This happens every time they do this- market forces equalize the singles to the price of the supply, so the obvious Chase Cards take the lions' share of that value.
49:55 "I never would have guessed strixhaven was a set where..." Man prof, doing all these boxes has got you loopy, You've confused Streets of New Capenna with Strixhaven
49:54 and still opening Strixhaven? I thought that died on box 2 lol. but for real what a great run of New Capenna, you should go buy a lottery ticket!
@@coldtruth4u how is that even a response? People are fucking strange man. If I could remember I'd link ever video but I can't. So either you've heard it too or you havent.
I’m glad it’s not just me who thought something felt off with New Capenna foils. Compared to NEO kamigawa, my full art lands foils for example popped real well.I figured something went wrong because of the nature of the gilded foils being made as well?
@@theindyjt Bottom and backside of boxes states where printed: USA, Belgium or Japan. Underneath the fold on boosters. For my location Western Canada our pre-release packs tend to be from Japan so you get all excited by flatness, brightness, sparkle etc. and then you open a few US packs and the excitement immediately disappears.
Box 2, pack 6, you pulled a Ziatora's Proving Ground but didn't add the value to the total. You only added the Blood moon to the total from that pack. Timestamp @16:08 th-cam.com/video/VU87uFoFygY/w-d-xo.html
I think the new "Gilded" cards are really aptly named since the majority of the alternate artwork cards are designed to look valuable but are so common they are sometimes worse less than the non alternate cards.
the "gilded" cards are the ones with actual chrome gold raised accents on them, and look stunning. the showcase frames are the same as the gilded ones, but without that accent. the gilded ones look seriously amazing and I want to actually get the gilded versions of many of the cards I'm after, after pulling a bunch from collector boosters. they are exactly the sort of "premium style" alternate cards I want more of from wotc, not the ABSOLUTE TRASH etched foils that they've been pushing the last few sets(besides the commander legends ones, those etched foils were excellent).
Very true. But for the less inclined to collectors out there, we get to play with some sick looking cards! The value in the set sorta flopped, but as long as the cards themselves are good and can play, I'm fine!
@@williamfike1445 that super sucks. did you try reaching out to wotc about it? I got a secret lair with a damaged Counterspell in it once and they sent me a replacement. dunno if they would for you, but if you include pictures, they might!
5:35 It's funny, I also thought the foils were subdued this set on the USA printed cards, but I did appreciate when I got a bundle that the 20 foil lands weren't a snack stack of Pringles that even sleeved and face down could be reliably identified as foils by their curvature.
I don’t entirely subscribe to the “packs are for draft” mentality. Usually every set I don’t look at any spoilers, then buy a set booster box at prerelease. Just because I like cracking packs! It’s fun, and it’s usually my first time seeing all of the cards. I get a bunch of cool cards, and use those to determine what decks I wanna build and THEN buy singles to fill them out.
I do something similar, but I won't lie, it's still disappointing to open a box and get nothing worth more than a couple bucks even if value wasn't the main consideration. Thankfully that's been the exception rather than the rule for me personally though.
Obviously Set Boosters are not for draft. Still, on average even with your method you're left with a looooot of cards you'll never use. It's magnitudes less efficient than buying singles. Unless you value the experience of opening packs itself, which you seem to do, and it's perfectly fine and Prof has said so multiple times. It's just not the most rational way of getting the cards you need.
I think people also forget that there are people who are fairly new to mtg (coming up a year of playing for me), and don't have the boxes and boxes of bulk to easily fill out decks. I'm starting to get to the point where I'm happy with my bulk, but I like building it up 🙂
List, Lands, and a few others (Bootleggers, Luxior, and Ob as well as some of the extended art/special frames) hold value. The rest is just bulk rare/mythic cards as in almost every other standard set.
So Wizards can't seem to make bright foils without curving. With that, I'll take this slight-foiling and the bonus of having cards that can be played without needing to research humification techniques.
It seems like the good/new land cards are frequently the top cards in any given set. I guess that’s better than having busted chase-rares, but I do wish good mana-bases weren’t so expensive…
The good thing here is that as they keep printing good lands, there will eventually be enough of them that at least a B-tier mana base could be affordable. Hopefully.
yeah i was very disappointed when i saw box 1 barely crack the 110 and $40 of that was Diving Top. As I already own one, no motivation to pick up a box of these. Ill grab some singles and save myself $75
With regards to the quality and foils. Would be interesting to see you open up a Booster box from the Cartamundi Belgium factory. The quality definitely seems to be better. Could do a comparison video of the two boxes.
