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*Lists good reasons to not buy Afternath* Prof: But wait, there's more!

I hope that the Pinkertons are mentioned as a downside of every product from here to eternity.

You know what’s funny? For once, Arena gets more cards in a pack than IRL players.

That Tolarian Contempt 😂

Anyone else want to talk about those 3 deifications in one pack??? Is the algorithm that puts cards in packs just getting lazy? What in the FRESH HECK

The decline of WotC is like hearing worse and and worse news about an old friend struggling with an addiction.

Imagine THIS being the set you call in the Pinkertons over

7:40 The placement of the Tolarian Contempt dead center is poetic.

Man you know it's been a wild ride when Prof. starts out the video with "Okay listen I know this sucks for like 6 other reasons but I only have time to get into one of them here."

Don't worry, paper brawl isn't real, it can't harm you. Lol I died

After what Wizards of the Coast did in regards to the Pinkertons, I have no interest in purchasing any future products, ever.

I really love the spellbook idea. We could've gotten the new cards themed around a plan, maybe a new or reprinted plancha card, and maybe some other reprints from that plane with new treatments. That would've been a product I'd be interested in.

Normally I dislike beating a joke to death, but I hope until the end of time we will continue to see Pinkerton references every time wotc tries to market a new product

Remember when they first created mythic rarity and promised "oh, this isn't a way to create chase cards that are necessary for competitive constructed play, mythic is just where we showcase the most epic, most unique, but not necessarily the best cards? And it was actually true for a while? Lol.

I gotta say i lost all respect for Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro. Greed has led them to do all the things he listed. They stopped caring about players completely and only care about their bottom dollar. I still love the game of magic but i despise the corporation that created this greed

Wotc needs to be punished over the pinkerton incident. Whoever came up with that idea needs to be fired.

Yugioh has 5 card booster packs on occasion, but they're all foil and the same price as the standard pack. And full of reprints. Not $16 like the Aftermath collector booster pack. With cards that should have been in the main set of March of the Machine.

Ok that plane package idea sounds amazing. It would be such a tight and unique product. Obviously could have a planechase card in it. Such a better execution of the """story"""

wild that you pulled three diefication in that sample pack. Really highlights how much of a gamble these packs are to crack. Definitely looking at singles for this set

Thanks so much for the video Prof! I wasn't planing on buying, but I was worried about artificial inflation on specific cards. You explaining what happened with dragon maze really put my mind at ease. I'm still new to magic, so I don't know much about product history so it's really great to have someone around that knows what they're talking about, thanks again!

A little piece of History here, I used to love just opening magic cards with my friends when I was younger, and we all pitch in for a dragon's maze box. We opened it together and it was one of the most boring lackluster terrible experience week cards in a small set, you've never experienced this, we literally stopped buying boxes of magic cards after that. it's been how many years??? Just recently started buying collector booster boxes. Then Aftermath came out and I'm feeling like this is another moment where I walk away again. The secondary market is just better, but soon eBay will ruin that for us as well and I will have to find a new platform.

Some people say "this meeting should have been an email," but this set should have been a Secret Lair with only the story important cards.

Prof, that is easily the best tie you have worn and that wide knot is fantastic.

Huh. There's a card called 'Tolarian Contempt' seen in the first Collector Booster opened. Is WotC taking a dig at The Professor for speaking truth to power?

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I love what feels like a physical alchemy set

2 Pinkertons sent to harass over 1 Stinkerton of a product.

This product feels like the aftermath of an uncomfortable meeting whose agenda is to choose which cards need to be cut from the March of the Machines set because the printers were overloaded with Secret Lairs.

It reminds me that sending Pinkertons resulted in 15% rise of Hasbro stock's price. Imagine, how much they will earn once they do something even more outrageous!

Hell, I would love an Ikoria "spellbook"

This set makes Homelands and Saviors of Kamigawa look like perfectly designed sets.

I might have actually considered buying the “Plane X:Aftermath” type product if WoTC had thought of that instead.

Hey prof! Received my academic box yesterday and I love it!!! Hope you have a great day!

the fact that they put Aftermath on Arena as a draft that just combines it with March of the Machines cards just makes it even more obvious that these cards were supposed to be part of March of the Machines originally. They play really well together

@10:10 you make a good point. Perhaps with the new 3 year rotation structure they will release epilogue boosters featuring the 50 most played cards in standard. I would love to see that.

You can always rely on The Professor for these hard hitting commentary!

