I Bought Magic Packs from a Dollar Store...

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[@skiks3562]

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.

[@violet_broregarde]

Someone should make and sell these packs from an intentionally curated list of really cheap cards that are fun together. Like making a cube and then selling booster packs of it. When I spend $12 on a draft I'm not *really* paying for 3 booster packs, I'm paying to play games for 4 hours.

[@TobyTheMastor]

Dollar Storm 😂

[@reidyo5404]

@@violet_broregardepauper draft, or what’s the other one? Artisan?

[@violet_broregarde]

@@reidyo5404 I'm imagining basically a cube

[@darthsnarf]

I've been trying to get a game going with these I've got a stack of them, just gotta get the boys together.

[@jamesedwards8175]

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.

[@sarroth]

‘Ooos All Unsummons’ is both hilarious to read in paper and probably a nightmare to play against

[@kilo5869]

Oops all Worldfire

[@zlumpgod]

What a fucking game mode 😂

[@gregorybrashear1520]

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.

[@Lightning_Lance]

I mean, I don't know what else you would have expected for 1.50

[@loganstecher2581]

​@@Lightning_LanceObviously a gem mint 10 Alpha Black Lotus

[@kyleellis1825]

@@Lightning_Lance YEah, these aren't for people who already have more than 100 dollars in cards. But if you know a kid/teenager who wants to get into the hobby or even an adult with low funds, they can spend like 30-50 bucks and have a jumpstarted collection of commons/uncommons and bulk rares to mess around making some decks.

[@pooolish334]

​@@kyleellis1825 Thank you

[@DarkYuan]

@@kyleellis1825 Idk if I'd drop a bunch of money all at one visit, cause they seem to have duplicates in subsequent packs of the same batch.

[@jasonjenkins1856]

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

[@captiannemo1587]

Which… you can’t blame them either. You have to do something with the incoming volume. Could probably just burn them for central heating really…

[@bigmanmccheez5342]

@@captiannemo1587 these cheap repacks are perfect for younger people or people who don't want to/can't spend a lot on the game. I love these for how available they are and how cheap they are for a few cards that could be decent. I'm not sure how it is in the US, but in Ireland a set booster is equivalent to $10-15 each. No one I play with ever buys packets because they're just too much of a gamble. Occasionally I'll get a few packets as a treat for myself, but I'd be better off saying up for a few more weeks and getting a commander precon or buying individual cards online for about the same price. With these though, I'd gladly spend a few bucks on a few packets, even if i don't get much value I haven't spent much, and I'll find a use for them in some way. If these were a thing when i first got into Magic back in 2021, I would have played it a lot more than i did, because i would be able to afford to build a deck or be able to add to my cheapo decks than i had at the time. All they need is a random set of lands and these things will be perfect for anyone on a budget.

[@Lonelygamer_0]

What would happen to bulk cards if nobody resold them to store mystery boxes to scam kids, It's a loop of sell resell and scam until someone destroys it.

[@DustyBrushy]

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

[@yodabuddy2112]

We now need an episode of commander clash with dollar store highlander decks

[@tinkerer3399]

Best format in the game right there.

[@Quarter_Turn]

Half the cards being upside down is absolutely maddening.

[@jeffe2267]

"This is like my Commander deck" lmfao

[@theghostofthomasjenkins9643]

that's the real price youpay for these cards.

[@themonkeyhand]

Not worth the labor for the company making them.

[@ericcook8254]

Well these are all repackaged it shouldn't be a surprise that the cards are not properly stacked or there being no grand cards.

[@BigBoii1369]

it's far more maddening how he rotates the ENTIRE stack instead of just the 1-2 cards he needs to.... almost as bad as his fake voice

[@michaeltaylor4492]

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!

[@BillyTheCheeseMonger]

Hahaha same here man I used to get 2 a week as my allowance. Never got a rare though

[@michaelmills8205]

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.

[@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.

