It's quickly become obvious to me why Wizard's of the Coast is able to constantly push product out the door and have people gobble it up and come back for more. A few days back, Weirdguy and I decided to put a hold on buying up the new old stock at our local comics shop and save up a bit of cash for the next expansion set coming out today. When we saw the new Fat Packs for only $35CAD, it was a no-brainer.
The Fat Pack is basically a bundle of 8 booster packs. But the fact that it retails around the $40 mark (depending where you get one) means that you're paying for the 8 boosters (@15 cards ea.) and getting a whole bunch of "other stuff."
The box is a weird size until you open it and realize that it's propped up like that in order to fit the Player's Guide book (it measures about 6 inches tall and contains all sorts of goodies like articles on suggested combos, the fluff behind the current Alara storyline, and even a card encyclopedia of the current set) under the slip-cover. But when you remove all the cardboard spacers, you end up with a pretty nice card-box for your set. Since the slip cover becomes redundant after you remove the spacers, you can unfold it into a mini poster.
Inside the box is your 8 booster packs along with a D20 (to use as a Life Counter, of course!), an excerpt booklet from this month's Magic novel about Planeswalkers, and small stack of Basic Lands to give your deck some filler if you need it to upgrade from Shards of Alara to Conflux.
A side note, that play-mat you see in the photos is was a freebie. I got it today at the local shop for buying into Conflux on launch day. Of course, I chose a dragon motif to suit my previous Primordial Jund deck.
The Fat Pack is basically a bundle of 8 booster packs. But the fact that it retails around the $40 mark (depending where you get one) means that you're paying for the 8 boosters (@15 cards ea.) and getting a whole bunch of "other stuff."
The box is a weird size until you open it and realize that it's propped up like that in order to fit the Player's Guide book (it measures about 6 inches tall and contains all sorts of goodies like articles on suggested combos, the fluff behind the current Alara storyline, and even a card encyclopedia of the current set) under the slip-cover. But when you remove all the cardboard spacers, you end up with a pretty nice card-box for your set. Since the slip cover becomes redundant after you remove the spacers, you can unfold it into a mini poster.
Inside the box is your 8 booster packs along with a D20 (to use as a Life Counter, of course!), an excerpt booklet from this month's Magic novel about Planeswalkers, and small stack of Basic Lands to give your deck some filler if you need it to upgrade from Shards of Alara to Conflux.
A side note, that play-mat you see in the photos is was a freebie. I got it today at the local shop for buying into Conflux on launch day. Of course, I chose a dragon motif to suit my previous Primordial Jund deck.
2 comments:
Let's play soon :)
Soon! Yes!
But not too soon - I'm sure you're wife would prefer to celebrate St.Valentine's Day this weekend. ;D
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