MTG - Is it worth it to buy a Magic: The Gathering Gift Pack?

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Is it worth it to buy a Magic: The Gathering gift box. Sporting a fresh new design...for Magic anyway...Gift boxes appear to be replacing the holiday gift box, and the redesign couldn’t be more dramatic. So is this product the perfect present or just another disappointing lump of coal. Let’s take a look.

Final conclusion: This gift box is cynicism incarnate. It is as close as wizards of the coast can get to selling an empty box.

It is unclear who this product is for and what category it really fits in. if this a gift...it is not a very good one. The only thing that might appeal to anyone are the mark poole foil basic lands, but considering all that gift boxes once offered and how little this gift box now contains, I feel there is nothing of value here.

[riftacademy]

This feels like the kind of thing a dollar store or Wal-Mart would throw together, not something Wizards made.

[benjaminzaugg]

"its the closest thing to selling an empty box"
burn

[CrimsonHiroX]

this product is aimed at the non-magic playing relatives of magic players who need a last minute gift idea...

[MisterMorn]

What kills me isn't even what we get. It's the complete lack of a theme behind it. Imagine if this gift pack contained the following:

-3 Ixalan Booster Packs

-2 foil rares/mythics from Ixalan. Don't even have to be good ones or alternate art for that matter, but a couple legendary creatures would throw a bone to the Commander players who this set seems to be aimed at with all its "tribal matters" nonsense.

-5 foil basic lands, one of each type, from Ixalan.

-A fakey-fake BS poster featuring, I dunno, Jace waking up on the island he found himself on at the start of Ixalan

-fine, a spindown too. But make it an Ixalan spindown, with that expansion symbol for the 20.

See how this is the exact same product, but with a stronger theme? It would still not be great, but it would feel like it was made with a consistent theme in mind! I mean, it's not like I go to the "seasonal aisle" at Walmart and find a coffee/hot cocoa mug with paper clips in it. Gift packages and boxes should have a unifying theme to them, something to tie everything together. And no, being all products from the same game is not good enough.

[szymonkoziarski]

In short - it's a terrible version of the Pokemon's boxes.

[Tsilly]

The thumbnail says "An uplifting maybe." to me.

[vintagemagic]

Great video prof. Reality is Wizards is throwing darts at the board and scraping to find profits and sales. Why not give some junky leftovers and the consumers lose.

It's not special, this product that is. What a shame.

[Svstrauser]

So,
I worked in a law firm in Brazil, fighting piracy, for five years.

As such, I can say this looks exactly like the kind of counterfeit toys I used to seize. XD

[MagicYio]

Small figurines or pins would be very popular if they added it in Magic products. I would love to see that!

[Colinmchapman]

“But hey, what do I know”

I would like this line in every video: “Hey, what do I know...I’m just the Professor” - *cut to camera two. Looks at camera.*

[quinzellwilliams]

Love it this phrase the professor said "This gift box is cynicism incarnate."

[ericmcclelland]

So glad you brought back the outro mentioning to buy at your LGS
Always love you work Prof!

[EightMasterRobots]

This would be an acceptable product, but only if it's MSRP was $10.

[MrLuBuFu]

Legit spit out my coffee at the 'purple background' joke

[hudaphux]

Wizards use to sell empty boxes, they were nice deck storage boxes with set art on them, and were awesome.

[DrudgeNYC]

New to your channel- quickly becoming a favorite dude! Played MTG on and off since high school. I'm 38 now and haven't played MTG now since Innistraad. Looking to get back in though eventually. Thanks for your vids!

[torch-bearer]

Fun idea for these sets what if they were plane/story based
So each set would include

-full set of foil story spotlight cards

-premium spindown (I’m talking Dragons of Tarkir style)

-3 booster packs

-Oversized foil planechase style card for represented plane (definitely look better then a boring “poster”)

I think that would make for a fun gift box both collectors and casual players could enjoy getting as a gift.

[Nate-tqwu]

Had the same reaction at the MSRP at 1:50 ...

[ModelOmegaForReal]

Is anyone noticing a trend here? Wizards makes a good Clash Pack after several disappoints and it gets immediately discontinued, they make a good Event Deck after many mediocre offerings and they get discontinued, now they made a good Holiday Box after many flimsy ones and it looks like that might be discontinued now?

[rstueckle]

You're already an awesome channel but the fact that you plug people's LGS before your own Card Kingdom affiliate link makes you an even better one. That's an awesome thing to do and I thank you for it.

Man the mtg community has some awesome content creators.