[@fullmetalfacts]

Just get yourself some proxies 👍

[@jarroddoern1555]

Don't waste the little money you have on packs. If you want to get into magic on the cheap, look into the pauper format. It allows common cards only, and has a very competitive and fun meta.

[@Blackadder75]

@@fullmetalfacts this is cheaper than good proxies who are 0,50 each (but then you have real printed proxies)

[@krusha14]

These are good for that. It's how I started. Low risk. They sometimes have packs of 100 for 4 or 5 bucks too. Chaos drafting our of them is great. If you like it from there grab a bulk. Then you can graduate to packs and singles lol.

[@bigmanmccheez5342]

@@TheJadeFist This is a good idea, if you have $30-40 to spend. I remember when i started a few years back i had a total of $10 to spend, so i bought the starter pack and split the cost with my friend (back then the starter deck 2 pack was $8). I stopped playing for a while and only got back into magic a few months ago playing commander (the most common format in my area) , it gets expensive for a college student. My friend still plays with the starter deck she got 3 years ago and hasn't bought anything else just because she can't justify spending $30-70 on a deck for a format that she might not even like. I'm trying to get another friend into Magic and I'm starting her off with kitchen table Magic, because it's not intimidating or expensive. If she likes the game, I'll let her borrow one of my commander decks, and if she likes that, THEN she can go and spend $30 on a precon. I would never expect someone who wants to start a hobby to have to pay to try it out, unless it's something like art.

[@micheal5973]

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.

[@proteus404]

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.

[@Crypt4l]

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".

[@dallan7736]

If you're trying to get rich off things from the dollar store, then you may be in for a rough go.

[@greywolf7577]

@@dallan7736 It reminds me of the Hey Arnold episode where the bad guys were trying to make money off of counterfeiting pennies by carving them themselves.

[@dallan7736]

@@greywolf7577 lol, that's a hilarious comparison. I love Hey Arnold.

[@bigmanmccheez5342]

True, but you do have a bit of fun for $2. Even if you don't get good cards, a lot of these cards have cool art, that's honestly more than enough for me sometimes. I bought a few packets of Domineria United and got nothing of value, but the stained glass cards look sick so I'm happy.

[@dallan7736]

@@bigmanmccheez5342 oh, 💯%. I buy these once in awhile myself. They are lots of fun. Just don't buy too many packs in a row, because they like to put in lots of the same cards. And don't expect to get anything valuable. There are mythic foils, but generally worth 0.50 cents. It would be cool if the price shot up in the future on any of these, knowing they were bought at the dollar store. Little chance of that actually happening though.

[@travis_approved]

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

[@jeffe2267]

Seth is the guy who is happy to sit at high roller tables in Vegas or play $0.25 ante with his friends. He just loves rolling the dice.

[@travis_approved]

​@@jeffe2267 This is why we love him

[@brutusovis8351]

Times are tough 😞

[@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.

[@feldamar2]

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.

[@benjaminmiddaugh2729]

Beejlander honestly needs to be more widely played. I understand that lots of people don't want to invest that much time for one game, but still. It's so great.

[@KingOfDoma]

I really want Beejlander to at least take off outside of LRR with content creators. Feels like it'd be the equivalent of one of those janky multi-player games for Magic...

[@LRRJames]

I’m exceptionally happy to see this convo :)

[@aimees.3390]

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

[@feldamar2]

No no no. That's worth LOTS. BEEJLANDER!

[@greywolf7577]

I bought 1000 cards for $20 once. There was only one rare. The rest were commons and maybe uncommons (I don't remember how many uncommons there were). So I probably didn't make any money, but it is a good way to get a lot of cards if you need to.

[@stephenharperisgay]

​@@greywolf7577my LGS sells 1k cards foe 20$. They're full playsets of common and uncommon cards. Could be ok for people wanting to learn how to play and deckbuild.

[@bigmanmccheez5342]

@@greywolf7577 they're handy for trading. There's always that 1 uncommon that came out back in 2008 that no one has that one person DESPERATELY needs for their Commander deck, and you'll have it and be able to make a good trade.

