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Post by pokken » 4 years ago

Celestial dawn as well

Knowing puzzle box is in there I feel like Fellwar stone is very very high probability as well, esp with the commentary on 8th/9th foil sbeing black bordered

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Post by WizardMN » 4 years ago

That would be nice just because it is expensive. I am hoping for Crop Rotation. It sucks that everything on this sheet has had a foil printing in the past so we won't be getting any Commander cards without foil printing. I assume they are leaving some of those for the Commander Legends (or whatever it is called) product.

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Post by pokken » 4 years ago

That old bordered conspiracy foil is siiiiiick.

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Post by pokken » 4 years ago

No fellwar stone. Wow. Let's riot!

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Post by RxPhantom » 4 years ago

Who picked these? I get that Chimney Imp is a funny MtG joke/meme at this point, but that doesn't make me want a foil one.
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Post by ConstantMists » 4 years ago

Wow that list is terrible. I remember Maro saying that they know what people play and that they were making sure that the foil cards would be the ones that we play. I can honestly say that most of those cards have never seen the field of play in any game I have been in for the last 10 years.

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Post by Krishnath » 4 years ago

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Are all literally hits and played in commander and certain formats
That is literally less than a quarter of the cards.

Look, Storm Crow has been memetic since Ice Age, but that doesn't mean it is a good card, or even playable. A lot of the cards on the list made me go: Wait? What? and not in a good way. There were literally hundreds of better choices for cards to put in the foils, and that is discounting the cards already in the set.
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Post by Atraxian » 4 years ago

Not a single angel? Whelp... My wallet feels relieved.
On the other hand... Spike Feeder is in there, but Archangel of Thune is nowhere in the set?
Fail...
Then... One With Nothing gets a premium spot? Come on!
They even got the WRONG VERSION of foil Storm Crow... 7th Edition frames foil crows fetch quite a buck (even if it is just for the memes), but 9th edition go for a few cents a piece.
I was hoping for a 7th edition frame foil Serra Angel (those too fetch quite a nice amount), but nope... make room for Hornet Sting!

Some of the foil spots are nice, but... Meh...
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Post by CommanderMaster999 » 4 years ago

Krishnath wrote:
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CommanderMaster999 wrote:
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Are all literally hits and played in commander and certain formats
That is literally less than a quarter of the cards.

Look, Storm Crow has been memetic since Ice Age, but that doesn't mean it is a good card, or even playable. A lot of the cards on the list made me go: Wait? What? and not in a good way. There were literally hundreds of better choices for cards to put in the foils, and that is discounting the cards already in the set.
And...

There's the other non foil cards that are hits in it

And it's like you know nothing about magic sets there's always gonna be junk hits in sets lots or little

And will everybody for once remember it's singles you aim for not packs

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Post by Krishnath » 4 years ago

CommanderMaster999 wrote:
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Krishnath wrote:
4 years ago
CommanderMaster999 wrote:
4 years ago

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Are all literally hits and played in commander and certain formats
That is literally less than a quarter of the cards.

Look, Storm Crow has been memetic since Ice Age, but that doesn't mean it is a good card, or even playable. A lot of the cards on the list made me go: Wait? What? and not in a good way. There were literally hundreds of better choices for cards to put in the foils, and that is discounting the cards already in the set.
And...

There's the other non foil cards that are hits in it

And it's like you know nothing about magic sets there's always gonna be junk hits in sets lots or little

And will everybody for once remember it's singles you aim for not packs
All I am saying that some of the choices for the foils are questionable at best. Good thing I am buying the product for draft (as it is what it is intended for, and it looks like it could be fun), and not the foils. But there are literally thousands of cards they could have chosen that would have been better liked, heck some of them are common themselves.

But then again, that has always been the issue with the draft sets WotC makes, a lot of the choices are "too safe" if you understand my meaning. Storm Crow could easily have been Sea Sprite or Cloud of Faeries for example, heck, or even Winged Sliver There are literally a dozen better choices for the slot that people would have been stoked to see. Storm Crow is a feel bad card in a set that is all about nostalgia and hype. Nearly no one would be happy to open a foiled Storm Crow.
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Post by Card Slinger J » 4 years ago

I was a bit disappointed that non-foil variants of the Mystery Booster Foils aren't available in this product which means that the foils are going to be much harder to pull than the non-foils. Whether If that was intentional just for the draft experience I'm not sure. At least it will help lower the Secondary Market value of the original variants though probably not to the level of degree as the Collector's Edition sets where you're guaranteed 20+ Mythics per booster box.

