Stop Buying This Garbage: Magic The Gathering Mystery Cubes and Boxes

Подписаться 1 млн

Просмотров 511 тыс.

50% 1

Support content like this by becoming a channel patron over at Patreon: / tolariancommunitycollege
Did you miss Magic: The Gathering Office Hours: Teysa Karlov? Check it out here: • Magic: The Gathering O...
Is it worth it to buy a Starter Cube for Magic: The Gathering? • MTG - Is it worth it t...
TCC Shirts! Playmats! - www.tolariancommunitycollege.com/
Music Courtesy Of:
"Vintage Education" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
"Highlight Reel" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
"Gonna Start v2" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

Игры

Опубликовано:

15 июн 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 2 тыс.

@Tarkov. 5 лет назад

A duel deck is a duel deck, but the mystery box could be anything! Even half a duel deck.

@zakariasdanujatmiko3351 5 лет назад

because thats a mysteries

@psycho6mantis938 5 лет назад

i took the boat

@teknojo 5 лет назад

Mystry box "Pack" could be a stack of plastic wrapped lands. Like the one I bought had. All lands. Was fun.

@lapislazuli5165 4 года назад

"half a duel deck", a Duel Deck is a Duel Deck, you can't say it's only a half

@rgderen88 4 года назад

It could even be a boat! *opens Silent Submersible*

@Brozime 5 лет назад

It's worth a related note that all the Yugioh versions of this sold in the same places are also complete ripoff trash to be avoided at all costs.

@TolarianCommunityCollege 5 лет назад

I suspected as much, but since I am not currently a Yugioh player I felt I could not comment with certainty.

@Brozime 5 лет назад

@@TolarianCommunityCollege Oh yea absolutely didn't expect you to mention them just thought it would be helpful for anyone in the comments who happens to play both. Great work on the video btw prof!

@TolarianCommunityCollege 5 лет назад

Cheers, friend!

@IcarusAtreides 5 лет назад

Sam from TSX1 and Simply Unlucky often do YGO mystery box openings and they always get trash boosters and dollar worth "graded cards".

@heinousrat9019 5 лет назад

I think you put sacrifice matters on the flicker cards and vice versa.

@thomaslaw6910 5 лет назад

I bought one the other day just to see and my "deck" was a land pack

@tomaszurbanowicz1559 4 года назад

Holy shit that's another level

@anthraxcrab3238 4 года назад

E X T R E M E MyStErY!!!

@Rich-xb4jb 4 года назад

that is terrible

@n9nedone91 4 года назад

Same here

@Rich-xb4jb 4 года назад

So the moral of this vid is: dont buy mstery stuff, they are really bad.

@EvilCherry3 5 лет назад

"Wow they sell free stuff for $20 ! They're thieves ! - Not at all. Don't get tricked, they're selling only half of this free stuff for$20." Hahaha

@h_wallace7574 5 лет назад

Thank you for addressing this issue. People don’t realize that you lose value when you buy them. Edit: oh my 200 likes thanks!

@k1llampt 5 лет назад

These are easily searchable, I've bought two of these cubes. One had an archenemy deck the other was a commander deck..... Take the mystery out of it, just search it and hose them instead.

@SK8R43 5 лет назад

you lose value when you buy booster packs too. LOL

@ProtomanBlues87 5 лет назад

So what you're saying is, it could even be a boat?!

@antoniomarino9444 5 лет назад

I was thinking of the same thing ahaha

@thiefofhyrule8000 5 лет назад

A boat's a boat, but the mystery cube could be anything!

@filippodardi2180 5 лет назад

@@thiefofhyrule8000 Even a boat!

@natek6880 5 лет назад

Boat

@SakuraAvalon 5 лет назад

A boat made out of cards and Flex Tape.

@namename8004 5 лет назад

This video is 100% necessary. These mystery repacks are shameful trash. Don't think for a second that you were too negative, Prof. You maintained a high standard of professionalism throughout. I know I am not classy enough to do that. Your criticisms were harsh, but absolutely true.