[@youtubasoarus]

That is how I got into magic lol.

[@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.

[@gakk8658]

This would be a cheap, fun way to have a janky, janky draft. It would probably feel really throwback, too, since the chance of getting a bomb is so, so low, so you'd have grindier games.

[@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.

[@johncrossley6945]

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.

[@tinkerer3399]

There is just something special about playing with unsleeved cards.

[@ScribblesOfOwls]

These packs used to actually be awesome, 10-14 years ago. You would get packs of 50 cards, got tons of things from ice age and other OG sets. I pulled mythics, promos, rares worth 4+. But then the price of magic started spiking, and their quality diminished fast. I miss the good ol days of these packs. I used to opt to get these over actual magic boosters.

[@joshbaker8767]

What weird cards to show up in these packs. You guys should do a Commander Clash episode where each person gets like 15-20 of these packs and has to make their deck out of the contents of the packs! They can use basic lands and choose their commander from outside the packs.

[@ashsattva]

How all the rares were exactly 049 cents, I will never understand.

[@danestohe315]

cause on most websites, and cleaely whatever online shop Seth is using, marks bulk rares as .49

[@christiandean1099]

Card rarity has little to no meaning. Ever think about how a mass-produced, pre-made starter deck has "rare" cards?

[@Crypt4l]

Price listing of bulk rates, they aren't worth anything.

[@JBSpookyReview]

@@christiandean1099 card games like magic are just gambling for awkward kids

[@sweptapostle2473]

I'm sure it was intentional

[@shakyrob6512]

I figure the companies that sell the mystery boxes at places like walmart. They get their packs via damaged boxes. There has to be damaged packs as well that they take the cards that aren't damaged and set them aside. When they hit a critical mass they feed them into a card sorter then package them up.

[@KingBanan]

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

[@SurfCityTCG]

"Every rare's Custodi Lich?" I LOL'd

[@kaziaki]

I wish my dollar stores near me still sold these. They may be trash but for the price, it was fun to open and see what I'd get

[@chrisgoreham5698]

They honestly aren't that bad. I've gotten a few foil scute swarms in them. 8 bucks Canadian

[@gerardoramirez6854]

The company buys bulk from card shops and other sources (usually on the cheap like .005 per card c/u). Then randomizes the lot. This looks like they do it manually to try to randomize it and not by machine.

[@iamyungbucket]

I absolutely love the way you say "Dollar Store"

[@AuricansLair]

When I first got into Magic (5th Edition, Weather light, Tempest days) packs were selling for $2.50 to $3.50 a pack. Now they want 6 bucks for 15 cards. MTG is too expensive to just have fun collecting, so I appreciate these cheapo packs.

[@greywolf7577]

To be fair, the average salary of an American worker has gone up since Fifth edition came out.

[@ClandestineMerkaba]

@@greywolf7577 so has the average cost of living guy...

[@Ricksteady8]

@@greywolf7577Inflation, 3.50 in 98 is damn near 7 bucks now. Most things are cheaper or the same price, but people enjoy complaining and cherry picking variables.

[@Nex41354]

"15 Negates in a row or some unusable trash..." BRO THAT WOULD BE THE GOD PACK.

[@Nerdsplayingcards]

Sweet find, living the magic card dream I see, how lovely, I recently found a few magic cards in the bin behind the card shop burrow wind and working on pokemon collection, also yugioh collection

[@captntrousers4646]

I’ve never seen anyone with the Ridge Summit knife before. The true standout in this video.

[@OdgenPartridge]

The efficiency with which he paired the socks in the drawer was quite admirable.

[@WindchaserX]

You've never seen my god pack in Dollarstore. Opened a Tombstone Stairwell

[@LithmusEarth]

1 $20 printing, I believe it.

[@WindchaserX]

@@LithmusEarth It was opened years ago. It wasn't worth anything till now.

