We Need To Talk About Innistrad Remastered

[@BloodMoonGo]

Craterhoof, Lili et. al. being only in the retro sheet at such a low rarity pretty much means they won't affect the price. Their inclusion shouldn't have been counted as reprints, their rarity means they'll fail to bring the price down.

[@Bouillestfu]

Especially when the splash art for the set is a cool new Lili art.

[@enoesiw]

They might drop $3-5 for a weekend. Might.

[@patches.742]

Wizards has realized this about the high priced cards and thus has been there business model for a while. Really surprised to see doubling season get a regular reprint in foundations

[@fungusenormus2378]

Reprint sets should cost less because there is less R&D and artwork costs to produce.

[@Rylo-Kev]

This comment makes so much sense I expect the Pinkertons will be tossing you in the back of an unmarked van any day now.

[@bobby45825]

Bring back MSRP.

[@flamewing7851]

@@bobby45825 they did. Innistrad remasered playboosters have an mrsp of $6.99 and collectors boosters are $29.99.

[@PaulSzkibik]

@@bobby45825 they did?

[@PaulSzkibik]

Yeah, there's little compelling reasoning to have these be more expensive besideds "there's expensive cards in here". A couple of cool alternative art poster cards do not make a remaster set expensive to produce.

[@vladplasmius2854]

Vince, I think you've overlooked the fact that this set would've been the best opportunity to reprint the Universes Within versions of the Walking Dead cards, specifically Greymond/Rick.

[@marcoottina654]

i think he already spoke about it anyway, highlighting it again would have been appreciated

[@PleasantKenobi]

100% slipped my mind when writing, but you are absolutely correct. Very strange omission.

[@bencheevers6693]

Are you kidding? That's obviously already in the lineup as a chase card for the next commander masters set!

[@TraphouseTCG]

Brilliant and would have justified price point a bit more

[@TrecherousMonki]

I just bought a copy of Greymond by chance when I saw it in a players binder. Thought I'd never get one because it's so rare it doesn't even exist as a card in my locals stores inventory system

[@ChrisThe1]

The boxes are 180 around here. We have reached the point where I cannot justify buying magic anymore, even on my favorite plane.

[@AdenKandosii]

Proxies are cheap and easy these days. Made a whole alpha cube ($35,000 value) for about $80 😂

[@ChrisThe1]

@@AdenKandosii From the perspective of a player I totally agree, but collecting is as much part of the hobby for me as playing is.

[@fergusofdalibor4264]

​@@ChrisThe1yeah acting like proxying is a solution to this problem is kind of absurd. What if you wanted to play an actual sanctioned event?

[@TroyLambert-b5c]

I haven't bought product outside of what i get as a door prize on commander night, in more then a year now. I'll buy singles sparingly if a budget card works really well in a deck I've built. But the days of cracking boxes for fun are over.

[@TroyLambert-b5c]

@@AdenKandosii its nice to be able to play the game, but ultimately i can't afford to buy the game pieces, and I'm not the only one. eventually the hobby dies if the trajectory continues.

[@haileydee9954]

Cavern being missing is so glaring because it's legal in standard currently and should really have seen a reprint in this set to help keep the price down.

[@enoesiw]

That's exactly why it wasn't reprinted. Gotta keep the plebs out of standard. In a more serious tone, too many reprints will drop the price and punish all the people who already bought a playset of caverns for standard. Because of this, I seriously doubt it will get another reprint before it rotates. (2 more years yaaay)

[@enoesiw]

I should make it explicit that I hope this is not the case! But the rage from the standard community if the price falls too much is going to be fierce.

[@haileydee9954]

@ yeah I can see that. Ironically I got a playset of Caverns last spring/summer when I traded in a playset of Sorin, Imperious Bloodlords before they got banned in Pioneer. 4 for 4 straight trade doesn't seem so bad. At the time I was losing about $7-$10 per Sorin. I had bought them for about $10 a piece for a silly Ghalta and Mavren deck before Vein Ripper was printed.

[@bobby45825]

Who's playing standard in paper when Arena is available?

[@haileydee9954]

@@bobby45825 my friends are all paper players grinding out for RCQs and we value having physical cards.

[@winkexcel1875]

I feel like another big issue with the set is the fact that ALL 5 of the retro only reprints are on that list of 23/35 top 5 reprints which will drastically lower the pull rates on them. The fact that they removed the chance for retro foils from the draft packs also doesn't help

[@PleasantKenobi]

Yeah. Feels pretty rough. I actually strong dislike the slicing off of some things yo partition them inside the rich people product.

[@AC3handle]

@@PleasantKenobi Gotta keep the whales happy, I suppose.