@astaiannymph 5 лет назад

He's not wrong, but highly professional is not quite what I'd call this.

@jforce109 5 лет назад

Well, you can thank Hasbro, as well as Morons of The Coast (Wizards) for that.

@benjaminstupp3349 4 года назад

Eh. I agree they are bad but I wish walmart still sold older packs because return to ravnica was boring as hell, I bought these garbage cubes ONLY for the Hope's of older packs. I pulled an emrakul Aeons Torn from one of those

@calebteo1155 4 года назад

Name Name agree 1000%

@mbirkholter3336 4 года назад

I never bought those clear boxed magic "sets" because they looked sketchy and they looked like crap and to me it was obvious that it was not a magic the gathering official box so I never bought them in fear of getting ripped off. I'm glad I never did now that I watched this.

@yellowpie 4 года назад

“If it says ‘mystery’ on the box, it’s crap. They’re trying to rip you off.” Wow, I didn’t know the professor had such strong opinions on Mystery Booster.

@lazlo_bananas8285 3 года назад

To be fair, I do believe he said it was a very welcome exception. Unfortunately I just started watching his videos and getting into Magic. The boxes cost double to buy now than they used to

@TheMaverickGirlGaming 5 лет назад

“The mystery box could be anything! It could even be packs and singles that are sold elsewhere! You know how much we always wanted one of those!” “Then let’s just go buy th-“ “We’ll take the box!” 🤦🏻‍♀️

@andrewmaciejunes297 5 лет назад

Peter

@mynameisgrundle8157 5 лет назад

It could be a boat.

@luispolanco5966 5 лет назад

Buy singles my people

@kevin74747 2 года назад

Can it be a Ferrari?😄

@turn1win387 5 лет назад

Yep. Got fooled into buying one just yesterday. 2 crummy foils, Hour of Devastation, M19, Rivals of Ixalan pack and....wait for it.....60 lands.

@Gorfog 5 лет назад

Same thing happened to me about 9 hours ago. They got me. Well played on my idiocy.

@Sephenon 5 лет назад

@@Gorfog you're saving wallets by admitting this. Strength and Honor.

@TabooX1984 5 лет назад

WOW! That's terrible.

@trowawayacc 5 лет назад

Yes if you lose the gamble you get shafted not with a intro deck but with a 60 land pack and ixalan boosters.

@MrNicko555 5 лет назад

But... but... 60 lands is a deck, right? - Some Walmart Director somewhere.

@seanthebean99 4 года назад

"I like that he looks like Bilbo Baggins" - My sister

@nathanielleack4842 3 года назад

I like that your name is Sean Bean and your cracking lotr references

@erwinvanoostenbrugge 4 года назад

"If it says mystery on the box, they're trying to rip you off". Boy, this aged well xD

@nonaG123 3 года назад

in due fairness he had no way of knowing that wizards would start using that after walmart ruined it

@PyrotechNick77 2 года назад

Wait what happened?

@OskeoSmartical 2 года назад

Wizards released a "Mystery Dungeon" promotional product that has valuable exclusive products, but is controversial because it is not available in all areas and the theming of the cards is liscensed from other franchises such as The Walking Dead.

@OskeoSmartical 2 года назад

Addendum: That promotion was actually called "Secret Lair" lol. Mystery Dungeon is a Pokemon game. During my fact check I found what they were probably actually referring to. Wizards is selling Mystery Boosters that are essentially the same marketing philosophy but at least slightly less blatant and heinous. Buy singles.

@williamwinder3466 5 лет назад

I shamefully bought WAY WAY too many of these. About 30. Yes 30, I don't know why. I did get a Commander deck. Just one Commander deck. What a colossal wast of money.

@capy3218 5 лет назад

wich one?

@williamwinder3466 5 лет назад

@@capy3218 built from scratch

@matheus_vbs 5 лет назад

I'm sorry to say this, but that was so stupid that I can't even feel bad for you

@williamwinder3466 5 лет назад

@@matheus_vbs You shouldn't

@TheLuckymod13 5 лет назад

That's $600 pretax. RIP

@sjdhrjrjejdhdhsh 5 лет назад

"If what you are selling isn't worth what you're charging then you hide the contents" The irony, it sounds exactly an mtg booster pack.

