Ahh the good old days when Wrenn and Six was only $26.55. If only we knew

Many magic the gathering players ask the question... when will wizards stop making modern prohibitively expensive to play.

I know that a lot of people joked that this set was Commander Horizons, but do you think people would be willing to buy a Commander Horizons product that had cards that either needed reprints or cards to support multiple new themes/decks rather than only getting support for the four decks we receive once a year?

When you go to draft slivers and everyone ends up doing so as well, so naturally 4 players with incomplete slivers deck tried their best.

Like most Magic products, the answer is "probably not, unless you're drowning in disposable income"

Personally I like how they come with an art card in every pack, along with the chance to get foil tokens

Holy hell my LGS is selling these for 180 after taxes. I never would have known how lucky I was.

Does Wizards understand that cheaper to play means more players, which means more sales, in turn meaning a growing business leading to more players......?

Mate, this content is the bee's knees. The effort, consideration and care you exhibit is incredible, and welcome. I am beyond thankful for this, particularly because it helps me to consider factors I would not have previously. You're a gem, Professor, mox-level value or higher.

Thanks, prof. You know I always wait for these videos to make sure I make a well-educated decision when getting boxes. Also if you say its not good, or overall not worth it, my wife will be against me getting it as well so thank you!

Just wanted to say thank you for being one of the only people on KZfaq to pronounce fiery islet correctly

Your videos are always so great. Just want to say thank you this time. Keep up the good work!

“Modern horizons is the first set meant for modern players” Modern masters: Am I a joke to you?

Most of the big online Magic retailers have sponsor codes that drop the prices by 10-15%. When taking that into account the Amazon price is likely the highest.

Our lgc sells the box at 240, but gives a full playset of flusterstorms if you get it

Thank you so much for this useful analysis of the set. Just wanted to say I returned to Magic with Guilds of Ravnica and your product reviews have been a huge help to decide how to spend my money. Great work as always Prof! 😊

If you draft... Yes If you play commander... Maybe If you play Modern... Probably not If you play standard... Nope

I just did a draft for prerelease and I want to get a box to draft again. This set was so much fun and I love seeing all the mechanics. As a lover of conspiracy to the point that I getting some boxes to draft and make a cube with, this set get me so giddy. Not to mention I've fallen in love with Ayula as a commander

Great video! I'm just coming back to Magic for the first time in a few years... did the MH sealed yesterday. Got stomped, but it was still a fun time :)

Thank you, as always, for the in-depth and insightful look into this new set.

Thank you for your review Professor! This analysis considered a variety of important criteria.

Thank you, your reviews are so helpful. I watch them to see if the set is even worth my time. Sometimes though, I'll still get it even if it's bad, just for the cool cards in it.

Great review Prof, I've learned quite a bit from your channel and The Command Zone. I'm just about to build my first commander deck and I found the vast array of mechanics in this set very much worth it for me. A great way to quickly increase my options for deck strategies. And holy cow is Urza OP for commander, I feel any deck with this as a commander is going to suck the fun of play.

idk why i hadnt subbed to u since i have been watching ur content for a good year now to make up for that thoe i put u on my very limited bell squad u r one of 3 people that get it :D

Very nice review, can´t wait to draft it! Also my LGS sells it at a very low price considering the overall values + this review... Thank you as allways Professor! :)

You are truly one-of-a-kind professor! Everything you do sets the gold standard for all other content creators, in my opinion! Absolutely nothing but class, intelligence and thoughtfulness with occasionally hilarious humor! Don't know what we'd do without you. Thank you very much for all of your enthusiasm for the game and all the help you give to all of us with your videos! Keep up the great work!

Very well discussed. I appreciate the attention to detail and grades for different groups.

This video had some minor technical issues and I bet you regret the desicion to hold that box for the intro all that time. 😎 Having said that. I agreed with your excellent analysis and continue to enjoy your content. Great stuff Prof.!

Art Card for the win, a stroke of genius from WotC. I really love it. 😀

Thank you for such a concise and succinct video. I was hopeful for a higher grade. Maybe after some exposure the set will earn a little extra credit and boost that B-. Excellent work!

Nice video. You mentioned a few things I had not thought of in regards to the set. I didn't know it had a Timespiral theme.

Great review as usual! Thank you Prof!

Black vest, white lined shirt and clean shave looks especially sharp on you, Prof. And nice Prismatic Vista pull!

I pre-ordered two boxes for draft since I wouldn't be able to play on prerelease weekend or launch weekend. Looking forward to cracking packs with friends and taking them on.

Great analysis! The art cards were a welcome addition, and I think a lot of people will try to collect the set. I picked up two boxes at my LGS for $225 each, with two buy-a-box promos. A bit steep, but I'd rather support local than buy online, if possible.

My LGS had an absolute fantastic pre-release, hope more sets like this are seen in the future!

