So It Has Come To This: The Collector Booster Box Game For Magic: The Gathering | Why? Why? 

What do you think about the price increases for the next 3 sets that just dropped on Amazon $300 set box's 🤔

You really sped up the ad too much xD

dude we need more flesh and blood content😮‍💨

The gap between value and price continues to get worse with sealed. The solution? Apparently, WotC believes its increasing the price on sealed some more. I really enjoyed opening sealed products but for the last 16 months I just can't justify the cost and now it looks like it's another year of singles only. It's depressing and I just don't understand why they think this is good for the game.

​@@MH-pe8wj Had to check to make sure... The only one that's outrageous is Commander Masters. Lord of the Rings is high, but less than $200 for set boosters (collector's are out of line high, though,) and MotM are at a regular price (nowadays...) but draft boosters are high compared to set ones. Either they're gonna raise set prices for MotM, or they lower the draft (we know they won't do that...)

Solid agree. The collectors boosters would make excellent prize packs if the boosters were distributed to game stores in limited runs at the same price as draft boosters.

Sadly, due to Influencers and larger game stores, a false demand has made them so over printed, that as soon as release hits, the Big game stores and Influencers rip everything, presell, and then flood market to the point that a small lgs has and will literally go under, solely from Magic sales. The game needs more players and alot less greedy people trying to make a buck.

That’s the point of the video

he needs to grab Rudy's Tool

Hahaha

Given his open disdain for collector boosters, I'd imagine there was a temptation to throw down the box in frustration right there and end the video.

I was fully prepared for a 35min shrink wrap fight set to lofi music

Bought a Collector Booster box myself, and can confirm. That is some tough plastic, probably to keep the oil in.

It's got the ONE logo, and you can get them in every kind of pack from the set, so curious as to why you consider it not in the set?

@@syndieouellet2763 You ought to look very closely at that Sheoldred, especially the set symbol. In fact, look the other Praetors with the Richard Whitters concept art and see what their set symbols are...

@@exclamation744 ah I see now, thanks, I only saw Elesh Norn and assumed the others were the same.

​@@syndieouellet2763 in the packs yeah but not standard.

@@exclamation744 you can't get that version of sheoldred outside phyrexia ONE though. So this is a moot point.

underrated comment

Make it a HowToBasic type video where it's him trying his damnedest to get through the shrinkwrap, be it with fire, a jackhammer, cooking it in a sauté pan and sitting down for dinner only to break his fork on it, etc. Every time something doesn't work, it shows a quick cut-in to his face and a frustrated scream as his sanity deteriorates for half an hour!

I miss the excitement of opening a foil and that being something to enjoy and know you got a price boost. Now there's too many arts which is fine for just playing but makes opening packs less enjoyable at times.

100%

​@@ttray1744 and the fact that a lot of foils lower price now

@@SpindlyTree86 My favorite pack I opened back in the day was a Non-foil Cavern of Souls and a Foil Gisela, Blade of Goldnight. Makes me sad that people don't get to enjoy that feeling anymore. New arts are cool but there are so many it feels not special anymore.

@@ttray1744 I have a golgari insect deck and I'm trying to foil it out with all the oldest foils possible and man it's expensive. Looking up in the $500 range for all the cards in their oldest foils

Yeah, baldur's gate was a really odd set to open. Infinite amount of the same legends and none of the good cards... Buy singles! From locals in the store or the store itself!

it's still fun to get a pack here an there because I find stuff I didn't know about, but putting the time in to look at the sets and know what I want and don't want, and to buy the stuff I want feels so much better in the long run. I ended up buying the phyrexian showcase lands for my vampire orzov deck and it kind of hurt to spend $25 bucks on lands but not as much as buying a set booster box and just *hoping* I got them.

@@wildhearses If you add up the money you would spend on sealed, you quickly have enough to buy some ridiculous singles. Rasputin Dreamweaver is a Legends Rare, reserved list, with only two printings in 1994: English and italian Legends. In Europe you can get it for 210 USD in nice condition, and that is the english version, italian is much cheaper. He is a bomb in commander, he ramps colorless mana, gives you 7 colorless when you manage to flicker him, you can build a mean eldrazi tron.