[@mrboberson7424]

"MSRP is coming back!" "YAY!" "...because we want to raise prices and shift the blame to retailers" "Ahh, yea seems like something hasbro would do"

[@Azeria]

Aside from bonus sheets, there’s no other reprint set in 2025 and this is the first reprint set since RVR this time last year. I think that had an impact on why non-Innistrad cards are in the set, alongside adding cards to balance the limited environment of course.

[@Veggie_Dogg]

It looks so fun to draft! But the average Joe (me) can’t drop $180.00 for a casual draft with your homies. This makes the public’s perception sour.

[@retronymph]

I think you're right that people wouldn't have been sated if Cavern and Parallel Lives were in the set, it's just fuel to the fire that is that it's way too expensive. Remastered sets really shouldn't be more than a dollar per pack more expensive than a standard set. Why they feel the need to gouge prices on play boosters when they created collector boosters specifically for that isn't a mystery, it's because they can, but it is very annoying.

[@cablefeed3738]

No pack besides collector booster packs should be a single cent more than five dollars.

[@Bobalini1]

Reprint sets should be *cheaper* than standard sets since the majority of art is reused, mechanics aren’t newly designed (no R&D), no additional story is written. Cheaper product to print, with the intent of providing access to cards.

[@johnbts9216]

Innistrad remastered is terrible at its current price point. The cards are NOT worth 100$ more per Collector display compared to standard legal collectors. Dropping prices after release will cause sealed product to be even less palatable.

[@PleasantKenobi]

Collector Boosters aren't worth it at all.

[@datmuhq6821]

@@PleasantKenobi I think the opposite is true at this point. Value wise play boosters just don't hold up. Collector boosters (European market) have already gone up by 20% since preoderders initially became available. Play boosters? Well, those boxes are down €5 from the initial preorder price. I can also still pick up a RVR draft booster box for €20 less than they were offered last year. Collector boosters? Not a chance. This trend isn't at all limited to reprint sets. Limited printruns for CBBs and the collector booster only treatments have made a mark on the market. RVR, BLB, MH3, FDN, LCI, WOE... The trend is clear. I can easily pick up plax boxes for standard sets for right around release pricing for a long time after release, while collector boosters spike into nirvana. The high price of the box has an effect on the cards that are only obtainable in thse boxes. If you can preorder Collector Boosters for a solid price it appears to be the best value you can get.

[@thevoxdeus]

The problem with comparing to Aetherdrift is that no one gives a crap about that either.

[@danielgoldberg2129]

I used consider myself a whale, or at least a fairly large dolphin, but not anymore. I used to buy multiple boxes and bundles of every set, now I usually buy a bundle to get the spin down counter, and then get singles of cards I really want. It’s a shame because I loved the randomness of cracking packs and the excitement of opening something spicy, but it’s just not worth it anymore. The risk/reward is out of my comfort zone.

[@tapedeccard]

2:34 can’t be reprinting Sanguine Bond so close to the introduction of that shiny new version on a vampire-shaped stick, right?

[@WhipLash42o]

Especially when Foundations is an otherwise worthless set to open. The only things worth pulling in that set are the anime styled art cards.

[@tapedeccard]

@ I’d argue that the sales say otherwise. The set was a fair balance of reprints and new designs. I’m staying away from Innistrad Remastered because I have all the top pulls in original prints. Foundations has single-handedly resurrected Standard. Why didn’t you like Foundations?

[@rinmathews9337]

They wanted to make a reprint set while still keeping some reprint equity.

[@Medowokha-bp5lq]

"We don't pay attention to the secondary market" They should just stop lying and embrace the gambling accusations already

[@alecmullaney7957]

The price of secondhand cards should NOT impact the decisions WotC makes

[@AtlasAdvice254]

@@alecmullaney7957it 1000% does. That’s why whenever they’ve reprinted big chase cards like mana crypt for example in ixilan, it was done in 6 hyper exclusive treatments at scarcity while also being serialized. Or jeweled lotus in commander masters (while having only 4 packs a collector box). It’s just a constant trend of them trying to milk every dollar out of players.

[@antoniomromo]

So just under 1/3 of the most valuable are missing, and the price is much higher....but the outrage is overblown?

[@PleasantKenobi]

Yes. The reprints are good. Demand a lower price.

[@cablefeed3738]

The outrage will never be overblown. So long as products are too expensive, no pack besides collector boosters, which I don't care about, should ever be a single cent more than five dollars.

[@tipulsar85]

Cavern of Souls also got reprinted last year in Lost Caverns of Ixalan. the only reason it didn't budge the price was the neon ink printings actually drove the demand UP! Also Midnight Hunt Arlin isn't in, but the one from Shadows is.

[@ryanfyock7275]

It's not last year anymore Lost Caverns Of Ixalan was late 23 were in 25 now.

