Hey Prof... thanks for these videos! Do you ever feel like new sets have cards that are too specific to their individual set, and don't have a lot of generalized synergy with other sets, or small collections of cards? I sometimes find myself looking at a new set of cards and lamenting how many of them require a creature type or condition that is only for the newest set of cards. Perhaps I just prefer the core sets and their universal card design? I think about people with smaller collections, and how a small group of boosters, while good for draft, are likely not evergreen enough for integration into a larger collection of deckbuilding cards, especially if every one of the best cards require supporting cards from the rest of the new set. Forgive me if my question may not make much sense.
Been playing LoR for about six weeks, now. I have an S-tier deck, an A-tier deck, and three B-tier decks (and a few piles), and I'm PURELY free-to-play. Three Diamond chests (and a bonus capsule or two) every week is easy to get with only an hour of gameplay per day. Get two wins in matchmaking, two wins in the Lab (I HIGHLY recommend Lab of Legends while it's still live; super fun), and do your daily quest for 3k+ XP.
Hey Prof, if we downvoted the video i stead of upvoting it, would that help you make the content you like instead of this stuff? I'm not gonna do it unless it actually would help because it's a legit good video, but I don't want you to have to suffer when doing MTG stuff!
You can really detect the point at which yet another piece of his soul falls away with these Raycon™️ earbuds. And available at a great price to those viewers that enjoy watching a man slowly sink into a mire of depression.
Hey professor! I love your videos! If you say those Collector Booster Boxes are expensive there in your country since they cost 240,00 dollars, can you imagine how hard it is for us in Brazil to buy those since they cost around R$ 1400,00 reais and that's far more than the minimum wage a regular worker makes per month here in my country? Our minimum wage in Brazil is around 260,00 dollars, so if we really love collecting Magic cards, some of us have to literally choose between paying the rent, buying groceries and all the bills or buying that Collector Booster Box. Can you imagine that?
^ SO MUCH THIS. Paying hundreds of dollars for unreadable, faint font curled cards is a true waste of my money and brings me the opposite of joy when cracking.
@@robotbees9149 right?!?! It’s so bad it isn’t funny my dude. I cracked some foils from kaldheim that are like friggin pringles my dude!!! PRINGLES!! Lol
I have to admit I watch just about all of these. I only rarely have the good fortune to be able to crack a box and it *is* really fun, so these let me do so vicariously (and also very clearly remind me that I shouldn't buy boxes unless I've got plenty of disposable income at the time I can afford to spend entirely on the fun of opening). So I'm glad that you keep making these! I also really like the music-it's oddly comforting!
magic is still fun, but not as fun as it used to be i remember opening my GRN box (that was when i fully got into magic) & getting excited about everything, this card has insane abilities, holy shit foil assassins trophy that's like $50 now pulling cards like that is just a slight smile because they're not worth anything, collector boosters looked interesting but it takes the fun away of opening packs because cards are so cheap, i even feel depressed watching these videos, at this point i don't want to support this series because it's just a huge waste of money for prof
@@freezingfire127 I mean the cards being worth less right now is just a good thing though. If the cards are cheaper, your dollar goes a longer way. I get cracking packs is a blast and i still crack a box of each new set because i couldn't care less if i lose 50 bucks, but beyond that singles, singles, singles. You can easily make up for the joy you lose from the cards being less valuable, by doing terrible things to your playgroup with a new deck you've built.
@@freezingfire127 eh, I empathize with your view on the subject, but honestly, adquiring the cards that I want for cheap and being able to build the decks that I like, instead of being constricted by the prices of the cards feels great.
Everybody beat you to the pringles joke. The pringles joke is ancient at this point. Nobody making this joke is saying anything that hasn't been said a trillion times already. The foils warp in to the shape of a pringle. We know. Everyone knows.
After a quick look at the prices, you'd need to pull one of the top 5 most expensive cards in almost every pack to break even. At least, if you were to try right now.
I really don’t see how wizards can justify collector prices. I’m new to magic and this is my 3rd set into the game and it makes no sense to me. Especially for 12 booster packs. It’s highway robbery
Because there exists a type of player that is willing to spend ABSURD amounts of money to make sure they have the prettiest cards at the table. As long as those players exist WotC is going to keep charging ridiculous prices for inferior products.
@Ham Wich I wholeheartedly agree. I can not believe people pay EXTRA for pringle cards! While not for me, I totally understand buying alternate art or full art cards. But foils just don't make any sense to me.
@@yibbit13 Nah, there exists a type of player who is willing to spend absurd amounts of money on gambling. There also exists a type of player who is willing to spend absurd amounts of money to make sure they have the prettiest cards at the table, I am one. That's why I buy singles though, I'm not about to try and finish foiling out my Urza cEDH build by cracking packs because I'm not insane or Scrooge McDuck lol As for pringles, it depends on when the foils came out. Let's just say that my Mercadian Masques foils are still in that deck, but my Commander Legends foils have almost all been cut.