[@keithbarlow9701]

That was one of those cards with crazy art that I'd always see in my friends middle school collections and have no idea what to do with it. But it can get crazy in Commander cuz it says EACH upkeep. Jeeeezus

[@TaskMaster5]

@@keithbarlow9701 My Stickfingers deck loves Tombstone Stairwell. Every upkeep a bunch of zombies are made. At the end of turn they all die...and all my 'deal 1 damage when a creature dies' triggers go off XD

[@TheCheat420]

I feel like the easiest explanation is either a shop or smaller dealer cracking packs for singles and then repacking anything they scan under a certain value.

[@Syolaar]

Came across these the other day and my first though was someone is buying boxes, opening everything, pulling the most valuable cards and dumping the rest.

[@chaoscharlie3]

They used to be all the same direction. I would guess it's because you can easily slide up and see what the rare is before you buy the pack. So they made it difficult to fish the rare out of the pack.

[@munteanucatalin9833]

Almost ALL your packs actually worth $3 or more (the pack with many foils goes above $5). I think these are very good for people picking up the game.

[@emilviuff2514]

Cards worth less than 50 cent are worth 0.

[@kyleellis1825]

YEah, if you have more than 100buck in cards, skip these. But if you are a kid/teen/low income adult trying to test out the hobby, you can get a starter deck or two and like 30-50 dollars of these packs and have a heck of a lot of fun for a few weeks.

[@greywolf7577]

@@emilviuff2514 If you have enough of them, you could sell them for bulk and make some money.

[@bigmanmccheez5342]

@@kyleellis1825 Agreed, though even if you aren't a budget player, these are just fun. Get a pack or 2, see do you get something cool for a commander deck or even just something that looks cool. A lot of my collection is in my binder if it looks cool. For instance I've got A few Dominaria United uncommons in my binder because the stained glass looks awesome.

[@ChaffyExpert]

Better value then the actual boosters where the cards are less money overall value wise than what you spent unless you pull, say, a Sheoldred.

[@ColtonWilson3000]

If a company hired some guys to make these repacks and synergizes them so they could be used as draft packs,sealed,commander playable etc it could be super fun!

[@Jimmy-z2g]

Considering this pack was only $1-$1.50 i would have added up the prices of the uncommons too. Ive seen plenty of uncommons that are more valuable than most rares.

[@Tylerbrave]

now i want to see a mtg goldfish repack chaos draft

[@Tardvark]

Not turning them all the same direction is driving me crazy

[@TheNewMaxico]

those are amazing for draft, i would fucking buy those if they sold em in germany

[@razzalith]

when i was in highschool over a decade ago, before commander had even became a format. there was a dollar store beside my highschool and i would buy a few of these because they were only a buck. pulled a metalworker from them. only found it when i was going through my bulk many years later

[@88porpoise]

This appears to be a pretty broad and long running thing, it isnt like they are just one person doing it to dump some cards at one time but a constant supply of inventory to various locations for years. Based on that I would make a couple guesses: 1) Someone is buying unsold packs in large quantitities from various stores at a discounted price once the stores decide there is no market to sell them at their price. This would explain why they are mostly recent, but not current cards because it is the aets being rotated out of stores as need ones come in. They pull the good cards and out the rest in these. 2) This is not a scam. Keeping in mind the need for someone to buy the cards, unpack them, repack them, ship them, and sell them the price is probably reasonable for the packs. And I would wager that some of the claims of getting good cards on these packs are legit. The best possible marketing you can have for these is someone saying they got a far more valuable than $1.50 card, so let a $10 or $20 card slip tbrough occasionally, never enough that your average pack is profitable but one on a couple hundred may be. And with how long they have been sold they do care for thwt marleting and reputation to some degree.

[@murderinmurphy7874]

dudes laughter makes my skin crawl.

[@chancebecker7841]

Drafts with these are so fun

[@samueldionne9675]

I knew about these year ago. They always had interesting cards, and like you said limited is bonkers with the dollar store packs. I got a Primal Surge in one of those packs: it went for less than 1$ at the time. I think it is the best pull I got from them.

