One good thing was it was less expensive and easy to pick up all the singles I wanted before the price spikes in the last ~24-48 hours. Built an assassin edh deck with only cards from the set. It’s not the best deck but it’s fun and good theme. Only thing is I wish there were a few more ramp spells in the set.
Prices are going to crash hard soon. A lot of these cards aren't going to see play long term and right now people are buying off of FOMO. But glad you were able to buy some before the spike.
Personally, I don't get, why people are angry about this set. They complain that it's modern legal, they complain the cards are too weak and so on. But this is the easiest set to ignore! There are no cards you "need" for any format. (Contrast to Aftermath which was problematic as a standard set & had some important cards) The only people who should be angry are those who want to play Assassin's Creed cards competivly in modern. Everybody else should just not buy it. And assassin's creed fan can be happy about cards they can use to build a fun commander deck. Let WotC just see, that this set won't sell well.
The reality of this product is Ubisoft wanted this product to be cheap so people would get it and it would serve as advertisement for their franchise. The target is gamers not mtg players.
They could if they didn't charge stupid amounts per piece of cardboard. Like if they had a low card count booster but it cost $2 a pack then sure, why not? Further monetize the FOMO by offering some alt art, first-run-only serialized cards, say upfront that six months out they might do another print run without the serialized cards in that run if demand is still there. Like so many things involving Wizards and Magic, a lot of it hinges on your perceived value you can get out of something and in recent times they've worked hard to justify jacking up their product prices across the board.
@@HometownTcg one of the largest issues with Aftermath was card redundancy, ensure enough asfan so you don't get duplicates of individual cards then that'll go a way towards establishing the card set as 1) not a straight cash grab, 2) perception that you're actually getting interesting cards for a consumable price. Aftermath doesn't sell because the set is at its core so poor in variety and value for what they initially charged, that perception carries over even at firesale prices.
Using my last box experience (MH3) the box was $250 or (rounding) $7 a pack of 14 cards, so 50 cents a card. as of the comment writing a box is $106 per pack is $4.41 or 63 cents a card. So from a pure cost perspective, you're getting less for more. Taking out the prices of boxes and cards, MH3 gave us Ulalek, more noodles (and a ton of noodle support), Ocelot, revitalization of energy, and for better or for worse, BIRD. What did we get from AC? A handful of commanders, a big boy emblem, Sword Of reprints, and Haystack. Personally, I'm definitely going to pick up The Capitoline Triad for Ulalek support, and maybe Caduceus, since I've been playing around with an Angels idea (maybe Giada, still unsure)...but other than that, this mini set just doesn't have much to offer. And I liked the Big Score, since I didn't notice it, it just felt like it was part of the set, it wasn't in a separate booster.
Of course you can't believe whatever Wizards says with a grain of salt. They will print another Aftermath and Assassin's GREED set in the future just like Wizards said that they will cut back on their products. If and when Wizards makes another product like this, I will not buy it. BloomBurrow is the only set that I have preordered some sealed boxes this year from my LGS. I skipped boxes from Ravnica Remastered, Karlov Manor, Fallout, Thunder Junction, MH3, & Assassin's GREED. The only thing I bought were the Precons from these sets. With new products being released every month, players do not get much time to enjoy the current set. Thank you for the video.
I'm officially off-board for the collab sets and I'm unimpressed with mainline expansions. It feels like I'm flipping through tv channels instead of playing a fantasy rpg, I'm checked out of buying new product. I'll buy budget singles, but no time soon, my playgroup feels the same, this is how we play Magic now.
AC is a collector product and was not targeted towards current MTG players but towards people who like AC and were thinking of trying MTG. A lot of people seem to be thinking that this product was for all players...I do not believe it was and it sold exactly how wotc wanted.
