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Let's Play A Vintage Booster Box Game! Return To Ravnica - Gatecrash - Dragon's Maze | MTG
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Loved the references to DTs doctor !
REPRINT THE FUCKING DUAL LANDS!!!
So is The Professor going to regenerate for real one day?
18:29 you missed a skullcrack, can I get extra credit on my next exam?
0 Dragon Tokens in the whole box of Return To Ravnica is absolutely absurd. No wonder they are more expensive than most rares.
You got the Voice of Resurgence! Professor! You literally pulled the chase- the best mythic from the whole set! And you would have made more in an hourly wage sorting those cards into the bulk bins at the LGS than selling them on eBay!
Actually now the chase mythic in dragon's maze is master of Cruelties
I remember when that card was $25+ and poor student me was desperately trying to trade for a playset for my Selesnya populate deck. It never happened...
blood baron of vizkopa was worth about the same because it was in jedi jund at the time
As the Prof. started opening packs it was the only decent rare I could even think of in whole set.
Many Magic: The Gathering players don't think Return To Ravnica block (nearly ten years old!) should be referred to as a 'Vintage' opening. What's a better term? 'Modern' Booster Box Game sounds like a Masters set. Classic? Retro? I want to do more of these so let me know the better label. If I do Scars block or original Theros block next, what are we calling it?
Classic rolls off the tongue well, I think
I'd vote for classic.
This Magic: The Gathering player just doesn't want to face how old he's getting. It's like when your favorite childhood song comes on the classic rock station.
Pioneer
OG
Dragon's Maze is literally a box of bulk.
I feel like that is being a bit too generous.
Maybe but you can still get shock lands
yea but the prerelease was great
granted I did win the dragon's maze
I saw the Dragon's Maze "God pack" once. It had a Master of Cruelties and a foil Ral Zarek. My LGS was giving them away during a campus event promoting local shops and stores.
"As a youtuber, unlike as a college professor I have a retirement account and health insurance" sadest sentence right there(not because he now has it, but because he didn't as a college level educator)
Tell me about it
It's been mentioned in a few of his videos.
Unfortunately adjuncts still make nowhere near what they should, especially considering they are increasingly making up the majority of faculty on college campuses.
Being myself a professor (but not a youtuber), I know how that feels...
Ah, my favorite vintage set, Dragon's Maze. Right next to the Homelands boosters at my old LGS.
truer than you realize
Homelands cards are 25 years old. Their value is starting to climb. Also Professor, how would you or The Instructor go about a Joven commander deck. It's something I want to try, because I feel it won't cost me an entire disability pension and there's dirty little combos like Mycosynth Lattice (that card would be the expensive piece) among other transmogrifiers, and anti artifact synergy.
Laughing at that final Voice of Resurgence - I remember when it was going for $40-50 back when it was in Standard. How the mighty have fallen.
I may or may not have bought a playset at the time. Ughghghghghgh
@@TolarianCommunityCollege I remember having one as well, though I think I pulled two from packs at an event and traded for the other two - ended up selling the playset for $100 when the price started falling. One of the best #MTGFinance decisions I ever made, lol
I had a 60 card Casual deck for both Selesnya and Boros back then. Dragon's Maze was the first set to really show me that some cards were just out of my financial reach as I never would get a Voice of Resurgence for that deck (not until many, many years later).
I have just gotten used to the fact that typically cards, when they rotate out of Standard, will be worth pennies to the dollar. I had a Carnage Tyrant that a kid wanted for standard. Gave me $36 for it. It is now worth $9, and even then only because I think it is used in one Pioneer deck. I took cards that actually hold value and have a good track record of keeping it from him, which I promptly put in the decks I have for non-rotating formats. That's why I like them. Despite how expensive they can be, I find it better to buy a deck for $500 that I can acquire over time and most (if not all) the cards will keep their value and the deck its playability versus taking a chance with a Standard deck that's just going to rotate in a year and where 90% of the cards will be utterly worthless afterward. I get some people do it for fun and they used to do it for money, I just find it is so not worth the expense.
Being a relatively new player to magic, it is FASCINATING to see some of the older card design. Art has always been top tier.