Going forward, I'd personally like to see a brief slide with the actual set total with any List cards removed, displayed at the end of each box opening with a break down of what came from the set and what didn't so people can better gauge the actual EV of a given box. Those first 2 boxes were saved by the list cards, and without them, you wouldn't have gone to the next box either time. I know it's extra work, but I feel like it would be well received by the viewers. Just my 2 mana.
I also wouldn't mind it being pointed out when just about any "lottery ticket" card spikes the value of the box on its own. Box 3 was also saved by a single card's value in that borderless foil.
Gotta love how it is just "Did you get Top and an Ob?" or bust I wonder if the foils you got were made on the Etched paper on accident since those tend to be more muted and the etching is what makes them pop.
I still remember saving up for a box of Aether Revolt, and how disappointed I was when it turned out like that last box. I got $30 of value tops. Lesson? BUY SINGLES!
Prof: "What I've done to deserve these flat flavorless foils!?" *kisses Gavin on the lips before stalking off.* Gavin: "The kiss of death, that's all I need!"
@@SafePondDemon @ me who just wants all 3 Eldrazi Titans for my own satisfaction, got a box of Eldritch moon yesterday and no Emrakul 😭 I did get Tree of Perdition tho so that's something at least
Wow, the list slot did a lot of heavy lifting here! Have they juiced it up this time around? Could you imagine if these were draft boxes? They'd all be like that last box😬
agreed, i think it's unfortunate how badly this set has turned out value wise because I think the concept is pretty cool but just done badly a bit like ixalan/rox when they first came out...
@@tae9752 The potency of the list, the triomes, and the fun of ots legendary creatures as Commannders will carry this set very in regard to sales I think.
Love watching your box game videos! Super jealous of all the sensei's divining tops since I have a ninja deck and it's a pricey card. Also I agree with you on those foils. Had a hard time while sorting my collection and saw a stark contrast between foils from last set to this one. They seem a little dull/thin for the foil coating
I bought a booster box with the oversized die and 8 packs. I pulled a Ziatora, the Incinerator guilded foil on my first pack. Craziest pull of my life. market price of $68.58
I've given up on the idea of getting any real value from my booster boxes and use them now purely as inspiration to build or upgrade existing decks. Although I did have extraordinary luck with New Capenna versus Kamigawa
This set was extremely fun in sealed, and I love the flavor and art. The value outside of the lands and a couple other cards is terrible though. Fun is what I play for though, so I'm a fan of this set.
Of the 150 packs opened, 37 of them had List cards which is about 25%. This is the rate advertised by Wizards but it doesn’t hurt to double check it. Ever since my first set of List card were hitters such as Glimmermoth, Dungeon Shade and Fomori Nomad I’ve been skeptical of it, but I think the Universes Within cards have helped a lot in making The List more interesting. How do people feel about The List for New Capenna or just generally?
I think maybe they're using a different foiling process to try to address the pringle foil problem. The foils from New Capenna seem to be less curvy to me. Foils curve because the paper expands or contracts based on humidity, but the plastic foiling on the front of the card does not. If they're using a different material for the foiling that maybe isn't as pretty, but doesn't curl as badly that might be a tradeoff that I'm willing to take.
To elaborate, I have some foils from draft boosters (the ones that came in my pre-release packs and as rewards for playing pre-release). The gilded ones are fine (hat include the promos) as far as curvature but while the gilding is shiny the rest of the foiling is lackluster. Then the non-gilded foils are super shiny but they're curved. (Interestingly curved in the opposite direction that foils normally curve.) But all my foils from set boosters are lackluster in the shininess of the foils (though some still look really nice if not overly bright) but they are just as flat as the rest of the cards and show no signs of curve.
Last box was pretty much what mine was. It was still fun though since I can make use of all the cards since I am just now getting into the game. The kids and I can have fun, even with the unwanted cards!
It may be a weird comment but I just want to say a massive thanks for the way you speak in your videos. Mouth always visible, you form your words extremely clearly, and your pacing is great. As a severely hard of hearing person, your videos are my go-tos for my MtG content. Thanks
it's so sucky that the foils in the last set were like REALLY foily and bright and then we get to this set and they're dull and just kind of... meh? WotC must be on overdrive and using different printers from set to set with the inconsistency we've had which is just so terrible especially when you consider how they're raising prices while quality control remains at perhaps an all time low. we either get and incredible product that looks and feels great or we get cards that are clearly not up to par with card game standards. that being said, always enjoy these videos regardless of the set or issues or whatever the heck is going on in magic or the world.
