Let's Play The $400.00 Magic: The Gathering Booster Box Game! | Fallout Collector Boosters 

so they are still doing this crap so glad i quite mtg. Printers been working fine too.

I like the universe and beyond set. I got the set of 4 for Dr. who and fallout. And you are right Dr. Who set is way better than the fallout set.

I am definitely an avid fan of Magic and I personally love the Universes Beyond. I was already starting Iniverses Beyond when I commissioned custom art modded cards for my Commander decks and while some of my picks (Life is Strange, Naruto, Borderlands, Mass Effect) will likely NEVER get crossovers, I still enjoy playing them. Fallout has me on such a hype right now being a longtime fan of the game series, and WHO catapulted me into binging 9th through 12th Doctors (trying to grit my teeth and get through 13th) and I loved having the Scryfall gallery for WHO open on my phone so that when something jappened in the episodes that corresponded to a WHO card, I could reference that card and love it that much more! I could gush all day, but I think I'll leave it there.

I'm not angry, and i don't hate universes beyond. but i feel like magic is changing into something that i don't love, or at least didn't love as much.. which is fine, that happens. it just sucks for me.

Why pay $400 for 12 packs when you can buy those same packs at Target for $25 each, that’s $300?

Then who would you trade with Josh? Without the oh so powerful internet, how will you know if it is worth $400 anymore?

I get that reference.

Josh would remember it and he would tell the tales of fallout packs at the campfire gathering@@cstaie85

Was not expecting a Josh Strife Hayes in the comments.

You aren't going to find any Luss-Tea in this chat, Josh.

Don't forget the original fallout games! You'll still have $60 leftover!

To make it even more cost efficient you can get Xbox Gamepass and get all the Fallout games(plus over 400 other games to play)

And yet people buy it. When you break it down its criminal.

Did the serialized card make up for the $800+ you spent? Lol ​@@dark_raveen92

You'd have to pay me to play 76

They lost me when they butchered the phyrexians... I am still in the process of selling all my cards but I too, still watch the prof. Probably always will :)

4 Fallout Commander Deck bundle on TCGPlayer: $190.75 Market Price Fallout Franchise Bundle on Steam: $163.03 Total: $353.78 Not only would you have the money for it, but you'd have enough left over to buy a lot of snacks and invite three friends over to play the Pre-Cons against each other.

I caved to FOMO and bought the deck set because I didn't want to end up not being able to play radstorm and a bunch of the energy counter cards because I REALLY want to make a janky energy counter deck work. Turns out the energy counter deck itself is the weakest of the bunch though a bunch of the individual cards, I'm sure, are awesome. But when it come to Universes Beyond, the collector boosters and displays are beyond me (ha), because they're so expensive and you can just get the decks if you're looking for a card and/or buy singles of the cards that you really enjoy. So they're EXCLUSIVELY a lottery ticket. Pull a serialized card or bust. Collector booster displays are already a very... luxury product. I sometimes can one for very cheap from a friend who can buy them at distributor prices. E.g. A collector box of Midnight Hunt for 75 bucks and even those have very iffy EV but at least you have the chance of pulling cards, that aren't in any precon. Paying 400 bucks for a kick in the nuts, when you could have just bought the fallout precons... is really just dudes with well paying IT-Jobs burning burning some cash for fun.

See the thing about special treatments on cards and serialization is that you don’t need them to play the game. There’s nothing wrong with wanting a fancy version of a card of course. If you happen to want them, cool! Go buy it.

Could we get a BOX counter next time, Please and Thank You!! If not, no Biggie,!,!!,!,

and those decks come with collector sample packs witch makes it even more ridiculous

Not surprising in the least. It looks horrible.

I like it. Maybe because I like the fallout shelter type art

Lol at least you didn't get ravnica clue edition, which I dodged a duplicate bullet and got clue on switch, grinch who, and dice versions for less than even the discounted $50. Way better. I preferred the brother's war with transformers to be a bit more subtle, let alone it's the cheapest gift bundle at about $45, with ixalan/jurassic park being $10 more. I've also noticed the collector's boosters are polished turds. You generally get fancy card art for less than $1, which is terrible when it costs $25+, though sales for under $20 are nice. Prof did luck out but not by that much (profit but less than $200).

