Why Would You Do This? The Commander Masters Collector Booster Box Game for Magic: The Gathering 

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That azami being .34$ says everything you need to know about opening these packs.

Editor: if possible can we see a small bit at the end where the prof reacts to his guesses on the prices and then gets shown the actual prices?

That second pack being

I actually made an audible gasp at work when I saw the actual price for Azami when prof thought she was 10 bucks….geez 😅

The Prof being upset about the camera issue and the bait cuts on the unboxings tell us everything about his quality as RU-vidr. Not just a Professor, a Professional

I know the professors whole thing is "buy singles" but I'm seeing a lot of affordable singles here, I'm really going to do that

I would love to see Prof's reaction to his guesses vs actual prices. It probably wouldn't make a great video by itself but as an addendum to another, maybe?

I think that this series is missing a short “reacts” section at the end, where the prof sees how accurate his guesses are. ;D

It is such a slap in the face to have Azami or Talrand in the last slot of a $45 pack.

I was at a nearby LGS when some dude walks in and buys a CMM Collector Booster box. I watched him begin opening his packs, and he pulls the freaking border-break Jeweled Lots! He wasn't NEARLY as excited as he should have been. I said, "That's literally the most expensive card in the set!" He was like, "Oh." and went to the next booster.

Hi Prof! I'm from a little town called Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, here we have a game community and what you said about the prices is true, in my country a Collector Booster pack cost us 95 dolars each, so the closest we had them was watching this opening 😂. Every MtG products here costs double because taxes, and the latest prices of the sealed products (which are increasing a lot) are almost a dream for us. Thank you for your content! We All love it Here. Sorry For my Bad english. Giovanni

I love these packs and everyone opening them ❤ because they give me the opportunity to buy gorgeous borderless cards for .33 cents 😆

I really enjoy this type of booster box game. Professor providing commentary while opening a box = chefs kiss. Would watch this also for older sets as well.

Wilds of Eldraine is definitely affecting the prices of Commander Masters. Every day they show off another enchantment that lowers the EV of the set, and why would players buy old Magic cards over exciting new cards.

The yoda yell as he threw the commander deck got me good😂

its heartbreaking to see the entire community's attitude drift closer and closer towards despair with literally every action wotc takes

I love your honesty! It's clear you did not join the WotC Ambassador program. Thanks for all your effort, Prof! For some reason, I can't use my phone for the auction site. I'll try on my laptop. Be careful in that heatwave.

Not a single pack hit $45. Wow. I'm thankful I haven't bought any of this product. I remember getting Commander Legends boxes for $99 and being excited for the chance at hitting a Jeweled Lotus or Mana Drain

To me a real commander masters is a not-draftable set, nearly unlimited print run, containing exclusivly playable cards. I'm not saying all expensive cards but playable cards across the price spectrum from a utopia sprawl to a mana crypt. I so desperately wanted Commander Masters to be a set that I could open a couple boxes to jumpstart my commander collection after years of not playing it.

Yes. That's an upgrade to the base Starfield game.

Baldurs gate 3 is a masterpiece. Please don't buy this people and instead enjoy the greatest rpg to exist

Idea for the Shuffle up and play episode, There are 5 Omnaths ... there's 4 players in a commander game, everyone picks 1 to make a deck from?

Prof's laugh for 4 booster packs says it all 😂

I haven’t check in on you in awhile and you sound like a god damn madman😂 wizards have drove this man to insanity ahaha

Honestly the greatest aspect of this commander "focused" set for the overall game were the downshifted cards that are now pauper legal. Can't wait for some busted tortex combo with Dread Return and Lotleth Giant to be discovered!

It must be frustrating to have technical difficulties, but I do always love the glimpses behind the curtain that show the care and integrity that go into this channel

Thanks for the great content Prof, I bought a signed Island from your whatnot and will be making a simic merfolk deck. I feel that would be fitting.

Ever since I found this channel I spend less on Magic and enjoy it way more.

