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It's hilarious to me that you can kinda pinpoint when videos on this set were recorded by what the quoted bounty for the one ring is. It'll be great to look back on and see "a ridiculous bounty of $100,000." "more than doubled down on bounty of 250k." "astronomical price for a bit of cardboard of half a million dollars." "absolutely insane figure of a million dollars." "ok, this shit's ridiculous, 2 million euros now."

As someone who still wants to enjoy magic cards without having to smuggle organs to afford them, I’m always grateful for more reprints to make cards more affordable.

I like the way you reassure keeps customers about their appearance while also doing a good job selling the ad. Well done prof

Sweet. Can't wait to print'em

Prof you’re the man. Gotta say I love my deck boxes you made. Great for my battle box

I was happy that I opened Bucklebury Ferry last night. It looks so beautiful in person!! ❤😊

The only thing I want out of the Lord of the rings set is a Dwarven Sol Ring.

Calling back to Rudy's Double Masters unboxings, pretty sure some of those box toppers will be way more common due to internal WotC distribution algorithms. Anyone who watched those could remember Expedition Map and Meddling Mage being the "seeded dud rares", expecting Bojuka Bog being similar.

"That $69 pricetag is far from nice" is a legendary sentence 😂😂😂

Box toppers should 100% have cards with value - it's such a feel bad to get a box and end up with a fancy Bojuka Bog, like why not make that a Yawgmoth's or Cabal Coffers instead.

As someone who does watch Wheeler and Serge (and the occasional Nelly) doing North 100 things, I can confirm that when Wheeler does his initial evaluations of cards for the set reviews, a card having two generic mana in its cost has "Ancient Tomb mana [relevant hand gesture]" and more likely to have his approval.

001/001 Ring is already up to 2 mil right now. Guess it will end up either in a safe or in an auction.

Imagine if MtG was somewhat affordable! I was so hyped for this LotR set but I'm not coming back with these prices. Bummer! Really cool art though.

People are going to open box after box looking for that card that should be tossed into a fire when we should realize that WotC is going to do the same thing with it that McDonald's did with the Boardwalk piece: hold onto it for a few weeks, then take it to a pre-approved specific location to drop it off at where they think it will generate the most buzz for being "found." It's all smoke and mirrors. I'm hoping whoever *does* find it actually destroys the thing, but I'm not holding my breath.

I hope for one of these days to be as radical as the prof, I'm going through a rough time and his videos always cheer me up

Current prices of lotr collector boosters make me lose all my hair, no matter what 😅

wheeler: ANCIENT TOMB MANA

Hearing Prof talking about Canlander, makes me wish that we’ll get a Canlander episode of Shuffle Up and Play with the Premier Lands pilots of the formats.

I need one of each..... I am going to make a full CUBE out of this set. Love LOTR. Totally fine with containing it from other magic.

I was so salty when I saw the commander symbol on these in the spoilers and thought they were getting reprinted into the decks. Here I thought WOTC was being generous.

Somehow only now realizing that this set is giving us Cavern, Karakas, and Wasteland? About to get into Legacy D&T, like when in Rome.

Holy shit I never knew I needed The Professor to call me “goddamn gurgeous” until today

11:43 I apreciate this infinite combo but I can't help but notice that you can replace the Oboro with any regular old bounceland bouncing itself

as we all know. box toppers are meaningful reprints surely they wont seed 2 dollar cards at equal rarity /s

With so many people chasing that 1/1 ring, Im waiting for super low singles!!

Watching this video made me decide to buy a set booster box, then I googled how many boxtopers were and since finding out there are 30 BOXTOPPERS I decided against it, and I'm just gonna get the singles I want.

I dont think that these reprint in Box toppers will do much to the second market prices, these cards wouldve been such a nice addition in set / draft displays.

If you want a cheap version of the cycle you describe at around 11:46 just trade out Oboro for any bounce land. You've got infinite landfall right there. If you want to spice it up just add Valakut Exploration to kill your opponents by pinging them damage at the end of the turn or if you want to do it the tedious way add Amulet of Vigor to untap your bounce land, tap it in response before it bounces and get infinite mana... you can then decide what weird stuff you want to do with all that mana.

They all have the same rate of occurrence 😂😂😂 I bet a lot more Bajuka Bogs get opened than Ancient Tombs

I can finally get CoS, Swan Song, Heroic Intervention, Light ing Greaves, and more 😁 (buying singles ofc)

All singles to $1! Yay!

I think I might be one of the only people wanting that surge foil bojuka bog, the only foil before was $45 and I've been foiling out my Korvold deck

Reading through the cards of the set I can't help but feel a sort of detachment between the actual Lord of the Rings (its characters, creatures, events, objects of interest), and the game of Magic the Gathering. The names and art of the cards remind you of events in the book / movies, but then the cards themselves just do MtG things that we've been all too familiar with for years already; it could have been anything else than LotR mechanically. The contrast could also not be bigger when compared with the 1995 Iron Crown Enterprises CCG "Middle Earth", where you would literally create a fellowship of characters, and try to find your way to Mount Doom in order to destroy the One Ring (among other win conditions). Travel was dangerous, Items would burden you with possible corruption, wizards could cast spells, palantirs actually made you see things, and the 9 Nazgul were very powerful mutli purpose creature / enchantments (in MtG terms) cards that could turn the tide of the game entirely. That game embodied the very soul of LoTR and everything in it.

