BOX OPENING! Grand Archive Set 3: Alchemical Revolution is HERE!

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5 ай бұрын

It's our very first booster box opening of Alchemical Revolution! What goodies will we find inside of Grand Archive TCG's latest set?
If this video gets 50 likes, I'll release the second box opening RIGHT AWAY!
Stay tuned for a livestream THREE CASE opening on Monday, January 29th!
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@Morning-Sheep 5 ай бұрын

This was a fun opening. Within the last month or so I've gotten into GA and your videos have been great companions to my journey. The foils you got in this box look great! (Though 98% of the foils in GA look amazing) Can't wait for the next box, hope you pull something great

@MaindeckGames 5 ай бұрын

That's so great to hear, thank you!! Good luck in your ALC pulls!!

@dadofwar292 5 ай бұрын

50 likes! Let's go!

@seanpiche6346 5 ай бұрын

I somehow opened 2 foil Ultra Rares from Dawn of Ashes and also sometimes the first copy of a Super Rare card that I get is also a foil. That's my luck with Dawn of Ashes. I can't wait for the release of Alchemical Revolution, hopefully I will a couple CSRs.

@Tronjheimr 5 ай бұрын

Can't wait!

@skurai 5 ай бұрын

very cool

@pme1967 5 ай бұрын

Yep, foils were not easy to get in mtg in the early days(why they have value) of the Urza's block on up til upper mgmt figured out that they had to destroy that. Honestly, that is all mtg had to do was go back to that but they just cant think anymore so that is why many have left mtg for other games.

@QKlilx 5 ай бұрын

Early in the video you said you like that there are URs that can be put into the main deck this time. I will respectfully disagree. One of my favorite aspects of DoA was that you only needed to pull single copy of a UR to have a playset. As they add more main deck cards to the UR rarity, it gets more and more difficult to get playsets without either spending huge money on boxes or hoping the secondary market has them for a low-ish price. As a bonus opinion, I also felt that putting spirits into the FTC UR slots was a mistake, but I'm also salty that three of my boxes had Serene Spirit of Fire. lol

@MaindeckGames 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for providing your thoughts as well! I can expand on mine a little too - the issue with making the URs all one-of material deck cards is that it floods the singles market with them. Yes, it's cheap to acquire them - but that means the value on any card that isn't "Grand Crusader's Ring" is nearly zero, making the average value of a box lower. While this is a positive for the singles-buying player, it's a large negative for the LGS who, in order to continue stocking the game, needs to make a profit on the boxes they buy. LGSes who find that players are uninterested in buying boxes because the value is too low will see the game as a whole as a loss and discontinue stocking it. There are multiple approaches to increasing box EV, of course, and there are always tradeoffs with all of them. Increasing foil drop rate decreases value of common foils. Adding another rarity dilutes the scheme and just pushes the goalposts - now we would have to have the same conversation, just with that rarity. Etc. When it comes down to it, whether or not these URs feel reasonable as 1/box is going to come down to 2 things: How they are collated within a print run (which we still are not sure: With other rarities, Material Deck cards are now shorter printed than Main Deck cards. If that applies here, you'll likely see roughly 3x of each Main Deck UR drop compared to 1x of each Material Deck UR), and how evenly they are designed. It's no longer possible to get a playset of URs with a single case or so, and for some people that may be very disheartening, so I totally understand that feeling. But from my POV - what's good for the goose is good for the gander. If this helps the game sell better at the LGS, it helps the game grow as the bottom line, which is what we want - and whether or not we find it disruptive personally will come down to how well the drop rates and cards are balanced. Even getting all URs to be around $20 each on the secondary market would prop up box values for stores to hopefully sit ABOVE MAP, while only asking that you need to pay less than half the cost of another box to fill out a playset for your favorite deck. But moving forward with exclusively $2 cards in the UR slot - with the occasional $12 Divine Relic - is untenable for sure.