[@thepieguyinthesky2363]

I hate that they're using this logic for most of the cards they didn't reprint, like I don't give a shit that Ixalan has it, it's THE land I think of when it comes to Innistrad so it should be in THE definitive Innistrad set, the set that is "everything you love about innistrad" should contain every fucking thing the players liked/wanted with Innistrad

[@RayearthIX]

I won a local store event and got a neon ink cavern. I hated it, and it took me 6 months to trade it because no one wanted the neon ink version. -_-

[@fudgingteddy9481]

Cavern didnt budge when it got reprinted because its already the cheapest its ever been this decade, and only got reprinted at mythic. For a card that sees play in multiple formats, is a commander staple, and only ever sees chase slot or mythic reprints its price is reasonable. I bought my playest for humans when it was $80 a pop, and I'm happy its cheaper so other people can afford it, but it seems a bit wild to think it'll budge any lower unless it saw a downshift to rare.

[@datmuhq6821]

I mean sure, Cavern was reprinted somewhat recently in LCI. I doubt that's what stopped them though since Mirrorwing Dragon made it in and that got reprinted weeks ago in Foundations Jumpstart. Feel like the let down is too many good mythics are locked to retro and the pull rates of those won't be great.

[@robertsunderman9534]

I'm very disappointed at the lack of exquisite blood, parallel lives, and Cavern of souls. I just have printed versions of them and I guess that's not going to change.

[@jeremiahchamberlain4179]

You forgot the universes within of the walking dead cards. Greymond is 50.00 and the within cards are from innastrad so this would have been the place to give players another chance for them.

[@lachlanmcgowan5712]

Regarding Parallel Lives specifically: they may not want to reprint it because it's a very similar card effect to Doubling Season and they just did a massive reprint of Doubling Season in Foundations. It might be a deliberate choice to throttle the big green enchantment reprints.

[@bencheevers6693]

These products are 270 CAD for a play booster box which is 155 GBP, it's insanely priced, the cards they missed, especially Cavern are the cards that are crazy in demand and the ones they reprinted are only valuable because they're old and not reprinted, I expect those prices to fall a lot. There isn't very much value in the set and a lot of commander cards. I was struggling with finding out what was actually in the set and what was available in which product but I got corrected on the last video. I tried to get a new perspective and really think about it but you can buy a Sheoldred for half the price and it's going to be worth more than what you'll get from an entire play booster box so I don't think I'm off. Also, those packs were absolutely stacked, it doesn't cost them anything to do so and makes it more appealing when they're doing an ad. Edit: Like they can reprint commander cards that are valuable because they're old and the price will crash but keep competitive staples as chase cards, it makes it look like they've put value into the set but whereas you need 3-4 caverns for a competitive deck in most cases that you want cavern, you only need 1 Emrakul or 1 Avacyn or 1 Behemoth for commander, also Grizzy has a price tag because mythic and a huge effect but it's not played in anything and banned in commander, I don't think that's going to hold it's value either but it looks good to have a 20$ card in a reprint set, nobody wants it.

[@Mustang-wt1se]

WotC again failing to not market their products like luxury goods. A reprint box going for almost $180 is insane. Standard legal cards should not be $35+ let alone $80+. Reprinting some cards people want as special guests and acting like they’re doing us a favor is part of the problem. But also not printing cards from the same set like cavern helps no one but collectors. The problem is more magic is appearing more and more expensive and price tags like this is not something people can casually draft or justify. It disincentivizes people from trying these cards if they haven’t before. But printing cavern, parallel lives, and even craterhoof at Rare so more people can try it out that hadn’t played Innistrad before, and maybe dropping the price too, would have been a massive win but instead a lot of people will just not buy.

[@drallore]

I think the best criticism I've about this set is the lack of 'mid value' pieces, or basically bulky-ish rares and such that would make you not feel like you just wasted your money. Like, Ravnica remastered had multiple slots available to get multiple shock lands, all of which easily made an average pack feel worth off that pull alone. Innistrad predominately has appeal due to big mythic reprints, and the mid value rares are worth predominately less. Even the slow lands have been slowly dropping in price due to pioneer being removed from 2025's RCQ rotation. I'm personally torn because there's still plenty of things I'm quite excited for, such as the hermit druid reprints, and some of the alt arts for cards like Thraben Inspector, but at the same time, there's no planet where I'd buy a pack for just the chance to pull a cool version of a .50 cent card right? I'm excited for others to open these in bulk, and to buy their singles that they don't want, and I honestly feel a but scummy thinking that.

[@chayadol]

I wouldn't count special treatment like store Championship or Secret Lair as a meaningful reprint. I wouldn't even count those retro only reprint as "reprint". It's like those Mana Crypt "reprint" in Lost Cavern of Ixalan. (Cavern of Soul is fine, of cause) Tbh have them or not having them almost insignificant in term of price change. The whole point about reprint is to keep the price not going crazy, those limited quantity and time hardly count as one. In the end, just not buy product. If they have this expensive box with such a small pay-off. I wouldn't waste my dollars on it.

