No bad comments bro. At least we all enjoyed your commentary while you opened the packs. Now lets get back to some pro drafting 💪🏼

I love that we can actually hear the regret in your voice as you open the box lmao

I think you pretty well covered all of the angry comments in your intro, so not much left for the angry commenters to add

Well you deserve this.

consider yourself unleashed ;)

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“The sale has concluded,” soooo…

Was about to right something to this effect…

or any closed product hahahaha, the only reason that i found viable is to play drafts or pre releases (with t2 spikes seems really nice to catch one event ), but thats it. Buying booster packs or other products, its not good. Much viable is to buy singles! with 1k dol you get many tier decks (including legacy ones).

I think that was the intent, if no youtuber bought and showed off the product everyone might be in the dark.

Yea, and the best part about that is it would have tanked dual land prices. That would feel even better! 😏

damn, this hadn't crossed my mind, but this is so true. Somewhere in a parallel universe where the ethos of the world is not capitalism, they are celebrating Magic's anniversary by all the millions of players worldwide getting to experience what the first ever games of Magic were like, what those first few players saw. I'm sure that would have made Garfield happy too. P.S holy shit power creep is real xD

that was what i actually thought when they said - we want to give you all the chance of opening a black lotus..... this would have been THE draft set. Accessible, fun by itself and also giving good proxies to everyone who wants to play a little bit of legacy or vintage or even cedh - I would have gladly paid wizards for my proxies instead of a random manufacturer or my printer ink producer.... Now its just a mess

@@patmacrotch5611 it already tanked dual lands lmao

@@dico3557 they aren't even close to tanked

He should have destroyed the cards on camera after opening them. Keeping them or selling them contributes to the problem.

there will be sales, and there are. but no 1 is really buying it. xD@@gabe9045

@@gabe9045 imagine how funny it would be if ripping card there would be whine inside

This made me LOL

This

They're packs. Complete with (as far as we know) the original rarity weightings. If what I've heard is true, there were only a few hundred Black lotuses printed in the original alpha. I can totally imagine Wizards printing the same number (or even fewer) lotuses or pieces of power just to stoke artificial scarcity even more. 1. This should have been a full set of cards. 2. Even as a set it shouldn't have been priced any higher than the previous commemorative sets in the past. 3. If they wanted to do something SPECIAL for the 30th, why not track down as many of the original pieces of art as possible and do full high resolution scans with modern tech. Give us higher quality versions of the original artwork. Most of them were paintings, and I bet a lot are still in the possession of either wizards, the original artists, or in some private collections. Heck, a short article or documentary of their efforts to track down the paintings and request permission to do high-res scans would have been great for PR. Give the public at least a HINT that they're still willing to reach out and communicate with their fan base to make something for them.

@nosoyallowed828 Lmao, shilling for WotC is not necessary.

I would have paid $1000 for a complete set of Beta in this 30th Anniversary style. If nothing else, could have left it sealed and seen if it moved in value come 5-10 years. But $1000 for four random packs!? Da fuq outta here with that.

And when you think of 10 duels and the power 9 sheeesh, at least one should be guaranteed.

They're not legal in sanctioned play, so yes, WotC selling randomized proxies only allowed for kitchen table games for 1k. At least they have a blue core.

@@johnny_crash if you stick a proxy to a random crap card, it will have a blue core too.

as fake as CE and IE

*whispers* quietly, they'll hear you

Yes, but then you wouldn’t of gave 1000 dollars away and gotten fecal matter straight from wotc

I suggested to my friend we can play any MTG ever, we just need 120 sleeves and lots of hard paper and pen. Best money ever spent, let's build decks!

@@vario6492 that's technically copyright infringement, and not cool for the artist. But i'm not blaming you for doing so. It's the same as pirating game online, which in imo is a good thing.

​@@fixo5132it is not. You are not selling the proxies you made

I mean, he said in the intro that he was doing it for science, that he doesn't support it in any way and that it wasn't absolutely worth 1k dollars

@@cardakeys that’s $1,000 of support. That’s a lot of support.

@@vegetin01 If him buying the product and opening it on camera stops a few people from buying it, then it was a success IMO.

It was $1000 for 4 packs of proxies. If you didn't think it was a waste and not worth it you were hoping to have it as an investment. I understand what he wanted to do but not buying it is much more of a powerful statement.

@@subvertedhope but nobody was gonna buy a 1000 dollar booster anyway

Lol he obviously wanted to …

Not him. He gets his money back monetising the video.

@@giovannicredidio262 True, but that's ROI, not gambling

Whats the difference? A proxy black lotus is worth the same as proxy grizzly bear. Send me a 1000$ and I will mail you a whole power9 back ;)

I will mail you a playset of proxies of every single alpha card for 1000$

Is it worth nothing? Aren't some of the premium cards worth money?

@@gregpeloquin6345 Right from the gitgo - the back of the cards marks them as non-playable

​@@bombarded15 They aren't tournament legal, but if you use sleeves and make sure whoever you're playing with is cool with proxies, you absolutely can play with them. It's a shit product, but they're not worth nothing and they're not non-playable.

@@bombarded15 that wasn't my point. I'm not an idiot, obviously I know they are proxies. My point was, don't the premium cards still have value?

@@gregpeloquin6345 they will all have value. The packs were already going for almost double price on eBay. With such a low run these will definitely have some sort of value.

So if you'd get 4x black lotus proxy 1000$ then it would suddenly be worth it? Lol

I thought they were $1.99 a pack in 93. I remember Antiquities and Dark being $1.49 a pack. I miss the early days of MTG!

@@ObsessedCollector We were able to get the first batch of the Dark for $2 or $2.50 Fallen Empires were less then $1. Regular packs were about $3 for us

Yes and he didn't show us the treasure in the back of the 4th booster...he started laying down land and skipped the last card a treasure...😠

@@jefferyodegaard4081 I must admit I am tempted to purchase a pack , question is open or store it for value?

No spoilers duke

We have been seeing that for the last month and a half now. He didn’t need to do it. He’s part of the problem for supporting this shit.

Vizzerdrix was a favorite of mine growing up, just liked the card for no reason lol

if you want old art card, printers go brrrrr

@@NumotTheNummyYT ah I would, but I’m in the “anti-proxy” camp. I just try to save up for the OG cards when I can

@@mathewdebol923 that’s what these cards are tho. . . . ?

@@ericpeltola5171 oh I don’t support this product. It was just nice seeing a CoP:Blue for the first time in a long while… I love the old art, but I’d never buy this set

Do not support this. Him buying this product only gives Hasbro more affirmation that they can do this again. Warnings against this product have been out for 2 months or more now.

Or it gives Hasbro the idea that they need to do better for the community with the things that they offer. Kenji does a hell of a lot for the community and him showing what he personally got in the box will send waves. That’s what I support.

@@stevenhuth276 the fact that there are countless videos already out of KZfaqrs getting rocked by free and bought product pushed a community of true fans to reject the product in solidarity. Anyone who buys packs of this after the release of the product isn’t showing us anything new. Infact, they aren’t listening to the fan base and should be called out on it.