-4 per box. That's very unfortunate

That dragon’s maze box put me right back to the prerelease I attended for it. We knew it was going to be bad even back then. 3rd sets in the block were always the weakest.

Dude, this is a huge present for us. I wasnt around in magic for RTR, but seeing your face and the meaning you give to this set is gorgeus.

I honestly love seeing throwbacks like this, it’s refreshing to see some sets that people actually used to be able to afford reasonably. My LGS can’t even sell draft booster boxes because Wizards shorted them on their supplies, only giving them enough to sell set booster boxes.

That whispering madness foil is a $7 card not bulk:) I’d be happy to take it off your hands for what you had it listed for :3

This is the block that brought be back to playing Magic (until the quality issues and avalanche of products in recent years pushed me back out), so this definitely has a special place in my heart. I loved playing triple Return to Ravnica and triple Gatecrash, but Dragon's Maze is such a dud that I think the RTR-GTC-DGM draft setup is by far the inferior play style. As much as I like the thematic and visual styles of all the guilds, I think 5 is the limit of what you can support in a draft set to have enough of each guild show up to make strongly themed decks. Rakdos and Boros were always my favorite to play, and it was such a bummer if not enough actually appeared to build something viable. I'm actually kind of happy to see they're still not crazy expensive though, because it means newer players can still have a chance at playing the block if they want to. To me it's a real shame that Wizards of the Coast treats its game as disposable in order to maintain, and in many instances inflate, their third party market value, which now they use to justify obscene prices on reprint heavy sets. All the companies in the video game industry frequently re-release or "remaster" their old content at standard (or discounted!) prices so that people who missed it the first time or are feeling nostalgic for it can re-buy it. It's really sad to me that the card game people instead see Magic as a pseudo-investment and rail against the same happening here. Heaven forbid the game be treated as a game first and foremost.

Looking at these gave me such nostalgia. I started playing in the first theros set, but my first deck was the Ravnica Selesnya precon.

This is my favorite block of all time, I started playing back when it was INN/RTR so I love this so much, so many memories. Dragon's Maze was my first prerelease lol

These boxes were my first introduction into magic after core 2012. It was so amazing to go from a generic mythical world that was the core set to a vast city with each color pair playing a role in the city and the hints at a gate less movement. Such an amazing set to get into magic with.

I really relieved my memories. Some of my favourite cards are from theese sets like Vorel or Ruric Thar. I fondly remember playing with my friends.

The first set I ever played in was Gatecrash, and this video is a blast from the past for me, Professor! Thank you for giving me some of that sweet, sweet nostalgia. Not Gruul? Then die!

my favorite block of all time, thank you for doing this

Wow, this makes me appreciate the Gatecrash box I cracked a few years back a bit more. And Dragon's Maze, so many packs opened trying to hit Ral when all I needed to do was a few years.

INI-RTR rotation was where I came in on MTG seriously. Before that me and my buddy were roommates way out in the woods out of town we had no internet, no cable television so we bought some MTG Tenth edition theme decks and played the same decks over and over. Then years later me and two other friends got in during INI-RTR and my first real deck was a white weenie deck. Boris Elite, Champion of the Parish, Mikaeus, elite inquisitor, doomed traveler. Oblivion rings. It was a simpler time I tell ya.

I simply adore the vintage booster box games!! Thank you, professor.

The music was incredibly appropriate towards the end of that Dragon Maze opening

Dragon's Maze box had me laughing so hard! I'm sorry for your $129 loss on the box but you gave us all a good perspective on which boxes are garbage

Thanks for tossing that box off the screen that way! Made me laugh so hard I cried.

I really like these sets, they were the ones that introduced me to magic the gathering. Thanks for the nostalgia trip

This is a very nostalgic video for me given that these boxes are from the sets that came out when I played lunch time mtg in high school. My old high school deck (which I found relatively recently) is full of cards from these sets.

This was such a fun time to play, so many ppl got introduced or back into playing at this time. LGS events were jammin!!!!

While I started Magic with Rise Of The Eldrazi, Gatecrash was my first ever prerelease. I still have the foilstamped prerelease copy of Treasury Thrull to remind myself of the date, and it also reminds me that I kissed a lass at University during the same day! Memories indeed!

Loving the super chill music! Drop that playlist, prof!

I began playing magic in guilds of Ravnica. My favorite plane by far.