[@NIRDIAN1]

Grrr I really want Cavern Of Souls, but it not being reprinted AGAIN is such a gut-punch. I'm never gonna be able to afford that dang card.

[@relicdad88]

Really? Its only $40 man i work in fast food and smoke a ton of cigs lol for a great card dat is pretty cheap if u ask me its already lost half its value surely u have cards u can trade n2 game store 2 take away some of the price. If not idk what 2 tell ya good luck out there.

[@UnicornLupus]

if you play Commander, just proxy it if you’re playing anything else… it’s either you drop the $100+ for a playset or kinda deal with it. There are alternatives like unclaimed territory and the courtyard, they just don’t prevent them from being countered… unless you’re playing Standard, then Wizards just gives you the middle finger dont listen to the person above me, $40 is not cheap. Not even $20 is cheap for a card, $20 is the bare minimum for being cheap

[@starcarft21999]

Unless I black out for a second, there is another elephant in the room, where is Greymond, Avacyn's stalwart? We have more innistrad themed cards outside of the actual sets with the innistrads blocks, so this looked like the best chance to print out the universe within cards but none of them were included, either from The Walking Dead or Stranger Things, this feels like a big miss to me personally.

[@t.yop9]

It also does not matter at all that the retro cards CAN appear in Play Booster packs. If a RARE retro appears in like 0.01% of Play Booster packs, then they might as well not exist.

[@MrDrakDevel]

will always say "it's all just card board, outside of new art there's no difference in print costs between one pack of 15 cards to another". all packs should cost the same

[@T_Peazy]

Cratergoof and avacyn are only available in collector boosters and aren't in the set proper.

[@PleasantKenobi]

That is not true. I explained as much in the video with a screenshot from Blake lmao

[@RayearthIX]

@@PleasantKenobi According to the "collecting Innistrad remastered" website, movie poster art cards are ONLY available in collector boosters, meaning Avacyn, and any other "only movie poster" cards, of which there are some, are only in collector boosters. Then, even more are on a special retro sheet, and not part of the set proper. Such bonus sheet only reprints will do very little for prices. I'll admit, I wasn't looking to get any more Innistrad so this doesn't affect me personally. I have a LOT of that set, including a full OG block cube. However, seeing how many cards were put on special sheets instead of in the set proper is disappointing. Edit: Avacyn does also appear on the retro sheet, something I missed previously. My point about certain reprints only being on select sheets (the retro or the full art one) though does stand, even if I was wrong about some being poster only.

[@jozi9301]

The only thing I'm truly upset about is them using the anime art for the only card I was looking forward to seeing

[@JovialRoger]

Shrinkflation is exactly what this is. It's decreasing the amount of product purchased instead of raising the cost

[@tnttv5360]

Well they could have reprinted the iconic cards with less value at a lower rarity.

[@lexnaum]

I’d spend $80 for a box of remastered, NOT $170

[@illakunsaa]

Cardmarket sell boxes for around 170€ and there is only 5 cards that are above 10€. I would need to open multiple markovs to just break even.

[@BlueGriffin20]

I would have liked the UB walking dead guy from innastrad reprinted because now that’s the list is gone etc, why not put him in a reprint set? As for the other lack X type of creature and such Wizards really shot themselves in the foot by mucking up the werewolves so they don’t work with each other.

[@PleasantKenobi]

Agree on both fronts.

[@jeremy3169]

well thalia guardian of thraben was missing, cavern of souls, mainset liliana and snapcaster.

[@PleasantKenobi]

Liliana and Snapcaster are not missing. I explain this in the video.

[@jeremy3169]

@@PleasantKenobi but they are only there as a semi bonus sheet slot. not main set

[@jeremy3169]

@ they artificially made them rarer

[@cablefeed3738]

​@@PleasantKenobi bonus sheets don't count as actually being in the set. It will do nothing to affect the price, and the prices are already high.Normal slot or it doesn't count.

[@johnbts9216]

Innistrad remasters is a horrible draft set value wise. Limiting valuable cards to certain printings is a mistake.

[@Arkonu]

Lots of missed opportunities. Zombie Mike, Cavern of Souls, Parallel Lives, OG Angel Trio, Siguarda's Aid, etc. I was really hoping for a retro frame Mikaeus the Unhallowed or retro frames of any of the other cards I mentioned. Because of that, I won't be purchasing. Good luck to anyone who does but I feel like it isn't worth the price tag if they're not gonna make the effort.