Professor, as an idea you might could think about, you should include the "soundtrack" music from MTG for the various sets when you open the boosters. I don't know the dynamics of how that works, but they release it all on their channel and a lot of it is really, really good! They have full instrumental versions, etc. and the last two soundtracks have had some solid bops, as the kids say.
The jund triome at 16:09 was never added to the total of box 2 the chime for it didn't even go off pack value went from 27.81 then the blood moon was adding the 11ish dollars
I will say that opening 5 boxes effectively for the price of one is definitely a win for you. They're are a lot of good cards cheaply priced because it was pretty heavily opened (based on convos with my LGS), so you have plenty of great cards under 2 dollars.
I mostly get booster packs for the fun of it with a slight hope to get the cards I want. But, I'm still in the stage of edh where I'm wanting to build more decks and having a diversity of cards just helps me in finding new strategies.
I don't have the data to back this up... But it sure feels like we've never seen a set with such a large disparity between the set boosters EV and the draft boosters EV.
It's called "conditioning" and it's only going to get worse. Until one product line gets totally cut off. and i can garauntee it won't be the product that has more packs and sells for less...
Idk how I feel about this set, especially for draft, it's feel very difficult to get any kind of focused deck when each color is trying to three different things.
I love the flavor (and will be using a ton of cards from it in Commander decks), but drafting it wasn't great, especially compared to other recent sets.
Haven't started drafting yet, but Sealed is/was really fun. But in pretty much every other format (esp. Constructed) it does feel a bit bad. Maybe it's just because the formats have gotten so fast, 3 colors is just not a big deal. Or maybe it's just that NEO was so good it ruined SNC for us
@@Kyagrez looking back it appears I was incorrect in most cases. The card at 7:20 is the one that I first noticed and that appears to be a regular Showcase foil but most of the other ones were correct. Thanks for keeping me honest 😀
Should we start having 2 separate totals? One with list cards, one without? I know the list is part of the box now, but I can't help but feel that without decent list pulls at this point 9/10 sets wouldn't make it past day 1
It happens..... I really like the look of this set. I just bought some singles, but I am still awaiting my preorder. I don't want to splurge on anything without at least seeing what I pulled first.
@@TolarianCommunityCollege it's definitely more fun to watch you chain boxes together. that being said... BUY SINGLES!!! lol thanks for all the good videos and good vibes prof.
One thing I do like about the set is how inexpensive most of it is. Like if you wanted to buy anything from the set in singles you very well likely can, but if you wanted to bring out with the gilded art foils THATS gonna cost you. But at least its not the game pieces themselves
11:15 imagine being a kid and opening a borderless mythic and being so excited, wow how lucky!! they then take it to a card store and the employee offers a quarter for it
I really liked that too. I'd much rather pull a Universes Within card (even if the price on them is low now) than a 10¢ common from the list. I also grabbed a full set of the Universes Within for a decent price.
Your first box was eerily similar to my box. Excepting the List slots, of course. In my case, I only got one actual List card; the rest were the Friends Forever reprints.
nice pulls, behold the power of the blood moon, though its noticeable that majority of the value comes from the list pulls which doesn't come from the base set, the only ones from the set with good value over time are the tri-color lands that complete the triomes/tri-cycle set.
Seems like they helped the curling problem by using a heavier foil, but they have far less luster. I've been able to leave these foils out unsleeved without any curling
My foils looked exactly like foils should. Maybe it's a U.S. distribution thing? I also got a Top, as well as a buddy of mine. That's a lot of the same rare from a limited insertion from a limited list.
And how crazy is it that most of the value cards came from the list? I mean I love pulling a Sensei's Divining top but geez. Says a lot about a set I think.
I actually really like this set. Some buddies and I are getting into magic and wanna get a box for some drafts and too add to new players collection, this might be the one! Ty for playin prof, pulled my planeswalker first box;)
I split a box with somebody and got a Bootleggers' Stash, a showcase tri land, and a halo fountain. So I'm pleased, lots of cards though have tons of text on them. Still kind of new to the game again, but some cards were just ridicilous in how much text was used to explain its effect.
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This booster box game brought to you by sensei's divining top
Makes you wonder how cheap list cards are about to get
Do you play magic besides on other channels? Love to see some prof modern gameplay
you found more sensei's diving top's than when you cracked a box full of that set. Curious.
