Is it Worth It To Buy A Booster Box Of Modern Horizons 3? A Magic: The Gathering Product Review
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Just so you know, all the academics are sold out.... everywhere... for a long time now... Just checked CK/TCC to make sure.
CONGRATS ON 1M PROF!!!
Thank you so much!
@@TolarianCommunityCollege probably not worth but hey i just was at friday night magic and bought just one booster just to have to collection
ALSO YES CONGRATS
@TolarianCommunityCollege yeah congrats.
Well deserved.
My LGS burnt down and they ran out of card sleeves so at least there's hot naked singles in my area rn
I hate how much I laughed at this 😂
Best dad joke I've ever heard friend. 10/10
Dad jokes are like cutting a fart. You laugh hysterically while everyone else looks at you like "....are you proud of yourself?"
I love these
lul
Prof will guide us in this insane mtg product landscape! ❤
I will try my best.
Thanks, @@TolarianCommunityCollege, cause it's complex.
Have a good day, from France
Muad'dib?
Tolarian Community College's reach and influence, is beyond just the MTG community, and it shows with a million subs. Thank you for everything you do.
I'm not even a magic player, I just like hearing the prof talk.
Thank you for all the videos prof
Give it a shot! It’s such a fascinating game, I been following it since 2014. I started out buy going to a LGS and asking for a free starter deck. I’m pretty sure they still give them away.
I remember when he first started people used to complain about the way he talked.
Try the game on arena, it's free
95% of gamblers quit before they hit big
You will win big, casinos don't want you to know this.
🤣
No, hard f***ing no; my LGS- or at least the only one getting any MH III wanted nearly $200 for a bundle and a prelease kit and is hawking boxes for $300 to $400 a head. This set isn't worth it, gamblers go broke for a reason, buy singles if you have to or wait out the hype if you don't. This set will drop hard fast once the flotsam scatters and we see just how little is actually of worth in it.
@@casually_lurking I feel like their comment was a bit of a joke but, a subtle one. I wouldn’t take what they said to heart.
@casually_lurking
I think you missed the point, my man.
There are two possibilities:
- gambling is inherently not worth it and hitting it big is very unlikely. Gamblers would go broke before hitting it big. You could also argue that out of all the people winning a big sum of money in gambling, only the non-gamblers will actually benefit from it, because the gamblers will gamble away the wins of chance because the expected value of all gambling games is negative and they gamble enough so that the gains will converge to that negative value in the end.
- The original commenter actually thinks gambling is a good idea and people just stop too early. This would assume that that person doesn't understand basic stochastics.
If he is a defender of gambling and is passionate enough to write a comment, he would have written a longer comment. That's just how people on the defense argue.
So we can hopefully arrive at the same conclusion: the comment was a joke and you wasted your time writing an answer everyone watching this video has heard multiple times, stated by the Professor.
One could also argue that this comment is a waste of time. I agree.
It's pretty great to see the 1M next to your channel name. A wonderful milestone. Hopefully we don't have to wait till 2 Million before your Behind the Campus video!
I'm saving money to buy Bloomburrow packs. I want to see a bit more of the set before I'm sure, but I have fun opening packs, seeing what I get, and then seeing what I can do with them, and so far Bloomburrow looks to be a really cute and fun set
Same. Skipping this one because Bloomburrow is just so damn cute my partner and I are ready to buy a box just to crack open all them adorable critters
At this point I’m convinced Bloomburrow is going to be a set along the lines of Forgotten Realms and nowhere near the hype
@@chim007azoIt's true there is a lot of hype around it. I'm making sure I see more of the cards before I buy anything to be on the safe side
I think you are underestimating the hype for cute animals. I have been going to a few LGS and people are talking about getting a bunch of people into MTG with Bloomburrow. I will use people's nostalgia for Redwall to get them to play MTG with the Bloomburrow set
@@Keck282 I think people are overestimating animal nostalgia. This isn’t Pokemon, what the cards do matters. I think it will help some tribal but mostly set up new tribes. If they aim at kids expect simple evergreen mechanics. When the cards have low play impact value won’t be there to sell boxes.