THAT DRAGON'S MAZE BOX WAS SO SAD 😭
Spoiler: every box of it will be.
24 packs in at $0 was physically painful :(
You must be new to dragons maze
@@fastydave Welcome to Dragon's Maze
@@Omenshaper I think you replied to the wrong person
Professor really branching out with his choice in music in this one.
My fears are manifesting
It’s totally fine.
we're in danger
You're a hero for keeping that Dragons Maze box off the shelves. A true man of the MTG people, single handedly removing all of those garbage packs from being bought by others.
Love the cute story about your wife winning game day while pregnant. I'm 8 months pregnant now and my husband and I can't wait to show our daughter how to play magic. (Wish we could be smashing out games at our LGS) The question is, will she play simic/mono green or dimir/orzhov 🤔🤣
She will main Mono Red to spite you both :)
Probably Grull during her infancy 😏
@@corpsefoot758 will admit, this possibility terrifies us 😂
i wish you two the best of luck with your kid!
Update: we called our daughter Liliana Mae 😊 the weight of expectation is now upon her to be pro lvl or else 😂
No amount of musical encouragement is going to make me want to dance if Dragon's Maze is involved.
I'm so glad you're opening one of my favorite blocks. This, Theros block, and Khans were my formative sets in my first 2 years of playing. I have set/block cubes of all of these sets, so I will always be able to experience them.
What I learned from this video is that Dragon's Maze is on track for being the next $1000 box.
I know these cards aren't worth a lot but I still just love them. They hold a lot of nostalgia for me as gatecrash was my first ever draft display. They sparked my interest in Boros and led to my first ever try with a commander deck with Aurelia who is now included in my Feather deck.
I loved Return to Ravnica/Innistrad era. That's when I got back into magic big time. Legacy was still played and I got hooked on Commander. Good times.
What hurt the most wasn't the $17 box but when Prof was reminiscing about Game Days. Left during Amoneket and it was the biggest surprise when I came back this year that they binned them off!
Your frustration at the end is Priceless Professor ...when cards go BULK...Loving It!!
This did so much for me proph. I started playing magic during ravmica. It was the 1st set I ever bought.
When i started playing, I lived in a situation where I had no access to buy singles at the time, and I played with these cards with one friend for the better part of a year. This set means so much to me. Even though that dragons maze box hurt my soul, each card in all these boxes have so much value to me.
Box #1: The Professor, undisputed master of Rakdos
Box #2: The Professor, shock land magnet incarnate
Box #3: "Why are we still here? Just to suffer?"
Man this brought back some memories. It really made me wish for simpler times when my exposure to MTG was almost zero. Doing Gatecrash drafts at a friend's apartment and being excited to pick up Madcap Skills because it was Red (and therefore in Boros) and had cool art. Those were the times...
I counted a grand total of 60 cluestones in that box. That's over 1.5 cluestones per pack lmao
Thank you for your dedication
Drafting Return to Ravnica with my friends was my return to magic. Drafted a really bad Rakdos deck and lost every single game 0-2. When i opened my consolation price booster i not only found an Epic Experiment, but a foil Sphinx's Revelation too. Worth it!
I unironically love Dragon's Maze and offer no apologies. It's a set for those with jank in their heart.
Return to Ravnica was when I started playing magic. Many happy memories staying up late with my housemates drafting and playing.
I also remember never beating my friend’s Boros battalion deck until that one lucky day when I had a fog in hand and a forest untapped. Good times :)
I love Gatecrash, started playing with the set and won Aurelia, the Warleader in draft prices. She was my first EDH deck, I kept it even during my MtG hiatus. Now she is getting her deserved upgrade :) Oh the memories , GO BOROS!
Watching you go through that box of dragon’s maze was such a throwback for me. That was the first set I ever played and so many of the cards in those packs are seared into my memory and my collection. Thank you prof for doing that so I didn’t have to
This takes me back. Playing madcap skills in limited was brutal.
The first set I ever played in was Gatecrash, and this video is a blast from the past for me, Professor! Thank you for giving me some of that sweet, sweet nostalgia.
