And, if you want to flash back tot he Commander Legends 1 Booster Box Game: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l8WYY7KWtLTKmKc.html

WOTC has created an environment where a set begins to feel obsolete the second preview season ends, because previews for the next set begin almost immediately. Together with the truncated, staccato storytelling forced by a blockless story structure, there's this constant feeling of life being lived on permanent fast forward.

Honestly I'm still looking at kamigawa cards, definitely feel overwhelmed by the amount of releases

This is a great set for players, its fun, its thematic, i would buy loads of it on sale. For those wanting cash value, no, for stores selling singles, no. But this is a game, for playing! Not the stock market. I think this set was great for players, but will go down as a fail financially. Wizards needs to SLOW DOWN. People will buy more of a set if a new one isnt out the following month.

Prof, I argue that this product was overpriced from the get-go, for draft, set, and for collector boxes alike. Many retailers are selling this set in its various box forms way below MSRP/whatever it is that they use for pricing. There's also the problem of clumping - ever notice how some boxes have the Battlebond lands and some don't? I first noticed this with one of Rudy's videos where he commented on it. There seems to be a trend where if one gets a box with Battlebond lands, then those are typically decent boxes. Worse is that this is reminiscent of Core 2019, where most of the value was in the Mythic slot - though, aside from a couple of notable rares, most of the value are in the ancient dragons - of which, even in the collector boxes, the borderless foil extended art varieties are hard as nails to pull. Definitely worth it to buy the singles where it makes sense. For reference, I have drafted this set and it was fun. If only they didn't pull some of the mythics - looking at you, Mana Drain - out of this set to put in Double Masters 2022. TLDR: Commander Legends Baldur's Gate is, and has been overpriced from the get-go. Most of the value is in a select few rares and the ancient dragons. Buy the singles and only buy the boxes when they are steeply discounted. To your point about the Box opening game being just that - I think there's a point to be made that it's demonstrative up to a point of where value is (or isn't) in a set, and how spread out or concentrated it is.

If they put tithe, drain, and dockside in CL2 nobody would complain, but instead they chose to milk the community for every ounce of value.

I work for a LGS and we did a draft of the set when it came out. The locals love Commander here and I thought this would do so well! And it might have done better but it takes SO long to draft and then play a match of Commander. Expecially if you have new people coming in to play who never drafted before and thought Balduars Gate would be a neat product to get into MTG with.

Prof I had never even made the mental connection about Baldur's Gate having Set Boosters when it didn't need it, and 2x2 *not* having them when it arguably should. That's a very insightful pickup on your part. I won't lie, I broke the rule and went hard on Baldur's Gate thinking it was going to be a fun set to collect as a D&D nerd. Given there's practically zero value in the set booster boxes, what I did instead of cracking them was I gave them out to friends, and now we're starting an EDH boxing league with the set booster box being our seed starter. I'm really excited about it! Trying to turn a bad situation into something fun that we'll get value and enjoyment out of for months at least.

Pre-release was probably one of the most positive experiences I've had with a new set. I opened Nine Fingers Keene and immediately decided I was going for it. When the rest of the table got wind of what I was going for, they actually went out of the way to help me get the pieces needed to build the deck. I only really found out about it after the games were done, but they really did help my deck be stronger just so they could see how it would run in the game. The deck was a blast as well.

The problem I have with this set is that it didn’t help the last dungeon decks at all. Should had been more venture into the dungeon cards. At least give us a mono black kill a creature venture into the dungeon card. Also how hard it was to pull the dragons in the boosters.

I only broke even on 8 packs cause I pulled something from the List worth $16ish and not any value cards from the set itself… :/

Recently saw a chart listing how many unique cards have been added each year from 2012 on. 2020 and 2021 had over 6000, this year is estimated to have over 8000. Compared to 1300 in 2012 or even 4000 in 2019 there's too much product, we get a new set every other month and Commander decks with each

I'm SO happy to have been able to experience an in-store Draft for this set, even if I was late and had only a 3-player pod. This is a set for enjoying the gameplay of Magic and flavor of D&D

The drafting in this set is some of the best I’ve experienced. Every archetype and deck built has power and interaction. It’s wacky and fun and I recommend it to everyone looking for a unique play experience.