[@thehipduke1769]

I live in Nz and this set is just too expensive for me to really enjoy. A single pack is $15 vs usual $12 and a box is going for $450 (Roughly $100 more than Bloomburrow, Duskmourn and Foundations). I got into Magic last year and fell in love with Innistrad and I REALLY want to open a ton of these packs but god does it not feel good looking at these prices.

[@sammin101]

I just know I can’t afford paper magic, so I had no reason to look at the set. I wish wizards could simplify the product line, make everything cheaper, and just improve the all-round accessibility of the game. But I have no faith in wotc, so yeah

[@Hapkins-le6xf]

On snapcaster, I think it's only the retro frame that got printed, so they are going to be pretty rare.

[@TheAngelRaven]

Wizards no longer cares about making good reprints in non-premium sets. Proxy until Wizards stops focusing on the investors over the players.

[@mooninites755]

It just got reprinted this past year in Lost Caverns of Ixalon. They could reprint it in Innistrad Remastered and it would still be a $40+ card because it's in such high demand

[@TheForeverRanger]

I think this set was an excuse to reprint Edgar Markov so people would finally cool it about it not being reprinted.

[@Billchu13]

Top 5 is a KZbin tradition but cards with value > a pack would be more helpful

[@dat_man_sam9823]

Good video with good points. Glad you didn't double down on "gimme money" joke again lol

[@PleasantKenobi]

You should give me money though.

[@dat_man_sam9823]

@PleasantKenobi I might have to with content like this!

[@xxthevampirate]

Also the fact that there less new arts found on the high value reprints compared to other reprint sets like double masters, commander masters and even timespiral remaster makes the set less valuable for collectors and its not just monetarily. Yes there are the beautiful movie showcase frames but there's very few 'borderless' hits compared with ravnica remastered which has borderless shocks while the slow lands only have base treatment. The missing cards are more apparent because the lack of value in what IS there. The set feels like Showcase or bust, the cards just are Timmy commander cards because all the innastrad cards are power crept out of modern and other 60 card formats and this is the ONLY non standard set we're getting this year since we're getting 3 UB sets. If their reprint sets aren't perfect and they're the only set we get for a whole year people are going to be more dissapointed since that may be the only set they might want to engage with especially since we are getting 2 theme sets and only 1 classic MTG set in standard. That said I like Spelljammer and 40k, the Space themed set is right up my alley and I think 2/3 of the UB sets will have art and styles that fit right in to MTGs stuff.

[@branwengillen7761]

75 non-land cards from VOW and MID as well as only 86 non-land cards from original innistrad block. No borderless or special art lands and only the basics are getting old border. Of the cards that didn't get reprinted from innistrad block there are some iconic nostalgia pieces like Champion of the Parish, Falkenrath Aristocrat and Immerwolf that aren't getting reprinted here. Only 6 cards are getting the special border treatments from VOW and MID. Of the big hits you can get in INR, Avacyn and Craterhoof are boring commander wincons, Cathars' Crusade creates board states that many people like to avoid having to deal with just on the strength on the amount of bookkeeping that needs to be done and Griselbrand is banned in commander. Then there's big daddy Markov, an eminence commander which is a mechanic most of the player base consider a mistake. As a vampire player who bought the Edgar precon, I took him apart because the deck was boring. I'm going to buy singles from this set and I hope the draft format is fun but the set as a whole doesn't excite me.

[@nathanieldewalt1707]

But how many are in the set, not the super rare bonus sheet?

[@Iweleth]

Honestly it's mostly Cavern of Souls and Parallel Lives that feel missing to me, because of how long they have already been iconic now. But still a good set nonetheless.

[@cradle4life663]

$570 bucks for a collector booster box in Australia. It's a joke. That's a week and a half of rent.

[@thatmtgnerd]

The reprints are mostly good. No cavern is disappointing, but at least it did get a meaningful reprint in caver, and it dropped from 60 to 35ish so its not the end of the world. But the set is missing good 5-10 dollar reprints as most of the reprints are all big mythics.

[@Danope6200]

I think the reason people feel like reprints are missing, are because the Second most popular format (Modern) has been power crept so hard from MH set that the only realistic innistrad reprints feels like commander only reprints. It is hard to reprint modern staples right now as most of them comes from 4-5 sets.