Also ancient tomb was $4 to $5 back in the day in the shops. So probably cheaper elsewhere at the time.

Holy Hanna, Ship’s Navigator! Did I get City of Traitors at the right time! Woof!

10:28 the prof sneak peaking an episode before release by accident lol

I think boxtoppers are a fun concept, but I'd honestly prefer if they were just alternate arts/foils of the mythics in the actual set, and they could put these reprints into the actual packs.

Don't forget that Gemstone Caverns got a reprint box topper here too, and that is definitely more expensive than Cloudstone Curio

Really nice to see how they have reskinned these to fit the LoTR storyline.

Absolutely loving the Canlander (and North 100) shout-out! Serge and Wheeler do a great job showcasing all the different archetypes in a fun and informative way that's taught me a lot about high power magic! Cannot recommend them enough!

As someone who "won" a Bojuka Bog boxtopper I object to your tone! But oh God it's so true.

I just learned that my old City of Traitors is extremely valuable 😆...keep your old toys kids, you never know

Funny coincedence that when you were about to announce the most wanted card, it cut to an ad for a credit card. Had to laugh at that. It technically is one of the most wanted cards given the rising costs of booster boxes. 😂

i could care less about the 1/1 i just wanna make some LoTR decks. I built myself a tree deck inspired by the ents AND NOW I GET TO ACTUALLY MAKE IT. i love it. it's not like i know much of the MTG lore anyways, so a universe beyond sets just means i actually know the characters this time. they're all just modern chess pieces for me to build fun decks with, that's how I've always seen magic. (i do draw the line at sticker mechanics though)

The prof telling me I look beautiful is something I did not know I needed.

🙌 Ancient Tomb mana is what they say in Canadian Highlander

I won't mind a box topper in every box. More cards the merrier.

I always love when Professor start talking in a body positive manner before doing the keeps advertisement on his videos. But I feel that what this point o my hair loss there is no Keeps that can help, I will need a hair transplant surgery to stop becoming bald... Can't see myself without hair on. Anyway, I am a bit hyped to getting the re-skin of cave of souls, it looks really nice for my slivers.

The way my eyes widened at the beginning of the ad section of this video, Prof LMAO xD

Loved the shout out to the LRR crew.

Ok I swear for The Great Henge I was thinking, “man, that’d be perfect for my Halana/Alena and Animar decks” the split second before he brought up those exact 2 commanders!

I loved the shout out to Patrick Stewart 😂❤

any reprints of these cards is beyond welcomed. I woulda liked to see them just be rares in the box but whatever, we'll take it as a bit of a win regardless.

I genuinely dislike ads like most people but gosh do I love the way the professor does ad reads 😂 I know I can’t be the only one that finds them fun. Plus it helps fund more of shuffle up and play and thats the best mtg show right now 😤

At least a bojuka bog can go in any black deck! If I open a mouth of ronom I'm gonna cry.

"BoJuKa BoG iS tOo StRoNg" -some random WotC employee that fought to get it in the list

Came here for the info on the set, but now just loving the professor hair flick. 🤣👍

Im excited for alt art bojuka bog. It will be worth a lot more than 50 cents

Got a nice ancient tomb from my set booster box in mine! So happy I didn't get bojuka bog

I think it’s fabulous that all box toppers are foils; however, the numbers are staggering. If we look only at English collector packs, we know that they’ve printed 3,300,000 or 275,000 boxes, as we can deduce this from the 1:3,300,000 chance of pulling The One Ring. I’ve seen those complete case un-boxings online where each case averages about 30 total box toppers per case or 5 per box. That means there are 1,375,000 total box toppers in English collector packs! Breaking that down that’s 275,000 foil toppers, 1,089,000 non foil, and 11,000 surge foils. Hmm… In terms of how many of each of the 30 exist in collector packs that’s: 9,167 foils, 36,300 non foils, and 367 surge foils [rounded to the nearest up]. If for every surge foil there are 25 foils and 99 non foils, then each surge foil of The Great Henge could cost anywhere between $1,600 and $4,000 [X20-X50 times the regular foil price]. Somehow the sol rings are not the only big price in town. However, we also have the ultra rare “club zone” Great Henge foil borderless, the regular foil, and the stamped foil promo. How many recent “exclusive” versions have we seen of ancient tomb? This doesn’t take into account the draft boosters, set boosters, and all foreign variants. With the amount of products and gimmicks, MTG cannot sustain this for much longer without devaluating. Yes, Wizards/Hasbro have created a new Reserve List, which they won’t even respect on the near future. I agree with the Prof: just buy singles! Why? Apart from being a game, it’s an investment in both your happiness and financial resources. You have the right to expect value for your buck! A gold bordered Ancient Tomb is close to $10 and an old foreign first printing can sometimes cost under $40. Unless you play tournaments or pro, just get the cheapest version! Still not convinced? Tell me otherwise after pulling a Bojuka Bog foil topper! We cannot Wizards printing the same amount of each topper. Plus, if you’d purchase the top 12 regular priced cards of the set already, you’d be $60 plus dollars poorer. I love collecting MTG, but things need to change. Thanks Professor, love what you do.