@tiagodarkpeasant 5 лет назад

but wizards don`t know what is in the booster, it may be a good card, this are bad decks being sold as random decks

@Threeli 5 лет назад

Came here to say this. It's like yeah, totally, I agree, but doesn't this argument also apply to literally every current sealed product as well?

@ImAnOcean 5 лет назад

you know the exact cards you can get. you dont know what kind of decks you can get though. but it still kinda applies :D

@NoName-dc4kj 5 лет назад

I got the teferi hero of dominaria card in a booster pack so there.

@jamesflames6987 5 лет назад

LOL @ all these MTG collectors in denial that everything they buy is a rip off.

@Mr_Boss_Smile 5 лет назад

I bought one of these boxes. When I opened one of the booster packs it contained a card that didn't even belong in that set.

@highlordfenrir 5 лет назад

Video proof?

@SK8R43 5 лет назад

lol

4 года назад

yeah that one is a little hard to believe but.. I'll take your word for it!

@foreverskrillex 4 года назад

@ I bought one of these that contained an Eldrich moon pack that had 15 Zendikar cards inside. It was reglued. I messaged MJ Holdings and they mailed me a new pack. It does happen

@mx.winterwolf 4 года назад

Same. Opened a pack of Dragon's Maze that had a Gatecrash card as the rare in it

@afterglow-podcast 4 года назад

I had a buddy buy one of these. The "deck" inside was a land pack.

@AffinityforMTG 5 лет назад

But, Prof, you can't get a boat in regular booster packs.

@tarzangief 5 лет назад

Ghost Ship and Weatherlight disagree

@gaiusjuliuspleaser 5 лет назад

WalMart: "You can have the lovely Izzet vs Golgari Duel Deck the lovely LGS is selling, or you can trade it all for what's in this box..." Suckers: "The box! THE BOX!"

@DigitalinDaniel 5 лет назад

I only ever bought one of these long ago to see what it was... my "deck" was a pack of 100 lands from a bundlebox : ^)

@poorlydrawnrobot4218 2 года назад

You are perhaps the luckiest person on earth.

@defaultgenCQ 5 лет назад

Thanks for the advice, I'll stick to buying repacks on Ebay and hoping to pull those power 9.

@kleptomaniacal 5 лет назад

I bought one awhile ago. The "deck" was a bundle of basic land. Never again.

@jessicagalvin4598 5 лет назад

Spin down - $1 Booster Pack - $4 Satin Tower - $13 Beating the rude player’s $2500 EDH deck - priceless

@_Piers_ 5 лет назад

... beating anyone that calls it EDH is priceless.

@questionyourself718 5 лет назад

Pook365 what does Edh stand for?

@WhackedMaki2 5 лет назад

@@questionyourself718 Elder Dragon Highlander. The Elder Dragons were the first notable Legendary Creatures, and the Highlander movie comes with the quote "There can be only one," which is used because its singleton.

@questionyourself718 5 лет назад

@@WhackedMaki2 ahh okay, thanks for the info!

@prismgod1904 5 лет назад

how about steal their that instead its seems that is more priceless

@demetersingleton5788 5 лет назад

Prof went so far in not supporting these cubes, all examples used in the videos were stolen.

@Kaanfight 5 лет назад

This is how we protest capitalism: steal from mega corporations, selling the singles, and using the money to go to FNM at your LGS. Spread the wealth around! Socialism for your local game store!

@mdra_ 5 лет назад

xDDDD

@melonboi927 5 лет назад

@@Kaanfight nah I'd like my local game store to stay open

@Scorch428 5 лет назад

He just wants to buy all the cubes for himself!!

@smartymarty2351 5 лет назад

Target has a similar product without the outer packaging that hides its contents. You can actually see the size of the decks - sometimes the front card too so you know what the deck is - and the booster pack cycle. I have bought several that had 2 commander decks in them. They are rare, but at $20, 2 CMDR decks return a decent rate.