I think you forgot to add the 3 color land @16:08 😀
When the value of the box is almost entirely made out of cards that do not belong to the actual set.
Yea skip this set and just spend 110 bucks on singles
It was the same with my box. Had about 70$ out of value just from the list cards
That’s basically every standard set ever (that aren’t just really old ones)
I can only see this as a good thing. Makes standard very cheap to get into.
Exactly.
So the list cards really were the majority of value on these boxes.
Behold the power of Blood Moon!
@@johncreekpaum4998 bruh, there was 2 tops which each equal to 4 1/2 blood moons
@@dragonofthesky9999 Let me enjoy my Blood Moon, it's what got us from box 1 to 2.
This happens every time they do this- market forces equalize the singles to the price of the supply, so the obvious Chase Cards take the lions' share of that value.
@@johncreekpaum4998 so if we took out the top, which was 40% of the box, we would of made it to box 2?
49:55 "I never would have guessed strixhaven was a set where..."
Man prof, doing all these boxes has got you loopy, You've confused Streets of New Capenna with Strixhaven
or he did it to get some comments on that ;-)
So was that a Freudian slip?
Glad i'm not the only one to catch that :D The chillstep in the BG made this a great video to "watch"
the set symbol has me doing that too
The amount of showcase cards in this set reminded me of strikhaven as well
Watching this nearly 3 months later and at 7:35 seeing Ledger Shredder for less than a dollar is actually unbelievable. It’s more than $20 nowadays
49:54 and still opening Strixhaven? I thought that died on box 2 lol. but for real what a great run of New Capenna, you should go buy a lottery ticket!
Why do I keep hearing strixhaven in creator's videos about this set?????? Am I missing something?
@@coldtruth4u bro I watch too much TH-cam for all that. If you've been watching videos on this set since before prerelease, you've likely saw it too.
Just wanting to see who is still paying attention after box 4, I guess?
@@coldtruth4u how is that even a response? People are fucking strange man. If I could remember I'd link ever video but I can't. So either you've heard it too or you havent.
buy singles
I’m glad it’s not just me who thought something felt off with New Capenna foils. Compared to NEO kamigawa, my full art lands foils for example popped real well.I figured something went wrong because of the nature of the gilded foils being made as well?
buy singles?
@Johnathan D. Hill How can you tell where it's printed?
@@theindyjt Bottom and backside of boxes states where printed: USA, Belgium or Japan. Underneath the fold on boosters. For my location Western Canada our pre-release packs tend to be from Japan so you get all excited by flatness, brightness, sparkle etc. and then you open a few US packs and the excitement immediately disappears.
@Johnathan D. Hill I win the 'no-prize' today!
Gilded Foils at least look amazing as far as I can tell
Geez, the amount of Sensei's Divining Tops you have pulled between this and Kamigawa are outrageous! What great luck you have prof!
Box 2, pack 6, you pulled a Ziatora's Proving Ground but didn't add the value to the total. You only added the Blood moon to the total from that pack. Timestamp @16:08 th-cam.com/video/VU87uFoFygY/w-d-xo.html
I noticed that too. I was about to comment and say the same thing now I don't have too.
Boosting cause I was about to comment
I came here to say this.
This.
yes this
I work at an LGS, and the amount of tops and blood moons I see come out of boxes is crazy. We opened a box for the store, and we pulled 2 of each
Behind the scenes where people know what the secondary market is, and completely control the printing... it’s just hard not to make money off it...
I think the new "Gilded" cards are really aptly named since the majority of the alternate artwork cards are designed to look valuable but are so common they are sometimes worse less than the non alternate cards.
the "gilded" cards are the ones with actual chrome gold raised accents on them, and look stunning. the showcase frames are the same as the gilded ones, but without that accent. the gilded ones look seriously amazing and I want to actually get the gilded versions of many of the cards I'm after, after pulling a bunch from collector boosters. they are exactly the sort of "premium style" alternate cards I want more of from wotc, not the ABSOLUTE TRASH etched foils that they've been pushing the last few sets(besides the commander legends ones, those etched foils were excellent).
Love the gilded cards! It’s good thing some are very low prices so I bought a few. They look great in my binder! 😄
Very true. But for the less inclined to collectors out there, we get to play with some sick looking cards! The value in the set sorta flopped, but as long as the cards themselves are good and can play, I'm fine!
@@AStandsForFrench I was so sad I bought a set booster box and the only gilded card in it had a nasty gash straight across its text box!!
