MTG - Is It Worth It To Buy A Fat Pack? A Detailed Analysis - Magic: The Gathering

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Quite frankly, for every 2.5 Fat Pack boxes you buy, you could have bought a booster box instead. Even if you have found online deals where a Fat Pack was a little less than $40, it's hard to justify a fat pack in any situation other than buying individual packs at $4.00 each.

Buying a booster box is a better deal than buying individual packs, and people can get boxes for approximately $100, meaning packs can cost about 2.75-3.00, depending on how good a deal you got on your box. So 9 packs at $2.75 each is 24.75. That means you just paid 15.25 for that Fat Pack box and spindown die. Even if you needed the box and die, this isn't a good deal.

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[themagicalnerd]

Even though you can see the visual spoilers on the internet, the little booklet thingy is still fun to collect, and is useful to just see all of the cards from one set without having to be on a computer. It's like comparing books to eReaders. I am a book guy,

[Diannime]

I found a set of friendly brothers that own a game store today. They sold me the most recent fat pack for $35 and gave me 3 quick start decks. They offer land cards for free and they have a tower of boxes from other fat packs at a cost of $1. I think I like their prices compared to the ones you gave as average so they may be my new favorite place.

[lukasperuzovic]

I remembered when a Phat pack came with a paper back novel that tied into that set.

[LordSpleach]

I personally find the D20 die and Set book nice for collecting.

[YeahShowtime]

I hadn't owned any magic cards whatsoever. A friend and I both bought a fat pack and played a sealed draft with the 9 packs. The time spent playing and making our decks probably happened over the course of 5 hours, which was fun/entertainment. Even though I didn't get any super great cards, I think it was worth the 40 dollars in my case being that I had zero land to start with/the use of the packs that were immediately played.

[Mightypoo]

Fatpack:
Great for starters and collectors,
Nice for average/casual players,
Disappointing for advanced/serious players.

Determine who you are as a magic player and you'll know how happy you'll be with a fatpack (despite the lucky pulls you can have).

[Symos]

Anyone else remember when a Fatpack had 3 boosters, a "tournament deck", a spin down and a novel?

[marcelineheartfield]

there's a quick fix to the lack of a secure lid.


wrap the bottom portion of the box with a strip of duct tape around the perimeter.

now the friction secures the lid. I house a small cube and a bag of counters. does well against the classic Tolarian Shake Test. great for a budget cube or storage box for those who lack an outlet for a BCW box.

or just love the artwork and theme on the box.

[SylvioTenenbra]

The feeling when I nearly cracked as much value from my m15 fatpack as a good friend of mine did from a boosterbox ~
I did realise that I would have come cheaper if I had bought the cards individually, but the random element of it and getting cards that others want, make it an fun purchase from time to time ^^

[gavcanflip]

Where I live, packs cost around $5, so fat packs are a bit more worth it than other places. Also, I have only been playing for a bit over a year, thus my mana base is not the greatest, making the land more useful. To me, fat packs seem like a good deal.

[DrewReaLee]

Fat packs have generally been good to me except Dragon's Maze and I've purchased one of each set from Kamigawa. I remember I had friends over and they went through all my player's guides from old sets just to look at the top 10 cool cards. The fat packs back in original Ravnica were especially cool as you got 2 all black boxes, an actual spindown counter, 6 booster packs, and a novel for $25 if I remember. Crack packs and kick back to read a novel; not a bad way to spend a Sunday back then.

[nafnaf]

I've always liked Bundles. The boxes are so useful. I largely use them to store my Commander precons since one Bundle box will store more than 5 unsleeved decks

[MadaraStv]

Fat Packs are the only sealed product that I'd recommend for someone to buy. It gives you enough packs to satisfy your need of cracking some lottery tickets and it has higher return value plus it gives you some merchantise to remember the set by (those "worthless" guides sell decent on ebay after a long time has passed and I enjoy collecting them). Intro Packs are only good for casual play and are usually a bad value. As for Booster Boxes - they are a great way to burn money and fill yourself with cards you will never need unless you like collecting. I'd buy one only at pre-release and split the cost with the people I plan to draft it with. Event Decks are the only things that are packed with guaranteed value and are by far the best purchase so I guess I would recommend them as well. Still - want cards to play with? - get singles; want to collect? - get the full set at release.

P.S: What would you recommend as a good price on the KMC's sleeves? Here they are more expensive than Dragon Shield and they do come at only 80 witch leaves only 5 spare ones. In the other video you said they cost less and placed them second but recommended them for double sleeving - I would like to use them for that but if they are more expensive than the Shields are they still worth it?

[JellysMC]

Hahaha, "Courser of Kruphix's value has nowhere to go but down".

[CrimsonFox]

Pokemon recently released their own Fat-Pack, and i consider it a superior deal. it costs a few dollars more; $45 in contrast to $42, but there are a few highlights to it.

1) it comes with 8 boosters, so there's that.
2) 80 energies. good. good.
3) acrylic burn and poison counters. nice
4) 7 D6 for damage; 6 small, and a large.
5) 4 dividers. Good for dividing your decks in the box
6) it comes with 65 Sleeves. Whoa, what?

Admittedly, the sleeves are low quality; as they can peel if not taken care of, but the fact that you get more than enough sleeves for your standard sized deck is more than enough reason to buy it if you play pokemon.

[ejmacski]

packs cost $5.00 where i live, and i got a fat pack for $32+ I'm pretty new and could use land so i feal it's a good deal.

[claytor]

I think another good point is that Magic is a collectible card game... so, the cards are sometimes just fun to collect. That means the box, the reference, the die, do have some value even if they are not individually worth anything.

[Hmslc]

Right now on Channel Fireball, fat packs are listed at $29.99 for Khans of Tarkir and M15. I understand this was made with Theros fatpacks which were in the 40 USD range.

If you are new, I think it's 100% the best way to get into Magic. You get enough packs for 3 drafts (or 1 sealed and one draft) and I believe 20 of each land which allows you to play any two color deck and just 3-4 short of playing any one color deck + the useful, albeit cheap, deck box.

Obviously if you are just looking to jump right into standard, you could buy the deck through singles, but if you pull one fetchland or some other money cards in Khans (Sorin, Sarkhan, Rattleclaw Mystic, etc.), you will almost have made you money back and get to make a fun sealed deck.

[JakandDaxter]

i have an Eldrazi box from when those were new that is still in great shape. No tears, rips, dents, loose top. All my boxes hold up pretty well.

[BenjiJediMaster]

I buy fat pack for 30$ CAN at prerelease, and i collect the boxes and dies (+ the poster and player guides that i just LOVE TO HAVE)