The biggest flaw for me with CL2 was the lack of good reprints. Blade of Selves and Kindred Discovery are good cards sure, but they're not as universally good as say Three Visits, Commander's Beacon, Vampiric Tutor, Mana Drain, etc. As exciting as new cards are for commander sets, reprints is where I get a lot of my excitement for.

I remember Gavin saying Commander Legends was a love letter to commander, and that first set really felt that way. This set on the other hand feels very much like they didn’t have a good place to print more DnD cards so it ended up in the commander legends “tent” without really fitting the same flavor. I’m excited for a true Commander Legends 2.

I've drafted a couple of times and we always ended up with extremely synergistic, quite powerful decks and interactive gameplay. So, as a draft experience, it's among the best I had

I wish we lived in a world where game pieces were affordable and a set lived and died on how fun/interesting it was.

Have to say that I agree with the Professor on this one. BBG is a solid product but its timing and proximity to Double Masters 2022 didn't do it any favors - which was unfortunate for me since I preordered 2 set boosters and lost money on both....

What went wrong with commander legends 2: Battle for Baldur's Gate in 1 sentence; They attached a theme to the commander set, restricting their ability to reprint staple cards players care about while simultaneously hampering new design. Commander legends worked the first time because you had all sorts of weird cards, returning mechanics, and GOOD reprints. The original partner commanders, Vampiric Tutor, Three Visits, Scroll Rack, Rings of Brighthearth, and freaking MANA DRAIN. You had new cards people could actually care about, the completed battlebond land cycle, Jeska's Will, Sakashima of a Thousand Faces, Jeweled Lotus, most of the 3-color commanders, some of the new partner commanders, and Hullbreacher (while it lasted). Battle for Baldur's Gate gave us what for new cards? More gates that make other gates less bad? Ok that's great for budget players but I'd argue most commander players probably spend quite a bit, or they proxy the cards they want to play with and I say that as someone who ONLY got the new gates from CL2 to make a gates deck. 9 cards does not an exciting set make for me. Fingers crossed Commander Legends 3 if we even get that can just EXIST as Commander Legends 3 without having to try to be something else. I'd honestly be happier if it was a 100% reprint product.

I really love the running commentary throughout the Booster Box Game here

I have drafted this twice and I am going to draft it s third time on Sunday here, I have been wanting to make a cube for d and d and this set has helped expand the possible cards for it. With everything being so cheap it's a great time.

I truly hope this mismanagement does not apply to the sets still to come: Dominaria United and Brothers War. Really looking forward to those sets. I know they are standard legal so they shouldn’t be too pushed (hopefully) but the flavor and lore should be so cool. Really hoping the hit those out of the park.

I also opened a Commander Legends 2 set box and got $82 of value out of it, ~$55 of it from pulling an ancient copper dragon. But $82 is still far from the $116 I paid for the box.

They needed to add a few new dungeons. They had 3 in AFR and that kind of hinted that there would be more. Getting only 1 of them in CL2:BG, and force-fitting a new "have the initiative" ability in order to access it was a missed opportunity. What was so bad about "enter the dungeon" and adding a few more? It would've revitalized interest in AFR and possibly boosted CL2:BG.

Wizards have been asking for this, too many products and splitting the powerful cards people want into a insanely packed release schedule. You are going to get sets like this becoming hard passes as the perception is they're poor sets with little money to be made. The fact this got released so close to double masters is just incredibly bad management. They need to throttle back in 2023.

