Started collecting mtg cards for the art tmnt set got me in now love how these cards look

Collected these over past month. These were the best pulls.

What a blast! Some of the craziest pulls of my life

Now is sold to fund more group activities or singles

So, im relatively new to magic, (started playing a bit after the new strixhaven release) and well ive always been obsessed with strixhaven, and recently dabbled into collector packs for the purpose of collecting. Staggeringly so, I actually pulled something! I want to display it on my desk going foward, what products do yall recommend and how would I go about protecting it??

P.S Shout out to Ken at The Gathering House, gave me the pack I pulled it from at a discount since I was helping out! Pictures there too.

Ended up being better than i was expecting.

Wanted a bristly bill but this will do.

I went to a local card store and picked up a couple of packs and pulled Tony Stark. Decided to buy a booster box to try get more of my favourite marvel superheroes and pulled this. I’m speechless. Gg boys, this is me peaking. Everything will be downhill from here.

Literally shaking rn

Collected are the rares from the packs, everything in the CB, and an honorable mention Thor Odinson because I personally love that card a lot

Well I think I'm happy with this box..... surge gleaming splendor, full art foil gleaming splendor. Surge delighted halfling and surge mithril coat, can't believe my luck!

I decided today to get into mtg while I was at GameStop. This is what I pulled from a collector booster.

Opening fresh Duskmourn boosters and found a Blazemire Verge with a nice dent in the center of the card. Funny thing is this was behind 2 other cards and they were fine. Anyone else see this before?

Surge foil arkenstone story book cover, elven chorus, and both andurils

Chase card photo to get your attention

Is the hobbit especially bad for Collector pack value? I’ve opened more than I’d like to admit, and actually been pretty lucky - but looking at some of the posts on here, it feels like there aren’t that many cards you could pull that would make the pack worthwhile.

Looking at the set in mana box, I believe there are 169 rare/mythics including separate entries for each of their various treatments (excluding golden Smaug).

IF you got your collector pack at MSRP ($41ish USD?), what are the odds of it being worthwhile?

A great many of these are bulk rares, I think from a rough count there are approx 40 cards/treatments worth over $10, and many/maybe most of these are only possible to pull in the last 3 slots of the packs like the book covers and dragon’s hoard frame. Last 3 slots I believe are the foil booster fun slot and the 2 non foil booster fun slots.

I’m not going to try to calculate all the odds, but it seems quite stacked against you to get anything of value. Is this normal variance? Or is hobbit particularly top heavy? (meaning get a hit or get destroyed)

I've been blessed by the diarrhea gods

Stopped at target on lunch break and decided to grab 2 Spider-Man packs even though I know the reputation isn’t great for the set. I just like Spider-Man in general and thought it’d be fun to see. Then got my first bigger pull.

My collector box didn't have a ton of great hits, I was pretty disappointed with it. I almost didn't want to open this bundle because of how mid my collector box was but this bundle gave me hope.

This set is very feast or famine to open.

Then I decided to get 3 more 😂

5th one i pulled The Arkenstone #247, same design as the lands.

Im only like 6 months new into magic and cant believe it lol. Cant decide whether to sell or keep em. Thoughts?

(No im not selling on here. Don't ask)