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Not so fast Louis, a pack of Timespiral Remastered is a pack of Timespiral remastered, but the mystery box could be anything, it could even be a pack of Timespiral remastered, and you know how much I've always wanted one of those.

The word "mysterious" has now become an MtG code for "scam". Imagine what they could pull off with the word "secret" instead!

8:39 “Theros beyond debt” made me laugh more than it should’ve.

The excessive Time Spiral: Remastered inclusions makes a lot of sense actually - the set was released around the time of the big Pokemon rush, and being the "premium" set of the time a bunch of people were straight up stealing them off the shelves, or scanning different packs to get a discount (these being the versions they sent to big box stores, which is why they have the paper outer wrapping). All the Targets and Wal-Marts and the like basically declared "fuck this" and returned all of their most steal-able stock to the distributors and refused to buy more to put on their shelves, so distributors were left with tons of these things - which is probably why it's their "chase" inclusion for these particular scams.

You know what I remember? Some card shops would sell pre-made casual decks for like 10-15 dollars. They weren't anything special, just 60 somewhat on-theme cards that served as a good jumping off point. Sure, you could usually build a much better deck for the same amount by yourself, but it was a great way for card shops to get rid of the goddamn mountains of cards they would accumulate. I remember buying a goblin one that had a chieftian, some gempalm incerators, and a bunch of derpy goblins. Eventually I tuned that very deck into a fairly capable standard Goblins during Zendikar/Scars block and had a great time. Good times.

In my early teen years I bought a MTG mystery pack at FYE and it contained only basic lands. I fought with the clerk until they gave me my money back. That was the day I learned to never pick up these products.

Seems like Prof may have been threatened with a lawsuit from one of these companies that makes these stupid boxes before anywho I cannot wait to get my academic deck box once the kickstarter is finished and production starts

Fun fact: the Time Spiral Reamaster pack comes in a rack sheath. This means that the "hit" boxes weigh less. I'm not saying this so people will go weigh these. I'm saying this because you can be pretty sure they have already been before they reach you.

The quote of "I waste my money so you don't have to" is exactly why I'm here.

As a fellow coffee lover, I made my first ever "sponsored" purchase just for you Prof. Keep up the great content and I'm excited to try this coffee!

Still never seen Time Spiral remastered on shelves and your just like "oh great another one" 😆

This is the TCC X Legal Eagle crossover event I didn't know I needed. Also, you can probably look at price spikes for Etali and figure out when these were bundled together.

I just wish more parents buying for their kids would see this video. I am certain that they are the target audience for this junk.

I'm cracking up seeing Etali in every pack

I saw on somebody's pack opening channel where they opened about three of these; one of them actually did have a Revised pack. However, the rare was Thoughtlace and they said it looked like the pack had been resealed. (Best thing in the pack actually was a Sol Ring.)

Lawyer here. The question in a defamation lawsuit isn’t whether what you said was defamatory, but is whether a reasonable person would believe what you said was defamatory. In law school they use what you’re doing as an example of something that people think they can do to get out of defamation liability. So you’re not covering yourself on the defamation lawsuit front. Good video though!

The intro reminded me of South Park getting around being sued by people. You're hilarious Prof and always standing up for the players which honestly just makes me more of a fan of you and your videos.

"...On TEN of these boxes. My own money for ten of these" That physically hurt me.... No one should go trough that

Good to know if I ever need an Etali, all I need to do is buy one of these boxes and I might even get 2! What a deal!

The Professor: Bashes the Walmart mystery box. Also the Professor: cracks a Force of Will Invocation in the HoD packs lol.

The depressing thing is that for me this would actually be a good deal because my local game store overcharges so much that a single TSR pack costs almost as much as this entire box, I still wouldn't buy this tho 🤣

Came back here just to say Many Worlds Tavern pleaseee keep sponsoring the Prof. He looks so genuinely excited by you and that's refreshing to see in an ad. Love the Profs content 🤘

On top of the rarity of getting a revised pack, keep in mind that in older editions you can actually look through the pack wrapper to check for rares, so don't get your hopes up on seeing anything chase.