[@gerrydodson7512]

is he related to Andy Rooney? "Have you ever wondered, why do they call it taking a dump and not leaving a dump? After all, you're not really taking anything".

[@pneuma08]

How these are made: have the bulk bin in front of you, bulk rare box on the side. Grab 14 cards from the bin and one from the bulk rare box. Basically any LGS can make these. Bargain bin draft packs.

[@arc-sd8sk]

probably not a bad way for an LGS to move bulk product $3 a head for a chaos draft? hard to go wrong lol

[@lukesnyder01]

This is basically the only way I've played magic for the last 5 years. Each draft, we keep a card and add it to our collection, and build our constructed decks from that. It's amazing. Pure kitchen table magic, the way it was intended. There are hilariously bad cards that wind up being overpowered in the format. Everyone should do it.

[@edhdeckbuilding]

i cracked a few of these packs. mostly looked just like this, but i ended up getting a few mirage cards.

[@MTGGoldfish]

But how did the manage to have half the cards pointing one direction and the other half the other direction, also some randomly upside down? That's the impressive part. It almost seems like it would be more work to make them so annoying to open lol.

[@StaleBranflakes]

@@MTGGoldfish Michael Shuffle!

[@RheaStorm]

Used to buy the ones they had at dollar tree ages ago from a different company repacking them. I had a few actual good pulls that got mixed into the general 'not as great' ones. Pulled a snapcaster mage. Also pulled a SIGNED Card which was so wild to me. A ray of erasure signed by the artist. the Signature seemed legit. Not sure how those got into those packs, among other decent cards but it was neat for me as a kid.

[@FatherDan9964]

I bought 20 packs of these the other day so i could mess around cutting them up to make 3d cards out of my duplicates

[@feldamar2]

Or play a game of Beejlander with your friends?

[@rodvans6008]

I buy dollerama packs all the time. There are hits, there just hard to get.

[@dallan7736]

I buy these once in awhile. For the price of a chocolate bar it lets me get some cards from sets that I missed, which are most of the ones from the last few years. There are lots of doubles, but I've even got mythic foils in some of them.

[@tefin420]

They used to have packs of I believe 100 and I got a ton of white boarder cards in those. I have terrible luck of getting silverboarder cards in all the packs.

[@StudioMudprints]

Man, I was pulling Dr. Who, Warhammer and LotR cards in mine. Probably a great value in the end.

[@reigh_leigh]

I have drafted these packs, it is fun!

[@donray4075]

Amazed these packs still exist. I remember Dollar Tree having them several years back(so for an actual dollar) and buying some. Most were jank but they had older cards, even the rares some times and few have now become valuable. I haven't seen them in quite a while so figured was discontinued

[@CobaltFoxPlays]

My collection and start to MTG started with Dollarama packs and yes, a Dollarama Draft night sounds hilariously fun, like a Draft Pauper night.

[@EudoraBuck]

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That is why we call it the present.

[@dancing_odie]

I think they were fine. Better than I expected and they would be great to make some cheap fun decks to play with your friends.

[@NERD-FROM-THE-SOUTH]

With the big three Mtg,Pkmn,ygo being out of reach price wise for some new collector's and players alike this is at least a way to get some cards in your hands. But my greatest finds have always been buying collections from people hoping to get those hidden gems. I collect many types of TCG and for example I bought a pokemon binder from a guy for $75 last year and it had a shining gyrados and some 1st edition base set. I've bought mtg sets from people as well. I don't low ball them I just ask them what they want and feel comfortable with. Many of my collections are bought blind. Those are the fun ones. Just found your channel. Will subscribe 👍

[@joe.5103]

The fact that this has more views than the $2k unboxing is hilarious.