@@sages10 We are addressing the same issue. As long as prettier cards cost more someone is going to pay for them. If not the gambler then the show off.
Most of the value in standard booster packs comes from the rare/mythic slot. Collector boosters have currently 5 R/M per pack, or 60 per box; compared to a draft booster box which has about one per pack or 36+ R/M (average of about 40) per box. Since collector boosters also have a guaranteed high rate of foil or showcase prints, the average value of one collector booster could reasonably be the same as 6 draft boosters. If it does, a 12-pack collector booster box has the same value as 2x draft booster boxes. The problem ultimately isn't that *collector* boosters are a bad buy compared to draft boosters, it's that buying boosters at all is a crapshoot. Paraphrasing what the Prof keeps saying, 1 $30 single you'll actually use seems expensive but it's a great deal compared to 10 bulk rares and a miscellaneous pile of U/C.
I’ll by honest I have grown apart from pack opening but ever time you do these I just get a smile on my face at the sheer personality you ooze even in videos such as these that can be dull if not sleep worthy. So thank you, Professor for making even what I find to be dull and repetitive into something I can enjoy watching.
I enjoy watching the booster box game, but i also enjoy your tutorial videos too. Pitfalls, things to watch out for when deck building, advice and guidance when playing the game, specific to the sets, as well as collecting the game pieces. How best to use *foretell* (replace with specific set mechanic), when and when not to put it in certain decks for different formats.
The problem is if the boxes aren't worth enough stores wont crack them making the cards harder to acquire. Especially regular cards not alternative art ones.
I spent $100 and got all the singles I could ask for to make an awesome elf deck and then some. Thanks for opening these Prof, I nice to live the pack cracking life vicariously through you.
I bought one of these collector boxes once. Huge mistake, every card is so curled from it I cant even use them in decks. These boxes arent worth 24 dollars let alone 240.
Does wizards determine aftermarket value of the cards or do the players/collectors? If there was a holo vorinclex in every box, news flash, it wouldn’t be an $80 card. It’s the very nature of the business model. They need to make certain cards rare so they have some value. If they didn’t people would still be complaining how their cards aren’t worth anything not able to get the hint.
@@nikomcpherson8394 The cards inside still have their value, you agreeing with it or not. Market value is not dictated by your personal distaste for the product.
@@MrLoowiz Sure, usable cards that aren't curled straight from the pack that I can use or sell or even trade are worth value. Usable uncurled cards are not what I got so I have semi circle shaped cards. They literally bend a sleeve so bad I can't use them and no one wants them because of the curling. So, I'll stand with what I said, not worth 24 dollars (this is referring to the box I purchased).
I feel the regret at the end. Me personally I almost always buy singles rather than packs unless I draft (which is rare but I get the itch every now n then). Thanks for the content prof we appreciate your sacrifice to the wotc blood gods.
Raycon: Prof, we will sponsor your next video. Professor: Great! I've got this idea for a video on Kaldheim limited. Oh! What about the question on the MTG Arena open, even though I don't play Arena..... Raycon: We want you to open a Kaldheim Collector Booster box for your viewers Prof: -_-
Collector Booster Boxes are a double edge sword. Like you said Prof, they make singles worth less with how they flood the market with Rares and Mythics which is good. On the other hand they completely destroy the Common and Uncommon foil market which I find to be a bad thing. Going back to the Ravnica Allegiance days, I used to jump with joy when I would crack a foil Skewer the Critics because they were $10 while the base card was $0.50. It would be a nice boost to my store credit, or prize winnings. Now though the foil slot is useless unless it is an extra Rare or Mythic.
Thanks for these videos. They are a good way to stave off my temptation to buy the collector boxes. I'll stick to the one set booster as even when I get a miss in my packs, there is usually something interesting in there.
Bought Raycons for my sister thanks to you, Jimmy and Josh which they are still very happy with even after a couple of months. Raycon even re-sent the shipment free of charge after the first one was swallowed by a black hole immediately after leaving the warehouse.
I suggest shuffling until all the pringles are together and on the bottom of the deck. Stare at them the entire time. Be sure to make direct eye contact. And then hand them back their deck when you finish cutting.
imagine saying consecrated sphinx is busted while in search for greatness exists. Lol. It also makes for a fun interaction with an opponents notion thief. You can completely mill your opponent in one turn.
@@flyingchimp5012 in search of greatness isn’t *THAT* great. It’s good, maybe great, but it doesn’t search, and has a limited scry if you whiff in your hand, and can’t be used as a “freecast creature spell with mana value of x+1 or less.”
