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New Value Booster Announced -- 3 commons, 2 uncommons, 1 random rarity card and a land or possible foil (magic.wizards.com)

submitted 4 months ago by mike@mtgzone.com to c/mtg@mtgzone.com

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At select retailers, you may see a new kind of booster available. While Collector Boosters are perfect for fans who want all the coolest cards, and Play Boosters are built to bolster collections by being opened to play Magic, Value Boosters are a smaller, lighter booster that contain a handful of new cards any fan can enjoy—a budget-friendly way to experience Bloomburrow. Each Value Booster contains 3 commons, 2 uncommons, 1 wildcard of any rarity, and 1 card that may be a land, a traditional foil, or a Special Guests card.

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[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

October 2023: "Having too many types of booster is hurting sales, so we're consolidating them."

July 2024: "Hey check out this new type of booster we came up with."

[–] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 6 points 4 months ago

Something something pendulum swinging

[–] Fluid@aussie.zone 6 points 4 months ago (5 children)

WotC exec is schizophrenic. They will never give up trying to give players less while charging them more. The never-ending cancer of "line must got up every year".

You can just create a sustainable business model guys... one where costs are recovered and a modest return is made. You don't need to give in to the squeeze from Hasbro to milk your product into the ground... and become like every other empty shell of a product they own.

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 5 points 4 months ago

Not just line go up. Line must go up more than it has previously gone up. A slightly lesser growth is apparently lethal

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[–] TehPers 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So pauper boosters? Doesn't look like they announced a price, but if it's more than $2 a pack, I just don't see it. It has 7 cards (1 often is a land it seems) and no guaranteed rare (or higher). If it's cheap enough, buying these for a low cost draft/sealed could be fun though.

[–] mike@mtgzone.com 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What's kinda funny is that the 7 card packs don't even make it around the table once in a draft lol

[–] TehPers 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You could try it with a smaller pod (4 maybe?) but yeah that's a bit odd. You'd definitely need more than 3 packs per person though, probably 7 to give everyone 49 cards to choose from.

[–] mike@mtgzone.com 3 points 4 months ago

That could actually be fun. Especially with the lower powered packs. The person who opens a rare would be like the one-eyed among the blind 😆

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 3 points 4 months ago

Kind of a weird one hand sealed format to experiment with maybe :)

[–] gammarays@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I fail to see where is the "value" in a booster full of commons and uncommons

[–] mike@mtgzone.com 6 points 4 months ago

Saw this on the reddit thread and did a real lol:

It's a value booster for their shareholders