Favourite channel for my brother and I to watch!! We love you prof!!♥️
Cheers! Thank you so much!
Congratulations on 1M, Prof! You were an integral part of helping me understand what I should be looking into when I was getting started and continue to help me make informed purchases decisions. Thank you for all your work!
Congrats on 1 Million Subs Prof! I would love to see a sealed or a draft Shuffle Up & Play episode! I think it would be a interesting experience!
3:33 dat Ocelot pride pull! omg
Congrats to the prof for getting over .01% of the world population to subscribe
Ok paused it at the TCC logo and saw the time stamp of just over 18mins. I'm going to go out on a limb and say "No, its not worth it. Buy Singles!" lol
Who are you, so wise in the ways of science?
Maybe you should finish the video.
12:50
You're thinking booster box game
Love seeing 1 million subs on this channel.
Congratulations Prof, you've earned every bit of it!
BUY SINGLES
Nah I like albums
DONT TELL ME HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE DEVIL WONAN
In my humble opinion, the only time you shouldn't buy singles is if you want to expand your bulk bin. I've gotten 2 boxes over the years and a good chunk end up going into storage until I can find a place for them in a future deck.
NO I LOVE GAMBLING
No, what am I: a responsible adult?
Prof my wife and I have watched you for YEARS, you have inspired me and many magic the gathering players around me to learn about and build cubes of our own. I cannot express how much you mean to us, thank you for your videos, hard work, and care for our wallets and enjoyment!
Congrats on 1 millions subs!
Congrats to 1 MILLIONS SUBS.. Well done !❤! ! Greetings from germany! :)
Thank you! 😃
Congrats on the 1 million subs prof. You are truly an inspiration and your depth of knowledge and passion for the game is truly unparalleled
I got my wife into magic and after the gorgeous art on some the cards she was into it. Then you released the Teal and Pink Academic deck box and she is now hooked. I got it for her as a birthday gift
i love how far prof has come i love this breakdown of everything for everyone interested in pull rates and just learning more about how it works
Congrats on a million subs!!! I stopped playing MTG because it’s insane price gouging. But I wanted to say congrats. You are one of the best parts of the community!
I like that you made a mention of the script writer in the video. Hope that this is something we'll see more of, so its more prominent that this is a group effort. That can be easy to forget on UA-cam, where channels are so often set up in a variety of different ways.
Yes, buy within your budget and enjoy. If you can't afford it, then buy the necessary singles.
This was one of the best opening experiences I've had.
yeah opening it felt great.
Therea are A TON of great commons/uncomons in the set, that in the past would have been like one rarity higher. Like roughly half of the uncommons feel like the could have been a rare.
But one thing you shouldn't rely on: that you'll get a guaranteed 2-3 of each uncommon out of a play booster box. I think my average was somewhere around 1-2, with a couple of complete whiffs and a select few uncommons you get maybe three copies but chances are high, that it's not going to be a general chase or even your personally prefered uncommon.
In my case I whiffed completely on the 2-mana rock-uncommon that produces energy and als puilled only one copy of Urza's Cave and Ampted Raptor and was like "whelp, guess I'll buy a couple extra online then" and ended up stocking up on a bunch of other uncommons that I felt I would end up wanting way more copies of. Notably, a lot of the MDFC-lands.
I am completely happy about the spread of commons. In the Past it was like 5-7 of every common after opening a booster display and it was always overkill and just... wasted paper. (i mean now it's at a token or a cool full art land some of the time) and here the average seemed to be somewhere in the high 3-4? That's perfect for all the common fetch-lands which are SUPER playable. Having roughtly a playset of these just felt really good because they seriously can go into any 3-color deck.
@paulszki I noticed the same thing. There are a couple uncommon cards I don't have a single one of. Actually a common or two also and I opened two collector and one play lol.
I had 2 different sources also and some how had a ton of the same hits.
4 winter moons. No Urza's anything lol.
Weird mix. Trading in for a third collector box. We'll see how it goes.
@@Dskinny23 I feel like Collector Booster boxes are always the worst offenders when it comes to uncommons.