I actually bought one collect booster box ever...from this set. I was really excited to get the gods for some decks and I figured that (as a bonus) they'd be worth more than they turned out to be. Even still, it was a splurge item that I really enjoyed. I rarely spend that kinda money on myself, - I usually spend my money on more practical adult things and stuff for the kids. I don't regret the purchase, but I doubt that I'd do it again.
In Canada we pay $325... I get that most of that is probably due to exchange rate, etc. However, I have yet to see anything good come out of a collector's booster box. It's funny, but I have way more luck buying single packs. Out of the last 6 packs i purchased, I made enough to buy a draft booster box and the commander sets... My heart breaks for ya, prof... It really does... But you make me smile and I thank you for that...
I feel so bad for you Professor. I watch so I know when a booster box might be worth it. So thank you for suffering so me and others don't have too. I can't speak for anyone else, but I enjoy these more when you are able to open allot of boxes. So thank you for what you do.
Thing with the collector booster boxes. If they dont figure them out soon i see that product going the way of the fatpack. Till it dies. Then getting extended arts is going back to expensive.
I'm somebody who skips ads whenever possible. However, this integrated raycon ad, with the music in the background and the narrative tie-in to the episode was well done! I didn't skip it, and I even laughed! - Adi.
My favorite part about these videos is that they’re only barely longer than 10 minutes, so even if you had no idea how bad these boxes are, you can tell just from the length
no joke, I really enjoy the sarcastic sense of humor Prof has added to his videos as of recent months. I can appreciate a little sass with my MTG learning experience lol Much love from Jersey
My first game of MTG was during M11. I got some sample decks. The free ones, they just gave them out. (Later, I'd get five of each colour when I got back into it during RTR/Gatecrash. All five boxes. Free. But ignore that for now.) The sample deck I first had contained two Lightning Bolts. Lightning Bolt is three dollars. Not single a uncommon or common in this ultra-luxury premium ultimate set is worth more than three dollars. Legends of Runeterra is really fun.
Or with 210 dollars you could have bought 7 dragon's maze event decks that cost 30 dollars to get parallel lives that cost 40 dollars plus a godless shrine that's 10 dollars.
@tolariancommunitycollege way to go prof. another amazing video! you dont disappoint, and so funny and your right.... “12 foils packs and pringles cards” i love it 😂 and yes those collector booster boxes are expensive but we will continue to following you as a community 👍🏻
Btw, keep up the good work, professor! I am a (mostly) happy jurisprudence student in South America and there is a single channel I want to watch every single week, no matter what, and that is yours. You probably won't reply directly, but I want to praise you anyway. See you soon, prof!
Don't forget my favorite. 1 higher power EDH deck in singles, or 4 lower power ones with money left over. I've also started using the stock market as a equivalence to what I could buy in magic cards. Could get some stock in google, or 2 revised dual lands
When i saw the thumbnail.. All I had to say was.. "No professor.. Buy anything but that." Also lets play a drinking game! Everytime you see a foil that is curled, take a shot.
I feel like if he gets sponsored for a Pauper deck, he's going to say "Compared to other formats, you'll save quite enough money, and with that, you could buy these Raycon Earbuds" Or something like that, I don't know
Before Tibalt's Trickery was banned, the set was a little bit better off value wise, but the collector's boosters were just over priced this time around.
“The Bears of Littjara” could have been a game changing and ultra-valuable card with one simple change. Switch “target creature or planeswalker” to just “target.” Change my mind. Imo, currently, at best, it kills a massive and unblockable creature. At worst, it does nothing on the third turn it’s out, bc you got board-wiped.
I just got into magic a few weeks ago and wanted to get started fast so I bought a normal set booster from Walmart and pulled a showcase foil of sigrid god favored($2.13 from what I could research), and a borderless barkchannel pathway/tide channel pathway (between $10-$12) all the prices I got off of TCGplayer
The first fat pack I bought after returning to MTG in 2019 was Kaldheim on launch day. Almost ALL of my foils are curled considerably. Especially the foil basics that came in the fat pack. After ONE WEEK! I have foils from older sets that haven't curled. I have a good amount of foils whether they're from more recent sets like War of the Spark, or sets older than that, and they either aren't curled at all, or curled slightly even unsleeved. Note, I haven't had any other bad experiences with card quality in Kaldheim besides the foils. From now on, whenever I get a foil, I'm double sleeving them the second they come out of the pack. Also, I got one of the Zendikar Rising Commander precons, and my commander was already curled when I opened the box. The least WotC could have done was put the commander in the same sealed wrapper that they do with the foil promo rares in pre-release kits back in the day.