of course they will try it again this is hasbro where talking about here they already told us they wouldnt be doing a aftermath set again...and here we are again
I think there is SOME merit to the idea of skippin draft chaff style cards. But I think the set still needs to have a ton of cards. Why sell a display with 24 boosters in it, which each have 3-4 uncommons in them, when there's only 15 uncommons in the whole set? With 3+ uncommons per booster, after opening 24 packs you'll have around 80 uncommons. That means on average you'll get 5.3 copies of each uncommon. That is just a common in disguise. But at the same time aftermath had 25 rares. More than double the uncommons. Normally there are LESS rares in the set and MORE uncommons. March of the Machine itself had 60 rares and 80 uncommons. The ration in aftermath is so incredibly off that for any given mythic, one hundred uncommons must have been printed. Like if 1 in 7 rare-slots is replaced by a mythic and there's 10 mythics, that means, on average you'd have to open 70 after math boosters to have one every mythic. (obviously not the case in low sample sizes, but that's what should emerge, if you open, say 1000 boosters) -> 70s boosters for a specific mythic. Opening 70 boosters of aftermath will leave you with around 250 uncommons. Since there's only 15 different uncommons, you'll get around 17 of each uncommon for each mythic. Yeah, these cards aren't uncommons. If you do the same calculation for march of the machine, you'll actually arrive at 5.25 uncommons per mythic rare of march of the machine. If you want to design a set without draft in mind, cool. But don't just make 15 uncommons then.
To be fair wizard handled both this set terrible. assassin was put in between the juggernaut of MH3 and one of the most anticipated set in along time doesnt help plus not a very hype IP. And aftermath was advertised as a conclusion of the story and have resolution to story instead we get leftover art and cards that made no sense plus again the price was way to high at the point that it went down no one cared.
I’m so glad I quit magic 2 months ago for flesh and blood. I’m not here to rave about FaB but I’ll say that Magic is going down hill on many different things. Gameplay, sets, costs. It’s bad, the excessive amounts of sets they push out a year back to back is unreal to keep up with, the game is just commander, and you’re asking $200 for 8 collector booster packs? FUCK THIS GAME
One good thing was it was less expensive and easy to pick up all the singles I wanted before the price spikes in the last ~24-48 hours. Built an assassin edh deck with only cards from the set. It’s not the best deck but it’s fun and good theme. Only thing is I wish there were a few more ramp spells in the set.
Prices are going to crash hard soon. A lot of these cards aren't going to see play long term and right now people are buying off of FOMO. But glad you were able to buy some before the spike.
Do you mind posting your deck list?
I bet Sorcery could benefit from an expansion set 6 months after a new release to keep players interested.
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Personally, I don't get, why people are angry about this set. They complain that it's modern legal, they complain the cards are too weak and so on.
But this is the easiest set to ignore! There are no cards you "need" for any format.
(Contrast to Aftermath which was problematic as a standard set & had some important cards)
The only people who should be angry are those who want to play Assassin's Creed cards competivly in modern.
Everybody else should just not buy it. And assassin's creed fan can be happy about cards they can use to build a fun commander deck.
Let WotC just see, that this set won't sell well.
I bought a large number of singles from this set. I regret nothing
The reality of this product is Ubisoft wanted this product to be cheap so people would get it and it would serve as advertisement for their franchise. The target is gamers not mtg players.
I'll take old school MTG. Give me a set with Orcs and Merfolks.
I went to Walmart yesterday cause I needed a 6 pack of beer to try to pass a kidney stone and the AC booster box was the only one with 0 packs missing
They could if they didn't charge stupid amounts per piece of cardboard. Like if they had a low card count booster but it cost $2 a pack then sure, why not? Further monetize the FOMO by offering some alt art, first-run-only serialized cards, say upfront that six months out they might do another print run without the serialized cards in that run if demand is still there.
Like so many things involving Wizards and Magic, a lot of it hinges on your perceived value you can get out of something and in recent times they've worked hard to justify jacking up their product prices across the board.
This is fair but you can get aftermath for like $40 and it still doesn’t sell. I agree about the price but I think there is more to it.
@@HometownTcg one of the largest issues with Aftermath was card redundancy, ensure enough asfan so you don't get duplicates of individual cards then that'll go a way towards establishing the card set as 1) not a straight cash grab, 2) perception that you're actually getting interesting cards for a consumable price. Aftermath doesn't sell because the set is at its core so poor in variety and value for what they initially charged, that perception carries over even at firesale prices.
Using my last box experience (MH3) the box was $250 or (rounding) $7 a pack of 14 cards, so 50 cents a card. as of the comment writing a box is $106 per pack is $4.41 or 63 cents a card. So from a pure cost perspective, you're getting less for more. Taking out the prices of boxes and cards, MH3 gave us Ulalek, more noodles (and a ton of noodle support), Ocelot, revitalization of energy, and for better or for worse, BIRD.