It’s a “Hey, help us get rid of excess inventory “ unboxing. Thanks, Prof.

I'm so glad you covered this. I've seen some really scurrilous channels trying to sell these boxes.Any hope of a signed Etali?

I talked a distributor stocking the shelf at my local Walmart last week. She told me the mystery power box contents are not random, she insisted that a few times.

I'm honestly really excited to try this coffee, thanks Professor! they also sent me a .pdf for an 5e adventure when I ordered it, I love them already

Honestly, thank you! Not just for this video but for your channel. Because of you, I turned from a guy who cracked random packs throughout the year to someone who ACTUALLY PLAYS THE GAME. A cracked pack does nothing for me, especially since I only draft.

I clicked the coffee link so fast and ordered some! I love the "flavor" of what they're doing!

My local Wal-Marts are putting them out for $54.99. You got lucky to find them for $30. Also Prof, you should do one of these multi-pack reviews next time up in Victoria with Loading Ready Run to at least get some sealed games in.

Well I made my order for some coffee, thanks for the continually great videos! Can't wait to get my hands on some of those Etali Primal Storms LOL.

I am a fiend for opening garbage and bought one of these from Walmart the other week. Got a pack of Invasion! That's like $50! Instead of cashing out while I was up, I decided to open the pack and got a $1 rare. Lesson learned.

God damn. I don’t know how you managed to find the optimal mix of comedy and helpful information, but you are by far by favorite MTG KZfaqr. But seriously, you’re just dripping with charisma! You remind me of John Oliver or Steven Colbert, you’ve got big TV Host energy :D

Most of the other channels that have been opening these have been getting Throne of Eldraine and Ravnica Allegiance in abundance, where you had Theros and Hour. So there is some variety out there. LOL

I love the new music choice! Fits your channel very well in my opinion!

Not gonna lie as a grad student I never felt so connected to the Prof as when he gushed about how much he likes coffee and so wants the sponsorship to go well 😂

"Get a Revised booster pack from this?" Additional fine print on the box states: Products featured may not be contained within. 😱 Additionally, a foil land is not a promo.😞 Thanks for your continued words of advice suggesting not to spend your money on these products. The ultimate example of "Not for you" we will ever see. 🔔

“Hey, look over there!” 😂 oh and I totally get the coffee obsession prof. I hope they sponsor you again too!!

The most important thing I took from this video: that playmat looks NICE

Forecast says there's a strong chance of Primal Storms

Imagine if primal storm became a $30 card after they did this.

Definitely keep doing the dirty work to make sure people, especially loved ones with good intentions, do not get ripped off on this, or for newbies getting into the game. You are a man of sheer will power and determination, as well as vim and vigor. It is definitely frustrating these products exist. That crimped bat token could be worth something in the major misprints groups.

Hi I am a new subscriber, I am new to MGT and have a thirst for knowledge for the cards and the game. I get excited when I start to understand the terminology and the meanings of the cards. The artwork on the cards are just amazing and appealing! I am binge watching all your videos at the moment, they are very helpful and entertaining. Loving your content so much!

"I SPENT MY OWN MONEY SO YOU DONT HAVE TO" - This. thank you. I have accepted my magic addiction and these things have always been that one hit that I try to avoid. you're my hero. buy singles

I like how in the printings listed for Etali on Scryfall, "Resale Promos" is an option, making the foil as worthwhile as the nonfoil from any other set. Seems they've been at this for a while too. You can look up the resale promo "set" as well to see what sort of cards you'd expect to find in these sorts of scams. And don't look now, but 2021's 7 cards have been the most cards as resale promos so I only expect more of these sorts of products to crop up in the next few years.