@@williamfike1445 that super sucks. did you try reaching out to wotc about it? I got a secret lair with a damaged Counterspell in it once and they sent me a replacement. dunno if they would for you, but if you include pictures, they might!
5:35
It's funny, I also thought the foils were subdued this set on the USA printed cards, but I did appreciate when I got a bundle that the 20 foil lands weren't a snack stack of Pringles that even sleeved and face down could be reliably identified as foils by their curvature.
I don’t entirely subscribe to the “packs are for draft” mentality. Usually every set I don’t look at any spoilers, then buy a set booster box at prerelease. Just because I like cracking packs! It’s fun, and it’s usually my first time seeing all of the cards. I get a bunch of cool cards, and use those to determine what decks I wanna build and THEN buy singles to fill them out.
I do something similar, but I won't lie, it's still disappointing to open a box and get nothing worth more than a couple bucks even if value wasn't the main consideration. Thankfully that's been the exception rather than the rule for me personally though.
Obviously Set Boosters are not for draft.
Still, on average even with your method you're left with a looooot of cards you'll never use. It's magnitudes less efficient than buying singles. Unless you value the experience of opening packs itself, which you seem to do, and it's perfectly fine and Prof has said so multiple times.
It's just not the most rational way of getting the cards you need.
He is pushing this for people who don't have the disposable income for a box each set
My sentiment as well.
But this set was the worse box I’ve ever opened.
Most expensive card I got was 25$ and was from The List.
I think people also forget that there are people who are fairly new to mtg (coming up a year of playing for me), and don't have the boxes and boxes of bulk to easily fill out decks. I'm starting to get to the point where I'm happy with my bulk, but I like building it up 🙂
I've just finished making several singles orders through my LGS
buy singles?
@@curtisfarley6558 Yes, lol
What singles do you buy? Set, draft, or is there some other kind?
List, Lands, and a few others (Bootleggers, Luxior, and Ob as well as some of the extended art/special frames) hold value. The rest is just bulk rare/mythic cards as in almost every other standard set.
So Wizards can't seem to make bright foils without curving. With that, I'll take this slight-foiling and the bonus of having cards that can be played without needing to research humification techniques.
It seems like the good/new land cards are frequently the top cards in any given set. I guess that’s better than having busted chase-rares, but I do wish good mana-bases weren’t so expensive…
The good thing here is that as they keep printing good lands, there will eventually be enough of them that at least a B-tier mana base could be affordable. Hopefully.
It still blows my mind that the most expensive part of any competitive MTG deck is usually the fucking basic resources you need to even play.
The List is pulling a lot of the weight in these boxes, especially Sensei's Divining Top
yeah i was very disappointed when i saw box 1 barely crack the 110 and $40 of that was Diving Top. As I already own one, no motivation to pick up a box of these. Ill grab some singles and save myself $75
The list cards in my box were all dookie. Prof over here pulling multiples of the best ones...
With regards to the quality and foils. Would be interesting to see you open up a Booster box from the Cartamundi Belgium factory. The quality definitely seems to be better. Could do a comparison video of the two boxes.
I can confirm that the foils from Belgium actually look like they are supposed to.
My set box was from Belgium and the foils were brilliantly foiled.
Going forward, I'd personally like to see a brief slide with the actual set total with any List cards removed, displayed at the end of each box opening with a break down of what came from the set and what didn't so people can better gauge the actual EV of a given box. Those first 2 boxes were saved by the list cards, and without them, you wouldn't have gone to the next box either time. I know it's extra work, but I feel like it would be well received by the viewers. Just my 2 mana.
I also wouldn't mind it being pointed out when just about any "lottery ticket" card spikes the value of the box on its own. Box 3 was also saved by a single card's value in that borderless foil.
Gotta love how it is just "Did you get Top and an Ob?" or bust
I wonder if the foils you got were made on the Etched paper on accident since those tend to be more muted and the etching is what makes them pop.
That jacket looks like it was created out of discarded curtains from a 90’s Best Western.
Me looking at box 5. A yes, finally, the type of box I get.
I got same box dnt feel bad
I agree on the foils. I got a "foil" Bootleggers Stash" that I only knew was foil because of the little star at the bottom
I still remember saving up for a box of Aether Revolt, and how disappointed I was when it turned out like that last box. I got $30 of value tops.
Lesson? BUY SINGLES!
Them fatal pushes you pulled though?
@@mrcalvinelm 1 fatal push per box wasn't nearly enough.
buy singles??
i bought a mh2 box yesterday and couldn’t get to 50$ in values
@@spyderames-luong3392 that's just terrible luck. I'm sorry you got a bunk box.