Saw the video length, knew the prof would be headed for disappointment before I even pressed play. Having said that I just managed to break even on my set booster box. I call that a win with Kaldheim. Thanks 'The List'.
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Hey Prof... thanks for these videos! Do you ever feel like new sets have cards that are too specific to their individual set, and don't have a lot of generalized synergy with other sets, or small collections of cards? I sometimes find myself looking at a new set of cards and lamenting how many of them require a creature type or condition that is only for the newest set of cards. Perhaps I just prefer the core sets and their universal card design? I think about people with smaller collections, and how a small group of boosters, while good for draft, are likely not evergreen enough for integration into a larger collection of deckbuilding cards, especially if every one of the best cards require supporting cards from the rest of the new set. Forgive me if my question may not make much sense.
Been playing LoR for about six weeks, now. I have an S-tier deck, an A-tier deck, and three B-tier decks (and a few piles), and I'm PURELY free-to-play. Three Diamond chests (and a bonus capsule or two) every week is easy to get with only an hour of gameplay per day. Get two wins in matchmaking, two wins in the Lab (I HIGHLY recommend Lab of Legends while it's still live; super fun), and do your daily quest for 3k+ XP.
plot twist: they're both free
Hey Prof, if we downvoted the video i stead of upvoting it, would that help you make the content you like instead of this stuff? I'm not gonna do it unless it actually would help because it's a legit good video, but I don't want you to have to suffer when doing MTG stuff!
Thank you Professor,for your long suffering choice to buy and open overly expensive MTG products,so we don't have to. 😁👍
“What’s in the box?”
“Pain.”
Nice Dune pull!
no Pringles card flavored ones
Gom jabbar😂
Koma’s Coil Token was actually one of the more expensive cards you opened sitting at over $3
Professor, your jacket is FANTASTIC.
Prof has the DRIP
I second this
i agree 100%
This is true.
his whole ensemble is fantastic! -like those cold colour sets.
players: "these new cards are underwhelming and the quality of print is horrible"
WoTC: "did anyone say SECRET LAIR?!?"
Lol there is so much garbage wotc is printing in the last year
@@francosmith4107 I know right
"Why yes Professor we like to see you suffer for our entertainment." - Rakdos Cultist
TIL I'm a Rakdos Cultist.
@@AJKiesel welcome to the cult.
@@Dalamr Thanks. Can I still play U/W to torture my opponents?
@@AJKiesel only if you promise to windfall w/ narset on board at least once per game night.
The new pain performance cult is izzit old man. How are you not hip and with it? Have you even been to Strixhaven?
"Rares, mythics... or pringles."
That's hilarious and I love it
Raycons really let you hear the intricate details of the professor's sadness
You can really detect the point at which yet another piece of his soul falls away with these Raycon™️ earbuds. And available at a great price to those viewers that enjoy watching a man slowly sink into a mire of depression.
Oh wow 😂
We just need popcorn !!
Nah, what you hear is the awful build quality of those cheap ass Headphones
I read "raccoons" and got interested...
I hadn't realized how far the prices had been driven down on singles by collector boosters until this set.
Core set m20 was amazing for this reason. The lack of collectors packs keeps the foil Veil of summer at almost 70
13 minutes, thought it would be shorter.
Same
The Raycon commercial took a good chunk of the video.
And made ir a little better
New Omnath lasted longer than this in standard
Fully expected it to be a potential zero for the total
He's not getting any value from these packs, might as well make the algorithm happy with a 12+ min vid.
Have you ever asked the question:
“Can a video be dripping wet with resentment?” Well look no further, folks.
so the lesson of this video is to BUY PRINGLES, i mean SINGLES, BUY SINGLES!
I could go for some pringles too.
instructions unclear, built a pringles commander deck...
I mean, similar levels of curl
My favorite foils are Onions and Cream
tube of pringles is fantastic value in my market. i wouldnt trust a box of em though, sounds sketchy!
Hey professor! I love your videos!
If you say those Collector Booster Boxes are expensive there in your country since they cost 240,00 dollars, can you imagine how hard it is for us in Brazil to buy those since they cost around R$ 1400,00 reais and that's far more than the minimum wage a regular worker makes per month here in my country? Our minimum wage in Brazil is around 260,00 dollars, so if we really love collecting Magic cards, some of us have to literally choose between paying the rent, buying groceries and all the bills or buying that Collector Booster Box. Can you imagine that?
this series is just chronicling the prof’s descent into madness
The Prof is starting to look like Ozzy from the Diary of a Madman album cover too :D
The foils recently are so bad I actively don’t want them. They are so dark and cloudy they are worthless
^ SO MUCH THIS. Paying hundreds of dollars for unreadable, faint font curled cards is a true waste of my money and brings me the opposite of joy when cracking.