The biggest problem with this set are not the box to card prices. But if there are cards that see play they become exponentially more expensive than regular cards since they were only printed in a special product. Which is strongly reinforced by the callback "reprints" since they lower the actual amount of legacy legal cards reprinted into modern.

Sadly, I do not believe many game stores will charge $6-$7 a pack. My LGS is charging $8 a pack and draft will be $25 for as long as the event is going. The horizon lands and snow lands seem to be the cards in this set that will see value in upcoming years, but I do not see many other cards making a massive impact in modern or maybe commander.

Prof, appreciate the video as always. Living in Canada I have to say that the price point is even more ridiculous - approx $300 CAD per box and so while I'd like to buy my usual amount of product with this set I will probably just be getting singles or nothing at all.

Great review. At 2:59 when you listed Conspiracy. There's a small spelling error on Unlimited.

I usually can decide for myself whether I want to buy each product, but I watch your videos anyway!

Good Job Prof. One thing you might want to include in the future is the cost of the boxes for LGSs. Even though there is no MSRP stores will typically not sell for less than they paid, and the cost for this was high.

My LGS charged 220 for pre-order, and now they want 240 per box. I feel like a fool for buying that high but I got some great stuff and had fun drafting with my friends on my birthday. Thanks for the wonderful review as always, Professor!

thanks for another great and informative video Prof!

thanks Professor, always love the Is It Worth It? Series

Thank you for the analysis, I so agree with your point about the draft ability of this set. It is great to draft, but also expensive. Do you think that sets will keep getting more expensive?

I truly do love your content as I’m a new player returning after 10 years gone. I started playing when I was 12 then quit because my sister moved away. (She’s the one who taught me.) I got back into it hardcore when WAR came out. All of your videos have been helpful, informative, educational, and so much fun to watch. Thank you for doing what you do Professor. - Gabe

As this set happened to be released on my birthday, I kinda had to get a box even though I am mostly an EDH player. Price in local currency was around the $ 200 and luckily Flusterstorm was included. Valuable rares and mythic rares aside, I find most of the cards quite stimulating to understand how to get the most out of them given the many mechanics. Th full art snow-covered lands are definitely a nice plus as far as I'm concerned. I don't know whether the art card will hold any financial value, but even if not they are just beautiful pieces to collect. Overall, I'm quite happy with the product.

Love to see this kind of video prof!😍

Another Helpful video professor thanks!

My wife and I enjoyed opening our box. We got a full art snow covered foil island. I also got all the slivers plus a bunch of other good ones

Prof opened 2 packs with great value!!

Great set. Drafted it with friends the other day. I can confirm it was very fun to play.

Played it at a sealed event yesterday, really enjoyed it. the combination effects of red and black and just astounding. my first draft even so not a great choice but highly enjoyed the event and the cards are beautiful

I didn’t know you were an Oregon resident Professor. I’m a fellow Oregonian and I appreciate all of your content!

Thank you so much for your help dude! Also, is there any way you can guarantee a buy a box promo? Is there a certain website I should go to?

Great Job. I'm excited for the set and the potential for such sets in the future. Also what would a set like this look like if they ever got rid of the reserved list?

Tolarian Community College videos have absolutely mastered the vibe, feel, and friendly host feeling of a good PBS program. I know that Prof himself knows this in a weird way, as he addressed it in a comment section forever ago when someone pointed out how the thank you during the credits sounds very similar to the ones on PBS. Just wanted to say that these videos are great, and they feel wholesome and honest. I genuinely recommend you to anyone who will listen, Prof, anyone who knows me very well has heard of this channel. Also, you absolutely prove that you are not a sellout or shill by blatantly showing the best deal for the boxes even though it was just a bit cheaper than your own sponsors. I am impressed that you did that, and I will be really impressed with Card Kingdom if they don't get a little mad at you for that! Hahaha!

Thank you for making these videos you are the magic people’s champion. You’ve saved me a great deal of money

Awesome work, Prof! Thanks!

Good vid, i wanna buy to open those horizon lands but I feel like buying them individually will be more financially responsible.

Thank you so much for your evaluation

was debating whether to splurge to draft but you've convinced me to.

Great videos as always!

Awesome video! 💯🙏🙌

Glad this video looked at all the different player types

Draft was fun! As a product for pulling some commander cards while practicing sealed with friends, why not!

I like to think of the art-cards as full art proxies. If someone wants to play one as the card feature I'll allow it at my table.

Hi Prof (and anyone else), thanks for the vid! From the UK here so get a bit confused by US prices . Probably a dumb question but when you say "~200 dollars" as a price is that before or after tax? What is an average level of sales tax in the US as well (I know it varies per state) . Thanks!

Excellent review of Modern Horizons, thank you as always for your straight forward review and down to earth honest butt kick to MTG and info for all who play magic. Best of health to you PROF....