Being able to have pulled a non-foil Intruder Alarm or Amulet of Vigor would've been nice. But no they had to only be available in foil because Wizards of the Coast is greedy. So unless you're guaranteed 1 foil per booster pack then it might not be a problem but If the pull rates for foils in Mystery Booster are razor thin then I can definitely see it as being a bigger cause for concern. It also would've been more convenient to release this product on a Friday or Saturday instead of a Sunday.
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Post by Atraxian » 4 years ago

Card Slinger J wrote:
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So unless you're guaranteed 1 foil per booster pack then it might not be a problem but If the pull rates for foils in Mystery Booster are razor thin then I can definitely see it as being a bigger cause for concern. It also would've been more convenient to release this product on a Friday or Saturday instead of a Sunday.
The foils are replacing the "test cards" and I think there was 1 test card each pack. So there should be 1 foil each pack.
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Post by Pouncing Kavu » 4 years ago

This list looks great to me. And I find it very hard to empathize with people who aren't delighted by Chimney Imp and Storm Crow. Not everything has to be about value. And if you do care about value, I still think this looks like a great list. I wouldn't be surprised if the average foil was like $10 (at least in its original printing), and you get one in every pack!?

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Card Slinger J wrote:
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Being able to have pulled a non-foil Intruder Alarm or Amulet of Vigor would've been nice. But no they had to only be available in foil because Wizards of the Coast is greedy. So unless you're guaranteed 1 foil per booster pack then it might not be a problem but If the pull rates for foils in Mystery Booster are razor thin then I can definitely see it as being a bigger cause for concern. It also would've been more convenient to release this product on a Friday or Saturday instead of a Sunday.
The release date for this IS a Friday, one week from now.
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But then again, that has always been the issue with the draft sets WotC makes, a lot of the choices are "too safe" if you understand my meaning. Storm Crow could easily have been Sea Sprite or Cloud of Faeries for example, heck, or even Winged Sliver There are literally a dozen better choices for the slot that people would have been stoked to see. Storm Crow is a feel bad card in a set that is all about nostalgia and hype. Nearly no one would be happy to open a foiled Storm Crow.
You think Storm Crow and Chimney Imp won't hit some nostalgia buttons in some people?

Could there have been better choices? Sure. The packs could've also been $20+ each, too. But instead they're $6ish, with a very good chance of at the least making your money back.

I for one am happy with this. I hope it's an ongoing yearly product, preferably with a rotating list. This seems to be a very popular draft set, and a terrific way to get some reprints out into the wild, even if not all the cards are huge hits.

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Post by Krishnath » 4 years ago

No, you missunderstand me, I am absolutely delighted by the product. To such an extent that I preordered two boxes (for draft with friends obviously), I just question some of the choices made for the foils. The only reason Storm Crow made the cut is because it is a meme, nothing else.

That said, I will be absolutely happy with everything I open with one uncommon multicolor card as the sole exception, and that is because I already have a full playset of it (It's Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage), and the chance of opening that one is literally 1 in 121.
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Post by CrazyPierre » 4 years ago

Oh man Lantern of Insight and Codex Shredder is some of the most fun I've ever had playing Magic. Having them in foil is a win, not a big win like Chimney Imp and Storm Crow, but damned nice.

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Post by clariwench » 4 years ago

To be fair about Storm Crow, the 7th Edition foil is $16. This is the only black border foil that will exist, which will absolutely raise the price.
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Post by WizardMN » 4 years ago

clariwench wrote:
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To be fair about Storm Crow, the 7th Edition foil is $16. This is the only black border foil that will exist, which will absolutely raise the price.
All foils are black bordered, including 7th, 8th, and 9th edition foils. This will be the 4th black bordered foil to exist.

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Post by Atraxian » 4 years ago

WizardMN wrote:
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clariwench wrote:
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To be fair about Storm Crow, the 7th Edition foil is $16. This is the only black border foil that will exist, which will absolutely raise the price.
All foils are black bordered, including 7th, 8th, and 9th edition foils. This will be the 4th black bordered foil to exist.
On the other hand, that's the only foil version with the old border.
That's pretty much why it costs so much. Same for 7th edition foil Serra Angel (if you don't count the promo with the original art).
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Post by CommanderMaster999 » 4 years ago

Well now this may get you guys second thinking about the choices of the cards uncommon/rare/mythic/foils
(But it won't)

Box prices at lgs's and online as of this Moment 103-115$ give or take so 1 boosters is about 4.30-5$ Rounded ofcoarse so yes same price as a regular old booster from a current standard set booster

With that price approximately 46% of the rares and mythics will pay for a booster that's almost a coin flip chance of getting a good pack and about 70 uncommon are within the 2$ range

The biggest thing is it is now confirmed that they will print the mystery boosters on demand aka unlimited print run

And finding it at Walmart and target esque stores...ain't gonna happen


As far as I'm concern scarcity on quite a bit of these cards and foils will be reduced

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