That dragons maze box hurt my soul 🤣🤣

That was a shockingly good RTR box. Like, to almost break even on an old box like that is pretty amazing. Plus, dreadbore and chromatic lantern are 2 of the best foil rares you could've pulled. Very cool!

This is when I started playing magic. Love this block so much. So much nostalgia

Return to Ravnica was my introduction to mtg, thanks for the nostalgia Professor!

I started playing MTG right when RTR was released and it remains to this day my very favorite block.

Oh glorious I loved seeing the rakdos and izzet guilds from this set especially

Funny enough, I managed to get both the Return to Ravinca and Gatecrash boxes unopened from my LGS for about $120( even have the dust for being up there for 8+ years). The Dragon Maze I'm still thinking of getting, and the shop owner wants only a $100 for it. Even quite a few of these cards now are kind of worthless or pricey( got a couple of the shocklands from them). I still like the feeling of opening up these older sets especially for the artwork and older card borders.

I really enjoyed the part when Prof is recounting the Gatecrash Mat Memories It's cool to hear the voice over during the booster box game, and it's nice to hear him speak personally

I loved Game Day as well. So much fun, and you rarely saw meta decks. Everyone came with their own brews. It was great!

> Pull multiple shock lands > Don't get value in the box Those older boxes prices are sure right, the price is probably only worth for people that like to throw money away in drafts.

This set has my favorite basic lands

I got into Magic just before RTR block, so this is a nostalgia trip!

I certainly enjoyed watching through this and remembering some of those cards being worth something at the time.

I really love the lore and and the world of Ravnica, and I’m sure these sets were a ton of fun to draft in their day. Even so, watching that Dragon’s Maze opening was… very rough.

The "buy singles" playmat on that last one was extremely fitting

Thank you prof!, i miss the simpler times. No need for collector,or different kinds of boosters. Best time to have been a Magic player. Respect!

The Art in gatecrash is excellent!

I started at the rereturn to ravnica. Such a lovely plane for Magic. I would like to see a return someday. even if just in flavor

Oh the nostalgia, these sets are from when I started playing the game. Good times!

It's always a good day to watch The Prof open booster boxes.

I'd played a little Magic in middle and high school, but this block was when I really fell into it hard. There may not be much monetary value here but the nostalgia is overwhelming. I've still got a Nivix Cyclops deck I made shortly after Dragon's Maze came out!

Wow, this makes me feel old. I started playing magic when return to ravnica came out. I quit halfway through Theros block as I couldn't afford it during college. I just got back into the game, realized your channel is still making videos (I remember when it started!). I've got quite a backlog to go through

Man, that Dragons maze really was a sight to behold! Something special to be certain!

Gatecrash is my fav set. I loved RTR, it was a good block and very fun to play. I miss sets like them.

Innistrad was my first block. I didn't start until Avacyn Restored was already out. Return to Ravnica was a fun experience as well.

Don't know what music you had going for the second box, but it's seriously mellowing me out. Good choice.

What fun! Hope you have a great time drafting with friends.

my first magic set, brings back a lot of memories.

I was hoping for a cluestone counter for the dragon's maze box. I started playing in Theros, and I bought a box of dragons maze for $60 and I thought it was such a deal...until I opened it. I haven't watched the video yet, but unless he opens an ultra rare shock land in there, I don't know how he can make $20 off that box (voice of resurgence maybe?). They don't make sets like that anymore, thank goodness!

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This is my first block and I adore it. I'm currently working on getting one of every card in it to make a shadow box.

I started with RTR!! Great set! I used to think Skyline Predator was the cat’s pajamas as a kid. Good times.

I hope one day to see a a khans of tarkir block vintage booster box game. It was when I started magic, and when I found this channel ☺️

I like the name "Classic booster box game". Also Noom really works for me, I lost 20 lbs since end of june!

genuinely thought you were gonna get there with the RTR box but you did open pretty godlike. only fair that dragons maze lived upto its reputation. i opened one pack of maze in a chaos draft and got master of cruelties- didnt think it was possible to get a good card from that pack!

"vintage set" dang makes high school seem like such a long time ago ;) my favorite era of magic by far !

That was a pretty good RTR box Professor since you only pulled 3 fetchlands. For those that didn’t play back then; 2 foil rares, especially 2 valuable ones, was not common at that time, usually it was 1 foil rare/box.