I really like cracking packs, which is why me and my brothers regularly go halves or thirds on a draft box and make an event of it.
Prof: "What I've done to deserve these flat flavorless foils!?" *kisses Gavin on the lips before stalking off.*
Gavin: "The kiss of death, that's all I need!"
Dang, I didn’t realize how expensive sensei’s divining top was
At least it's not the Ulamog or Kozilek I need. I can buy a mini fridge for cheaper then those cards
I know I remember picking one up for my aminatou the fateshifter deck upon release and they were 15 bucks after that they shot up and never went down.
Believe it or not before the set came out it was priced at 70.00
It has been for the longest time. The price came down quite a bit now with the reprint.
@@SafePondDemon @ me who just wants all 3 Eldrazi Titans for my own satisfaction, got a box of Eldritch moon yesterday and no Emrakul 😭
I did get Tree of Perdition tho so that's something at least
That's an amazing suit Prof! Thanks for all the hard work you put into creating fun and educational content.
ledger shredder for example is around 20€ now. it's crazy sometimes
Wow, the list slot did a lot of heavy lifting here! Have they juiced it up this time around? Could you imagine if these were draft boxes? They'd all be like that last box😬
The List only has rares and mythics now, so it's much easier to pull something good.
agreed, i think it's unfortunate how badly this set has turned out value wise because I think the concept is pretty cool but just done badly a bit like ixalan/rox when they first came out...
@@tae9752 The potency of the list, the triomes, and the fun of ots legendary creatures as Commannders will carry this set very in regard to sales I think.
@@gyorgyor7765 100% but it will take time like the ixalan series before it starts picking up value
@@goosecake5998 no theybonly did it for new capenna. They going back to normal next set
I think that you missed to add the value of a “triome” around 16:10
Yup, he didn't add that value in.
Love watching your box game videos! Super jealous of all the sensei's divining tops since I have a ninja deck and it's a pricey card. Also I agree with you on those foils. Had a hard time while sorting my collection and saw a stark contrast between foils from last set to this one. They seem a little dull/thin for the foil coating
Dang, imagine getting that last box. The List cards really make or break it.
Prof calling this set Strixhaven after box 4 made me laugh (just before the 50 minute mark).
I bought a booster box with the oversized die and 8 packs. I pulled a Ziatora, the Incinerator guilded foil on my first pack. Craziest pull of my life. market price of $68.58
Without random List lottery cards, this set is a pretty harsh bomb value wise.
ANOTHER sensei's divining top! I felt cheated
Fully expecting Gala Greeters to be in the next booster pack set found in Target
I like the music around 17:00.
Gives me a kind of 'Barely legally distinct fantasy of throwing spherical objects at wild animals'-vibe :D
I've given up on the idea of getting any real value from my booster boxes and use them now purely as inspiration to build or upgrade existing decks. Although I did have extraordinary luck with New Capenna versus Kamigawa
buy singles?
@@curtisfarley6558 I could but thats not as fun
If anyone is wondering why SDT is so expensive, it's because the Prof has all of them.
This set was extremely fun in sealed, and I love the flavor and art. The value outside of the lands and a couple other cards is terrible though. Fun is what I play for though, so I'm a fan of this set.
33:46 WOW, nice pull!!! I bought a collector box from my LGS for 200$ out the door the day of release and pulled the showcase foil.
Your box-opening videos are so high quality it's amazing.
Thanks for your work!
Gotta love seeing that Ledger Shredder like ten times the worth of what it was when you opened this box. 😄
Man the list saved your bacon. Insane. I've gotten a few list cards worth money. It is always a pleasant surprise.
49:53 Strixhaven??? didn't realise there were that many wizards in New Capena
Of the 150 packs opened, 37 of them had List cards which is about 25%. This is the rate advertised by Wizards but it doesn’t hurt to double check it. Ever since my first set of List card were hitters such as Glimmermoth, Dungeon Shade and Fomori Nomad I’ve been skeptical of it, but I think the Universes Within cards have helped a lot in making The List more interesting.
How do people feel about The List for New Capenna or just generally?
Having triomes at rare is a huge value boost for this set, seems like a high expected return (although I haven't actually seen statistics on it)
I am not sure why, but Titan of Industry as a card always manages to put a smile on my face.
You would think WotC would want to improve foils after Prof calls them terrible but here we are..
49:53 I wonder why Prof had Strixhaven on the mind..