[@Sardalias]

The best thing to do with these kinds of packs is buy a bunch and do a home draft with them. Its an absolute blast

[@wolfwood86]

Should totally by a bunch more of these and make the goldfish team draft them.. would love to watch those hilarious games

[@matthewvandyk7773]

I remember back in 2007 when i just started playing MTG I picked up a menegroth treefolk from my local gane store for lile 2$ and then that weekend i picked up a few of these packs at my moms house. And got another 3 menegroth treefolk. Got a full play set for my horrible green treefolk deck with my scary 5/5 dinasour. Grade 9 was so long ago. But so many good memories of becoming a mtg player haha.

[@AndrewJamesRiemer]

It's from some person or business that's doing box breaks. They probably have an automatic sorting machine and pull everything over a certain value for online singles sales. Then they package up the remains, slap their label on it, and sell them.

[@theshi3152]

Yupp! I've bought these many times! The best card I've pulled was a Great Henge, that pull alone made up the cost of the last like 3-6 runs i buy 15$ at a time, stacks of 10. I dont like the price of Retail magic packs its far to expensive to fill out multiple players decks with actually good cards, So I've just been buying these. They tend to have a lot of the same cards in them, so we space our buys out over a few weeks each. Once or twice a month, We come in a buy up 10 to 20 packs and go to town. (my brother an i) Built out something like 10 to 15 Commander decks with these packs (with some stuff from my old collection before i started buying these) These are amazing for new players that have a deck or two, but want new cards to just play with. Also to just expand your collection in mass, like we did, Some 3000 Cards over the last 2 years. i have yet to find a "fake" as many have told me that they are, but to see an MTG "unboxer" not immediately toss them out as fakes is Very encouraging to hear.

[@clagen86]

I loved that Firja art so much it's currently the only Brawl deck I have on Arena and 1 of the 2 commander decks I own in paper.

[@simondesjardins3290]

I bought enough to make a dollar store Cube once, was a fun afternoon of drafts !

[@jessicagallant3443]

I think this would be cool to do against your friends. Each buy 5 packs or so, and open the cards and create the best deck to play against each other. For players that are getting started and you can learn the cards play better cheers

[@MrWearily]

This seems like a lot of fun. Play drafts or build decks with your buddies only using these cards

[@isthisit781]

These seem like the oldschool 1 dollar scratch offs. They were so cheap it didn't matter if you lost. If you won you felt like you were on top of the world.

[@szupko]

I was playing Terisian Mindbreaker with my Mothman Deck. Its fun to see the grave advantage player have to stop surveilling.

[@DrekiBerserkr]

Back when I lived in Joliet IL and was at Job Corps, I would buy all the Dollar store packs and run draft tournaments with them. Some of the decks were so off the wall, but it was a lot of fun.

[@DrekiBerserkr]

They have definitely improved in the decade I've been out of Job Corps.

[@Kay13Jay]

Looks like all the cards came out of a card sorting maching. I wonder if there is a way for the machine to sort them back into booster packs.

[@joshscallorn6104]

The man bun/beard thing, is played out. Tap 10 mana, lay off the sugar, and or, meth.

[@luv-lost]

It's pretty crazy when the dollar store is actually the place that has the best bulk mystery packs. The Walmart and other big store packs are complete trash and the dollar store actually seems to give you collecting inflatable cards.

[@FanosSlapVT2]

5:21 ah to dream that somebody wants a Vent Sentinel XD

[@joshuamidgette4846]

It has been a while since I saw MTG packs opened. Subbed.

[@HSSG7]

The reason for the cards being every which way in the packs, is intentional. It is to try & prevent people from being able to easily "search" the packs

[@mclovin6829]

My collectables store has similar packs. They seem to come from random sets from the past 10 years or so. As a casual player, its cool to just get a variety of oddballs from random sets without investing in a bigger box set.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

My biggest worry from a Dollar Store pack would be "Are they even real?" But that aside, that's a pretty neat way to get cards. I just got a 50 card random pack of Yugioh cards today for $7. One of them was a Limited Edition Rainbow Dragon which several places sell for $5. Pretty good going, I'd say.

