Is It Worth It To Buy A Game Night Free-For-All For Magic: The Gathering?
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so I looked into it a bit: first I was suprised to read that HF is a german firm - did not know that; thought it was from the states. that explains why I as an austrian saw it rising more and more in the last years.
on Wikipedia one (sadly) can read that it is true that in the states HF was / is? working AGAINST a union forming ):
very disappointing imo. why would a german company do that in the states? oh yes, capitalism.
I'll keep an eye on that - actually want(ed) to join HF for a while now.
ah found it; it just droped very far down suddenly.
Thanks for doing these videos! Ive been wanting to rejoin the community after 16 years and your videos have been super helpful
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i picked up this box at a target while just looking around, ive played maybe 10 matches with some friends and we're looking to move more into magic now! i think this box does a good job giving you a taste of some cool things magic cards can do and makes you want to learn and use more.
And another thing you can do, is maybe do a challenge where you and your friends take your favorite deck from the box, and upgrade maybe 3 cards at a time from each deck.
I hope you enjoy having your new hobby held hostage by an unrepentantly cruel corporate overlord.
@@wordsmith451 yes, we enjoy the game ;)
dont get baited by the scam products they release sometimes
@@xanderjones6239 thats what were gonna do is look through some cards we like and swap them out with others in our decks and see how they work :)
You know there’s way too many products when you have absolutely no idea some of them existed until the Professor does a video on them.
No, the problem is that there aren't enough ENTRY products.
@@WardenOfTerra no, there’s just too much new stuff period. 😂
yes
me watching this 8 months later. cause i never once seen or heard anything of it even at my lgs...
lol what? That’s happens with any product. Unless you obsess there’s always something that people discover was a thing. Whether that’s marketing or not. People want to find a reason to blame for blame. I learned there was a video game out there this year that I knew nothing of. Let me just blame too many games coming out. lol see how that sounds.
"It's a Siren not a Merfolk so I don't care" had me dying, and totally on brand for the Professor.
I’m starting a merfolk deck mostly from the Prof’s subliminal messaging about them 😂
I got my copy the other day, I love stuff like this for play with my kids and introducing new players and one of the biggest reasons is getting friends and family who were old players a chance to play again casually without them worrying about getting deep into it.
People are down on these products but they are a good power level for treating it as a board game to play with people who don’t really play magic. The rules and interactions can be a lot for new players.
My playgroup has gone completely Commander (after playing Standard and Pioneer as well) and even with the last few (standard) sets we've been building sealed decks and we've still been playing commander. I think a product like this could be a fun alternative to shake up one week of our meet-up to break the monotony.
I don't keep up with standard anymore. I still crack packs but I'm not building a standard deck. I'm building for pioneer and commander.
@@ytsejam58 I started playing 10 years ago (which is weird to say) and that’s been the observed trend I’ve seen with basically everyone. Standard is fine at first, but after the first couple of rotations people generally want out.
@@ERGOPROXY. yeah, that's why I stopped playing standard. The rotation sucks. Build a deck you love, get to play it for a year, then have to dumpster it because it's rotated out and it's too weak to play in pioneer or modern. Felt like a waste of effort to me
@@ERGOPROXY. i started june 10th, 1997. to see the ups, downs and overall evolution of the game has been... a trip.
@@breeze7464 I play my own adaptation just because keeping up with the latest meta gets expensive and tiresome when competing against more practiced players, we use our own Kitchen Table Rules which are broadly based on the vintage/legacy/free form play formats.
40-120 deck size
20 life.
No more than 4 of any one card.
No limit on sets.
No singles, cards only playable if bought from boosters/starter decks. (Hard to police, but its more a honesty thing)
Oh and banding and mana burn are also a thing and sorcery cards play like they used to.
For me and my mates part of the fun is playing the weird and wonderful combinations you end up coming up with when building decks from only those cards you acquire through boosters/starters rather than min-maxing using singles.
We've been playing from around the Ice age era and since before that so it's just fun to play our own thing.
Definitely seems to be a step up from the previous iterations, though they should have made the deck holders large enough for sleeved cards and just added some cardboard to fill out the remaining space. I could easily recommend this as a next purchase for someone who enjoyed the starter kits and got bored with the decks.
Wassup mtg!