My day always gets a little bit better when someone mentions Canadian Highlander. I had so much fun drafting artifacts on Vintage Cube once that I bought a Paradox Academy deck. Haven't had the change to play it yet, but it's a fun goldfishing experience. You never know how it's going to go infinite by accident.

Dude that promotion made me feel better thanks man!

Personally I love box toppers. It adds to the enjoyment of cracking packs it's a place to put reprints of value.(I'd prefer they just used a Box topper symbol like the Judge promo stamp instead of the weird thing they're doing with the commander set symbol but w/e) But, I'd really love it if they'd stop putting dud cards into everything though. Like "Oh here's mythic rares awesome drops that we don't want to see all the time in limited ... but also here's a bunch of worthless 25 cent cards in that slot that nobody even wants." Some time later, "Here's Masterpiece cards they could be some of the most expensive cards in magic history .... but probably just a sol ring or equivalent." Slightly later, "Hey here's the list slot you could get Force of Will! You'll probably get one of the 100 worthless 5 cent cards we flooded the slot with instead though! etc. etc. etc.

When greed is involved..... One does not simply skip secret lair and print a money card in a set instead. They'll do a secret lair Oboro and another secret lair Bucklebury Ferry.

That was the best sponsor opening I've ever seen. kudos to you, you sexy professor beast.

I got an "Ensnaring Bridge" reskin. Not great, but not terrible. I do like Moria at least.

Temple of the False God, professor also taps for two and the requirements aren't so bad

I ended up cracking and buying 4 henges when eldraine first came out. I admit I bought like, 5-7 green theme packs to get 1-2 of them and that was probably not a good deal at the time but looking at the prices now.... I almost feel like I should sell 2-3 of them for that sweet sweet cash and buy them again if the price ever drops drastically but, eh. I'll hold on to them. currently none of them are in use though. I barely used them when I did lol

Those Top 5 Box Toppers are really good. I will wait and buy the singles that I want. Boxes are far too expensive for what you get. Thank you for the video Professor.

Was really into the idea of these high value box topper reprints until I saw the awful cards they threw in the pool to dilute it. I would love to give it a try but I just know I'll be cracking a bojuka, ardenvale, thorn of amethyst or mouth of ronom.

Clever little “Niceee” thrown in at the right time 😂

My play group and I have a zero tolerance policy for any and all "Universes Beyond" cards.

i would give anything to put The Great Henge in my mono-white deck.

Srsly why the hell is Mouth of Ronom in the pool of toppers. At least Bojuka Bog has some use.

My favorite card out of this whole set is a common. Elven Fairsight. Lol.

No matter how much I turned my volume up I couldn't hear the video over the professors tie

my go to was fencing ace maul of skyclaves.... turn 3 six damage in the air

Speaking of Patrick Stewart, Happy Captain Picard Day!

Good lord, I want that Party Tree, got a booster box a friend's going to open on his stream, fingers crossed for it to pop up!

Thrun Smash is the best °u°

My boxtopper is a foil Bucklebury Ferry. i am pleased.

Wheeler will get more chances to do the "Ancient Tomb Mana" thing soon

Jokes on you I’d LOVE a surge foil Bojuka bog for my Dihada deck

You are so correct, sir, about this Bog case... It's just box topper, it won't collaps the price of any of those cards so why do you include a common that can be found in any commander deck?! Classic WotC, no?

Thank you for your video - i have all Box Topper in my Hand! :)

Prof: hoping that we do not opern Bojuka Bog. Me: crying because looking for foil bojuka bog for ages.

"Canadian Highlander" must die! There can be only one!!! 😂😂😂😂

Still loving the positivity in the Keeps sponsorships.

The prof saying we're god damn sexy is what I needed to hear today!

The three multi Mana lands from Urza's are all better ramp than Ancient Tomb.

Dear professer, you missed a chance to include a clip of dr evil going "one...MILLION dollars! muwa...muwa WUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!"

Let the wales open as many of the collector boxes as they want to look for the one ring, that way we can buy some "unassuming" singles for cheap.

Here early! Love these videos. Unfortunately I fall victim to cardboard gambling sometimes. Will do my very best to buy singles this time! So much cheaper that way.

The price is going the same way as to Warhammer did. Just stupid high for an average player

They should print a Karakas-on-a-stick as a mono white commander 3/3 for {W}{W}{W} {T}: add {W} {T}: return target legendary creature to its owner's hand

I swear one of those Keeps examples is Josh Lee Kwai

torn on box toppers. it's added value but also incentivises gambling even more.

The editing was amazing in this video

A word of disagreement: Just because all have the M for Mythic rare surely does not mean they are equally likely to be opened. I'd like to open a few Caverns or Ancient Tombs, but it's much more likely to open a bunch of Bojuka Bogs or Pillar of the Paruns.