Not Gruul? Then die!
i LOVE vitage cubes so i love all this cards ^^ (100% proxies of course i am not made out of gold)
I honestly love seeing throwbacks like this, it’s refreshing to see some sets that people actually used to be able to afford reasonably. My LGS can’t even sell draft booster boxes because Wizards shorted them on their supplies, only giving them enough to sell set booster boxes.
Is your store small? We have a medium and large store. Although they were shorted. They got full supply after 2 weeks.
Much like Graham for LLR when talking about Homelands,
Dragons maze may have been a dumpster fire looking back on it....but its still the best booster box I ever got. Its where I started right after being gifted a deckbuilders tool kit and haven't stopped since
I got into Magic after Gatecrash but before Dragonsmaze came out, and I was so excited for my first set, I bought like 5 boxes of Dragons Maze, I feel ripped off almost 10 years later 😅
SAME!!! Dragon's Maze was my first prerelease
Ooof
It sold and traded decently for months. Think about the people less than a year later that bought 5 boxes of Born of the Gods. That was dead in the water.
This is the block that brought be back to playing Magic (until the quality issues and avalanche of products in recent years pushed me back out), so this definitely has a special place in my heart. I loved playing triple Return to Ravnica and triple Gatecrash, but Dragon's Maze is such a dud that I think the RTR-GTC-DGM draft setup is by far the inferior play style. As much as I like the thematic and visual styles of all the guilds, I think 5 is the limit of what you can support in a draft set to have enough of each guild show up to make strongly themed decks. Rakdos and Boros were always my favorite to play, and it was such a bummer if not enough actually appeared to build something viable.
I'm actually kind of happy to see they're still not crazy expensive though, because it means newer players can still have a chance at playing the block if they want to. To me it's a real shame that Wizards of the Coast treats its game as disposable in order to maintain, and in many instances inflate, their third party market value, which now they use to justify obscene prices on reprint heavy sets. All the companies in the video game industry frequently re-release or "remaster" their old content at standard (or discounted!) prices so that people who missed it the first time or are feeling nostalgic for it can re-buy it. It's really sad to me that the card game people instead see Magic as a pseudo-investment and rail against the same happening here. Heaven forbid the game be treated as a game first and foremost.
While I started Magic with Rise Of The Eldrazi, Gatecrash was my first ever prerelease. I still have the foilstamped prerelease copy of Treasury Thrull to remind myself of the date, and it also reminds me that I kissed a lass at University during the same day! Memories indeed!
INI-RTR rotation was where I came in on MTG seriously. Before that me and my buddy were roommates way out in the woods out of town we had no internet, no cable television so we bought some MTG Tenth edition theme decks and played the same decks over and over. Then years later me and two other friends got in during INI-RTR and my first real deck was a white weenie deck. Boris Elite, Champion of the Parish, Mikaeus, elite inquisitor, doomed traveler. Oblivion rings. It was a simpler time I tell ya.
I returned to Magic with Return to Ravnica.
What a wonderful time!
Honestly, I love the block. As much as the value has fallen, it was a fun time
Thanks for tossing that box off the screen that way! Made me laugh so hard I cried.
Wow, this makes me appreciate the Gatecrash box I cracked a few years back a bit more. And Dragon's Maze, so many packs opened trying to hit Ral when all I needed to do was a few years.
woooww that is the first time I have ever seen a dragon's Maze box not have a single shockland in the guildgate slot. I remember the average being like 3-4 per box. That's very unfortunate
The Voice of Resurgence sarcastic price flourish effect made my day.
I loved Game Day as well. So much fun, and you rarely saw meta decks. Everyone came with their own brews. It was great!
The music was incredibly appropriate towards the end of that Dragon Maze opening
I really enjoyed the part when Prof is recounting the Gatecrash Mat Memories
It's cool to hear the voice over during the booster box game, and it's nice to hear him speak personally
I started playing MTG right when RTR was released and it remains to this day my very favorite block.
I'd played a little Magic in middle and high school, but this block was when I really fell into it hard. There may not be much monetary value here but the nostalgia is overwhelming.