@marceledel8619 5 лет назад

$20 dollars for that?! I'd rather spend my $20 on a Guild Kit. Edit: Oops! The Professor made that point in the video. My apologies, dear Professor. :)

@Tuturial464 5 лет назад

Marcel Edel yeah, I just got three guild kits for cards I needed

@davidbronstein2040 5 лет назад

My local store never stocked any guild kits. Big oof.

@johnphillips4708 5 лет назад

This literally just saved me “a new player” from potentially buying one of these an hour of now when I was going to go buy some MTG stuff from my local Walmart. Thanks.

@nicholasschreck713 4 года назад

I literally had to stop in the middle of this video to go sign up for the professor's patreon because it dawned on me how much money he saves me on a consistent basis and the fact that I just love his videos.

@sockspuppeteer6456 5 лет назад

at my school we did a tournament with Card Kingdom's battle decks and it was a lot of fun and totally worth the $10 to buy the deck and even after we were done we still play with them. A fantastic product for sure.

@Scienceboy0 5 лет назад

The problem is that the people this video is reaching are the ones who already know how bad these products are. It's, like you said, the grandmothers and parents who don't have any better idea who will pick this off the shelf haphazardly for their kids. And with how much children love these "mystery products" parents are likely to choose something with that label rather than a carefully constructed deck like a guild kit. I know it's not likely, but I hope that somehow this reaches at least one person like that. I hope that this can help at least one kid experience Magic in a better way than this when getting a gift.

@andrewmarinkovich8657 5 лет назад

You might be right that some of these are probably bought by people who don't know any better (parents, grandparents, kids). But given that these cubes are actually kind of hard to find (meaning they disappear quickly from the shelves), and from the many posts here from Magic players (including myself) who have bought these cubes, I expect these are largely being bought by Magic players who do know better. There was a lot of early hype when these cubes actually did (occasionally) contain a Commander deck and I'm sure many people snatch these up hoping to score something sweet. I fell for it but that won't happen again.

@-RTC- 5 лет назад

You are exactly right. My girlfriend randomly bought me on of these a while back while she was at Target. She spent 30 dollars on this particular one and I felt so bad because I knew how crappy these are but I didn’t let her know. I was very grateful that she thought of me, and even bought me mtg. But I opened the box and there was a welcome deck or two, a land pack, two packs of dominaria and amonkhet or something and the black deck from nissa vs ob nix duel deck with the crap rares left in it. She later asked me if I got anything good and I said yeah! I felt bad lying about it but couldn’t bring myself to tell her the truth at that time. Later on though, I mentioned that a lot of those mystery packs have bad cards in them and that they can be a rip off.

@TrueHandProductions 5 лет назад

So are MJ Holdings and EA business partners now?

@TheDualityMan 5 лет назад

No but MJ holdings is in business with WotC...

@jonathanward9584 4 года назад

Thanks for the info Prof! I had no idea and i've been playing magic for almost two decades.

@roniusadethel9768 5 лет назад

Man, I remember back when these cubes were first introduced. I bought 4 of the original commander decks for $30 at target.

@zerotheliger 5 лет назад

remember when they were clear and not covered up and you could actually see the boosters inside?

@roniusadethel9768 5 лет назад

@@zerotheliger That I do.

@KaikelX 4 года назад

The ones near me at target went for 20 for 4 random old precons. At the time, that was basically 4 fully fledged decks ready to thrown down with my friends.

@marcuscarter6824 5 лет назад

I saw your Twitter post yesterday about how you hoped the negativity in this video wouldn't be too off putting, but I'd say it was the exact right amount of negativity for such a garbage product

@MapleK121 5 лет назад

My family used to buy these for me when I was younger, and one time we did get lucky and the deck was the dragon arch enemy deck. But in the next one (they had bought two) the deck was a pack of 30 basic land, I reported it to Walmart and got a full refund because that's not even part of a deck

@RetroPillowcase 5 лет назад

Smart

@aubreyinmon4562 3 года назад

“If it says mystery on the box, it’s crap” Welp Mystery booster must be crap...