This was my first magic product, and it's been a success between my friends (never even seen magic before) and seasoned players from my local game store! (Tbf only 3 of them ever wanted to play, they don't want to let go of their commander decks 😅)
I think this is really geared most towards a combination of people who are new and experienced. This is the sort of thing that sits on the shelf of someone who *does* know a lot about MtG, and you bring it down on game nights where you've got people over who are inexperienced, casual players as a good way to teach them how to play the game - it's not as purely beginner-oriented as some other products, but does allow for teaching general concepts and even some more intermediate ones.
What’s the best beginner friendly product? Looking to get in to this with my son
@@ProdigiousReturnstarter deck packs
@@ProdigiousReturn Even old duel decks are great ways to learn. I still use them to this day.
I got one of the Game Night products back in 2018 as a gift and it successful brought me back into Magic after a many year hiatus. I call it a success.
I would've liked more discussion about the game night rulebook. Is it sufficient and easy to understand for beginners?
It has a great breakdown of the rules, and It's actually got really good explanations for a lot of the mechanics and things like trample, flying, and life-leach.
Best Magic rulebook in existence
I can't wait for the Shuffle Up and Play episode with this product
I’ve taught several people how to play Magic using these decks in two-headed giant, with newbies paired with experienced players. It’s worked better than anything else I’ve tried, except Arena. We’ve moved on to Jumpstart for replay-ability, but I think this product is great for introducing newbies to Magic, especially if they’re familiar with board games.
Great content with honest evaluations. Well done, picked it up mostly for the first elf and to have some lower level decks around for friends.
I am currently dreaming of a world where this actually has a bunch of extra cards to customize the decks with, and that not only is there enough room in the holder slots for the decks sleeved up... but with WotC also bundling together 5 colors of sleeves either directly into or advertising alongside to pair with a product like this. (So that the casuals *not* knowing about sleeve usage will get the message)
I very much want such a world to appear someday.
I was thinking about a box like that where you have a pool of cards to build decks from for up to 5 players last night and today I see they made this product. It's at least a step in the right direction for me.
You're the best MTG youtuber and I cannot be convinced otherwise, your for the community mind set is what we need with how WotC is operating at the moment. Thanks prof!!
Any creators who look out for consumers and the community first need to be supported!! The Prof and team are awesome!!
After playing with friends a few times, the 1st product I purchased was the arena starter kit that came with a Vito deck and I agree getting the cards on arena really helped me learn how to use all the cards I now owned and better understand the game as a whole
When you mentioned duel decks that really brought back memories because that's how I got into MTG, specifically the Goblins vs. Merfolk one.
Duel decks rocked
I like the 5 deck approach so you can play with 4 freinds or 3 freinds in a big pod and teach and play with all of them at once. And you can use it with one group of 2, another group of 3, mix and match them.
And it's all in one box that's nicely self contained. I'm very much looking forward to it!
I really appreciate your product reviews, thanks for keeping us informed about what these all are!
I saw this at target a few days ago, seemed interesting. Appreciate the break down.
I picked one up to give to my son’s middle school tabletop games club. He plays magic with me and at our LGS, but I’m hoping he can use it to teach some of his friends the basics. Sounds like it’ll be good enough for that. Thanks!
Stellar review, another great video, thanks
We're getting it for the occasional game night and because that box just look so damn inviting xD
Picked one of these up the other day, looking forward to trying it this weekend.
I like the concept of this product and had no idea it existed prior to this video. Prior to the pandemic I was basically making and balancing my own version of this for when my brother was in town. Events since then killed the project and I never finished the fifth deck, but "reasonably balanced casual format to pull out when guests are over because why would they bring their own deck with them to visit you" is a good product in my book
I got that magic starter kit per your recommendation to teach my girlfriend how to play magic and it’s probably one of the best purchases for new players. Cheap and effective. Thanks for the recommendation!
Nice video! I am an experienced Arena player but wanted to introduce my family/friends to Magic without having to explain all the Freemium stuff or having them use an app. So this feels spot on! I know how to play but I've never played paper, the cards are interesting and lots are familiar to me through Arena, so maybe this product is also made for people in my situation.
Haha I literally cut a part of the deck holder areas off the last game nights model, making space for sleeved decks XD you're the best prof.
I just bought a starter kit, since I'm new to Magic, I was wondering about buying this as well haha
Thank you Professor for an awesome video!
Fantastic content as always Professor. Feel better soon!
Thanks for going through this, I'll be picking up a copy of this now that ive seen a number of the cards in there, a lot of these decks fill slots ive been trying to build, and I want the 5 new cards.