[@nikolamatasin3877]

I'm really annoyed about Relentless Dead only. I miss 3 cards to complete SOI block, and that's one of them, along with Emmy and Tree of Perdition... which got anime art for some reason... But still some great reprints (Necroduality

[@steenjohnson2919]

Thankyou for looking at the numbers from earlier sets. Very informative. Thanks. More of this please. :)

[@thomascowley8752]

For me, its a litany of things. The retro liliana, Snapcaster, craterhoof, etc. are only in reprint slots, meaning you will see very few of them in the wild and your chance to pull those are next to nil. Combine that with the fact that those are some of the money cards, not to mention some of the absolutely most iconic card arts from Innistrad is a major feels bad. No Walking Dead reprints of Greymond and the like, a powerful card with an artificially inflated price that should have been included. As a fan of werewolves with a Tovolar Commander deck, the fact that there are damn near next to no werewolves in the set, and none of the Day/Night bound cards just highlights how though we have been to Innistrad multiple times now, each one feels so jarringly different from each other. The 3 different sets of werewolf types (OG flip, Eldrazi activated, Day/Night) don't blend well all. So it feels like one of the major tribes was (once again) left out in the cold. Hell, we didn't even get a Tovolar or Huntmaster Werewolf movie poster, but we got several vampires...ok, cool. No Cavern of Souls, no Parallel Lives, etc. No Rahilda from Alchemy altered for paper, but add Hermit Druid? And make it one of the few movie poster cards, but no werewolf or zombies ones?And on top of all that, the price is exuberant. Unless you pull Serialized Edgar, you might as well buy every single you want in the treatment you want in a few weeks and still have change compared to the price of a collector's box. So for me, it just feels like a set designed by corporate mandates of how to get as much nostalgia and the appearance of value while not actually giving customers much that will hold the pre-order price paranoia. Flashforward a few weeks and it feels like prices will crater and this, much like Double Feature, will be a set that sits on the shelf for some time.

[@ergon1798]

I had quite a nice time drafting the set. Gor a kill with cratefhoof behemoth! (deck had two mana dorks one being able to produce 2 qnd the other 3 mana, 3 eccentric farmers and was able to delay games with 3 avacynian priests)

[@ChiralWolf]

I'm going to be waiting to make my decision at this point until I get a chance to play the limited for this (I'll be doing an early preview later today at my LGS). A lot of the big hitters excluded cards seem to fall into the camps of being bad for limited by either making an archetype too strong (like zombie typal) or being unfun to play against (like jubilant angel). Most of the rest have been reprinted fairly recently like parallel lives. Cavern was reprinted into standard through Lost Caverns of Ixalan and Exquisite blood through a secret lair and commander deck.

[@WCD_Media]

At this point it's more economical for an lgs to buy a few booster boxes and then Crack the packs themselves to sell the singles than it is to offer the packs themselves for sale because they're so expensive that it's not worth buying packs when you could just buy the singles.

[@Shadow1o1]

Great video, outlines some facts that a lot of people overlook. Both Cavern of souls and Parallel lives ( as mentioned in the video ) have had recent reprints, Parallel lives in wilds of elraine and tangentially the fact that doubling season is in foundations which does the same but better? . Cavern of souls has had a lot in recent years in 2017 , in 2018 , in 2020 was included in the list while that was around , in 2022 , in 2023 ( lord of the rings ) and in lost caverns of Ixilan . So the cards are available , pricy but available . I think this is a good reprint set , newer players will be able to get to see these cards ( If they can afford the packs/ singles ) . The price is a bit much , and the fact that we are seeing shrinkflation ( less quantity same price ) in the next set is also alarming. I agree that people just hate on a set if its expensive, but It is a valid point if people are priced out of the game when strong cards come out it does become pay to win and that is becoming the trend people are seeing. It's not a bad set, Peoples anger is misplaced but valid.

[@TheARehmar]

Packs sent out to content creators are always seeded. There's no reason not to do it that way.

[@severusd]

Wizards of the Coast thanks you for your service.

[@PleasantKenobi]

Your mother also thanks me.

[@severusd]

@@PleasantKenobi touché

[@mawtaus]

I wasn't playing during any of the Innistrad sets; I've mostly just had experience with Hunt/Vow through Arena. That does mean that just about every reprint here is good for me. I'd love to get any of the big bomb rares, but also equally excited to pick up some cheap lands and a copy of deadeye navigator with new art. I'm going to try and make the release draft at my LGS, but otherwise I'm not even considering grabbing a box to draft myself - i'll just pick up anything I'm really after as singles.

[@bqing87]

Bloodline Keeper bumped up to mythic was devious work in remastered. No cavern of souls and you can ONLY get Snapcaster in old border which is probably rarer to pull.

[@JohnNelson1]

Thank you for generally sounding a little more positive than you used to. A appreciate your comments.

[@casteanpreswyn7528]

Through the Breach being in this is the biggest flavor and lore fail, probably since the game was created.

[@PleasantKenobi]

No it isn't lol. The Ultimate Masters printing showed Nahiri bringing Emrakul to Innistrad as her revenge plot. That art is used here.

[@casteanpreswyn7528]

@PleasantKenobi Arcane magic exists *only* on Kamigawa. Nowhere else in the multiverse that we've seen. Through the Breach should *not* be in this set.

[@KnicKnac]

What lore is there in a Remastered set? There isn't anything new being told.