Hey Prof! I went with a friend to my LGS as you preach for a draft of this set. I had A LOT of fun, honestly! I really loved my deck, which I can't always say at the pre-release event. So, I think this set is great on flavour and for the draft experience. As a matter of fact, I'm going to draft it tomorrow with a bunch of friends. :)

I had so many reservations about Commander's Legends 2 being locked to the DND universe since it limits the possible reprints. I also wish that they reprinted the Commander Free Instant cycle and Jeweled Lotus since there is quite literally no other draft set to reprint them in

They called it commander legends 2…that’s literally it. This set was not a Commander legends set. They also bait and switched their consumers by taking mama drain out. Ever since the walking dead BS I’ve said this company will never get my money again and man they sure are trying their best to keep it that way.

8:06 The Battlebond lands were the best reprints in the set, many were going for $10-20 before this released. But yeah, beyond those and the two you mentioned we had...Wayfarer's Bauble? A very welcome reprint but certainly not something we couldn't see in any standard set.

"That's Innistrad: Double Feature." Ha!

The advice on making a list of cards I'm planning to get before the set comes out and buying them after has helped save me a lot of money.

Huge improvement on unboxing music! Great vid!

I am convinced the Commander Legends name was used to push orders from FLGS's and that alone. Paul Marketing hosed the set harder than anything about the set itself

I want to start out saying, love you Prof and your integrity and forthright attitude is why people come to your channel, as well as your focus on the GAME of magic and not the stock market aspects of it. I bought this set before I saw all the previews. After seeing the previews I thought "Oh well, at least I'll get some standard chaff that I can put in all of my commander decks like lands and artifacts" After opening my boxes and getting 1 arcane signet and 1 command tower and 1 commander land (no sol-ring, no lightning greaves, no other universally playable commander cards), I was wildly disappointed and thinking, is this a commander set? It only reinforced something that the prof says often and honestly I had never really listened to before, "Buy Singles". WOTC has pretty much taken someone who wanted to buy their products and instead made them go to the secondary market to just buy what they want. The gambling aspect of cracking packs isn't even that fun if you know there's not even a possibility of getting half your money back. Now I have a draft box sitting on a shelf just waiting for some time in the future where my friends and I can just play draft because I know opening it is just going to be what it should be, a fun time with friends.

Our playgroup drafted it last week, and it was a tonne of fun!

Really enjoyed the voiceover, Prof. It adds some interest as you're opening packs.

All cmd cards are in the new masters set. Expensive and premium price

It used to be there were six Magic sets a year. You had the four core Standard sets, a reprint set (think Masters) and a draft innovation set (something like Conspiracy). This worked out to a set releasing roughly every two months. That was already a lot of Magic. Now we get eight per year. Four standard sets (except sometimes we also get five like last year) and four whatever-the-heck-they-want-to-do supplemental products. That's a set every six weeks on average. It also means from set release to the next preview season is like, a month or less. That is simply too much Magic. And its also taking away from what should be great sets. Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty was (at least in my opinion) a best set of all time conversation contender. But already it feels like it came out forever ago. Its only been four months!

Just catching an edit - We go from "Pack #16/18" to #7. Awesome video!

Came back to Magic being an adult with a nice job and a quite some spare time, loveld NEO, but I just couldn't keep with the release schedule Wizard is playing. Tank you for another fantastic video, great insight and THANK YOU for putting a name to something I was feeling but couldn't really identify: product fatigue.

It is certainly sad that this set doesn't have 'value' because I imagine this means people are really missing out on the draft experience by not wanting to purchase the set. I've done 3 EDH drafts of this at my FLGS and it's so much fun. Sometimes I think the value proposition of the individual cards can blind players to the value of the play experience itself.