My husband and I have considered getting this for our game shelf. While we go out for commander community play, our decks don't play well 1v1, ands they're too advanced to have our friends play while teaching them. Now, we have tons of games so it's low on our list, but this video is making me consider it as something fun to have when we just wanna bust out an easier magic game with friends who passively know magic and only kinda play.
This product has the same vibe of when me and my friends back in the day would just jam out 5 player games with normal 60 card decks (this was before commander), before classes started in college. So I can kind of dig it!
Thanks for making this review-- I was kind of on the fence about it after reading some comments on Reddit about the decks being slightly better. If it's like Duel Decks gameplay-wise, that's encouraging! Hopefully I can get this on sale someday.
Definitely check online during american black friday, and Christmas time. It might go on sale depending on how the print run is
I'm positively surprised about these decks and it's cool that you get some unique cards 👍
4:04 Half a Benjamin is a Grant Professor, everyone forgets about him
Thnx Professor! Looking forward to the deckbox!
Just saw one of these last night! You read my mind Professor!
Playing with my siblings and two nieces, the old GameNights box is still our goto, Can't wait to play with them using these new ones.
Was waiting for this review. I ordered mine a week or so ago. I think the main cards will definitely increase in value. But honestly just keen to have a few different decks to play with my partner so she can get more of a feel for the different colours and how they play. Same for myself as well tbh. Definitely keen on having vogar in my zombie commander deck tho. Appreciate the video, definitely gives good insight into the box as did the last review on the previous game nights box :)
That one great looking cover illustration.
For a more casual game night entry to magic like games I really like "Unstable Unicorns" it has a shared deck with all the base cards and some expansions so it's doesn't have the expensive card problem and it simplifies a lot of stuff but still has a decent amount of complexity, we even got into a counter spell(Neigh) war with some friends who had never played magic
Unstable Unicorns has been secret tech in getting two people back into magic and 1 completely new player 😈🦄
Glad you made this video, thinking of teaching my gf to play magic. If she likes it I might consider picking this up, between 2 of us theres a decent bit of variety in each game for it to hopefully stay enjoyable
I love your videos so much, I always check in before I buy anything because I appreciate such the honest opinion ☺️ thanks so much
I'm so glad!
6:06 ”ok the art is really cool” haha I love it too! ❤
Great run down of the newest game night! As a casual player I bought the 2019 edition. I personally enjoyed it because my girlfriend will play it with me as well as some friends that don’t play MTG but will occasionally come over for board game nights. I completely understand the gripes with the physical presentation of the box opting to throw away the plastic card holder in favor of color matching sleeves inside individual deck boxes. It’s a shame WoTC couldn’t have partnered with someone to include deck boxes (not those cheap ones you get with duel decks!) but I guess they try to keep production costs low. I also understand the gripes of the cards being somewhat underwhelming bulk. I suppose they do this to make sure the decks stay somewhat the same in power levels which me and the GF have had very interesting end games that could’ve went either way, for that reason alone I feel like I’ve played my moneys worth out of the 2019 product.
We have a new LGS that just opened up a week ago and they had this product the other day so we picked it up. I recently got my wife and kids into MTG and this was a slam dunk fun product for us all to play. My kids are still learning but they had a blast and we have been playing 4way and two headed giants and switching around decks to have different play experiences. Definitely agree that they need to make the box so that you can store the cards sleeved! In a video long ago you talked about a Pokemon Eevee (i think) product that had packs inside a Poke ball but it missed a mark cause you couldn't fit a sleeved playable deck inside it, but recently we found another Pokemon product that is very similar and the Primer Pokeball can Fit a fully sleeved Deck! Maybe Pokemon Listened? Hopefully WOTC will listen to this video and consider that in the future for the next Game Night Product.
I did actually pick up a previous Game Night box - IIRC, it was on sale at Target, so I picked it up on a whim. (As I remember, it had a lot of company there.) I may wait a while and see if prices for it come down like the previous one did.
Cheers professor! I might just buy this so I can teach some friends how to play without confusing them with MY decks :)
I've gotten the last 2 game knights and I have to say this is the best one. It's great for beginners but not brand new players is the best way to think about it. Personally Im gonna make these 5 into beginner commander decks for my friends that don't play commander
I first started magic with an earlier version of this. What I like about them is that an experienced player or players can bring someone in with pre-built, fairly balanced decks. I personally think not having strong deck synergy is a plus for these types of decks because you can just focus on basic gameplay.