[@casteanpreswyn7528]

@KnicKnac except for the fact there is lore being told by including cards that were never in the set. Now, apparently, Arcane magic exists on Innistrad. When before it *only* existed on Kamigawa. This is the worst way to introduce new lore.

[@OnlyRoke]

I genuinely hate how Magic both goes into weird new directions (racing set) for "cheap", while also propping up older Magic vibes through remasters for wayyyy more money.

[@Obscuredinsight]

So glad they decided to reprint cards that came out 3 years ago and can still be found at walmart.

[@toml8866]

They dodged reprinting in-universe Rick Steadfast Leader as well... Greymond is an Innistrad creature

[@anona3504]

Hey Kenobi where did you get that Poster Sized 10th Doctor? Ive looked everywhere and cant find on in the US outside of having one custom printed.

[@PleasantKenobi]

I won it with side event tickets at an Axion Mega Modern event last year.

[@nastyhunnter]

4:00 I don't think that Arlinn is in this set. That one's the Day/Night Arlinn. Arlinn from Shadows Over Innistrad is in Innistrad Remastered, though.

[@tcsmagicbox]

I agree that because the boosters are so expensive, people are upset when anything of value is left out.

[@tribalmattersmtg5532]

The weakness with your analysis (which I think is really good and thank you for being positive in a video) is that value needs to be looked at alongside “iconic”. Parallel Lives, Cavern of Souls and Exquisite Blood had to be reprinted if you’re remastering Innistrad. Those two zombies are in the top 10 zombies ever. Grafdiggers Cage already had a movie poster secret lair this could be missed. So value isn’t everything. I think they needed to make Caverns a ultra rare movie poster with Edgar (it’s been reprinted into the ground) and the rest mentioned just needed movie poster versions and just be in the set no matter how rare. The complaints would have been much lower. People want the cards in their commander deck to all look the same.

[@12triproberts]

Cavern of Souls has made me furious for years. The reason isn't just because it's never been printed to demand, it's because it makes every tribal deck better. Its few 60-card applications and the unnecessary scarcity make it a $30 card, even though it would be an auto-include in every jank tribal deck where the total cost of buying the on-tribe creatures isn't $30.

[@AdenKandosii]

Calling it now, caverns will be in a different set in the next couple months. FF maybe?

[@Original-Yellow]

6 different promo versions before a ban? Lolol

[@p0rc41music5]

Actually I really like they dont make expensive cards inflate in price a lot. That earns my trust for having expensive cards in the game. E.g. Yugioh prints all cards dead and you almost certainly just blow your money out of the window, because you would sell the cards for often 1/10 the price you bought them after a year.

[@erubenvt]

270 usd here if I try to buy it through amazon and import it to argentina. Given what happened with previous sets I expect to find it around 300-400 USD in LGS... yeah I probably will skip this one lol

[@Wyomingfox]

I would call aetherdrift definitely shrink flation when compared to prior draft booster last year that retailer around $100 for 36 packs and came with a bonus sheet on top of the ever present foil wild card slot. People incorrectly say drafts averaged 1 rare/mythic pulls per pack. Drafts like WOE or MOM with bonus plus the foil wild card shop were averaging around 1.4 pulls per pack. Since bloomburrow the pull rates on play boosters have dropped down to 1.2 to 1.25. So you are paying $20 more per box for 6 less packs and about 0.2 less pulls per pack.

[@leonfriedemann9151]

Dear Vince, in your listing you seem to have missed, that most of the expensive cards you mentioned beeing in the set are only in collector boosters as old border cards... Avacyn, snap caster, liliana etc...

[@PleasantKenobi]

They are also in a special slot in Play Boosters. I said this VERY clearly in the video. Everyone is confused, including Wizards of the Coast.

[@leonfriedemann9151]

@PleasantKenobi jep i did comment before watching til the end ... So they said it wrong in the reveal stream .... But like that its really understandable why me and other people are confused😅

[@Matt-rd1cb]

Might just be me, but feels like the music you used for this video is a bit louder than normal? esp 1:30~3 minute mark. usually listen to you while im doing other tasks, but today's video made it a bit harder to understand unless i 100% focused.

[@AtlasAdvice254]

The problem with some of the reprints is that it either won’t help the price come down or in some cases it might even make it go up. Caverns got reprinted in Ixilan yes but it is STILL a near $40 card. Craterhoof is getting reprinted yes but it’s getting a speciality retro border only available in collector boosters. Lilliana getting a new retro border treatment as well. It just seems like they’re trying to milk as much out of the collector boosters as possible while still harshly limiting which highly desired reprints are available. Especially when considering Edgar Markov of all things is in the set, what is the realistic justification for not having cavern of souls other then holding it over to another set likely just to make it a collector booster specialty art exclusive again?