@klardfarkus3891 5 лет назад

walmart sells a lot of sub quality stuff. some manufacturers make a cheaper version of their product for wal mart specs

@chaotic3380 5 лет назад

at 10:30 you flipped the blink/flicker text and the sacrifice matters text

@Adam-sl6tq 5 лет назад

I bought one of these. My mystery item was a basic land pack. YAY

@cronnie994 5 лет назад

somehow there's a bigger whammy than the half intro deck. yuck.

@jasperbaas450 5 лет назад

Ouch...

@Jonzin4BeatzNYC 5 лет назад

You might be able to write to the company that does the repacks and explain your disappointment in order to get a replacement product. Granted you might get more BS but at least you will get something more than lands. Its worth a try!

@samsong9288 5 лет назад

I also got one with a basic land pack. Returned it instantly. At least Wal-Mart has a good return policy. Complete trash.

@allabtMando 4 года назад

When you take them off the shelf, instead of your cart, try putting them directly into a nearby trash can.

@rossomex12 5 лет назад

I was just about to get one of these at walmart today, then my little brother told me to watch your video first and instead I got a recent booster pack... I have a Hydroid Krasis L0L

@KaneYork 5 лет назад

Wow. have fun, and stay safe!

@captianbacon 5 лет назад

Well these boxes can actually be great value. U just gotta feel the weight difference 100card decks weigh noticeable more then the bad decks.

@UochRS 4 года назад

@@captianbacon excuse me while i get my scales out in walmart

@captianbacon 4 года назад

@@UochRS you just have to hold 2 of them and you can feel it

@Marshall97531 3 года назад

Nice anime profile pic weeb

@gsarssadams 5 лет назад

I have bought those a couple times when you could see inside. Back then they were putting entire pre-con commander decks.

@braunyalmondo 5 лет назад

Thanks for fighting this blatantly scummy practice.

@kojisyntax 5 лет назад

Back after the first commander decks came out, they had these but you could see what was in them and a good bit of them had three commander decks in them for $20. I bought so many of those and ended up with great value.

@osvaldodejesus2709 5 лет назад

I Subscribe! Your unselfishness to help out the MTG comunity makes it great!

@riotxcore6108 5 лет назад

I remember seeing people take these boxes over to the produce section and put them on the weights to see which ones weighed the most to buy 20 dollar commander decks.

@samthenerf 5 лет назад

I like their style.

@UnifiedMinds11 5 лет назад

Except wotc knows this now, so they weigh all the cubes to make sure they're at an even weight. Damn them!!! I blame bad boy gaming for putting all over YT. Now the chances of getting a commander deck is basically nil

@tatertot111221 5 лет назад

@@UnifiedMinds11 the company might, but WOTC has nothing to do with it

@ashburn6139 5 лет назад

MJ Holding doing those repack, not WoTC

@Kattywagon29 5 лет назад

Smart...well except for the buying it part.

@gamingguru2k6 5 лет назад

A Jace is a Jace, but the mystery deck could be anything including a Jace. You know how much I have wanted one of those.

@HumbleWooper 5 лет назад

Sure... you can buy six of these garbage packs and have a one in a few thousand chance of getting Jace. OR you could just buy the single from Card Kingdom, and be guaranteed the exact card you want. Yeah it costs way more than one mystery box. But you won't end up with a stack of jank cards, lands, and dollar (or less) rares.

@gamingguru2k6 5 лет назад

@@HumbleWooper Speaking seriously for a moment, I always buy singles.

@luispolanco5966 5 лет назад

Buying singles is way better unless you get really lucky in packs

@gamingguru2k6 5 лет назад

@@luispolanco5966 I have made about 8 fully custom decks costing between $30-200 a piece. The good thing is I have exactly what I always wanted.

@Dyals_Style 5 лет назад

Then let's just buy a ja.... We'll take the mystery box!

