LootPinata wrote:srrogers1985 wrote:Well I bought a box of Gatecrash and got a lot of good things that I was looking for and some good trade stock. I think I came out ahead a little and ended up with about $150 in value.
What on earth did you open that you got more than the box's value?
If you tally it up, almost every box I've ever opened has put me ahead monetarily, at least while said box was standard-legal. Generally you'll pull a couple of chase rares, and if you're really lucky a chase foil. And even though you're not going to pull a mass of $50 cards, if you tally up all the $5 cards you pull out (not to mention the average of 2-3 $20+ cards I get in a box), the rares alone are typically enough to pull me even, and that's not even considering things like foils or $1-2 commons/uncommons that are used in almost every deck uses in Standard. Hell, buying a box typically gets me at least 3 of every common in the set, which makes filling in the holes cheaper overall. The problem is that when a set filters out of Standard, around 95% of the cards in a set depreciate almost overnight. Also, opening a box of boosters is just plain fun!
True, although I've found that the new Booster Battle Packs tend to be a better choice for the price. $9.99 for 2 packs and two 22 card prepacked minidecks (tend to have several of the more used cards or just good ones with the cards always in them), while packs are either the $3.99 for a normal pack or $1.99 for a mini pack (that really isn't worth it being 5 cards and no guaranteed rare/mythic rare)