The prof was UNHINGED during the Whatnot giveaway

So glad your store could afford to drop the price! I wish I was in a position to do the same, but the allotment my store got ended up costing more than the rent for the space. We didn’t even know it was going to cost as much as it did until we had essentially already bought the product from Wizards. Now I have customers calling me greedy for not allowing discounts or lowering prices, when we just can’t afford to.

First commander deck built as the theme for Shuffle up, and play! I’ve always appreciated the candor you have with opening cards, have have never doubted you, you’ve never given us a reason to not trust you Prof! The profile shot variants look so cool! This definitely shouldn’t have cost what it does.

Prof, you have an immense reservoir of good will. I love your content and I value your opinion and trust the facts you present. This video made me ashamed to be playing Magic. The pricing of Commander Masters is... ridiculous. I bought singles, of course, but honestly this is killing me. I was so excited to buy and test out the Enchantress and Eldrazi precons, but the prices turned me off. I could spend 200 euro and get them both when they came out, but instead I brewed my own deck, added some staples to it, some cool art and ended up with my own 200 euro fully fledged commander deck! Ridiculous what happened here and the LGSs will suffer for it.

Professor consistently predicting twice the price of the card is more impressive than actually guessing the price

I think the boxes are dropping is partly due to the fact that we just came from Lord of the Rings where a lot of people spent a lot of money chasing the 1/1 or just the Rings. This is the first set that I will probably not open any packs but strictly just do singles. I'll see how I feel when WoE comes out. I am already resigned to spending a lot on Dr Who, so I'm not buying too much between here and there.

I absolutely love that Prof worries so much about authenticity. To pushbthrough like that after the camera dies. I dont think a majority of us would have questioned him if he cut there but you've gotta respect the authenticity...keep it up prof!

Hey Prof, I'm from Germany and I'm really enjoying all of your videos. It's really great to see a big content creator that shows his passion for the game without loosing his integrity. I really like that you critisize the extreme pricing of products and that you put their real value into perspective. Because in the end MTG could and should be a game for everyone. Keep up the good work and greetings from Germany!

I audibly gasped multiple times at the low value some of these cards. Fantastic video as always, but damn... 😬

I usually don’t comment on videos but I REALLY enjoyed this video, felt super natural and unscripted with the prof just telling stories. These videos are a lot of fun to have on in the background!

This gave me memories of the Price is Right game, but regardless of any form of entertainment I mainly follow you and watch your videos because you are 100% honest and transparent. Thanks for the great video!

I really want the editors for these types of videos to take the professors guesses and add them all together so we can see how out of touch he really is 😂. I joke but it would show why players did to look up card prices before trading

The Professor has some big "It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, 10 dollars?" energy on some of these price guesses, but boy am I right there with him. It's disturbing how worthless the cards we once treasured have become in favor of the new hotness of the post Horizons era. It feels a bit of like the canary in the coal mine. If it happened to the cards we valued 10 years ago, it's going to happen to the cards we value now in 5 more years... and that's if it even takes 5. It's never been a wiser time to fully accept playing the game without investing money into it any longer. Any card with a sharpie taken to it can be any *other* card you want it to be. Don't waste the money you increasingly need to conserve for bills and food anymore. Just play the game for free, and buy only the singles and products that you intend to keep forever- because they'll have no inherent value in the future. After all, the "whales" seem content to support Wizards of the Coast financially ad infinitum. Doesn't seem like it'll hurt their bottom line in the least if the more enfranchised players like us that enjoy the game stop compensating the designers for their time and work in creating sets for this wonderful game. So why bother? It doesn't hurt them, it only hurts us when we keep paying for overpriced products with an expiration date attached to them. They should have to put "Warning: Perishable items. Good until Modern Horizons 5" on the back of their boosters.

Thanks for the Collector Booster Box from the last Whatnot stream! It arrived yesterday, very fun opening it, a couple of good cards, but definitely reinforcing the “buy singles” mantra.