What did we get from AC? A handful of commanders, a big boy emblem, Sword Of reprints, and Haystack. Personally, I'm definitely going to pick up The Capitoline Triad for Ulalek support, and maybe Caduceus, since I've been playing around with an Angels idea (maybe Giada, still unsure)...but other than that, this mini set just doesn't have much to offer. And I liked the Big Score, since I didn't notice it, it just felt like it was part of the set, it wasn't in a separate booster.
They said the epilogue boosters style beyond boosters were already in development. It isn’t happening again for a while.
Yes, but when they knew this for sure AC maybe was already being printed. I think it won't be an issue in the future
Of course you can't believe whatever Wizards says with a grain of salt. They will print another Aftermath and Assassin's GREED set in the future just like Wizards said that they will cut back on their products. If and when Wizards makes another product like this, I will not buy it. BloomBurrow is the only set that I have preordered some sealed boxes this year from my LGS. I skipped boxes from Ravnica Remastered, Karlov Manor, Fallout, Thunder Junction, MH3, & Assassin's GREED. The only thing I bought were the Precons from these sets. With new products being released every month, players do not get much time to enjoy the current set. Thank you for the video.
I'm officially off-board for the collab sets and I'm unimpressed with mainline expansions. It feels like I'm flipping through tv channels instead of playing a fantasy rpg, I'm checked out of buying new product. I'll buy budget singles, but no time soon, my playgroup feels the same, this is how we play Magic now.
AC is a collector product and was not targeted towards current MTG players but towards people who like AC and were thinking of trying MTG. A lot of people seem to be thinking that this product was for all players...I do not believe it was and it sold exactly how wotc wanted.
Magic fan boys are on a whole other level.
of course they will try it again this is hasbro where talking about here they already told us they wouldnt be doing a aftermath set again...and here we are again
Yes
I think there is SOME merit to the idea of skippin draft chaff style cards.
But I think the set still needs to have a ton of cards. Why sell a display with 24 boosters in it, which each have 3-4 uncommons in them, when there's only 15 uncommons in the whole set? With 3+ uncommons per booster, after opening 24 packs you'll have around 80 uncommons. That means on average you'll get 5.3 copies of each uncommon. That is just a common in disguise.
But at the same time aftermath had 25 rares. More than double the uncommons. Normally there are LESS rares in the set and MORE uncommons. March of the Machine itself had 60 rares and 80 uncommons. The ration in aftermath is so incredibly off that for any given mythic, one hundred uncommons must have been printed. Like if 1 in 7 rare-slots is replaced by a mythic and there's 10 mythics, that means, on average you'd have to open 70 after math boosters to have one every mythic. (obviously not the case in low sample sizes, but that's what should emerge, if you open, say 1000 boosters) -> 70s boosters for a specific mythic. Opening 70 boosters of aftermath will leave you with around 250 uncommons. Since there's only 15 different uncommons, you'll get around 17 of each uncommon for each mythic. Yeah, these cards aren't uncommons. If you do the same calculation for march of the machine, you'll actually arrive at 5.25 uncommons per mythic rare of march of the machine.
If you want to design a set without draft in mind, cool. But don't just make 15 uncommons then.
Haven't even watched yet but yes they should stop
Shhh don’t spoil it ;-)
To be fair wizard handled both this set terrible. assassin was put in between the juggernaut of MH3 and one of the most anticipated set in along time doesnt help plus not a very hype IP. And aftermath was advertised as a conclusion of the story and have resolution to story instead we get leftover art and cards that made no sense plus again the price was way to high at the point that it went down no one cared.
alright, alright, alright!
I wish I looked that good. 🤣
Too much shake, not enough bake.
But Bloomburrow.... is going to Shake AND Bake!
@@HometownTcg rabbit shake and bake?
Just pandering to a niche market. Garbage crossover.
I’m so glad I quit magic 2 months ago for flesh and blood. I’m not here to rave about FaB but I’ll say that Magic is going down hill on many different things. Gameplay, sets, costs. It’s bad, the excessive amounts of sets they push out a year back to back is unreal to keep up with, the game is just commander, and you’re asking $200 for 8 collector booster packs? FUCK THIS GAME