@@robotbees9149 right?!?! It’s so bad it isn’t funny my dude. I cracked some foils from kaldheim that are like friggin pringles my dude!!! PRINGLES!! Lol
If I get a foil I just place it in my binder and leave it there lol. Never play with that Pringle
At 7:31, Battle of Frost and Fire is labeled as $0.014. I deeply hope that's a typo
It is.
That was a funny moment
Who knows. It might be a less than two penniez.
I saw that! I had to back up the video to ensure I wasn't mistaken. Those 'Easter Eggs' make this worthwhile.
its a doge coin 2 months ago. its not a typo.
I have to admit I watch just about all of these. I only rarely have the good fortune to be able to crack a box and it *is* really fun, so these let me do so vicariously (and also very clearly remind me that I shouldn't buy boxes unless I've got plenty of disposable income at the time I can afford to spend entirely on the fun of opening).
So I'm glad that you keep making these! I also really like the music-it's oddly comforting!
I love how profs sanity is deteriorating at such an astonishing rate that even his thumbnails are depressing.
magic is still fun, but not as fun as it used to be
i remember opening my GRN box (that was when i fully got into magic) & getting excited about everything, this card has insane abilities, holy shit foil assassins trophy that's like $50
now pulling cards like that is just a slight smile because they're not worth anything, collector boosters looked interesting but it takes the fun away of opening packs because cards are so cheap, i even feel depressed watching these videos, at this point i don't want to support this series because it's just a huge waste of money for prof
@@freezingfire127 I mean the cards being worth less right now is just a good thing though. If the cards are cheaper, your dollar goes a longer way. I get cracking packs is a blast and i still crack a box of each new set because i couldn't care less if i lose 50 bucks, but beyond that singles, singles, singles. You can easily make up for the joy you lose from the cards being less valuable, by doing terrible things to your playgroup with a new deck you've built.
@@freezingfire127 eh, I empathize with your view on the subject, but honestly, adquiring the cards that I want for cheap and being able to build the decks that I like, instead of being constricted by the prices of the cards feels great.
I don't love it, but I agree.
Its portland we all look like this in the wintertime
Even though Kaldheim isn’t worth anything it’s still my favorite set.
Same. If anything, it adds to how much I like it cuz it's cheaper. Lol
I bet my entire collection that the foils will look like Pringles
Edit: wow he beat me to the Pringles joke
it's funny because it's true
Actually have a snow covered land trying emulate DNA helix :/
None of my kaldheim foils are pringling actually. I am sure it still happens. However they are no where near as bad as Commander Legends or Zendikar.
Everybody beat you to the pringles joke. The pringles joke is ancient at this point. Nobody making this joke is saying anything that hasn't been said a trillion times already. The foils warp in to the shape of a pringle. We know. Everyone knows.
RUclips: Have you ever watched a man die inside?
Me: uh no.
RUclips: do you want to? _Sends me this video_
"Rares, mythics, and PRINGLES" that killed me
I loved the "ka-ching -ching -ching" sound, when you sped the video up to push through all these boxes! :-)
If kaldheim foils are pringles, then commander legends foils are basically takis by comparison
*sees length:* Oh, that's not good.
*mouses over* It's that short _with_ a sponsor?! Eep.
After a quick look at the prices, you'd need to pull one of the top 5 most expensive cards in almost every pack to break even. At least, if you were to try right now.
I really don’t see how wizards can justify collector prices. I’m new to magic and this is my 3rd set into the game and it makes no sense to me. Especially for 12 booster packs. It’s highway robbery
Because there exists a type of player that is willing to spend ABSURD amounts of money to make sure they have the prettiest cards at the table. As long as those players exist WotC is going to keep charging ridiculous prices for inferior products.
@Ham Wich I wholeheartedly agree. I can not believe people pay EXTRA for pringle cards! While not for me, I totally understand buying alternate art or full art cards. But foils just don't make any sense to me.
@@yibbit13 Nah, there exists a type of player who is willing to spend absurd amounts of money on gambling. There also exists a type of player who is willing to spend absurd amounts of money to make sure they have the prettiest cards at the table, I am one. That's why I buy singles though, I'm not about to try and finish foiling out my Urza cEDH build by cracking packs because I'm not insane or Scrooge McDuck lol
As for pringles, it depends on when the foils came out. Let's just say that my
Mercadian Masques foils are still in that deck, but my Commander Legends foils have almost all been cut.
@@sages10 We are addressing the same issue. As long as prettier cards cost more someone is going to pay for them. If not the gambler then the show off.