So, before finding your channel, I kinda just played MTGA and, if my friends were available, a draft night at a local game store. Now, I bought a commander deck you advised was good and got my roommates to play. Just wanted to say thank you
honestly the decks and commanders are pretty damn strong! I'll be getting one for sure!
That end segment where you drop the box is hilarious
Man, if the price on this was cheaper, I'd consider it. Pricewise, it's a bit too high.
Hey Professor, whenever you do planning for Shuffle and Play, maybe invite Larry from Larry in the Hole on Team APS? He's been working more on Magic stuff thanks to you.
Just wait for the eventual price drop
Same reason I passed on it, it's another odd product from wotc.
honestly just buy 1, sell the cards and buy another, you still profit roughly 50 dollars doing it that way.
Granted the cards might have value but since they are in a "guaranteed" obtain box. Their value will likely plummet
Yeah only $33 now on Amazon..... Good buy now!!!
@@LetsTubetalk not worth it. Maybe at a dub.
I'd love to see you play something like this on Shuffle Up And Play
Game Night 2018 was the perfect gateway to MTG for my partner and I since we could play repeatedly with different colors (even make dual color decks easily). Got it cheap on Ebay when it was a few years old. Lots of good memories with that.
I love precon sets like this to play with my kids. They know how to play buy aren't to the deck building ability yet, so this is perfect for our family.
thinking of getting this for play with my mum and my girlfriend, all of us have played before and know how to play but don't play often at all. hopefully will be a good time :)
Thank you for the review, I'll keep an eye in case the price drops :p
This looked perfect for intruding new players… I’m still considering it for casually introducing friends to the game. I’d hate to have the Arena online component that equates to them “doing homework” on their own, but I certainly understand the learning curve when you first start playing Magic.
short, concise, honest.
thanks
Actually, there is an issue with making the card holders large enough for sleeved cards. You will need to provide spacers to keep the cards from shaking around during shipping and handling, and you need to make sure the spacers are significant enough that those don't fall out during said shipping and handling. Add to that the uncertainty (despite your declaration) of owners actually sleeving the cards and as to what sleeves they will use, it is not really a realistic consideration unless they also include the sleeves.
I'm definitely in the category for these, and I might pick this one up. I've not picked up either of the last two, but I did get all of the exclusive cards. The thing these lack is something more to make them stand out. Planechase is my favorite way to play magic, and I adore the Explorers of Ixalan box set. I love when they do these but with some added new spice to the game. These just 5 decks with a new card each just lack a bit for the price imo. Please make the next one of these a planechase thing WotC, since you're never gonna do the old style ones again!
Unfortunately the word is that a return to plane chase in unlikely. I’m in the minority that would prefer “board game versions” of MTG to just have different backs so that they could go crazy with the cards without effecting the resale price or real formats. If they want to put in 5 “real” cards to incentivize that’s fine, that’s all the cards people were going to take out anyways
Not a pentagram, but a pentagon
Connect the lines man, _there's something there, _*_I just know it!_*
Even worse
The kind of people who would be mad wouldn't know the difference.
One of the transition effects at 3:20 reminded me of those dual lands that you have to sell your kidney for 😂
It’s ok, you can shell out even more money now for proxies. I hear the packs are going 4 for 999.00.
@@russellharrell2747 They don't have the square text box even in retro frame which I find hilarious
Gotta thank Facebook for helping me with finding this channel, especially the infinite mana goblin combo video, genuinely curious about MTG
Good video. Thanks.
[giving 'this knocking on the table' academic applause]
I've wanted past game nights so I think I might pick this one up. I want 5 mono colored caual decks to pick up and play.
Play with the mythics as commanders, trust me. Had a lot of fun this weekend.
Wizards need to realize that making a Draft Cube and selling that as a "Board Game experience" is the way to go for products like these.
How have they not made a cube yet?
@@mtgbrewery7239 Some genious on marketing probably can't fathom how it's profitable XD
You've gotten significantly better at blindly tossing products in the air and catching them without looking. 👏
Lessons from Rodney
Dang it prof... as much as I hate ads, your reads are clever and I like your content too much to skip them. Plus I'm worried that youtube will know I am skipping past the ad portion XD.
it may not be targeted this way but the gn boxes work really well with families, family friends use one of these boxes and their kids understand it easily, it introduces them to magic and they have a blast so i think these hit pretty well
I am teaching my wife how to play, and this seemed worth it. I bought it. Thanks for the review!