I think you make great points in the video, but I also want to add that I think CLB has a fundamental problem even aside from the context of it's release and set mechanics; CLB has been designed almost entirely around the idea of drafting commander decks. Others are free to disagree, but to me, a dedicated commander player, the idea of drafting commander is oxymoronic - it misses everything I like about the format, from the singleton nature to the large decks to the high power cards to the carefully constructed synergies and combos to the chance to build around a specific target card and strategy to the opportunity to get creative and dig out obscure old cards that make everyone do a double take and then call a judge. None of that is possible in CLB, so how can CLB expect to appeal to the commander market? To me when I look at CLB I just see a box of draft chaff and a few pushed rares I'll proxy or buy as singles to put in a real commander deck.

The Dragons that came out this set are amazing! An upgrade to Lathliss with Myrimm, the 5 ancient dragons, and the dragons/background combos!

I drafted on prerelease weekend and had a great time, I bought two draft boxes to play with my friends and I'm looking forward to getting together to do so! I also built a Miiryim deck with almost all of the cards being from CLB and it's been fun to play and even won several games. I know there aren't many powerhouses at a similar level as a Jeweled Lotus or a Jeska's Will, but I'd say it's good value for commander players, so long as you get the singles or intend to draft.

I almost wonder if we aren't going to see this set at some sort of discount chain because I'm not sure how many places they have left to dump excess product when so much is being churned out so quickly.

As I was going through the set looking for the singles I wanted to buy, I only found a few cards I'd want for EDH. Which isn't exactly great when it's billed as a Commander product. By comparison, I spent a full two days doing the same with the original Commander Legends.

I don't have a lot of experience with drafting, but attending the pre launch event was a blast. Yeah maybe the cards I grabbed aren't priced as high as others but the decks we build took us right up to the time limit to determine the winner.

I was making a Commander legends, D&D AFR cross over cube when this set was announced. Now i am making a cube of mostly this new D&D set and focusing on party , tribals of the party sub-types and voltron. with all the trappings of the conspiracy sets and i am now making commander jumpstarters so each player has access to command tower arcane signet and some other bits and pieces .

Shame we probably wont get another. I love the flavor and setting, plus backgrounds are a fun mechanic. It just isnt worth it to pay for packs.

What hurts here for me is that Double Masters feels more like a Commander Legends set than CLB, as mentioned. It's not just about money from selling cards, but giving people what they want for Commander in a set that's supposed to be for Commander at large, cards that people should have easier access to.

18:05 that foil Opal Palace looks gorgeous

I really enjoy drafting Baldur’s Gate. I’ve been drafting it 1-2 times a week since the official release. I’ve found it’s multiple dragon based themes you can build a draft deck around to be a ton of fun along with the other deck themes I’ve played.

Baldur's gate is an AMAZING set to draft with. I've already drafted 5 times and each time it's better than the last! So many crazy commanders to try out and the draft experience is unique every time. My playgroup has even been able to get newer players into the game due it's flavor and obviously the commander games that follow from draft. I will be picking up as many cheap draft boosters boxes as I can to continue enjoying what in my opinion is an incredibly well designed magic set. Financially tho, cracking packs that is, is just not it for this set. Please go buy draft boosters and just play magic with these cards. It is one of the best limited experiences ever, especially for commander enthusiasts.

I was very disappointed by the 2 set boxes I opened. 1 box had 0 dragons and 0 rare lands. The other box 0 dragons and 1 of each of the commander dual lands. Only other cards of value were archangel of thé and hall of the bandit liars off the list. :( It’s a fun set, but they should have at least upped the rare land pulls if they wanted to keep the commander legends label

my partner and I did 3 prereleases for the set and even got our commands playgroup in on the fun at our LGS! I had a blast with it and getting a ton of cards that I’ve slotted into my Commander decks or built new decks out of (going on 2-3 new commanders leading decks from this set). I seriously think this set is amazing and full of quality new commanders and useable commander cards, and I think that a lot of people will come to like this set in years to come.