Like commons, you don't really care. They're shiny, you get a couple of each or just one or maybe none and it doesn't really matter. But with uncommons, you STILL only get roughly 3 per collector pack, but you're not opening 36 boosters, you're opening 12.
So ironically uncommons feel like the rarest pull in collector boosters packs. Luckily it's not a huge issue and you can simply buy the uncommons instead of pumping another couple hundred bucks into getting yet another display. 😅
Loved the BoJack reference prof!
Enjoy the game however it makes you happy. Play your favorite format, crack packs, buy singles, trade with friends. The most important part is to have fun doing it.
Thank you for not hurting my fellings after I've openend 52 boosters in the prerelease week-end by saying "opening boosters is fun"...
Gambling is fun!
Thanks for helping elucidate mtg's convoluted pricing and economy. These videos are not only entertaining but are also very helpful. Congrats on 1 MILLION subs!
I look forward to the Booster Box game. And for the Collector Booster "let's see what would have happened if I had played the Booster Box Game" version, I predict you will get a serialized card. Because you absolutely deserve it.
Also, that the next Shuffle up and play episode will NOT be commander, but some proper 60 card gameplay, makes me even more excited to watch it. Can't wait until Monday
Excited for Modern SUP! From what you said in this video, I'm getting the vibe that non-Commander SUPs aren't as popular as Commander ones, but frankly I enjoy watching the 60 card constructed SUPs (and other nontypical SUPs like the Canlander and Dandan ones) the most!
Thank you - been eagerly awaiting this one
Hope you like it!
I was really surprised that a game store an hour away was selling a box for $235 - insta bought another box! Got Ulamog and Kozilek and others in my first box and got ugins labyrinth, ugins binding, and emrakul (and of course others) in this second box
Is it worth it to subscribe to Tolarian Community College even though he has one million subs? YES YES IT IS💜!
Daaaaw. Cheers.
Found Profs alt account
@@TolarianCommunityCollege im before 1 mil crew!!! on my main account :P
Can’t wait for Monday’s episode!
Grats on smashing that Kickstarter Prof!
I got excited for a hot second when you listed those deck prices, thinking I could get into modern with a dimir deck, then I read the slide. Just MH3 cards😅. Reading the screen explains the screen
1 MILLION SUBS!!! CONGRATS PROF AND THE TEAM!!!
I pulled 4 fetch lands, Ral, Ajani, and Grist, Sapphire Medallion, and Jet Medallion IN THE PRERELEASE!!! Then I opened a collectors box and got 1 fetch and nothing else :/
😢
Way to go on ONE MILLION SUBSCRIBERS!!! Thank you for all that you do for the many, many, many, Magic The Gathering players.
Congratulations on 1 million subscribers. Well earned. Thank you for your work and ongoing contribution to the community.
Congrats on 1M subscribers, Prof. We appreciate you continuing being our best consumer advocate. Never change.
Congrats on 1M Prof! You are truly a LEGEND. Greetings from Argentina 🎉😊
I love all the Eldrazi Cards in the set. If this were prices more affordably, I wouldn't mind buying enough to draft.
Congratulations on 1M Prof!
🎉
Congrats on the 1 million subs Professor. I wish I found this place sooner but I'm really happy to be here!
Congratulations on 1 million subscribers 👏
Thanks for the video Prof, they're always so comforting. And I'm absolutely hyped to see the modern gameplay on Shuffle Up and Play. With so much commander content online (and I know it's the most profitable), shuffle up and play is one of my only good windows into other formats and I thank you for that. I'll be tuning in!
got a bundle for $60 and i’m just excited to open some cool packs and hopefully get some cool eldrazi cards
First things first: oh gosh, what a gorgeous tie prof!!! Then, congrats on 1 million subs!!! Finally... man it has become so boring having to literally calculate what rarity comes where and how and which version and f...
I wish I knew about this channel when I was younger. This would be an essential addition to every MTG players arsenal; a diploma from T.C.C.
In Australia... this will shock most, as it already does here, the play booster pack costs us anywhere from $17 to $19. A collector pack is between $60 and $70. At my local, one of the modern locals opened 3 collector boxes, $1900 roughly, he probably pulled $500 worth of cards. He was pissed.