I still have my game night 2019 i bought it in 2021 while i was in military school to have some fun since I didn't have access to my phone or anything pretty good product though the green deck is pretty op imo lol would recommend.
Well done not losing your cool when the box fell down at the end of the video prof ;)
I'm honestly really kinda looking forward to this. I bought both Duel Decks Anthology and several copies of Unsanctioned to have premade, pre-sleeved battle boxes ready to go. This just looks like a better and more enjoyable iteration to play when there's a mix of experienced and newer players and that rules. Many of my brother's friends learned with the last Game Night. I said, no, that's not good and gave my brother a couple Commander precons to use instead. I wouldn't have that reaction with something like this. It's a really good rock solid box set that honestly the only major knock I have to it now is that they just put out the Starter Commander lists today and that looks way better for a box set-style thing for newer players.
I'm a yugioh player who was gifted a magic deck for modern format by a coworker; I've been real curious about getting into MTG but I can hardly compete with the heat my pal brings to work. The Free-for-all set looked really neat as an option for play while I get up to speed!
I looked at this product at Target over the weekend and didnt see that elf… I need that elf!!! Ive literally been winning with Elf Archers for years cause of Greatbow Doyen and Jagged Scar Archers and that card fits the theme perfectly
Previous game store owner and Magic enthusiast here. Our play group plays pretty much Commander exclusively. On a recent camping trip one of the guys bought this and brought it with him on the trip. We had a lot of fun with it. Well worth it. We ended up banning blue since it won 3 of the first 4 matches and rotated the other four decks between the four of us. Great product, recommend for new or casual players that don't necessarily play 60 card constructed formats on the regular.
Nice video professor keep up the great work!
My only card game experience is Pokémon but I’ve had a vague interest in Magic the Gathering for a while and the Lord of the Rings sets really caught my eye. I’m interested in getting the start kit for that (commander decks seem really expensive), but this also caught my eye. Having just 5 basic mini type decks seems like a really great way to introduce the different types and learn what they’re all about.
It sounds like they have the same issue the Pokémon theme decks have though of “here’s a bunch of decent cards of X type” but there’s no synergy between them. But I’m guessing that’s what the commander decks would offer.
I'm just getting into this as well, with no ccg experience, I think I'm gonna get this and build commanders out of it and some singles from tcgplayer
I definitely think I'll be picking this up! My family is extremely introverted, and they love games. They want to play MTG, and playing edh as a first experience... Was not the easiest experience. I was actually thinking earlier today about just coughing up the money to buy the og JumpStarts, but I think this will work much better for us!
oh God, I can't imagine playing EDH as your first game of Magic ever. What about those free welcome packs with two 30-card decks and no really weird mechanics, would that be better for teaching people the extreme basics?
@@savedr oh in all honesty I didn't know those were a thing! Edh was my first experience with Magic too, so naively I thought it would be good to introduce others that way hahaha. My first experience was very good for the sole reason I was the only inexperienced player and I feel like the way Magic works and the way I understand games meshed very well.
@@savedr didn't they discontinue the free intro decks?
@@michaellooks8397 oh, freaking probably. I've got at least one from a few years ago, I haven't tried to get one this year. They should absolutely bring them back, there's no valuable cards in them anyway and they're great for onboarding I would think.
Picked this up along with the 2022 Starter Set to learn the game with my family. Starting as casual Noobs, we will see what happens from here.
I think this going to be good for when ever you just want to play magic and not have the competitive nature of a regular game I’ll be picking a box up
Hey. Would you be willing to do a video about how to set up win cons in a deck that's not tribal? Because that's all I can build well. I love my tribals don't get me wrong but I can't seem to transfer that knowledge into non tribals. Thank you so much for making your vids. I love them to death and they have helped me so much!
I picked up the 2019 one a couple years ago and it was pretty good but did notice some unbalances in the deck. So what did I do? I changed and spent lots of time making it more fun and representative of each color while keeping it very low powered and it is what I use to teach new players and I have had nothing but success with it after that. A lot of it is still the same but I love it now! Even for more experienced players it makes us get every ounce of optimization out of each card.
Props for keeping on the script while the box fell off the desk. 😆
Fell into MTGA right when the pandemic started. 2-3 years later, I wanted to try my hand with paper magic and just picked this up today. Hope I can find someone to play with! 😅
For cyber Monday I got this for $33! Excited to play with the boys soon
I bought it to teach my son and give him a chance to play every color. So far we’re both having a blast
Some people in my playgroup are fans of the old school Star format, but it only really works if you have reasonably balanced decks for each colour. Might pick this up as a self-contained Star game in a box, and also to play as duel decks against another pal who is pretty new to the game.