It really says a lot about this product that I was only interested in new land art and the reprints of the gems

I drafted this set 4 times and I wish my LGS had brought material for 4 times more. The different decks, the new mechanics, the flavor everything is great about it. I do agree that this set didn't need to be called commander legends, because that's what people didn't like about it, they thought it was commander reprints and pull people away from it. Now, Double Masters 2 is actually one of the best sets in card pool and reprint wise, but it's also the worst thing for MTG, because it's literally saying "If you don't have $500 free after paying everything else, then don't buy me"

Imagine a game that's fun to play and you play it because it's fun and not because you think your getting money for buying it.....its why I started playing games with my friends

You Nailed it!!!! I had a great time opening the packs and explore all the awesome new cards^^ but yeah it is just drowning next to Double Masters... Greetings Jan

That jab at innistrad double feature at the end was on point.

Waaaaay too many niche legendary creatures in the rare slot. A lot of those should have been cut for reprints and/or more interesting non-legedary cards. And a good chunk of them could have been downshifted to uncommon as well Bad set is bad

This set was extremely flavorful and a blast to draft. Apart from that the set has no $ VALUE $. (Yes the ancient dragons are worth a bit but that's it.)

I’m brand new to MTG. I’ve learned most of what I know from your videos. And I helped create a public FB group so people who play Magic in my area could find each other and have get togethers. Western Mass Magic The Gathering

I had a lot of fun playing sealed with a friend for her birthday. We're both D&D players and we loved CLegends 1. Still very disappointed by the reprint quality and Double Masters 2022 is really rubbing salt in the wound there. It feels like I'm being dared to drop money on double masters after I just bot a draft box of the set immediately preceding it. But I still very much enjoyed drafting it and hey, I gotta go make a deck for that Boros Myriad commander because that seems really fun!

ah yes, Double masters 2022 will be a great set for those lucky enaugh to got their hands on one of those limited boxes before they got scalped

Made elminster and tasha decks, amazingly fun commanders but i got them super cheap and ive been saving money to get my 4 preorders of double masters - already spent a ton on of money on myg this year and find my self wanting to spend less and less

I have had so much fun with this set, I bought a bunch of draft boxes, drafted all of them with friends and then made a set cube using your video! But some of the cards in this new masters set, could have been amazing in commander legends. as well as the fact they have the audacity to make set boosters for this draft-centric set!

Great video Prof, you’re right IMO on your key points. It is a good D&D themed set, just shouldn’t have been named or priced like a CL set.

Naming and schedule. That and sections of the community that examine set only in its monetary value. And to be fair to Battle for Baldur's Gate: Yes, it has a lack of important reprints, but most people forgt about the Battlebond lands when speaking about this point

My friend and i pondered that maybe: Wotc realizes that a recession is likey, so, knowing that there will be months of lowered demand, they opted to reaffirm their loyal player base at the expense of collector money. Collector/investor money is the first to go when spending slows. Player fanbase is just as addicted as scratch off buyers. Seems to me a reasonable action.

I can't wait for the 4 Pack Double Masters 2022 Collector's Booster Box game!!! That will be a crazy long video!!

Is that an Adeliz the Cinder Wind playmat? I love it!

Tin-foil hat time. Nothing went "wrong" with ComLeg 2 Battle for Electric Boogaloo. Everything went exactly according to plan. Wizards deliberate gimped the set by stripping any useful reprints out and moving them to Double Wallet-bang 2. They put the Commander Legends title on the set in order to charge premium prices to squeeze money from the distributors, who then pass that on the game stores. They wanted people to buy into this set with pre-orders in order to drive release date sales. They wanted people to hype the set and drive store engagement to force stores to stock it heavily so it would sell better to distributors, AND be disappointed in the set to that their misery and FOMO would drive them then ALSO invest heavily in Double Masters II: The Quickening. BUT, with stores and distributors stuck with pallets of Baldur's Gate left they can't sell and can't get rid of, they'll be left feeling burned and NOT be able or willing to get as much Double Masters as they would normally get for such an amazing looking set, which means the low print run that they already planned to do for the set will be justified, boxes will be scarce and prices on singles will stay nice and high to drive the next reprint set box. Why? Because Wizards doesn't care about local game stores anymore, and companies are never satisfied unless they have ALL the MONEY. Not some money, or a bunch of money, or even as much money as possible, ALL the MONEY. Who cares how badly this damages distributors and endangers game stores, who cares how badly this effects players, Wizards is playing to the stockholders with this one, loudly, and it's transparent and disgusting.