The best part of this video is the advert. I LOVE coffee. My daughter loves coffee, she has a tattoo of the chemical symbol for the caffeine molecule. My son loves coffee. We never heard of Many Worlds Tavern coffee. We will be giving it a try for sure. Thanks for the heads up, Prof.

I have been waiting for this one! Thanks prof

I can't express how much I love how excited Professor is of getting sponsored by coffee. It brought a massive smile on my face!

Appreciate you going after the truth.

you are awesome. thanks for your efforts toward the community!

Wow, fantastic sponsor! Also, I hereby swear as a witness of this video that I did not ever hear the professor state that these products are garbage, trash, or cheating, but that he was responding to many magic the gathering players who might say such things in an academic, community focused, constructive debate.

I've opened 16 of these so far, and guess how many chase packs I've seen so far? NONE! While the pulls have been pretty good, you're more likely to pull hot garbage out of random packs like these. I've seen one pack of Revised pulled from one of these on YT, so technically they're not lying😜

I've been seeing a lot of Timespiral remastered show up on shelves at Target for $6 a pack lately, not surprised someone packaged up a bunch of inventory in to these garbage boxes, probably where all the pallets of TS remastered went when it released.

Thanks for the treat Prof, I sure am delightfully surprised with the surprising and shocking appearance of time spiral packs

Thanks 🙏 Prof! I had a blast watching this and having a cup of coffee. I feel that if you had one steamy pile of dog poop and this product next to each other, it would be hard to tell one from the other! Save your money!

This was a fun start to the morning. Ngl I've helped parents in the card isle before mostly so they aren't wasting their time or wasting money on things like this. Also a good way to bring up the local game store that is literally 10-15 away from the local targets and walmarts so they get better help and product

"They said pick your favorite, but I picked three!" Coffee: no... please no... don't promote more than one product... eh, okay.

Coffee and a video from the Professor! Awesome!

Honestly the highlight for me was the coffee ad. Thank you Professor for introducing me to Many worlds tavern! loved it

Prof what are you using the profits from your kickstarter for? Prof: insurance for legal fees from when the company that makes this slurry comes at me. Edit: Btw love you prof you’re amazing and hero to the community.

Video on KZfaq of a revised pack being opened in one of these. It's possible, probably 1 in a million

totally unrelated to the mtg content but seeing you so excited about the coffee sponsorship before rolling credits was so wholesome, i love this

Congratulations on your Deckbox success. May all your ventures do as well! Perhaps consider a mini version.

As I understand it, this kind of mystery box stuff is what didn’t sell and has been sitting. So you’re already starting with something people don’t want anymore. Yu gi oh and I assume Pokémon has this too

Hey TCC,. I find this selling tactic very predatory and I hate that they can get away with it. However, having done a tiny bit of research on Card Kingdom, to buy all the booster packs that you got, plus each of the promos you got (except the damaged one), you would have to pay $338.95+shipping. If you got all these for $30 each, that means that customers are actually getting, on average, more value out of them than they put in. Now, this doesn't completely vindicate the company. They sell you the dream of pulling a pack worth hundreds of dollars and then give you a pack worth $10 and and handful worth $3-$7. Booster packs are a bad way of getting singles, and because of the lack of variety you can't even really do a chaos draft off of a few of these. Furthermore, they are doing this to liquidate back-stock, and so one would expect to be getting a great deal. However, given that even the boxes without two Time Spiral Remastered packs in them represent a cheaper way of buying the packs you get than buying those packs individually, do you not think it is harsh to call this a scam? It is obviously predatory and misleading, but at least you aren't spending $30+ on like $10 worth of back-stock, like some of the trash "mystery" products you review here.

The intro reminded me of the WKUK "kill the president" skit, nice job prof!

Thanks for the excellent video, professor. This video, more than any other video, really got me excited to drink coffee. I've never tasted coffee before, but after watching this video I am a loyal many worlds customer. Sponsoring this channel, and specifically this channel, is the best choice a coffee company could have ever made. Many worlds would be making a huge mistake not to consistently sponsor this channel.