Yeah I only ever buy draft booster boxes if I actually want to draft. Otherwise singles are the way

I learned this lesson the hard way…. Twice…

Wait a minute

to add to this: just cracked a Dominaria Remastered draft too and well, it would've actually made the booster box game and contained more value than the Phyrexia collector box I opened yesterday. If not for the alt art Force of Will I pulled on my second to last pack, that box would've been very comparable to the Profs though. Until then the highest value I pulled was Yawgmoth, alt art No Mercy, foil Entomb and two Mystical Tutors. So yeah, gonna end on that high note. Hopefully got pack-cracking out of my system for at least a couple of months now lol

@@TheLastDaysOfSorrow Dominaria Remastered was Awesome for me! I easily doubled my money, but I seemed unusually lucking hitting a $10-30 card in almost every pack. Honestly, I kept expecting someone to jump out and say that I was pranked.

I just finished opening mine. I didn't even reach 120$. My woes are many, and my days will now be few. I didn't think I could possibly get under HALF the sale price, but I did. I will now always stare at this box with shame, thinking I could've got something over 25 dollars.

I see what you did there😁

@theflamingpandai no, but I think it worked for the joke.

Idk, I don't really like how so many cards don't really look like Magic cards anymore. B&W art also makes it harder to tell what's actually depicted, and being absolutely coated with foil Phyrexian symbols looks kind if gaudy IMO, and doesn't help with the art being hard to identify.

@@TheBizzerker I can see why would think that way but personally I like it when they deviate from their usual design every now and then and try something else. Gotta experiment with new things sometimes

I love the art but hate the oil slick treatment. Makes them look and feel like cheap plastic knock offs and reminds me of fake yugioh

@@PieMan061 The oil slick is only in the compleat edition box. None of these cards are the oil slick cards. I think you mean the step and compleat foils which are the ones with all the logos on them.

@@kylesmith987 ….gosh danggit why do they need so many alternate treatment names. Regardless, I hate them

I love that one!

Yeah, Elesh Norn single price is much more palatable after watching this.

But sometimes I don't know what I want next until chance gives me some new cards to build around. So there's that.

I listen to the lofi channel on Spotify - same type of music.

A significant amount of the music is Kevin MacLeod, who is copyright free and has all of his music on RU-vid

I get it, not everyone can read Phyrexian text...yet😏

​@@ferdithetank7535 and nobody will ever read it

@@MrCenturion13 I recently did a little buying and got 70 Beta basic lands from different people. All artworks, some dark Beta, none in pristine condition but all look really nice in sleeves. I used to play foil basics from Mirrodin and Unhinged, now its all Beta in all my decks. All the new fancy versions made me do it. Putting Beta basics from 1993 into all my decks now, if i run out i will buy more. Some go for unglued nonfoil basics, this set pre-dates foil cards and these are the first fullart basic lands ever released to my knowledge, and there is only one version for each. Some go for unlimited basics as the only white-bordered cards in the deck (apart from dual lands) for easier fetchland use. Or revised basic lands to go with revised dual lands, again for fetchland use. What i feel is that all the variants make people desire a permanent solution across all decks. One recognizable version across all decks and be done with it. So a newer, fancier version comes along and noone cares. Fetchlands play a role, failing to quickly find your fetchland target feels bad. With these new ones, and i agree they look nice, the sensible options are: Ignore them, or buy 100 and use them consistently for ALL your decks.

@@MrCenturion13 I still do not like alpha, it makes weird wear patterns on the sleeves which make your deck marked. This matters for tournaments, not for EDH, in tournaments Alpha comes with the burden of having to re-sleeve the entire deck often. I like the consistency. I think Alpha/Beta and Unglued basics are most recognizable across the table, 1993 due to nostalgia and Unglued due to the very good, unique design. Its like these are most friendly for people with impaired vision. Beta is a bit of a flex, as these are pricy. The reason why i do not go for unlimited to match my white-bordered dual lands is a bit sick, i play no white-bordered duals. I play foreign limited black-bordered french/italian/german duals. These raise eyebrows, they look even better than Beta. Frame looks like 4th edition black-bordered, color saturation and print quality are really high, and many people do not even know these exist. Low print run. So its always a bit of a moment when you play a black-bordered french Underground Sea.

Lol for real

@@justinthomas4731 you serious? Haha. Even if it's not the card I'm after, I would be very thankful!

27:23 What an apt description of this box.