I actually do think this set was a failure. Hot take…but there are some things that make me think it would have flopped even without double masters. 1st point is that there are no “chase” cards in the set. If you look at commander legends 1 there was jeweled lotus, opposition agent, apex devastator and sakashima. All cards that were unique to the set that are really popular and fun. That is not even all the unique good cards in it. Then they went beyond that and had powerful reprints on top of it. A reason for all types of commander players to buy the product. This product missed on both of those metrics so hard and feels like a set that has decent dragon tribal cards and draft chaff. 2nd point is another one on the types of cards, though many casual players may not like it, powerful cards that do crazy things are desired by many people and drive demand in a way that can’t be matched, if you look at double masters, most of the hype comes from the power and this set just doesn’t have it. 3rd point is that they made a new way to have commanders, the backgrounds and none of them are unique and they definitely do not break new ground when it comes to strategies in commander, no commanders here really have a large amount of interest behind them because none of them are that interesting. The partner commanders in that set like sakashima and tevesh szat were very interesting on their own while opening up new ways to play with previously owned cards. 4th point is that wizards seemed a little greedy with this set by putting the label “commander legends” on the box to make players thing it would resemble what happened last time to drumb up interest that might not have existed on D and D ip, and while I want them to make money, I would rather they do it by making a product people genuinely want to buy and sell them like hot cakes instead of making a subpar product. I don’t ever really write about stuff like this in chat but I was super hyped for the crossover of D and D with the commander legends ideal. While I have never played D and D it has a very rich universe and that is something I want to see more of l. I have never been this crushed before and it sucks to see something I would have willingly thrown my money at be such crap.

This set has a lot of really fun cards - the backgrounds are such an interesting way to get around the issue of partners while still maintaining a similar feel with a unique twist (and the color limitations of the cards is also welcome). I agree that the set was mislabeled and it really just doesn't feel like a 'premium' product despite the increase in pricing. This is more egregious because of the siphoning off of EDH reprints into other products (more premium than premium, I guess) along with the reported collation issues where the mythic dragons are just appearing less than the other mythic cards and some boxes are filled with BBD lands while others don't have any at all - and none of this gets into things like The List which was such a homerun in SNC and such a letdown here. These boxes would be good with 36 packs at normal draft booster box prices and I might even pick up some if they drop a bit, as they stand this set is just plainly overpriced for what it delivers...

I would love to hear you rant or just talk about any subject while you play the booster box game opening packs in the background like in this video, just a plane music with card openings can sometimes get a little boring, loved to hear you talk the first few minutes while opening the pack in this video.

Combining DnD with Magic was a mistake in my opinion. I would have liked to see more magic history incorporated into the set, throwbacks to history and old themes.

Hello, commenting as about a week after release I had hosted a draft of CL2 with my local group (had 16 total so 2 boxes). From what I learned after the draft, the mythics in total from both boxes was around 5 total. But. Everyone actually enjoyed drafting it and it didn't seem like anyone had any problems drafting it. There seemed to be enough of every color in the packs that it was only usually the last four cards is where you might hit a couple dead cards that don't fit your deck. The overall view was positive and since the price is dropping way below MSRP, I will most likely be trying to do another draft of this set in the future as while there isn't a lot of value, it is imo (and a couple of the other players I played with) still a good set and helps those who haven't really played commander before to try it out, learn how to draft, and enjoy creating a deck from a limited card pool.