I've still got a Nivix Cyclops deck I made shortly after Dragon's Maze came out!
That dragon’s maze box put me right back to the prerelease I attended for it. We knew it was going to be bad even back then. 3rd sets in the block were always the weakest.
Didn't help that they were often "small sets" back then.
I really relieved my memories. Some of my favourite cards are from theese sets like Vorel or Ruric Thar. I fondly remember playing with my friends.
Could've kept the Dragon's Maze box sealed and had a nice doorstop. Thank you for opening it so I don't have to.
No worries!
These boxes were my first introduction into magic after core 2012. It was so amazing to go from a generic mythical world that was the core set to a vast city with each color pair playing a role in the city and the hints at a gate less movement. Such an amazing set to get into magic with.
Oh the nostalgia, these sets are from when I started playing the game. Good times!
Innistrad was my first block. I didn't start until Avacyn Restored was already out. Return to Ravnica was a fun experience as well.
Funfact:
Prof opens his valuable Vintage Displays, so he can stock up his shelves with Modern Horizon 2 and Mystery Booster Display for new content in 10 years so that our Children can watch too.
It's called long term planning.
Wow, this makes me feel old. I started playing magic when return to ravnica came out. I quit halfway through Theros block as I couldn't afford it during college. I just got back into the game, realized your channel is still making videos (I remember when it started!). I've got quite a backlog to go through
Funny enough, I managed to get both the Return to Ravinca and Gatecrash boxes unopened from my LGS for about $120( even have the dust for being up there for 8+ years). The Dragon Maze I'm still thinking of getting, and the shop owner wants only a $100 for it. Even quite a few of these cards now are kind of worthless or pricey( got a couple of the shocklands from them). I still like the feeling of opening up these older sets especially for the artwork and older card borders.
If you have all three, then you can do a variety of Drafts.
Looking at these gave me such nostalgia. I started playing in the first theros set, but my first deck was the Ravnica Selesnya precon.
Gatecrash is my fav set. I loved RTR, it was a good block and very fun to play. I miss sets like them.
my favorite block of all time, thank you for doing this
This is my favorite block of all time, I started playing back when it was INN/RTR so I love this so much, so many memories. Dragon's Maze was my first prerelease lol
Hey prof, to let you know, the Vraska Assassin token is worth like a dollar, some of these vintage sets have tokens that have value actually. I think it's good to highlight those in booster box games
He focuses on $2+ to cover shipping costs
That was a shockingly good RTR box. Like, to almost break even on an old box like that is pretty amazing. Plus, dreadbore and chromatic lantern are 2 of the best foil rares you could've pulled. Very cool!
This is a very nostalgic video for me given that these boxes are from the sets that came out when I played lunch time mtg in high school. My old high school deck (which I found relatively recently) is full of cards from these sets.
Return to ravnica was my first ever magic set! And my first ever pack i opened had a foil Rakdos, Lord of Riots which got me hyped to no end. Rakdos went on to be my first and still favorite commander deck, and i still to this day have never opened a foil mythic in a pack again lmao.
That whispering madness foil is a $7 card not bulk:) I’d be happy to take it off your hands for what you had it listed for :3
The "buy singles" playmat on that last one was extremely fitting
"vintage set" dang makes high school seem like such a long time ago ;) my favorite era of magic by far !
Dude, this is a huge present for us. I wasnt around in magic for RTR, but seeing your face and the meaning you give to this set is gorgeus.
Thank you prof!, i miss the simpler times. No need for collector,or different kinds of boosters. Best time to have been a Magic player. Respect!
Loving the super chill music! Drop that playlist, prof!
Don't know what music you had going for the second box, but it's seriously mellowing me out. Good choice.
I miss game day too, Prof. Having a chance to get that champion play mat and maybe a few promo cards as well was sweet. My favorite play mat I own is the War of the Spark one I won before they shut the whole thing down.
I still love RTR, i would love to draft it again, and that box was killer, many fond memories. That was a great box, despite not making it to box 2, that's not really the bar on older ones
but my god, it may actually have been better to just light that last box on fire, sealed.