The "low number of cards" booster is a space I feel is something that can work. Most boosters these days (no matter the type) is mostly chaff with the main useful cards at the rare/mythic and every so often a common. Cutting out said commons for nondraftable packs can make sense, but I feel they would have to be priced a bit less than a normal pack. That seems too generous and not soul-sucking enough for WoTC standards. I don't know...there's always tradeoffs. I just hope something new would be actually for the players instead of just being a new trick to separate money from -suckers- customers.

Because of the history between the Pinkertons and my hometown, I can no longer purchase any WotC product from them or a retail store. I don't know if I can even justify purchasing secondhand. The game is a lot of fun and I still enjoy it but the deaths of my ancestors weighs more than cardboard.

I stand by the notion that this set was developed during lockdown and their drum-beat release schedule means they never bothered to finish it.

I love the fact that you are not angered, rash, salty or anything else. You are taking the issue, examining every aspect of it, and then and only then, drawing conclusions of that. Have a nice day, like everyone else reading this comment

That "Signature Spellbook"xAftermath idea is sooo good holy sh. They totally should have done that

I have no idea what the 3 letter code is for Aftermath, but I would find it hilarious if people just started calling it PNK (for Pinkerton) just to immortalize WOTC's blatant abuse of money and power.

Not sure if this makes the physical product worse or not but, if you buy an Aftermath booster on Arena, you get the exact same number of cards that you normally would in a booster for the exact same cost. It's a mix of Aftermath with regular MoM cards filling it out.

Buying a regular March of the Machine collector booster taught me enough already. I payed 24 euros and got 4,50 worth of cards out of it. This will just be an extra insult to injury.

I'm really digging that tie, Professor.

That plane pack idea sounds awesome tbh, getting a nice 8 cards displaying the aftermath for kamigawa…

The biggest problem with this set is that the 50 cards have multiple treatments, meaning that the price for an individual card is going to be extremely low once enough product is opened. The regular art Nissa might be selling for $14 now but with 4 different versions of the card, it means people are 4 times more likely to open at least one version of her within collector boosters and a few times more likely in just regular boosters. That's just going to tank the price of the card since the supply will be extreme versus demand. In a regular set with only 15 mythics out of 200+ cards, the odds are a lot lower to open a specific mythic or even an alt version of said mythic, meaning the price will stay high regardless. Yeah, this is a massive fail on so many fronts. The most expensive card will probably be only a couple bucks in a week or two.

I bought 1 single from Aftermath, the green one with nissa & chandra, just because I have a "Flowers in the Art" themed commander deck and it's a new card that fits the gimmick. I thought the idea of an epilogue set was great, until I saw how wotc executed it (almost no story, very little flavour text? how is that an epilogue?) and heard that they sent the pinkertons after someone (btw, how are they not ridiculed for having a name like the villains in a d-grade spaghetti western?).

I loved the comedic timing of that list at the beginning.

I picked up 8 copies of Filter out for less than 3 bucks, just because it's an amazing card. Imagine having to buy boxes until you got just one Playset..

“Oh boy, I sure do love this card game! I think I’ll make content for the community on some cards they might like!” WotC: and I took that personally.

I love that Prof’s voice just increases in levels of “done” energy as the video goes on.

I love that you are already saying that it isn't worth on the thumbnail, but sad that we are all so discontent with Hasbro and mtg, despite loving the game. I stopped spending money with mtg, I'm here just to support the professor

Professor roasting new products and WotC in general is my favorite thing about Magic at this point.

Hey guys professor hasn’t mentioned it yet on KZfaq but his deck box will be available for purchase at your LGS starting next year

Sent the pinkertons to the guys house and then spoiled the whole set a week later. Was it so bad to wait a week?

Say what you will but I bought a bundle of aftermath and found a great new addition to my Hans Erickson deck arni metal brow In case your not familiar with Hans Erickson, when he attacks you reveal the top card of your library if that card is a creature you put it onto the battlefield tapped and attacking and the creature must fight Hans once it enters, if you did not put the card onto the battlefield you then put the card into your hand. Arni says that when a creature you control attacks or enters the battlefield attacking you may pay 1 and a red to put a creature from your hand with lesser mana value from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Just a lovely combo

The only highlight I see with Aftermath is that we get Training Grounds in standard/ pioneer. It's a cool backbone of older modern/ legacy jank combos. I wish we'd get more of that!

I don't hate the idea of these micro-sets inherently, but it's a shame they aren't offering enough for game stores to even sell it for even the most meager of profit.

Is that why there is a red “X” on the Collector Booster Box???