[@bennefib]

Remastered went from a new players intro plane set into a hall of fame cash grab

[@baskil]

They really should have reprinted Greymond, Avacyn's Stalwart. It desperately needs a reprint.

[@joto5459]

Innistrad Remastered is the Red Crayon of Remastered sets.

[@as95ms98]

Any and all reprint sets should always be the same price as a Standard set.

[@maclenag91]

Cavern got a meaningful reprint into Ixilan at the end of 2023. I could see why they wouldn't reprint it here. Seems like a dope set in my opinion.

[@samuelhain2160]

I was really hoping we'd get the pmps11 art for the basics, but I think I'm only one left who remembers they exist at all.

[@t.yop9]

Why would including 1 expensive reprint and not including another 1 'cancel each other out'. What does that mean? All of these cards should be included in a remaster set.

[@DerekScottBland]

(before watching) What happened to Cavern? It's being held for the next high ticket release. More expensive cards might have made it in, but Cavern is a land, so it has more utility, and is more of a selling draw for high end packs.

[@taylon5200]

Mtg forge has saved me so much money the past year

[@SilverAlex92]

I dont see anyone talking about this sets other issue. Its made for collector boosters. You can get insane hits like the movie posters cards, or showcase foil chace mythics. And while pricy, they kinda break even on average, with some really bad boosters and some 100usd+ boosters. The issue with this is that play boosters are absolutely CRAP. You miss out on most of the cool treatments, and the average value of play boosters is just too low :(

[@Shawn-f3x]

People default to believing, “WotC is going to squeeze maximum price out of a product offering the rock-bottom minimum value that will get them the sales.” And WotC does nothing to correct that impression with reprints that won’t affect singles prices due to them playing printing games. WotC’s image is literally that of Scrooge. Regularly making the buying experiences for the average customer 25-35% EV doesn’t help with that. Anointed Procession being through the roof means the lack of Parallel Lives hurts even more.

[@sergeantlonewolf]

Here to play magic, not collect slabs like a Pokémon collector. As cost get out of control, proxies become more common.

[@gnosticpygmy4417]

Another Pleasant Kenobi video thats negative? God what a shocker

[@AC3handle]

SO what would happen if they HAD printed parallel lives and Saffron Olive decided to make ANOther mad token deck? Arena breaks AGAIN.

[@DKaelynd]

They want to keep Cavern of Souls expensive to give the tribal players in Commander the proverbial middle finger.

[@Kuja66613666]

Cavern? Saved for the accompanying Secret Lair, obviously. Which, of course, won't be print-to-demand.

[@CoL_Drake]

you made a mistake craterhoof IS missing its only in the very special variant added but thats such a rare drop that you cant even count it, as normal drop it doesnt exist in this set

[@PleasantKenobi]

It's on a bonus sheet. For all we know that makes it more common than other mythic due to distribution of that sheet.

[@piershollott339]

I feel like... costs are going to go up for product, and people are going to be unhappy about this; and enfranchised players are bound to be less than enthused about remastered sets, unless they want to draft. Innistrad sets have typically been awesome to draft, so Wizards has probably pushed this particular remastered set for limited. And yes, it's shrinkflation.

[@gnomersy1087]

I think the main issue with "Remastered" sets is that they need to decide what they are and get people on board with that vision/purpose. To be clear I'm not really for or against this set I probably won't buy sealed but a fair part of that is I don't really have much nostalgia for Innistrad and have a lot of the chase cards so I'm mostly looking for a few singles. But if they are meant to be reprint focused master style sets then you probably want a good batting average of the best cards from the sets because there aren't that many great cards to talk about when the pool to choose from is like 4 or 5 sets, this was admittedly also the problem with Masters sets where you have a premium set and then if you throw in a bunch of worthless or borderline worthless bulk the set isn't doing a great job of selling that these are universally high value cards and thus justify a higher price. In Masters sets that choice to throw in bulk was purely a choice because they had the whole of Magic history to work with but in a Remastered set it's built in because there aren't that many chase cards to work with. Now in fairness these are priced considerably lower than masters packs were(relative to normal pack pricing) so that can justify it to a pretty large degree. If I really wanted to evaluate how "good" or "bad" the deal is I'd probably want an Estimated Value per pack number and compare that to the price per pack retail and compare those relative to ordinary sets and to old masters sets but that would be not only a lot of work it also requires that I know the ratio that packs are seeded with various card types and I don't care that much. The other option is hey this is just a normal kitbash set it's about the feels and the nostalgia of playing with these old cool cards in a draft. Yeah you're probably not getting more value per pack than an average set but that's not the point. In that case 4/5 is probably good assuming they don't miss any of the old format allstars but the overall price should reflect that this isn't a premium product it should be priced at or below the ordinary booster price because it isn't there for value it's just a draft set.