This was such a fun time to play, so many ppl got introduced or back into playing at this time. LGS events were jammin!!!!
Dragon's Maze box had me laughing so hard! I'm sorry for your $129 loss on the box but you gave us all a good perspective on which boxes are garbage
That was a pretty good RTR box Professor since you only pulled 3 fetchlands.
For those that didn’t play back then; 2 foil rares, especially 2 valuable ones, was not common at that time, usually it was 1 foil rare/box.
I remember how stoked I was to open two Blood Barons in one pack of Dragon's Maze (while it was in Standard), one foil and one not.
This set has my favorite basic lands
My goodness, I miss RTR so much. I opened so much RTR, Gatecrash, and even a fair amount of Dragon's Maze. And even though DM was a pretty sorry set, it did give me my favorite piece of tech for UW Heroic, Hidden Strings for recurring free growth & untapping blockers and/or untapping lands for protection. 👍🏼👍🏼
I like the name "Classic booster box game". Also Noom really works for me, I lost 20 lbs since end of june!
I simply adore the vintage booster box games!! Thank you, professor.
I began playing magic in guilds of Ravnica. My favorite plane by far.
This block was when I started playing Magic. I never bought a box, but I did buy one fat pack of each set in the block.
I remember pulling a Voice of Resurgence when it was $50. Never got rid of it, still got it in my Trostani deck.
My one regret was not being able to get rid of my playset of Deathrite Shaman before its price PLUMMETED after being banned in Modern. RIP me 😭
I really love the lore and and the world of Ravnica, and I’m sure these sets were a ton of fun to draft in their day. Even so, watching that Dragon’s Maze opening was… very rough.
I started with RTR!! Great set! I used to think Skyline Predator was the cat’s pajamas as a kid. Good times.
Oh glorious I loved seeing the rakdos and izzet guilds from this set especially
Grixis gang is calling
That dragons maze box hurt my soul 🤣🤣
> Pull multiple shock lands
> Don't get value in the box
Those older boxes prices are sure right, the price is probably only worth for people that like to throw money away in drafts.
Yes and no. The draft experience is one part of the price tag. The other is the collectable value of a sealed product of this age. If you want the cards of this set for your decks - buy singles. ;)
I was genuinely shocked RTR boxes were so cheap, but then I remembered how much bulk there was in the set and the fact that they printed RTR into the ground. Still a fantastic set to draft though.
He also got pretty unlucky on Mythics. I counted and he only pulled two mythic rares out of the entire box, which I don't think can actually happen anymore but I could be wrong. Either way it's not like he was guaranteed a win or anything but value-wise that would definitely be considered a bad box even with shocks.
I was hoping for a cluestone counter for the dragon's maze box.
I started playing in Theros, and I bought a box of dragons maze for $60 and I thought it was such a deal...until I opened it. I haven't watched the video yet, but unless he opens an ultra rare shock land in there, I don't know how he can make $20 off that box (voice of resurgence maybe?).
They don't make sets like that anymore, thank goodness!
Man, that Dragons maze really was a sight to behold! Something special to be certain!
Its crazy to see cards I regularly play with like Shrieking Affliction or Izzet Charm not make the cut. Hell, I've even got Ethereal Armor and Axebane Guardian going in some of my decks haha.
It's always a good day to watch The Prof open booster boxes.
The nostalgic euphoria was super high for rtr… then it faded significantly with gatecrash… then you started opening dragons maze and it brought back the anger and disappointment I got from that set.
I got into Magic just before RTR block, so this is a nostalgia trip!
That Dragon's Maze box should've had the Benny Hill them running while you opened it =D
This is when I started playing magic. Love this block so much. So much nostalgia
genuinely thought you were gonna get there with the RTR box but you did open pretty godlike. only fair that dragons maze lived upto its reputation. i opened one pack of maze in a chaos draft and got master of cruelties- didnt think it was possible to get a good card from that pack!
I was tempted to just round it up but I did that once and people got mad (in a silly, friendly way) about not sticking to the letter of the law of the game. Hehehe.
RtR is where I started playing Magic and will continue to crack packs of it for however long I play