LFG! Very excited for the next episode of shuffle up and play. Can't beat 1v1 paper Magic.
For about the price of a box just got all cards I wanted including all three Eldrazi and Ugin’s Labyrinth. No gambling for me. 😅
I bought a 9 pack box from my LGS for $70, that’s about $7.77 a pack I believe.
Pulled about $85 worth of rares I didn’t want, and sold them and kept the stuff I pulled and wanted like my two Six’s
Overall I’m pretty happy with it.
EDIT: OF NOTE! not a SINGLE pack had more than one rare, even though it is advertised having 1-5 rares per pack I’m pretty sure. Not one did.
Yeah, this is why I like watching box openings on YT. You get to see how many utter dud packs they go through before hitting something that actually is worth the price of the pack lol.
@@nanoglitch6693 I mean, I made $15 and got a few $5 cards I wanted too outside of what I sold so idk felt like an overall positive purchase for myself.
My bundle had 1 pack with 2 rares, 1 was a Polluted Delta
A PLAYSET of each fetch for only 270 something bucks. Might be time to start getting my fetches back. Been playing casually since Khan's of Tarkir was in standard and built a deck for each khan(casual constructed) had fetches and shock lands in those and sold them off in 2022 when I bought my house. Miss them so much! Lol
Prerelease draft was $100 entry here in Australia. Even with how great the draft looks, I'm not able to stomach that price point
Bro that's crazy 💀💀💀💀
12:49 More eternal words have never been spoken 🙏🔥
I ordered a box only hit 1 fetchland. I think it was worth it for me with all the medallions, but I think buying all the fetches alone is a much better deal overall. You have to acknowledge fetches will go up. I got very lucky with my mythic slots and I really enjoyed opening them. If you want general value I believe this set will be worth it long term, however if you are looking at focused upgrades don't gamble.
Edit: I feel really dumb I just watched him essentially say this after I posted. No need to tell me.
Your my favorite magituber on this site whenever I'm teaching a new player magic I always send them to your channel to get good information and great entertainment congratulations on hitting a million
Finally got me a foil Urza’s Incubator for like less than $10, I love to see a $30+ card hammered down to single digits, that’s when *I STRIKE*
I visited a new game store and traded in a card for a pack at $11.99 I don't play modern, so probably won't buy another, but the new store was awesome!
I am always impressed by your fair and balanced reviews of all of the different MTG products. It truly is a breath of fresh air
Is Prof glowing now? He looks like he's glowing. Congrats on 1 Mil!
>prof starts ck ad
>reflexively refresh tracking on my ck order
There are so many cool cards in this set at every rarity, and it's a really fun set in limited play. I enjoyed the pre-release more than I have in a long while.
I'm still going to keep an eye on prices for the singles that I actually want instead of trying to chase them in packs, but I will definitely end up grabbing a box for drafting.
Played some draft with my friends today and had a blast. We split a box and it was worth it in terms of enjoyment, despite the price of entry. The new commons and uncommons are especially fun to play with.
Congrats on 1M subs. You really deserve it. Can’t wait for season 3 of shuffle up and play.
Yeah, I cannot argue with the logic of buying singles. I only buy the whole booster box when 4-8 of my friends and I are really excited about a set. Then, we will make a night of it and do a full draft together at someone's house. We did this for MH1, MH2, and now MH3. I figure the "value" I'm actually paying for is the experience with my friends (plus I get to my LGS while I'm at it).
Friend of mine opened a box and pulled 3 Ugin's labyrinth. One full art foil, 1 full art, 1 foil normal. His box was insane.
Me and my coworker split a bundle in half and got a lot of great cards to add to our decks it was enjoyable
At the beginning of prerelease I bought the new Ral flipwalker borderless non textured for around 5 bucks when he arrived he is now worth like around 35 to 40 bucks for one. Glad I followed Prof's motto "Buy singles".
Congrats on 1 million prof and team!Lets go for many more!!!
My criteria for buying packs to crack: Do I feel like I'll open something I'm happy to see 2/3 of the time?