Bought one on a whim. Haven't opened yet. Intend on using it to teach my buddy, his wife and anyone who wants to learn
I loved the no flinch box drop 🤣
Dominion is absolutely wonderful. Started playing after watching some of your videos.
Dominion was the first game, where you construct your Deck as you play and it does it really well. I played a ton of rounds of this game. You may be tempted to get any of the many many expansions but maybe check out a couple other games, that use deck building as a mechanic, but also have more things going on.
Aeon's End is a cooperative deck builder, which some people might enjoy. You're trying to take down enemies together. This one's pretty popular and has a bunch of expansions as well.
Clank! and Clank! in Space! (amongst others) is another very fun and not too difficult deckbuilder, where you're trying to get to some treasure and the deck you're building helps you with sneaking around the dragon cave or space base.
Because the "built your deck as you go"-mechanic has proven so popular, there are a ton of games by now that include it as ONE of their mechanics and there are already a lot of games, that would be considered "modern classics". E.g. Great Western Trail, Dune, Ruins of Arnak but here I must warn you that the snappy feeling of Dominion is lost in exchange for very thoughtful strategizing. And in some games the mechanic gets a bit lost in the shuffle, so to speak. Great Western Trail is one of the best games ever designed but despite having a deckbuilder mechanic it's really about buying a cow-card every now and then and getting rid of low value cows It's all just cows with numbers and colors on them. Then you have games like Ruins of Arnak or Dune where the cards you can get are very distinct with differing costs and occasionally splashy effects but over the course of a single game you shuffle your deck only a couple times (even as little as only twice) and some cards you buy towards the end you might only see once.
So IF you really love deckbuilders and want to explore more of them, be sure to find out, which games are leaning more towards "pure deckbuilding" and which games are merely leaning on it as one of it's mechanics so you can manage your expectations.
If you want try something very similar to Dominion but with more fantasy or scifi, absolutely give Star Realms (sci-fi) and Ascension (fantasy) a try. Both of these games are available as apps for cheap.
@@paulszki Wasn't Dune an evil 6-players game of fuckery?
@@malakimphoros2164 Ah, yes. Many different games in the Dune Universe now. I meant to say "Dune: Imperium" the one you're thinking of is the game from 1979 (got a "remaster" in 2019) and it's apparently still a pretty good game but that one is also very long game with a lot of rules and you meed minimum 5 players it seems.
Dune: Imperium is not exactly an easy game but rules aren't all THAT difficult (especially if you come from magic), it's not as long, plays best with 3 or 4 players and it's a more modern design and it's one of the best reviewed board games of the last couple years.
Dominion (just the base game, by itself) is a pretty introductory product. A lot of the older cards would be considered fillers/skill testers now. With expansions, especially the newer ones starting with Adventures and Empires, it becomes more mechanically rich, has more interactions and a bigger decision space. In this regard it's very similar to a certain CCG we know.
We all love our favorite boomer. Thank you Brian for another banger.
As a Gen Xer, I reject this assertion out of hand, and hereby claim the professor for our generation
My roommates and I saw the new cards and reprints and picked this up, splitting the cost, so each of us could get the cards we wanted from it for a reasonable price. We're planning on playing a few games with it before cannibalizing it, so I'm very interested to see how it plays.
Before this though, I treated JumpStart as my gamenight/gateway MtG experience. I bought a box of JS, sleeved the packs as is and let players draft or randomly pick their two packs to mash together. I ended up disassembling them in the end though since I've got plenty of other boardgames and if I'm going to be playing boardgames with friends, I'd play one of those instead (plus, I've already hooked all my friends that I wanted to play Magic, so I no longer need a gateway lol).
If they didn't already have JumpStart, I think the ideal MtG as a boardgame experience would be a box like SmashUp where you have a variety of JumpStart-like chunks that can be shuffled together to make a variety of decks. I also think Planechase or something like it should be included with this product to increase replayability as well. As for pricing, this should then be priced around the same as SmashUp, so $30 USDish; though that would be significantly less than other Magic products for the quantity of cards so I don't know how willing WotC would be to do so.
Great breakdown as always, I actually may pick this up for my next game night to try to suck in my non player friends
Yea if that box fit sleeved decks that'd be really neat to use for a Battle Box!