[@palaguin]

I know people who have used similar packs to draft with. If one wants a prize for winning, you can have the winner keep all the rares, or everyone gets to keep one rare they picked and the winner gets the rest of the rares.

[@ProfessorBulk]

There are plenty of rares out there for pennies and penny commons/uncommons so it actually surprised me that you got as much out of it as you did despite it still not being a good deal, very interesting nonetheless.

[@tylerbohmer6068]

I've pulled promo cards from these packs, and signed cards. Although this was years ago now. They are a really good cheap way to buy bulk. There also used to be $4 100 card packs with 2 rares.

[@donaldcampbell3043]

I'm in New Zealand sometimes one of our local card shops would have a repack draft on a Sunday afternoon I always got some good cards from those sessions and still play a lot of these cards years later...

[@atomwyrm541]

This has got to be some sort of Amazon’s return reseller thing.

[@Quirky_QF]

If you're just getting into the game and want to bulk up your collection for cheap, it's not a bad option. I did a whole segment about these types of packs for over a year on my channel.

[@througtonsheirs_doctorwhol5914]

Being a noob at MTG since january 2024, I bought about minimum 50-60$ Canadian$ worth of those before taxes at Dolorama... got all the videos of unpacking, but haven't yet produced the opening videos. I listed them in excel sheets and each had their value confirmed with a Moxfield account listing "decks" from a batch of cards pull of those. Stats being the angle I'm aiming at to differentiate my opening videos i still haven't edited them yet. Will cite your opening video in my references now that i have seen your take on those.

[@mathewcruickshank3974]

I got I" I am rubber you are glue" and other old joke magic cards from those packs in the past.

[@EcnalKcin]

I just price checked my copy of that card minutes ago. As well as the blue card that is the other half of the artwork for it.

[@Poochamoo]

I wish I could go more than double speed. At times two, I still couldn't wait for the next card to be shown. I don't know why the values were post added...this wasn't ever going to be worth the $1.50. It was only bearable to watch at double speed. I suggest starting here 0:39. Pause, hit speed x2 and watch until 15:55. MAYBE a couple extra seconds.

[@craigstege6376]

I pulled a viridian revel out of one of those way back in like 2019. Was pretty interesting at the time when Dockside was relatively new.

[@wr0te0ff68]

I actually love these things. Me and my ex used to buy them and build decks to play against each other. For some reason she hated playing against my Oops, All Spells! Deck and my Metalwork Colossus standard deck so these packs made Magic much more enjoyable for us both.

[@tym6217]

I mean when you consider the fact that a lot of the repack slop sold at places like Walmart or Target is often sold for $20 or more and you're often lucky if you get even $5 of value out of it. It makes these actually seem very reasonable by comparison for only $1.50. Sure, an entrenched player or collector is very unlikely to find anything of significance in these. But for only $1.50 I think there's a lot of kids out there that would be genuinely estatic to get a few packs of these if their patents just happened to buy them a few. $1.50 for that sort of excitement for a child who's getting into the game is a way more reasonable asking price for cheap repacks than the $20+ slop from Target/Walmart I mentioned earlier. Heck, even a more entrenched player could get some value out of these if they did what you mentioned with a chaos draft. It would only cost each person $4.50 to get their 3 draft packs, which is basically just the price of a single normal booster. Pretty reasonable price if you just wanna jam a crazy draft night with some friends. Overall, I think this is actually a fairly reasonable deal for what it is, and I'm amazed to see a bulk repack product that isn't charging extortionary prices.

[@austinfox7604]

Ive gotten some solid cards from dollarstore packs, best use of them is drafting tho. Most chaotic and fun games you will ever play

[@hyperjump1169]

I got the drannith magistrate and a invasion of ikoria out of 1 I got when the set first came out most insane pulls of my life (can’t pull shit from normal packs tho😭)

[@redmist6131]

Used to get packs like this around the time of 8th edition for 2.50 and it was like 27 cards and completely random from what set to rarity I was pulling stuff from 4th edition to 8th and everything in between