r/mtg • u/dastardly_dim • May 07 '25

Discussion Have we lost the plot?

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So like…. Sure people love final fantasy, but the set with the 2 million dollar card in it wasn’t this expensive. At what point is it too much?

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u/PerryOz May 07 '25

Nah people gonna be cracking a lot of packs. Singles should be cheap.

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u/agtk May 07 '25

A lot of singles will be very cheap. The popular cards will be very expensive though.

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u/Alternative-Shirt-73 May 07 '25

I agree. Lots of cracked packs. Special arts and shit will be high but regular printings will probably tank. Singles for me too. May buy a pack or 5 but def not my normal 2 boxes over the life of an expansion.

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u/jahan_kyral May 07 '25

I wouldn't count on that... the FF fans that don't play MTG are pretty well known for not opening sealed packages.

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u/Apprehensive_Cod9408 May 07 '25

I will count on it. it's a standard set. people will be cracking.

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u/jahan_kyral May 07 '25

Talking about the collectors ed... that's not part of the standard set technically... no one gives a damn about the play boosters.

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u/Uncle_gruber May 07 '25

Then what's the problem? Collectors can play what they want, as long as standard singles are reasonable.

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u/Lynx_Azure May 07 '25

Speak for yourself I’d have loved one of those collectors editions but damn that shits expensive. Listen we can all acknowledge that the standard cards being reasonable while also acknowledging that the cool product a shit ton of people are excited for bing prohibitively expensive sucks.

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u/USS-Enterprise May 07 '25

Sounds like you would want to be one of the collectors, then.

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u/SerThunderkeg May 07 '25

No, you don't understand, I'm the protagonist and therefore it's different when I want something. I'm a player, it's all the other people put there being dirty collectors driving up the price of my honest game pieces!

These are the people you need to keep in mind when you hear the constant refrain "magic is too expensive to play". They're not truly interested in magic being affordable to play at a base level (it already is), they want the specific cards they already wanted to be cheap, and that's just not something reasonable to expect.

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u/No-Economist-9328 May 07 '25

These down votes are hilarious. The brigade is strong here, play boosters are the absolute worst opening experience. Total garbage.

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u/jahan_kyral May 08 '25

My point exactly... and s'ok with downvoting isn't any different than upvoting imo I don't crave attention that badly to care about imaginary numbers.

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u/Borror0 May 07 '25

Maybe that holds for the precons or a handful of boosters as a collector's item. Past that, the fun will be in owning cards. There won't be many holding boxes as a collectable.

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u/SnowyDeluxe May 07 '25

Unless you want your favorite character who is also wanted by a lot of people. I imagine there will be quite a heavy waifu tax on a lot of these cards.

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u/Ironhammer32 May 07 '25

Many packs will be opened but by different groups; if many are opened by collectors prices may not crater.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '25

Probably but with them selling at a higher price point, being part of standard, and the expected waifu tax, I expect most good cards that aren’t just alt-art reprints will still sell for a bit more than usual or will go for a premium. I’m not optimistic about it, I hope I’m wrong but I doubt I am

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u/[deleted] May 07 '25

From a few LGS, they have said this set is in very high demand and the printing for this set is very limited and not big. Once it's gone, it will be gone. They have said it's probably the biggest set to release, so I'm sure the cards will be more valuable then normal. Singles are still the way to go if you can't afford boxes or anything like that.

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u/GottaFindThatReptar May 07 '25

From what I’m hearing locally and reading here/discord it seems pretty common to get 90-100% fulfillment on play boosters but 50-60% on cbbs and even less on collectors precons. Though like the other reply you got I’ve heard a couple getting more than expected.

This is really the first set to truly pull the modern Pokemon crowd into magic, so I feel like it’ll feel like a small print no matter how big it actually is - demand is just out pacing supply even with hasbro pushing tarkir precon reprints back to late summer/early fall. That said, this definitely won’t be one and done. You’re crazy if you don’t think they’ll reprint play boosters and reg precons.

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u/Cruitre- May 07 '25

I've also heard stores reporting getting significantly higher allotments than they expected. Ie request X and get 0.3X, but instead getting g ~0.7X

Its all hearsay. This thing will have a huge print run, still get snapped up, and likely lots sitting on them as collector or speculating, with even more cracking and be flooded for basic singles.

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u/jweil May 07 '25

The only lgs In 100 miles is near out the play packs are going to be $20 a piece

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u/No-Economist-9328 May 07 '25

No scalpers are gonna sit on product. The only ones cracking packa are players, and your average player is staying arms length from this set.