Hey Prof. and other TCC Alum. If I were to design a (360) Cube around this set, would you suggest putting the snow Lands in the drafting pool, or just going with the rule that all basic lands are Snow Lands. Worried about making Snow Decks too powerful. Thanks.

I bought my box for 254$ in Sweden and I got the buy a box promo. Looking forward to draft it with my friends next weekend.

Keep the videos coming Prof!

Love the videos , however in Canada prices are much higher. I'd love to see a video about what 'if a box is worth buying...in Canada'.

I wonder if I should wait a bit on the Waterlogged Grove and the Silent Clearing. On one hand, the prices might go down until the set becomes scarce, but on another note they could start seeing play like crazy and they might go up. Tough choice.

Excellent review Prof

Thanks for the video. Could you do a video on the impact of modern horizions on commander if their is any impact

My LGS was originally selling for around 215 when I preordered, but they were awesome and lowered the price to 205 when I picked it up this weekend. (From what I can tell they have a literal wall of preordered boxes in their stock room) I expect the boxes to settle around $200 to eventually 180 in the next month or two.

Thanks for the review!

Great analysis Prof!

Well done video as usual thank you

CSI being cheaper than other places was an interesting surprise. I used to shop a lot there and it was cheaper because of my discount, rather than base prices.

Question prof, I would like to aqcuire a box for my personal collection, however I would not crack the packs by myself and instead play limited ghost draft with it for the sake of the experiance. Would you say this is a legitimate use of a seald product or am i better off playing limited at the store and buy singles instead?

ERYBODY LOOK AT HOW CUTE EYEKITE IS bout to build a whole deck around the lil dude

Love the analysis! As a player that just returned after a 15 year hiatus I see myself doing one draft for fun but sticking to my “cheap” standard cards :)

I got a Foil Urza on my Limited Pre-release and a first Sliver. Im pretty happy with that.

Thanks for the review, prof

I’m pretty new to magic and am still trying to understand the styles and formats of games. Can I by packs of modern horizon cards and use them in decks with my cards I already own (war of the spark, core 2019, etc) or is not allowed? It’s all the terms like modern and standard that are confusing me. Thanks

Very astute observations as always professor.

Modern has never been in my wheel house due to the pace and costs of the game, but this set spoke deeply to that part of me that had his heyday with the Tempest to Apocalypse era. I won't be getting any boxes, but I am sure as hell getting me some of those new slivers and legendary characters for my storyline binder.

Hey Prof, what's that nice tingling background music, starting at like 4:00? Would love to get my hands on that and it wasn't in the discription :)

On my first box I opened a Prismatic Vista Foiled, so i’m pretty happy :)

i was really on the fence about getting a box of this to do a draft with my friends. knowing that its sitting around 200 a box helps me out alot

Great video professor!

Quality Control Issues: Every time a new magic set comes out I pick up a box to open for fun and to add to my collection. I am especially fond of the Masters sets and was excited about Modern Horizons which to me is in the same vein. As I normally do when a new set comes out, I left my office today for lunch and walked to the local game shop to purchase an entire sealed box of Modern Horizons for $249.99. I then returned to my office and opened the entire box. Within the first few packs I noticed something was very wrong with this box. 60% of the packs ended up missing multiple uncommon cards, three of the packs were missing multiple playable cards and instead hand multiples of the art cards, four of the packs had 4 token cards in them rather than the cards in those specific slots, and 30% of the packs were missing the snow covered land cards. Other minor issues were present also such as scuffing on the foil cards and a few common cards with some type of tooling marks. I have opened many boxes of magic before and there is always some little issues with specific sets but nothing worth complaining about. However, I was really disappointed in this specific box. These cards are expensive and I felt cheated by all the non playable cards stuffed into the packs from what is obviously some type of manufacturing issue. I am not sure what changed in the packing process but it seems to be an issue that could ruin a great product if it is more widespread than me. The code on my box is NC9051 1. Anyone else have a similar issue or was this a fluke box? I reached out to Wizards, but haven't heard back yet.

The mention that this is Time Spiral 2 in regards to design makes a lot of sense to me regarding the decisions in this set, particularly slivers. But if WOTC chooses to create more love letters in this regard, I hope they tap back into the past, specifically, the Rath Cycle, or even Urza's. That would be nostalgia overload.

I bought a box specifically to pull out months/years from now to draft with my friends I've gotten into Arena recently when they're ready for all the mechanics. P.S. the art cards are legit my favorite part of the set. Should definitely be a $4-5 booster pack though...

I second your statement that this set is great to draft in. I played draft and sealed yesterday and had alot of fun. However, my lgs charged $249.99 for the promo booster box with tax, it came to $270 Their reasoning was the $8 price for boosters.

Thanks for your review.

Good set. I hope they make more