I think what compounds this feeling is how Universes Beyond so often picks things that are so wildly incongruous with the aesthetic of the rest of the game. Like, Warhammer is so immediately recognizable as itself, that it's impossible to hide it while more contemporary ones like Walking Dead, Evil Dead, Stranger Things, etc will just never belong in Magic in my eyes. Part of the reason why LoTR really worked for me was honestly that it just about fits into Magic. Aside from some really key characters and elements, I can quite comfortably slot those cards into just about anything, helped by how much of a cornerstone to fantasy at large LoTR is. Entish Restoration, Troll of Khazad Dhum, Mirkwood Bats, Orcish Bowmasters, while you can tell by their names and art that these are Universes Beyond, they also don't clash with Magic's vibe too harshly. But on the whole though, I do feel that. I bought one of the Dr Who precons and I don't really have any intentions of taking it apart or adding to it, just sitting as almost like a time-capsule of it's release window. Of course, there is something to be said about how garish some of these cards are, that they kinda have their own unique appeal when all lumped together into one, immersion shattering package. Alot of the robots and artifacts of these decks will fit beautifully alongside Warhammer Necrons and Dr Who Cybermen into a Megatron-deck I'm planning to build, because with all these wildly disperate art styles and vibes clashing with Magic's own aesthetic more-so than with anything else, it's like a child's box of robot-toys stomping on their parents' hobby project. Something so tacky that it loops back around to just being hilarious in it's blasphemy.

Yeah, one of my decks has this weird as fuck Megatron Tyrant card in there. Really powerful for the deck. Totally not in theme.

I got mine on Amazon when they were $180 the second they went live and they honored all 5 of my boxes.

Stop enabling this BS.

😂

English major

when he says a card is $20, more often than not he's just doing a bit lol

@Bramblebush518 I get that it's a bit lol, I find it funny. I'm curious how honest he is on his final guess though.

Math is hard.

I loved that by pack 2 he was thinking $150, almost every card he was guessing 2 or 3 times over the real price, and then on pack 11 he did a memory add and said "maybe $375." I mean, I know it's all funny because we have the hindsight information.

They weren't sold for 400$, idiots made the price go up.

And then proceeds to ignore the $60+ card for that Arcane Signet

I think it’s up there now though.

@@cseiter3669 Are they increasing in value? Wouldn't they be decreasing in value short term since boxes are being shipped out and packs cracked?

Definitely. Profs editor is alwars on point.

OK, but what’s their name?

You all are getting paid to blow up Megaton? I’ve just been doing it for free.

Savages. I own a house there.

​@@garrisontd we are not the same

Glad it got you in, I got into magic from the dungeons and dragons cross-over sets and been really into it since.

Same. I get they aren't for everyone, but when they introduced Transformers in Brothers War I bought my first Magic boosters in over a decade. Now I have a group of friends that plays Commander once a week!

"I get UB isn't for everyone". So is selling drugs to kids or killing other people. That doesn't mean they should be welcome... But as long as prof. pays 400$ for a box for views, regardless of his personal view and/or ethics. How can we complain 😉. Sorry, gotta go. Another UB-supporter just killed my dog in my backyard. Can't complain - gotta make space for everyone ♥️

@@jesperwinther518wow dude. That some comparison. Don’t engage with content you don’t like. Sorry that UB worked to bring other people to the game and now they engage with regular magic up content. What hurt you?

@@jesperwinther518 lol very normal response. Not weirdo behavior at all.

Oh my goodness he liked it! 🥺 My fiance would give him a hug in a heartbeat I swear

why? this is the easiest thing in the world to edit

Are you an editor?

@@ChrisTian-mf8wu if being an editor is putting up a price to match the card then call me papa editor

​@@gamersrevenge6528if only it was that easy, some recordings could be over 3 hours long and then you have to cut 3 hours down to 40 or so minutes

i think this is the key, Universes Beyond is great, but using it as a further reason to make magic increasingly more and more expensive is decidedly sucky.

Proxy printer goes brrrr

@@ASunstrider normally i agree with you, proxies are great. But the real problem with this idea is that the best part about a lot of these universe beyond cards are the amazing art. Obviously the good thing is that singles usually end up being low value once packs get opened. But you arent gonna proxy say the vault boy alt arts because the whole point is to have the nice art on a quality card.

​@Phished123 You can almost always use any printing of a card you want when you proxy, what are you talking about? And these collector boxes are all foil. I would say of all the foil magic cards I own, less then 10% of them are ACCEPTABLE let alone quality.