@PhyrexianacademicSocialStudies 4 года назад

I love watching This content really helps me as a magic player. I’ve never purchased one of these before but I’ll gladly share this to my fellow players across lands

@ZigKid3 5 лет назад

Great seeing you at the MagicFest LA Professor! Even if only for a quick picture. Anyway I got one of these power cubes once after seeing the same one sit by itself at my local walmart for 2-3 months thinking I'd get one of the commander decks (I even weighed it). The cube itself turned out to be crap of course, but one of the boosters I got extremely lucky and pulled a masterpiece mana crypt! Tried my luck again a month later with a new set of cubes they got and got the worst ripoff ever, not even a deck, I got a pack of just basic lands. Many others have reported getting just packs of basic lands too!

@WakeUpUniverse66 5 лет назад

You can weigh them in the Produce section at Walmart to see which ones have alot of Foils.

@TheValorious 5 лет назад

Not worth it. If they make a buck, it's justification that they should keep making this scam of a product. Just don't.

@m4l4kan 5 лет назад

They caught onto this, and have been putting extra basic lands to up the weight to match the commander decks.

@Sephenon 5 лет назад

@@m4l4kan I like how much this sensibly supports the Tutor's point: they CAUGHT...on...CAUGHT us. Dude, we were "CAUGHT" when we were 5. This is abusive if we have a long term relationship.

@xboxoftroy3 5 лет назад

@@m4l4kan I was going to say this. I've bought one of these things because it weighed more. Then I opened it and found a basic land pack and half a duel deck. They bamboozled me once, but never again.

@mohawkmagic1621 5 лет назад

I bought a heavier one and got the entire duel deck nissa verses ob nix

@DreamDaddie 5 лет назад

Thank you for pointing out this nonsense, a friend constantly buys these and complains about the contents.

@HTYM 5 лет назад

Your friend seems to be suffering from insanity.

@DreamDaddie 5 лет назад

@@HTYM nope, he's just dense

@rallyrobb943 4 года назад

Your brutal honesty makes me smile on a regular basis 😆 Thank you!!!

@joshuanorris5860 5 лет назад

That jacket is sweet :P Thanks for the PSA haha. I like the idea of buying bulk cards that are "random". But not if its a ripoff!

@baconbombsmtg2384 5 лет назад

But the mystery box is perfect for: Step 1, cut a hole in the box. Step 2,.....

@juleswinter7083 5 лет назад

Oof

@dragonknite314 5 лет назад

It's my deck in a box

@luispolanco5966 5 лет назад

WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK

@Kattywagon29 5 лет назад

LOL. I was just watching that episode of SNL the other day.

@T4silly 5 лет назад

My favorite vids are when the Prof. gets passionate.

@grimreaper0 5 лет назад

What a nice informative video addressing an actual issue in the community. I love how Tolarian always takes the players int- Oh, it's a card kingdom advert.

@abx42 5 лет назад

Right now in Gorham New Hampshire's Walmart the booster pack boxes are $26 instead of 20

@SpektralJo 5 лет назад

But how is MTGUnsealed gonna gat the worlds supply of Curator, Bristling Hydra, Etali and Thalias Lancers promos then?

@voraito 5 лет назад

I'd take a playset of each. Hell, they should just sell that.

@icebergslim6653 5 лет назад

Mtgunsealed is the worst. I watched 3 of his vids by mistake. Then I decided to watch rudy, professor and badboy.

@ameliamay8902 5 лет назад

Hey Etali is a $7 card!! And mtgunsealed usually opens CHAOS packs

@ZakanaHachihaCBC 5 лет назад

James Blunt Walmart sells them on the face of a blister of 3 booster packs. You can see the boosters and know what ones you are getting but the price is the same as buying the 3 packs alone. At least the ones I see.

@shadow5273 5 лет назад

instructions not clear enough brought every single repackaged product by mistake

@EndlessMystify 5 лет назад

The local game store where I lived as a kid had a mystery thing that actually wasn't crap. Every now and then, the owner would open displays (or booster boxes as they seem to be called now) to fill out his binders for single card sales. When he did, any rares he got that he already had four or more of in those binders would go into a Mystery Rares Box. The box contained reverse-sleeved cards (so you couldn't see what card was in the sleeve) and it cost $1 to get a card at random from the box. Most of the times, you'd pull low-cost cards, of course, but every now and then someone would pull something properly cool and/or actually expensive. It was a good, fun and cheap gamble. Everyone at the store loved it.