@ the top-down camera cutting off: I appreciated he candid reasoning on why you had to stop and wait. You have integrity when it doesn't matter and thus we can trust you'll have it when it does matter. Thanks for everything, Proff :)

Being able to have the same deck for years was how I convinced my girlfriend to play magic. That was when MH2 just dropped. She now believes I lied to her

Let's go, another Professor collector commentary, I love this format of video

I think another problem with opening packs nowadays is that there are so many different arts of cards that the chances of you not pulling the art you want are relatively high as well, further disincentivizing opening packs

I appreciate anyone willing to emphasize integrity over something that didn't need it. Thank you, Prof!

Love that scream as you tossed the commander deck!

I'm very glad to see such formerly expensive cards at such a low price

I wish more youtubers were like you. Honest and sincere without the absurd cuts and "youtube energy" everyone does. Keep at it dude. You are pretty neat

Love the vocalized card price guess I ask that you continue to do this as this is always a good time for me

One correction: Starfiled is 70USd for the standard edition and 90 for the Premium Edition. Prof's point still stands though.

I think a episode of shuffle up and play that's oops all omnath where everyone builds a omnath deck with a different versions as the commander would be awesome

23:12 I have a cool misprint smudge thing on my MH2 bone shards. The artwork is a guy sitting down with his arms raised as bones are raising from blood and bone, and becoming sharp objects that resemble bone knifes/shards. Now the printing error is like spotted smudge/roller artifacts(common mh2 misprinting) starting thickest in the middle of the art amongst the blood and bone and extends upwards to the top edge of card. Like if a house fly was smooshed and rolled over with the ink towards top of card. Really cool misprint adds more detailed art to the bone shards floating upwards. Wish I could put a picture here.

Your commentary on each pack was great. Excellent video!

What they could’ve done for the premium decks, since they want to give out special lands, is reprint pain lands and the commander lands, and give a chance to give out the ORIGINAL dual lands like Badlands, because it’s insane that lands can cost up to 1k

Just what I wanted to see. Draft chaff in a collector pack.

I love this format for the booster box openings. Hope to see it become the standard!

Thank you, prof, for pointing out that each one of those packs is apparently equivalent to 20+ hours of entertainment on a new AAA video game. I personally measure boxes by the Kayak. Your average small boat is $700. This means that a box of commander masters set booster is about a "Half Kayak". Most boxes are sitting about a "Fifth Kayak" but are getting close to a "Fourth Kayak." The 30th anniversary was very special at "One and a Half Kayaks."

15:30 this $45 pack only added $5. That's insane.

Sadly, a bunch of the high-priced reprints didn’t go down all that much because the product is sold for such a high price. Maybe someday Avacyn can be $20 or less…

Just getting into magic, and I wanted to say that you’re not just a great magic creator, but a great content creator in general! Thanks for the vids 💖 23:37

I felt that moment with the ondu dancer lol. I like to have a deck that I can have sit on the shelf and pull out to play at my game store after missing a set or two. all it takes is like a set or 2 and I feel like all my decks just don't fit the new power thats out there. I find there is alot less Flavourful unique decks out there anymore. Makes it quite the odd breath of fresh air when I get into a Pod with a casual player running winter orb in my Pod.

Dang, those retro frame foil lands are pretty cheap. I love that style!

Personally, When I saw that Wilds of Eldraine is to have all the reprints I wanted from Commander Masters, I decided to wait until then to buy the singles I wanted.

I love these unscripted videos, prof! I know you don't always feel comfortable doing this, but we appreciate that you do it anyway. I love just watching you open cards and being yourself. :D

I appreciate the Carrion Grub roast but it was actually one of the few of my opened cards that made it into a commander deck 😅

considering these where off the top of his head, prof did pretty well

Did Professor ever do a video on draft booster packs increasing to $6.50 & set boosters going up to $8.50? Saw these prices for Lord of the Rings boosters.

I am usually super critical of The Prof, HOWEVER this is the BEST video he has ever done. I love how candid I he is about this set and the overinflated prices. Great job dude.

Thumbs up for integrity on recording. I actually loved the digression about it.