@@eewweeppkk I wasnt speaking specifically about the collectors boxes, those are undefendable, we are talking about UB in general. Im speaking about quality and color of print, not the foil issues. There is a massive difference in quality of color between just printing inkjet proxies and actual cards, and at some point if you are going to a site like Printing Proxy and getting prints of actual art magic cards you arent proxying, you are just counterfeiting cards. Thats fine if you are just playing kitchen table or whatever anyway, but there is a distinction there.

same. love to hear ideas of brian and just love him talk, so soothing

Yeah i watch the videos because of the prof not to wwtch background noise lol

true, same

It’s like “premium” gas.

At least premium gas makes high performance engines run better.

Sell it quick, before it inevitably crashes. Nobody bought my second doctor serialised and its like £150 now

@@lilithhendersonwhile disappointing, Fallout, in my opinion, is in a different league than Doctor Who. While I am just one fan of Fallout, there are crazy Fallout fans scooping up all 7 serialized cards.

@@Official_Koya_you are absolutely incorrect in that assumption. Most doctor who fans grew up with the series while fallout didn’t gain widespread appeal until the 3rd game in 2008. Fan base size may be comparable but they are a lot more doctor who mega fans.

I want to join the Fallout hate-wagon, but the truth is it’s a banger set for Green. Vigor and Walking Ballista in the same set? Pipboy is a great equip for a Green Counters deck, heck it’ll even untap your Nykthos and Oran Rief Vastwood. The Rad Elk is basically a new Scurry Oak… Some great reprints like Branching Evolution and Guardian Project… Tarmagoyf….heck, there’s that 3G XC creature that wrecks enchants/artifacts, the Strong Thespian mutant isn’t bad… I can keep going. Still, doesn’t in any way justify the Collector’s nonsense.

If you want to make decent money with the money you got from that. just buy the boxes and then forget about them for 10 years and pray that wizard doesn’t make magic unpopular

Is he not using buylist price from his local shop?

@@jaywinner328 I could have sworn it was some form of TCG Low.

For the il informed. Got both of mine for around 230$ eatch. Shoulda graded them before they went up and

That's a BARGAIN! I remember when Wizards sold three packs of proxies for $1,000.

​@@Nemissis4265 you said 244 in a previous comment. Quit lying!

@@Steven-fi4gf the prices have been fluctuating

For $560 worth of cards? Doesn't really seem insane to me.

honestly my exact feelings. I totally understand frustrations and just wanted magic lore, but some of them are so cool and honestly work well with magic. they need to find a better balance

It’s crazy because some of the fallout cards have awesome flavor in their mechanics, and I feel the same way about all four of the Doctor Who decks which I’m a huge fan of. Genuinely, it feels like so much passion was put into these sets, which is why I wish they slowed them down and made the prices more reasonable so more people can enjoy them

Literally the only reason to get the collector's packs is for cards that can look special, not really too worth it imo

This is false. There are a cpuple cards that are only available in the collector boosters. But none of them are worth the cost.

Well, not 'only' since they're just reprints like Sol Ring and such. @@PennSullivan

My understanding is that you will open these collector packs chasing after alternate arts, showcase treatments, surge foils, extended arts, etc. There aren’t cards exclusively to the collector boosters, but there ARE treatments & foils exclusive to these packs. So yeah, if you just want the cards, and not the swag, buy the decks.

Even the joy of opening packs can’t compete with the buyers remorse of buying a $400 box.

I have mixed feelings on UB. They’ve done a great job with some of them, but some are kind of duds for me like Fallout, Stranger Things, Transformers, and Street Fighter. I don’t want Marvel, though. That’s just gross

i'm ready for some of the IPs that i am more personally invested in (marvel and final fantasy in particular) to see either alternate versions of cards i like, or new friends :) so far these are fun but, they havent hit the franchises i'm particularly devoted to (if we get a legend of zelda, for example, i will die of excitement)

God damn that's wild. I got mine for $265 and the day after, the cards that showed up as already having a price totalled $620 but it's prob closer to $500 now after a week. No serialized tho good hit!

They do look cool.

WDYM. Surge foils look gorgeous.

I think that price will crash hard in a bit. The premium on it cannot last.

Im pretty sure I got a promo Jaya Ballard in a 3 booster repack in like 2006 with a very simialr foiling

@@UltimateDrDoom Surge's look okay, Im still waiting for the day that magic releases Embossed Foil cards, similar to the dragon ball super card game, some of their rarest cards look so sick. (In videos, in pictures they look ass tbh.) I'd say the most likely cards to get that kind of treatment would be a new run of masterpieces, however.

enjoying something that doesn't hurt anyone? how is that anything but reasonable.

😂😂 what? mark up a collectible item that is scarce? Never herd of Ash blossom have you they had to downgrade the prin so it was available to everyone becuse they got mad it was limited