Most of the value in standard booster packs comes from the rare/mythic slot. Collector boosters have currently 5 R/M per pack, or 60 per box; compared to a draft booster box which has about one per pack or 36+ R/M (average of about 40) per box. Since collector boosters also have a guaranteed high rate of foil or showcase prints, the average value of one collector booster could reasonably be the same as 6 draft boosters. If it does, a 12-pack collector booster box has the same value as 2x draft booster boxes.
The problem ultimately isn't that *collector* boosters are a bad buy compared to draft boosters, it's that buying boosters at all is a crapshoot. Paraphrasing what the Prof keeps saying, 1 $30 single you'll actually use seems expensive but it's a great deal compared to 10 bulk rares and a miscellaneous pile of U/C.
I’m so glad I watched all those “buy the singles you need” lessons! Although I really liked Mystery Boosters when it was like 110 a box.
The pain at the end....
I won't lie, I do enjoy watching these as a reminder to buy singles/see the pulls. Thanks Prof!
I’ll by honest I have grown apart from pack opening but ever time you do these I just get a smile on my face at the sheer personality you ooze even in videos such as these that can be dull if not sleep worthy. So thank you, Professor for making even what I find to be dull and repetitive into something I can enjoy watching.
I have to say... that was the best raycon ad I've ever seen. "They don't curl like the foils."🤣😂
I enjoy watching the booster box game, but i also enjoy your tutorial videos too. Pitfalls, things to watch out for when deck building, advice and guidance when playing the game, specific to the sets, as well as collecting the game pieces. How best to use *foretell* (replace with specific set mechanic), when and when not to put it in certain decks for different formats.
Pringles new stack-able flavors can create some nice combos.
Secret lair: Pringles (Foiled Again!). *Coming soon to a WOTC near you* !
It's fun to watch the professor's sanity dissolve with each passing video.
This one should be called:
"The booster box that is not for you and you should buy singles" booster box game
Jokes on you! That's every booster box video! Have you learned nothing?!?!
The problem is if the boxes aren't worth enough stores wont crack them making the cards harder to acquire. Especially regular cards not alternative art ones.
Buy Pringles
Thanks Proff! Now I get the dissapontment of opening my own can of collectors Pringles with none of the monetary loss! Great Value!
“For despair, the most cherished and desirable place to live is in the heart of happiness” -Søren Kierkegaard
I spent $100 and got all the singles I could ask for to make an awesome elf deck and then some. Thanks for opening these Prof, I nice to live the pack cracking life vicariously through you.
I bought one of these collector boxes once. Huge mistake, every card is so curled from it I cant even use them in decks. These boxes arent worth 24 dollars let alone 240.
I'm pretty sure they're worth more than $24. You gotta give credit where credit is due.
@@MrLoowiz nah this is just an cash grab by Wizards- no credit goes to them.
Does wizards determine aftermarket value of the cards or do the players/collectors? If there was a holo vorinclex in every box, news flash, it wouldn’t be an $80 card. It’s the very nature of the business model. They need to make certain cards rare so they have some value. If they didn’t people would still be complaining how their cards aren’t worth anything not able to get the hint.
@@nikomcpherson8394 The cards inside still have their value, you agreeing with it or not. Market value is not dictated by your personal distaste for the product.
@@MrLoowiz Sure, usable cards that aren't curled straight from the pack that I can use or sell or even trade are worth value. Usable uncurled cards are not what I got so I have semi circle shaped cards. They literally bend a sleeve so bad I can't use them and no one wants them because of the curling. So, I'll stand with what I said, not worth 24 dollars (this is referring to the box I purchased).
Hello Prof! You are really helping me get back into mtg. Since my grandfather died I haven’t been able to touch cards.
I feel the regret at the end. Me personally I almost always buy singles rather than packs unless I draft (which is rare but I get the itch every now n then). Thanks for the content prof we appreciate your sacrifice to the wotc blood gods.
Raycon: Prof, we will sponsor your next video.
Professor: Great! I've got this idea for a video on Kaldheim limited. Oh! What about the question on the MTG Arena open, even though I don't play Arena.....
Raycon: We want you to open a Kaldheim Collector Booster box for your viewers
Prof: -_-
Me: opening up a kaldheim collector booster pack, getting a foil Pringle, then trying to eat it
Collector Booster Boxes are a double edge sword. Like you said Prof, they make singles worth less with how they flood the market with Rares and Mythics which is good. On the other hand they completely destroy the Common and Uncommon foil market which I find to be a bad thing. Going back to the Ravnica Allegiance days, I used to jump with joy when I would crack a foil Skewer the Critics because they were $10 while the base card was $0.50. It would be a nice boost to my store credit, or prize winnings. Now though the foil slot is useless unless it is an extra Rare or Mythic.
Prof's jacket lookin like Teferi's deck collection
Thanks for these videos. They are a good way to stave off my temptation to buy the collector boxes.