I think maybe they're using a different foiling process to try to address the pringle foil problem. The foils from New Capenna seem to be less curvy to me. Foils curve because the paper expands or contracts based on humidity, but the plastic foiling on the front of the card does not. If they're using a different material for the foiling that maybe isn't as pretty, but doesn't curl as badly that might be a tradeoff that I'm willing to take.
To elaborate, I have some foils from draft boosters (the ones that came in my pre-release packs and as rewards for playing pre-release). The gilded ones are fine (hat include the promos) as far as curvature but while the gilding is shiny the rest of the foiling is lackluster. Then the non-gilded foils are super shiny but they're curved. (Interestingly curved in the opposite direction that foils normally curve.) But all my foils from set boosters are lackluster in the shininess of the foils (though some still look really nice if not overly bright) but they are just as flat as the rest of the cards and show no signs of curve.
The voiceovers with the music in the background make him sound like an npc 😂
Last box was pretty much what mine was. It was still fun though since I can make use of all the cards since I am just now getting into the game. The kids and I can have fun, even with the unwanted cards!
It may be a weird comment but I just want to say a massive thanks for the way you speak in your videos. Mouth always visible, you form your words extremely clearly, and your pacing is great. As a severely hard of hearing person, your videos are my go-tos for my MtG content. Thanks
it's so sucky that the foils in the last set were like REALLY foily and bright and then we get to this set and they're dull and just kind of... meh? WotC must be on overdrive and using different printers from set to set with the inconsistency we've had which is just so terrible especially when you consider how they're raising prices while quality control remains at perhaps an all time low. we either get and incredible product that looks and feels great or we get cards that are clearly not up to par with card game standards.
that being said, always enjoy these videos regardless of the set or issues or whatever the heck is going on in magic or the world.
I'd take the meh foils if they didn't turn into pringles 5 minutes after opening a pack.
They are the new "cold foils" like the ones in flesh and blood, sure they will be pricey in the future.
I'm being sarcastic by the way.
Belgian foils look great
Professor, as an idea you might could think about, you should include the "soundtrack" music from MTG for the various sets when you open the boosters. I don't know the dynamics of how that works, but they release it all on their channel and a lot of it is really, really good! They have full instrumental versions, etc. and the last two soundtracks have had some solid bops, as the kids say.
I mean with Jonathan Young, Annapantsu, and Caleb Hyles in on it they’re gonna slap. Those guys are awesome
I really do love the deep dives Prof does on music selection.
The jund triome at 16:09 was never added to the total of box 2 the chime for it didn't even go off pack value went from 27.81 then the blood moon was adding the 11ish dollars
I will say that opening 5 boxes effectively for the price of one is definitely a win for you. They're are a lot of good cards cheaply priced because it was pretty heavily opened (based on convos with my LGS), so you have plenty of great cards under 2 dollars.
I mostly get booster packs for the fun of it with a slight hope to get the cards I want. But, I'm still in the stage of edh where I'm wanting to build more decks and having a diversity of cards just helps me in finding new strategies.
I don't have the data to back this up... But it sure feels like we've never seen a set with such a large disparity between the set boosters EV and the draft boosters EV.
It's called "conditioning" and it's only going to get worse.
Until one product line gets totally cut off. and i can garauntee it won't be the product that has more packs and sells for less...
Honestly my favorite video every time a set comes out, thanks for all the second-hand pack-opening satisfaction, Prof.
I guess I can see why a lot of these don't have much of a foil price bump. Also damn Top doing some work. The List giveth
Idk how I feel about this set, especially for draft, it's feel very difficult to get any kind of focused deck when each color is trying to three different things.
I love the flavor (and will be using a ton of cards from it in Commander decks), but drafting it wasn't great, especially compared to other recent sets.
Haven't started drafting yet, but Sealed is/was really fun. But in pretty much every other format (esp. Constructed) it does feel a bit bad. Maybe it's just because the formats have gotten so fast, 3 colors is just not a big deal. Or maybe it's just that NEO was so good it ruined SNC for us
Paragon of Modernity has got to be my favourite art from this set. Takes my breath away every time.
You may wanna dig out those Ledger Shredders. They're $12 now.
FYI, the "gilded foils" you pulled are actually just Showcase foils. The Gilded versions have a noticeable raised frame that is hight reflective.