Gavony Silversmith is in 572 decks on EDHREC. Carrion Grub is in 4,248. Such Masters of the Commander format.

One of the biggest mistakes they did is in my opinion are Collectors booster with way too much Junk inside , I forgot all the different Artworks for Cards.

The little technical difficulty but made it feel like I was back in class and the bulb blew out on the projector. A great little break segment regardless, way to go with the flow. Edit: oh man. I just built up a nekuzhar commander and it's my favorite deck by far even though I have like 5 decks now. Probably made it a month ago and my lgs had the original print of $8. The value of that print hasn't changed, strangely. It's not even a foil.

I really like the down time. The honest office hours are great. No worries about the content.

i just happened to check my sub box 17 seconds after this was uploaded wow!

While I don’t need all three I think aesthetically they did a great job on them. The artwork is pretty solid. Prices are still unjustified

I actually do love watching these boosterbox opening videos and watching the prof guess card values.

**** That art on Mikaeus is baller! I appreciate the lowering of the prices on some key cards and the reintroduction on others. As a player that has been playing EDH for 10 years my FOMO was crazy low on this product. I already have a great Sliver deck. I already have too many friends with Eldrazi decks. However, drafting the set was great fun and I look forward to drafting it again in the near future when my play group does "Magic the Camping" at the end of the month.

What’s devastating to me is the fact that when I was 12-16 before I made any real money opening packs of magic cards was so much fun If you wiff on a few packs you only spent like $12 no big deal Now you wiff and your out $180 that’s a big feel bad like gambling a casino bad Terrible direction for our hobby to have gone

I wish FromSoftware would collaborate with MtG - Sekiro or Elden Ring Magic cards would be amazing

I really liked that one, very entertaining! Also liked the free part inbetween. However, who would ever accuse you of something like faking booster openings? Honestly, I assume that can only be trolls (goblins, possibly).

Great video as always ! On a related note, a FaB blitz precon is only 12€... Def. worth checking out !

That 2$ Puresteel Paladin was listed for presale for 30$. I wanted it for that sweet flavor text but couldn’t justify the price. Now I can, through the power of buying (delayed) singles!

I'd love to see a Profs Guesses Price for the box alongside the actual price for the box.

love the prof commentary, idk if he would be up to it, but maybe seeing him get a reaction to the prices at the end would be pretty neat.

I've carrion grub in my Ghoulcaller Gisa deck, where I cast stuff like yargl, phyrexian soulgourger or Traxos to sac them and then I've big-front creatures in the graveyard.

I like this format. Thanks Prof!

That box opening reaction at the beginning was such a great start.

I didn't need all the cards that remained at the end, no. That's also the reason I'm never buying secret lairs, I NEVER want all the cards of a drop. Loved the video, super chill discussion, you're so good at this.

I'm right there with you, TCC. I don't want to keep up with power level this often. However with the right pod...

Story time was nice...can we get more story time breaks during box breaks? lol Professor keeping it real 😎

After seeing him overThrun the competition on that episode with SmallAnt, I have no doubts the Professor could make an equally terrifying mono-green Omnath deck, and I look forward to seeing it in action on a future episode of Shuffle Up 'n Play.

Thank you for all you do, I just want to get that out there. I enjoy your content.

Prof. opening these packs and railing against the nonsense is all of us. Thank you for exposing Hasbruh's and Wot$ corporate evil greed.

I have a bunch of people I know who are shocked when I don't know the price of every card I open. It's very reassuring that even the person who deals with this stuff for a living doesn't know the value immediately of every new card. Honestly, thank you for having the honesty and self confidence to post that.

Prof, you for sure should make Omnath mono green for Shuffle up and play. I've only been playing for 5 years so its cool to see you rebuild your original commander decks! Personally, I'd also like to see you do an updated version of Kaseto.

20:00 Thank you for the integrity. 😁 28:57 I felt like throwing up (overall box value; figuratively speaking).

I got an ur dragon side profile card from my precon, honestly happy with just that.