I'll stick to the one set booster as even when I get a miss in my packs, there is usually something interesting in there.
That coat is amazing, Professor!
I love it!
Bought Raycons for my sister thanks to you, Jimmy and Josh which they are still very happy with even after a couple of months. Raycon even re-sent the shipment free of charge after the first one was swallowed by a black hole immediately after leaving the warehouse.
When I cut my friends deck, a pringle always ends up on top. It's a consecrated sphinx. 😒
Rather a consecrated pringle.....
just eat this busted card so he doesnt play with it
I suggest shuffling until all the pringles are together and on the bottom of the deck. Stare at them the entire time. Be sure to make direct eye contact. And then hand them back their deck when you finish cutting.
imagine saying consecrated sphinx is busted while in search for greatness exists. Lol. It also makes for a fun interaction with an opponents notion thief. You can completely mill your opponent in one turn.
@@flyingchimp5012 in search of greatness isn’t *THAT* great. It’s good, maybe great, but it doesn’t search, and has a limited scry if you whiff in your hand, and can’t be used as a “freecast creature spell with mana value of x+1 or less.”
I actually bought one collect booster box ever...from this set. I was really excited to get the gods for some decks and I figured that (as a bonus) they'd be worth more than they turned out to be. Even still, it was a splurge item that I really enjoyed. I rarely spend that kinda money on myself, - I usually spend my money on more practical adult things and stuff for the kids. I don't regret the purchase, but I doubt that I'd do it again.
To our whale friends: Keep cracking this overpriced boxes so that we can keep buying the fancy singles for dirt cheap.
Thanks!
Yes, help a pauper friend out
Soon no one will buy them.
jokes on you, I never sell them!
@@zl2859 jokes on you, you're the one buying overpriced stuff
That's the spirit!
These earbuds got yer Largemouth Bass, Black Bass, Sea Bass.
Honestly, they're worth at least a C+.
The foil borderless pathway lands are so pretty!😍
In Canada we pay $325... I get that most of that is probably due to exchange rate, etc. However, I have yet to see anything good come out of a collector's booster box. It's funny, but I have way more luck buying single packs. Out of the last 6 packs i purchased, I made enough to buy a draft booster box and the commander sets... My heart breaks for ya, prof... It really does... But you make me smile and I thank you for that...
If you watch till the end you'll realize the tolarian professor is just utterly amazing.
I feel so bad for you Professor. I watch so I know when a booster box might be worth it. So thank you for suffering so me and others don't have too. I can't speak for anyone else, but I enjoy these more when you are able to open allot of boxes. So thank you for what you do.
That suit is gorgeous, Prof.
0:54 "rares, mythics, and Pringles"... Yup. I'm dead now. xD That one got me lol
Watching this just made me want to buy all of these beautiful singles that are super cheap. 👍
Thing with the collector booster boxes. If they dont figure them out soon i see that product going the way of the fatpack. Till it dies. Then getting extended arts is going back to expensive.
Forget the play mats or sleevees, where can u get that jacket?
I'm somebody who skips ads whenever possible.
However, this integrated raycon ad, with the music in the background and the narrative tie-in to the episode was well done!
I didn't skip it, and I even laughed!
- Adi.
That jacket is bitchin' Prof!
My favorite part about these videos is that they’re only barely longer than 10 minutes, so even if you had no idea how bad these boxes are, you can tell just from the length
I love these prices. This reminds of when masterpieces were a thing and cards were affordable, but everyone complained.
this.
no joke, I really enjoy the sarcastic sense of humor Prof has added to his videos as of recent months. I can appreciate a little sass with my MTG learning experience lol Much love from Jersey
The salt goes well on those pringles, ahem.. I mean.. "foils".
That sound there at the end summed up everything, perfectly.
Prof is like TCG Jesus. His wallet pays for it so we don’t have to.
Wow. That was the most beautiful statement I have ever heard lol. Its so true though.
Watching prof crack these scratches my irrational compulsion to open collectors boosters myself so really this is a public service
my deepest sympathies but i love these videos professor 🤣
My first game of MTG was during M11. I got some sample decks. The free ones, they just gave them out. (Later, I'd get five of each colour when I got back into it during RTR/Gatecrash. All five boxes. Free. But ignore that for now.) The sample deck I first had contained two Lightning Bolts.
Lightning Bolt is three dollars.
Not single a uncommon or common in this ultra-luxury premium ultimate set is worth more than three dollars.
Legends of Runeterra is really fun.
Or with 210 dollars you could have bought 7 dragon's maze event decks that cost 30 dollars to get parallel lives that cost 40 dollars plus a godless shrine that's 10 dollars.
omg where??