He opened gilded foils
@@Kyagrez looking back it appears I was incorrect in most cases. The card at 7:20 is the one that I first noticed and that appears to be a regular Showcase foil but most of the other ones were correct. Thanks for keeping me honest 😀
that last box was soul crushing
That Thumbnail is the highest value item in this video (alongside all your edit work)
Should we start having 2 separate totals? One with list cards, one without? I know the list is part of the box now, but I can't help but feel that without decent list pulls at this point 9/10 sets wouldn't make it past day 1
Your thought should have ended on "I know the list is part of the box now".
@@FiddleMiA try having an actual discussion with people rather then trying to blow someone's thought off with poor snark.
@@Ryokamen nah
It happens..... I really like the look of this set. I just bought some singles, but I am still awaiting my preorder. I don't want to splurge on anything without at least seeing what I pulled first.
Thats a nice $0.64 ledger shredder. Gotta love looking back at these videos and seeing old prices at release
I thought the new format for this was to do one box a video so we didn't realize how many boxes were opened but I do enjoy these videos.
People did not like that format.
@@TolarianCommunityCollege shame :(
@@TolarianCommunityCollege it's definitely more fun to watch you chain boxes together. that being said... BUY SINGLES!!! lol thanks for all the good videos and good vibes prof.
Hello Prof and Prof's team ! Just wanted to say I really enjoyed the music on this video. It was smooth and refreshing. Love yas
It turns out Wizard's solution to foil cards curling was to simply remove the foil
One thing I do like about the set is how inexpensive most of it is. Like if you wanted to buy anything from the set in singles you very well likely can, but if you wanted to bring out with the gilded art foils THATS gonna cost you. But at least its not the game pieces themselves
11:15 imagine being a kid and opening a borderless mythic and being so excited, wow how lucky!! they then take it to a card store and the employee offers a quarter for it
WotC really ruined foils for me, they used to be special.
It’s nice seeing how often the secret lair list cards showed up and how affordable they are
unless that's all you get for your list cards and your box has no value
I really liked that too. I'd much rather pull a Universes Within card (even if the price on them is low now) than a 10¢ common from the list. I also grabbed a full set of the Universes Within for a decent price.
Coffee and booster box game! What a wonderful morning. Thank you Prof!!!
“Whatever you want” ;) I hope things are going good for you prof, thank you for the amazing content!
Got a blood moon and an SDT in mine! As well as 2 bootleggers stashes.
Lucky pulls this time around.
I’m pretty sure Ledger Shredder at 7:35 is worth more than 65 cents, more around the $20 range
It was around that range at the set's launch and picked up a lot of price a bit after the set's launch lol
Your first box was eerily similar to my box. Excepting the List slots, of course. In my case, I only got one actual List card; the rest were the Friends Forever reprints.
49:55 did he say strixhaven? Lol.
I was so sleepy. So very sleepy.
Prof, that jacket is rad! Looking good man!
nice pulls, behold the power of the blood moon, though its noticeable that majority of the value comes from the list pulls which doesn't come from the base set, the only ones from the set with good value over time are the tri-color lands that complete the triomes/tri-cycle set.
I absolutely love the jacket you are wearing for this video. It's really extra, but it's super good.
Seems like they helped the curling problem by using a heavier foil, but they have far less luster. I've been able to leave these foils out unsleeved without any curling
Feels like quite a few cards are being undervalued in this set but then again I should not complain when the cardboard is cheap
So happy to see those secret lair cards in boosters 😊
Omg I audibly gasped when you opened the second one!
Favourite jacket so far.
I've been waiting for this! I'll have to wait until after work.
49:52
Strixhaven? That one was a while ago, you ok, Prof? Did the Secret Lair alerts damage your memory?
My foils looked exactly like foils should. Maybe it's a U.S. distribution thing? I also got a Top, as well as a buddy of mine. That's a lot of the same rare from a limited insertion from a limited list.
And how crazy is it that most of the value cards came from the list? I mean I love pulling a Sensei's Divining top but geez. Says a lot about a set I think.
There's.also vampiric tutors as well
What is the list?
@@ss5gogetunks it’s a rotating list of reprints included in set boosters in place of the token/promotional card. 1 in 4 chance of getting one.
I’m glad you mentioned the foils because I thought I was going crazy
I actually really like this set. Some buddies and I are getting into magic and wanna get a box for some drafts and too add to new players collection, this might be the one! Ty for playin prof, pulled my planeswalker first box;)
I split a box with somebody and got a Bootleggers' Stash, a showcase tri land, and a halo fountain. So I'm pleased, lots of cards though have tons of text on them. Still kind of new to the game again, but some cards were just ridicilous in how much text was used to explain its effect.