@Zretgul_timerunner 5 лет назад

This is a problem for all Major TCGs Pokemon MAGIC Yu-gi-oh AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE OR MEASELS OR ANY OTHER SUPER INFECTIVE DECEASE. And any sports version aswell for the most part atleast modern ones though (these do vary)

@rawpower2025 4 года назад

I'd like to add: I saw a Dragon Ball Super Starter Box from MJ Holding Company at Walmart

@m50iansmith 5 лет назад

Thank God that product like this doesn't appear on the shelves in the UK...yet!

@Buell117 5 лет назад

thanks for sacrificing your money so we don't buy it.

@NeuroticLobster 5 лет назад

The mystery boxes at Target still have EDH decks in them, and often times you can see the Commander just by shaking the box around a little. Yesterday I saw one that had both C18 Adaptive Enchantments and C18 Lord Windgrace whatever that one is called, for $30 total. And the ones at Target aren't wrapped to hide the contents!

@ExecutionerO 4 года назад

I just did a video of the Elite Four Pokemon boxes from the Fairfield company and the cards were dirty inside. Not even wrapped up. Love the video dude🤘

@kwanebookall7663 5 лет назад

I appreciate this video and how simplified it is presented. If you didn't understand then prof uses a Family Guy clip and says don't be like Peter... I laughed so hard

@TragicMTG 5 лет назад

Guilty of loving a mystery but I've never been suckered by those!

@xzysyndrome 5 лет назад

Except it is no mystery when buying those lol

@AngstyShitTalker 3 года назад

I watched 12 of your videos today guy, thank you for taking the time to makes these videos.

@refreshdaemon 5 лет назад

I've noticed that they started repacking precons and packs in these mystery cubes and I stopped buying them when I couldn't see what was inside. However, in the past when I could see inside the acrylic cases, I did pick up some old event decks at a discount. Those were the only times I bought these repackaged Magic boxes.

@parksburgum 4 года назад

4:24 “If it says Mystery it’s crap”....... Mystery Booster Boxes for $100...

@brianspragge 5 лет назад

Wow, I almost bought one the other day... I am so glad I didn't!!! What a fun video to watch Professor.

@manifestman132 5 лет назад

I remember those sample decks from collage they were just giving them away when we moved into the dorms. I got so many of the damn things.

@iiiiiifggffggffgfgfg 4 года назад

In the good old days damaged boxes of coldsnap were sold on Yahoo Japan. Looked like the boxes had been dropped in the warehouse or something. About half the cards were not hashed, but when you're paying $20 per box you still get value.

@MagicTheGatheringClassic 5 лет назад

We dont have this in Brazil (Thanks god) !!!!!! I love you Prof I love the channel

@MrFace1ess 5 лет назад

I got a few commander decks. Just take the boxes to the produce section and weigh them.

@leonard9624 5 лет назад

Doesnt work anymore,they add extra lands to make it weight more

@Linkeh24 5 лет назад

Yeah, they caught on that people were doing this, so they dump trash in there to increase the weight.

@isaacrecio4093 5 лет назад

One thing to note about the old trick where you would weigh the mystery cubes for commander and foil decks is that the companies have caught on and placed land packs weighing over a lb

@christopherreed8996 5 лет назад

I remember picking up a bunch of these around 2010 when they had plane chase and archenemy decks 2 for $10.

@webecookin8365 5 лет назад

My buddy got all lands in the deck part

@BOWS3R 4 года назад

WeBeCookin 😂😂😂

@SheffieldsPark 5 лет назад

"Extreeeeme Mysteryyyyyy!" I love you, prof.

@ladycthuwu 5 лет назад

Target has these "mystery" cubes too, but the top isn't blocked so you can actually see what decks are in it. I check them for commander decks every time I go. I've only seen a commander deck once, but it was one I already had (C18 Subjective Reality). The cube was $19.99 and the same deck was sitting next to it for MSRP.