Got so many dupes from brothers war set boosters. Then I opened a box of draft boosters, and the collection was opened up. Set boosters increase the chance of rares mythics, yes, but as the Prof just stated, there's several different prints for each one!

3 copies of Deification in a collector booster pack of 6 cards is absolutely insane to me

The card distribution, another 20-minute video? Looking forward to it!

There’s only five cards per pack? Wtf 😆 That tie is on f’ing point Prof

Thank you, Professor! I enjoyed your 'best cards for commander' video as well. No MOMA boosters for me, but I ordered Karn, Nissa, and Tyvar as singles. I have Commander decks that will appreciate them.

1 min into the video and it's already amazing! More please, I stopped buying MTG product when they went crazy with the printer but if all your video are like this, noone can stop me watching them!

ya i preordered a box from my lgs, but mostly cuz i know if i didn't, it would sit on the shelf =x he got like maybe 3 people that pre-ordered and 2 of them were for collector boxes (some of the guys aren't too bright, they just see shiny and go for it :D ). I'm also one of the very few that trade in my cards to the shop (majority do direct trades with each other), so just doin my part to make sure the shop has singles on the shelf, at least a handful. But agreed, if you don't have some very specific reasons like myself, it is 100% not worth buying sealed, better off just getting the singles you want and calling it good.

Absolutely love the pink and teal card case!!!! Thank you!

50 cards, but over 200 card designs. Imagine if they'd used that art budget to... oh, I don't know... make more cards? They could even have an entire set's worth!

I love how there's just straight up a card called "Tolarian Contempt" in this set, and that you got it, and that it about sums up this video in two words.

I feel really bad for local game stores who ordered this hyped product before having any real idea that they were getting shelf warmers to be sold at a, likely, deep discount in the future.

My local Walmart had them in stock yesterday. A regular aftermath pack was $15. Collector boosters were $25. I know bulk prices are better, but that's a huge disparity in price. Wild.

I looked into the singles for this one. I think the only ones I didn't think sucked were Sigarda, Narset and Sarkhan, though Samut has edge case application in some of my more niche projects.

Honestly, I didn't mind the set as a whole. It actually reminded me of dragons maze from way back when. I bought a single box of aftermath. And while I didn't get nissa (the most expensive at the time of this comment), I did buy nissa and the few other cards I didn't pack to complete the set. All in all I spent about 140 dollars post tax, which at least didn't feel like a rip off, and after looking through all the cards I got from that box, only 5 of the rares I packed were duplicates. While I think it's always good to hold wizards accountable for garbage product, I don't think they set expectations for the set very high. I also didn't know about any of the cards before release, making it more exciting to pull what I did. This was also the first "set" I completed in a singleton manner since rtr. Granted a 50 card set makes that significantly easier, but it feels nice to have completed a set in some regard and now has me thinking of trying that strategy on sets moving forward. Make no mistake, this product is no homerun. At best it's a C-, but if they doubled the set size while keeping the commons at bay, I think this is a great supplemental idea compared to the 3rd set of a block that gets little to no attention and usually just filled with reprints. Keep up the awesome videos though, I love em all 😊

I got back to MTG February 2022, in January this year, I sold all valuable cards I had. I had no idea mtg was in such a bad state when I came back. It’s insane how expensive it is to play this game and just how many products they’re pushing yearly. I miss blocks.

I'm keeping an eye on the price of the new Karn in Aftermath, as it's the only card I currently have interest in. The lowest price on Cardmarket, at the time of writing, is 12 euros, but I suspect the price will drop into the single digits, which is when I will probably buy a single.

It's crazy cause like, besides buying singles for my commander decks (or buying the tyranid 40k commander deck cause I play Tyranids in tabletop 40k), I don't spend money on paper magic anymore. I mostly play MTG Arena and even then I don't spend much, if any, money on it. On MTG Arena, Aftermath costs 1000 coins and comes with 8 cards, same as all other Boosters in MTG Arena. It's crazy that you get a better deal for it in Arena than you do when buying physical product. Even if you bring in gems, MTG Arena's paid currency, you get 750 gems for $5. That'll get you 3 Aftermath Boosters, which have 8 cards each. So even with cash it's a better deal. So makes one wonder if WotC is trying to kill Paper Magic.