Dont tell them
Lmfao
@@protolight1654 tcgplayer. sadly the rest of the deck is chaff...hmmm...
Yeah rest is bulk but I i still bought 3 event decks for only 70 bucks like 3 days ago so maybe I make a profit or something like that.
@tolariancommunitycollege way to go prof. another amazing video! you dont disappoint, and so funny and your right.... “12 foils packs and pringles cards” i love it 😂 and yes those collector booster boxes are expensive but we will continue to following you as a community 👍🏻
You should just swap out the magic cards for flesh and blood. See how that booster box game plays out
Btw, keep up the good work, professor! I am a (mostly) happy jurisprudence student in South America and there is a single channel I want to watch every single week, no matter what, and that is yours. You probably won't reply directly, but I want to praise you anyway. See you soon, prof!
Am I supposed to feel bad because I watched the video? Instructions unclear. Going to go watch another TCC video to try to balance everything out.
Don't forget my favorite. 1 higher power EDH deck in singles, or 4 lower power ones with money left over.
I've also started using the stock market as a equivalence to what I could buy in magic cards. Could get some stock in google, or 2 revised dual lands
Seeing as Set Boosters are the packs designed to be cracked for "value" would they be better for the booster box game?
Is it worth to buy a set booster box?
I like how he has Jimmy's cookbook in the background. Good for both of them!
When i saw the thumbnail.. All I had to say was.. "No professor.. Buy anything but that."
Also lets play a drinking game! Everytime you see a foil that is curled, take a shot.
Pls sir
I dont even have that much alcohol
Damn that transition to the Raycon ad was slick as hell
I feel like if he gets sponsored for a Pauper deck, he's going to say
"Compared to other formats, you'll save quite enough money, and with that, you could buy these Raycon Earbuds"
Or something like that, I don't know
Thanks, Prof, for hopefully showing many folks a better way to acquire MTG cards and be financially smarter.
Not sure what you could expect when there are only 2 cards worth over 12$. Very little vaue in the set as of now.
Before Tibalt's Trickery was banned, the set was a little bit better off value wise, but the collector's boosters were just over priced this time around.
I still feel that kaldheim is under appreciation somwhow
@@kisekinecro I really enjoy some of the mechanics, but from a money standpoint, it isn't there.
I listened to your agony on my Raycon E25 wireless earbuds. It's the only product that lets me hear the full depth of your ennui.
The correct reason I came here is, "Better you then me!"
I really do love and appreciate this channel. I have taken the professor's advice have been buying singles. Best thing iv ever started doing
“The Bears of Littjara” could have been a game changing and ultra-valuable card with one simple change. Switch “target creature or planeswalker” to just “target.”
Change my mind.
Imo, currently, at best, it kills a massive and unblockable creature. At worst, it does nothing on the third turn it’s out, bc you got board-wiped.
I just got into magic a few weeks ago and wanted to get started fast so I bought a normal set booster from Walmart and pulled a showcase foil of sigrid god favored($2.13 from what I could research), and a borderless barkchannel pathway/tide channel pathway (between $10-$12) all the prices I got off of TCGplayer
You should label the "extended art" as stretched art since that is the truth.
Through the years we've seen the Professor gradually transform into Lebowski.
The irony and the sarcasm in the speech, OMG i love it 🤣
This reminds me of a BDG Quote:
"Because God has cursed me for my hubris, and my work is never finished."
The first fat pack I bought after returning to MTG in 2019 was Kaldheim on launch day. Almost ALL of my foils are curled considerably. Especially the foil basics that came in the fat pack. After ONE WEEK! I have foils from older sets that haven't curled. I have a good amount of foils whether they're from more recent sets like War of the Spark, or sets older than that, and they either aren't curled at all, or curled slightly even unsleeved. Note, I haven't had any other bad experiences with card quality in Kaldheim besides the foils.
From now on, whenever I get a foil, I'm double sleeving them the second they come out of the pack.
Also, I got one of the Zendikar Rising Commander precons, and my commander was already curled when I opened the box. The least WotC could have done was put the commander in the same sealed wrapper that they do with the foil promo rares in pre-release kits back in the day.
Imma support RayCons just for the giggles just bc they support the Prof
Saw the video length, knew the prof would be headed for disappointment before I even pressed play.
Having said that I just managed to break even on my set booster box. I call that a win with Kaldheim. Thanks 'The List'.
Prof, just let me fulfill my gambling addiction
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how the prof colour co-ordinated with the booster box colours
I don't buy Magic products anymore. They clearly don't want my money.
Play legends of Runeterra and spend no money at all for the same out of fun playing magic, or more!
This series of the Professors videos are among my favorite to view on RUclips.
*looks in mirror*
"are we the baddies?"