Great comparison video love it

MTG players back in 2020: "We want good and cheap cards, Jeweled Lotus is a cash grab, we hate this set!" *WotC take notes and print a Commander Legends set that is cheap and affordable* MTG players: "We want good cards that will make boxes a good purchase, the cards in this set are way too cheap, we hate this set! I play since 2007 and MTG player doesn't know what they want. This will never change.

Great video prof, loved what you had to say here

I drafted this, Time Spiral, and CL1 with 3 friends this past weekend, and we had the most fun with CL2. Sure, maybe not a ton of value cards, but the gameplay was great, and the Backgrounds and Undercity/Initiative were awesome mechanics.

i love the soundtrack around minute 20.

Hasbro might have a good idea here. I think value-priced sets are just what MTG needs. Imagine if this was released as a standard set but with a $75/$85 draft/set booster box price and $10 for a 3 booster draft pack. Market it as a lower-value set for beginners, kind of like a core set, and I think people would have been fine with it.

I for one love the set. Have already bought two set boxes of it, and am considering getting another. Plus, I am also collecting every card from the set, just like I have with the first D&D set. The value of the set to me is not monetary, but from my enjoyment of it.

I think they want the definition of “commander legends” to mean commander draft format and many people assumed “Commander Legends” meant lots of good reprints for commander

I like the music you have chosen... :)

The pre-release of this set was the first time I actually liked playing Commander, so I'd say it was great. The pre-cons are also awesome, and my long-dreamed-of horrors deck just fell from the sky into my hands

When is the next shuffle up and play? Very excited to see two of my favourite magic players playing one of my favourite formats 😊

I really do like a lot of the cards in this set, and I love they brought back Adventure! It was also a great draft experience. I also agree that they missed the ball on Commander reprints while simultaneously missing the mark, and I might be in the minority on this one, on the flavor they had with the alt art module lands...wouldn't have to be exactly the module treatment again but maybe a miniature stand in for the art, or a character sheet derived alt art concept.... something to tie it directly back to the pencil and paper game the way the module treatment did.

I drafted this set, commited to my colours way too late, had to have about 30 lands in my dec because of that and still it was a super fun draft and can't wait to draft it again!

I appreciate these kinds of videos you make because it feels very honest and there is good advice. It isn't that you want people to not buy/play magic but rather find a reasonable way to do it. I also enjoy these because I feel like it keeps WOTC accountable. You don't kowtow to them and you have great reasons for your arguments. Please keep making these videos! As an aside I do feel dipping back into the D&D well was not quite as well done the first time. Especially using characters like Lae'zel and Shadowheart who are from the new game that isn't properly released seems a bit cash grabbing.

Interesting post mortem on the set, Prof. I focused on singles with Baldur's gate, electing to pick up a draft box after the price fall. This continues the trend of flavorful sets, with no supporting value reprints, will inevitably collapse in price. It's like a Mall with no bankable anchor stores: a series of small boutiques that can't amount to the value of a bigger store.

i drafted it at the prerelease in my lgs and i had a ton of fun. the cards in the set are not expensiv? excelent, that means i can buy them cheap and create a Set-cube with them! i love this set to play!!

Looking forward to your price point review of double masters 2022.

I did my first prerelease with battle for baldur’s gate and loved it. I made a slightly weak Raphael deck

Just got back from commandfestphilly and had tons of fun with the set, doing one draft and one sealed event with it (and beating Gavin Verhey in the latter). I saw a lot of excitement for the set, but I agree, moreso in playing in the sealed environment, rather than for any sort of chase cards. Heck, I got a better return on an AFR collector booster than a whole CLB box (thanks to borderless old gnawbones).

not sure if it says more about me or the set that the thing I was most excited for in this set was gate cards

Interestingly without your videos and some other articles I would have never guessed anything being wrong with the set :D I'm the only person in my circle of magic players that bought a set booster display and of all the displays I got so far in terms of monetary value it was the highest one I cracked open