Time Spiral Remastered isn't the chase pack actually. There's one in almost every box. The chase pack is normally Invasion or a cheap Masters pack.

I have no sympathy when I find these promo packs ripped open and stolen at Walmart.

Thanks for taking one for the team Prof!

I've seen a few videos of this man talking fervently about his passion... and yet I have never heard so much love pouring out of his voice as when he was talking about coffee. If I was in the US, I'd buy some....

Honestly the boxes are pretty good. The packs you get are worth at least 30 dollars regardless of if you get a chase pack or not (which is not TSR, those are in every box)

Professor, you got better time spiral remastered pulls on those 12 packs than I got in my whole box

what a powerful intro ! haha you had me laughing out loud

To be fair, the packaging does say "randomly inserted chase pack". Pack is singular, so there *might* be one out there somewhere... :)

I've never had or even heard of dry processed coffee before, so I figured that I better give that a try. Ordered some Dragon's Nest and had to pick up a bag of the homely house as well. Well sold, Professor, well sold. I hope they sponsor you again.

I wish I had enough to get some good coffee and support you prof. I'll make sure when I do have the money for some game night coffee they know I heard about it from you

"Get ready for an ad." Lol Take my like sir, well deserved.

Professor, that coffee looked good, perhaps if I were to see a few more commercials for it I would be able to convince my game group to give it a try

I would love to see more coffee talk on the channel! What grinder do you use?

Ended up forgetting that I was watching a video about the mystery boxes and just enjoyed the coffee talk

Only a professor could take a one-word answer and stretch it out to over 15 minutes. Lots of experience with essays and minimum-length papers. I loved the intro, hopefully I'll love the coffee! The discount was nice.

Amazing ad transition! Heck, amazing ad delivery too! Have you considered that maybe these boxes are WotC’s “gotcha!” to you specifically since they know you will open and buy multiple for each video? I haven’t seen anyone buy these in years.

Love your work. Thank you.

Prof: *buys a bunch of mystery boxes to demonstrate how bad they are* WotC: "Wow! These mystery boxes are selling really well! Let's make more of them!"

Your sheer enthusiasm convinced me to actually grab a bag of coffee, so here's hoping you get to work with them again!

I think the novelty of getting random packs for the sake of getting random packs from at any point would be fun! Though this doesn't sound like its doing it right. I know in a couple of my game stores around here, they would do these specials where they would put a bunch of cards together (like 150-ish, no basic lands) in a box or a brown lunch bag and a couple of packs (with a chance of getting another) of whatever set was the standard and selling them for like $10 or $15. I figured it was them offloading a bunch of older cards, but occasionally there'd be a basic land card that would have like a security stamp marking it with a promise of a discount or a free pack if we brought it back - which was honored, and it felt great! As someone who came back in at the end of M20, its great to see opportunity to get some of the more obscure cards from the past, but i wouldn't pay that much for this "random" box lol

Prof, I love your videos and this one is especially great.

You look fly, Prof! The vest, shirt and tie look great! Love your fashion sense.

Thank you for the Jaida Essence Hall reference, prof :)

I'd love to see the data on opening like 100 of these. Oh and you could bring a scale with you to the store and know which boxes have multiple time spiral remastered vs the ones with 1 due to the packaging.

That intro was so good I watched it twice!

Thanks Professor!

I don't often drink coffee, but you made me buy coffee. Damn you Professor DAMN YOU! But seriously I'm excited for the Electric Sheep because I love decaf! First product I bought from your channel 😁

I live how you can see him get visually angry as the opening progressed

I make sure to watch the ads and not skip them because I need to support this great content

I love your enthusiasm for coffee

Loved the sponsored segment, got a couple bags to try out. Love to support creators and coffee is the surefire way to get me to do it 🤣

I remember actually tweeting out about the MTG power cube and doing a video on it too. Didn't think there was a Mystery Box!~