I Bought Magic Packs from a Dollar Store...

I bought Magic packs from the Dollar Store. Am I an idiot? Let's find out!

#MTG #magicthegathering #opening

[skiks]

Story time: my playgroup and I would occasionally buy a bunch of these packs because they were so cheap, and essentially play limited, draft, and at one point, 100 card limited with them. 90% of the time, they were the slowest, jankiest, absolute horseshit decks you could imagine, and then the 10% of the time you got a synergy going, you felt like a genius king sitting on a throne of garbage.

We nicknamed the format "Dollar Storm". Good times.

[gregorybrashear]

They take cards from box breaks And buy all the bulk after the good pulls are gotten. The. They literally mix all of the bulk in a shuffler. Then shuffle all the bulk rares and they make the repacks. I've watched a card shop so it in person. Granted they did it with a little more finesse and order.. but it's the same concept.

[jamesedwards]

Back in university, we routinely did "hobo drafts" with these packs. Highlights include: 15-Thrum (someone took all the Thrummingbirds), The Unbeatable Chancellor (Chancellor of the Tangle just won because there was no removal), and Oops All Unsummons.

[michaeltaylor]

I started playing magic because of these packs. Dollarama was my first job and I was intrigued when I happened across these so i bought our entire stock to play with my buddies.

They didn't come with a guaranteed rare back then and there was many older cards to be found. Only card of notable value out of 30 packs was ashnod's altar. Back in 2014 it wasn't especially valuable yet even. Good times, thanks for the nostalgia!

[michaelmills]

I've done chaos drafts with these and it is insanely fun. The power level is low, but generally the same with most colours. The card variety is so wide that multiple drafts won't become predictable as you play. When I was doing it regularly, the packs were $1 for 10 cards without a rare guarantee, and we drafted 6 packs to cover the potential for utter crap or unusual stuff like silver bordered cards. The rounds were best 2 out of three, with the players trading decks for the second round. It was very casual, and we always got a laugh out of what we were able to build.

[jasonjenkins]

This is what your sponsor, Card Conduit, does with their bulk. Shuffles 'em up and packs 'em up and sends 'em to dollar stores.

[DustyBrushy]

This is a man who has never had the thrill of playing dollar store highlander right here.

[kameronbelcher]

As someone who owns 0 cards and wants to get into it but is having trouble due to price, I think this would be good for me. Like I would've been so excited to get that Beholder in particular, just because it looks sick.

[micheal]

My playgroup has fun from time to time with dollar store draft for just sheer chaos. Fun time was one person winning with an infect deck out of nowhere once.

[Quarter_Turn]

Half the cards being upside down is absolutely maddening.

[travis_approved]

Went from $2000 of MH3 to $15 of dollarama packs lol. Truly showing the entire gamut of the MTG product space

[proteus]

My friends and I buy these all the time from Dollarama and we draft them and build decks with only these cards. It can be fun since everyone is on a similar power level, and you play cards you normally wouldn't play in a 60 card format.

[ShieldedLoL]

I use to buy these with a friend, we would buy like 3 or 6 each and then combine them into a winston draft. It's actually pretty fun, and the random rares sometimes come in clutch and makes it crazy. I don't remember that many thriving lands but it definitely helps the draft concept.

[Kopekemaster]

My LGS used to sell $1 repacks, which was basically how I got into Magic. I'd go there to play D&D and buy a $1 repack or two, and open them up and read them during the game, I just liked looking at the art and thinking about what you could do with the cards.

I opened an Aetherflux Reservoir in one of them (I think Kaladesh block had just come out recently, it must not have been worth anything yet) which captivated me, and from that moment on I wanted to build a deck around it. After I got big into Magic around WAR, a combo deck with Aetherflux Reservoir and Bolas's Citadel was one of the first "real" decks I made.

[RippinAddiction]

I bought 12 a few months back, kept 4 for myself, 4 to a friend, and 4 to his son. We made decks with the cards we got, was a lot of fun actually. Change of pace from our usual games.

[feldamar]

It's time for BEEJLANDER!
You are allowed 5 packs. That's it. Make a 100 singleton deck. Have fun!
Yes. power level is probably -1...But so is your opponent.

[johncrossley]

Me and my buddies use the cards from dollar store to draft for some iron man magic. So much fun and you're not worried about wrecking your cards.

[aimees.]

They used to have 100 card packs for $4, nothing worth anything, but good to fill out your collection

[KingBanan]

Loved buying these and doing draft with my cousins and friends! great cheap fun~

[Cryptl]

Even if you get $2 out of a $1.5 pack, you are not making any profit. In the words of Rick from Pawn Stars: "Selling stuff costs money".