Lots of factors can affect that metric. Does the set have a bonus sheet slot with high value reprints? Is the alt art treatment of the set appealing to me? Are there a lot of playable commons and uncommons, things that will go into decks immediately, even if they don't cover the cost of a pack? Even really cool basic land art can be a reason. If its a set where most of the cards I want are tied up in main set rares and mythics, its probably not worth buying packs for me.
I've been buying a lot of MH3. There are so many playable commons and uncommons. They printed the best naturalize yet, and the MDFC lands and common tri-cycle fetches are great.
A little bird told me flgs cost from distributors is 230 per box or 6.39 per pack.
Thank you for focusing on something besides Commander. Looking forward to the episode on monday. And congrats to 1 M subs!
Just for the fun of it I bought two collector packs last night. I pulled a foil winter moon and foil concept art kozilek in the first pack and the second pack had a non-foil retro border ragavan with a foil version with it. So after taxes I paid $112 and pulled over $200 in value from just four cards.
Thank you for sparking the joy for Magic in me and always reminding me, that there are non toxic players out there. Its very hard for a beginner where I live... Congrats on the 1M!
I really liked that SUP showed off all kinds of formats, rather than just commander, so I'm happy there'll be a modern episode this time.
First mythic card shown is ocelots pride in the first pack.
Funny enough, that was my first pack of Arena MH3.
It's a really expensive set but damn is it fun to draft. I'm also a big fan of eldrazis so this is the perfect set for me.
All hail hypnotoad
I bought 2 packs for now and pulled a flooded strand and a nethergoyf. So I was lucky.
pulled a foil retro ula at prerelease. it made my 0-3 feel better
All your good fortune was consumed by that ulamog lmfao
@@cherry9787 as well as the misleading sign it gave me to play blue green eldrazi
I was at SCG Con when the Professor got some grief about looking for packs if cards. I'm glad he's clarifying when and why to buy singles or sealed product.
I was pleasantly surprised by that final conclusion. Very cool.
Thankfully, I'm buying a box to open with my dad. He loves just cracking packs. It's something we can do together, especially since he'll never get to open a collectors LOTR box he always wanted.
Also, his luck is insane and I want fetch lands and eldrazi.
Also congrats on 1 mil prof
I didn't buy a box, but I did go for three pre-releases. The prereleases were incredibly fun, and I got some insane pulls.
If we ever get Universes Beyond Kraft I look forward to seeing The Professor being the lead guy doing the marketing.
Love this channel. Will love a MH3 pre con tutorial
I will say it seems like the fat pack bundles pulled better than a box. My girlfriend and I each bought a fat pack and split a box. The box had some decent pulls, but nothing too crazy. The fat packs each had 2 fetch lands, and I got a full art Ugin's labarinth, and she pulled Ulamog.
Anecdotal, but if this IS true then yikes
@cherry9787 it could be a placebo effect because i only split a single box, but everyone in my LGS seemed to pull better from the fat packs than the actual boxes.
The last 5s are the best and your editors rule!
MH3 has a lot of very good cards but the box prices are extremely high. Plus, Wizards will be printing a lot of MH3 just like MH2. Buying singles is the way to go but I will wait a while!!! Thank you for the video Professor.
I just drafted it last night. It's expensive, first and foremost. But it's a powerful set. Great cards. I got particularly suckered into the flip lands. I didn't see much of anything that I thought might rock the modern scene, but basically the entire set boosts Pauper and Highlander a great deal.
I went 1-2. Not my best showing. I drafted 9 of those flip land/playable cards and added 10 basic lands. But it still played.
The one time I would've been willing to get collector packs, so happy I decided to rejoin magic after a 4 year hiatus... Maybe I'll get foils for the cards I like. Scalpers killing me with these markups
Thank you for always talking your honest mind about the products.
Just played in a late prerelease yesterday, out of 11 players I think 7 played Temur Eldrazi. I came second with Boros Energy Aggro, fun times.
I honestly love cracking packs. I’m also looking to pull expensive cards to hold onto. This set has been the most I’ve spent on. I’m looking at $2200 😂 play boosters alone, I bought 6. Two of them I still on the way. I’m happy with my pulls. I got my money’s worth even after the official release date. Just doing god’s work. Someone has to put these cards on the market 😂