@bobthetitan1 5 лет назад

I got one of those when I was a wee lad. Pulled three of the commander decks from that series; Riku, Zedruu, and Ghave

@firetype4life 4 года назад

I’ve been teaching a lot of my friends MtG and getting them into the game, so imagine my disgust when I heard one of them say he bought a mystery cube... already shared all of this with them and it helped show them the light. As always, thank you Professor!

@aawwproductions9603 4 года назад

The Walmart closest to me closed. Thank god. My mom hates Walmart, so I've gotten very little from them.

@gdedgar 5 лет назад

Thanks Prof. Definitely something I might have grabbed for my nephew. I’ll stick with my LGS. Cheers!

@nicolodipietrantonio1757 4 года назад

Totally agree with your video! Although I did get the red planeswalker commander deck out of 1, many years ago, from a target

@kensteiner6829 5 лет назад

Here is a comment to help the professor in the youtube's algorithms.

@bastronom4496 5 лет назад

This is the only channel i always give a like. I always come for gold and find gold.

@AlexMonas 5 лет назад

Relevant Information, Prof! Thank you for your service :) Maybe these pieces of garbage will sit on the expensive shelf-space a little longer with the help of our video. Much Love, Alex

@DerickTheHeroV2 5 лет назад

Way back in the day, on occasion they actually would put in commander decks. You could use the scales in the produce section to weigh them, and if they were a certain weight they were a commander deck. I got my first commander deck from one of these trash fire cubes. That is the only nice thing I can say about this. It introduced me to my favorite format, even then the deck was bad.

@hfrost2769 5 лет назад

But Prof, it could have anything in it, including the cards I need! 😂

@aarondavis1081 5 лет назад

Literally bought one last night by weighing them first to see if I could try for a commander deck by going for the heaviest one. Turns out Wal-Mart has also heard of people weighing them and I ended up with half of a Duel-deck and a pack of Kaladesh basic lands. Not entirely worth the price at all tbh. I'd go with the Prof on this one, don't keep trying for "Mystery". Save your money and buy exactly the cards you want for a price you agree with at Local game stores or online sellers like TCGPlayer or CardKingdom.

@David-uc6sg 5 лет назад

It's not Walmart it's the company that the prof is talking about who stocks the cards in Walmart's and targets

@zbobyobob 5 лет назад

I 98% agree. I always look at these boxes, and sometimes you can see what they contain, I’ve purchased several that I could see the commander deck in them. But be warned, the weight is not an accurate indicator that it could be a commander deck as I previously thought. The last cube I purchased on this assumption ended up having a land pack from an Amonket bundle inside of it.

@toomanyrats534 5 лет назад

When you can see what's in them, it works though. Like when you can see that the Target ones have Commander decks inside.

4 года назад

"They sssicken me..." 😂😂😂

@Vynetic 5 лет назад

No mystery cubes were hurt in the making of this video.

@brettjenkins9926 5 лет назад

too bad. They deserve to be hurt.

@DarkPaladin1130 5 лет назад

I love this guy. Time to sub. Fun to watch.

@abstractaxe 5 лет назад

Always wondered what those were thanks for the vid!

@ccwagner2769 5 лет назад

I got one of those once because it was so heavy I figured it was a commander deck. I got a Japanese atraxa commander deck

@Kruikoin 5 лет назад

My walmart had some mystery boxes that had 6 packs and a promo card for $20. Those things were fuckin sweet. These things really do suck in comparison

@emotatertot 5 лет назад

I believe you're talking about the Chaos 6 packs?

@SkyelarkFilm 5 лет назад

The ones that I see at my local Target are usually a bit better. I paid $20 for a full EDH deck, 2 packs, a new player deck and 1 full duel deck (aka both halves). They also threw in a pack of lands and the only thing missing was the oversize commander card and the foils from the duel deck. They also didn't add the extra packaging to block out the view so you could look to get an idea of what was in the package. It's not a buy every time item, but I usually take a look at them just to see if there is some value hiding.