I think the name for 'Aftermath' is just the fallout for what WotC is doing to the fan base. For example: -Marketing the OGL for DnD -Shaving cards off for reprints in Commander Decks -Loosing Stock in the company -Last but certainly not least...Pinkerton

Here in my local game store, we like the Epilogue design. While the 5 / 6 card design isn't great compare to the usual 12-15 cards, it's completely normal since Japanese games are usually designed in that amount of cards. My second point is that, taking out all the commons is great despite that basically means the uncommons are commons in a way. Some card designs are pretty interesting in commander. All the set designs these days are basically for Commander and nothing else. Basically, if it fits into Standard, Modern, Legacy, etc... So be it. I find this is better to make the price point better, but not quite at Pokemon level still. Bundle still needs improvement after all the sets. Can they add a few more to make it look more appealing rather than just some basic lands, a promo, and a die?

10:58 this idea could lead to a fun jumpstart idea too!

i love corporate greed

Just an idea: WotC could have increased the value of the Aftermath booster by including MTG: Arena booster codes for random sets they’ve already released in Arena, but covered in a scratch-off coating. This would have also gone with the Across-The-Multiverse theme of the March of the Machines story and would give packs a direct value injection that the tcg players could sell to Arena players. I also like the idea about Aftermath being themed based on individual planes. One of my big complaints about the MoM story was that the card set had all these cool siege and battle cards for planes we havent seen in decades (looking at you, Mercadia), but they had little impact on the story itself.

Thank you for this professor I knew about the obvious claims from Reddit but this video explains a whole lot better/deeper of why aftermath popularity is gonna be similar to dragon maze Oh definitely a couple of singles I'm getting from this while bulk price especially filter out and the scavengers and tazri

There are a couple of singles I might want to pick up, but nothing that can't wait a month pr to so I can get them after the new card price spike has died down. I do like that mystery KZfaqr's idea of how this set should have been marketed/sold, but I can't help but think that WotC would have just made them Secret Lairs instead, and proved to us that what we currently have is somehow not the worst possible way to sell us these cards.

Is it just me who thinks is funny how he got 2 "Tolarian Contempt"? I mean, come'on! It's just perfect.

I just got myself the Kamigawa cards for my collection, Plaarg for my Ignacio/Falthis book tribal deck and Calix for my Kethis Saga deck. Everything else was.... There, indeed.

I haven't played MTG in quite a while, but I try to keep up and watch videos about new sets ocassionally But honestly, I'm getting overwhelmed and confused by how many different card versions, booster types and stuff is coming out lately, last time I've played there was just draft booster packs and that's it, nice and simple

Love your tie this episode, Prof! Looks really good! 😊

cant wait for the universes beyond: Pinkertons set. i hope theres an arthur morgan commander deck,

You nearly get your Deification playset with that collector booster.

I may try to collect one of every card in Etched Foil- that card frame has always been my favorite, and it would be cool to say I have a full set of cards- but the singles are where it's at.

Aftermath - Over priced because of lack of power and cards in pack LotR - overpriced because we were chasing 1 card Commander Masters - Overpriced because it is 2.5 to 3 times the price of a regular booster with chase cards in only 1 in 10 of boosters and the other boosters with the same 'value' as a regularly priced booster. Lesson is what The Professor always tells us.

Definitely deserves an update, while the value is not there atm the cards inside are super useful, almost all of them have a home somewhere

I remember pulling a Voice of Resurgence when that set was new. I got a bunch of good cards from trading it to a friend since I didn't play the colors especially since I am a budget player. I think that is how I got my Mycosynth Lattice.

Fantastic tie, professor!

4:28 Somehow the word "Repeation" added more emphasis to the point than the word "Repetition"

Aftermath feels like Wizards trying to make DLC for a physical product.

Honestly speaking. I did buy a bundle of the set. When I buy packs and opened them, I just throw to the recycling bin everything thats just unplayable and complete trash. and when I do I get bakc home with a couple comon,rares mythic and unco. this time I left home with all my cards, and most of my unco playset. usualy im missing most of the unco from the set and have to buy all the playset I need. I ended up keeping more cards in my bundle than I did with the last 6 set. It surely is dumb that it cost the same price, but theres less garbage, less dead trees for trash. My big problem that I had in the end here was the return of bad horrible quality. foiling that pringle, cards printing are more pale or darker even if they're the same printing, and out of the same box. Too many version making it hard to have a playset of the same print, and even if they're the same print they might look different because of some being darker, or even the halo foiling that is different from one card to another. To make this even more of a joke, when I opened my bundle the box was upside down lol. someone else with me also bought one and it was also upside down when they opened it.

I always complained when the dark and antiquities set came out, since the boosters only had 8 cards in each pack. The quality and value in those boosters far surpass the junk in these 5 card packs.