The Zendikar Thread

Box Two:

# of Duplicate rares: 1 I got two World Quellers, which is great because I want like 17 of them. I also got duplicates of both of my foil rares

# of fetchlands: 3
# of Mythics - 4 - Ob Nixilis x2, Lorthos, Sorin Markov
# of Foil Rares: 2 - Ob Nixilis, Sphinx of Lost Truths


So, less fetches and mythics, but the amazing foil mythic makes up for it. Ob Nixilis foil is hot rihght now. Many think he is the new Rafiq of Many, a highly playable and sought after legendary mythic. and I got one in teh first box and two int eh second, plus one of them foiled. No regrets there. Value-wise, that's better than the average value of a random mythic and fetch land.

Cards I still want for my deck:

Chandra Ablaze
Iona, Shield fo Emeria
Lotus Cobra
Day of Judgment
Roil Elemental

The Good Stuff:

For you budget folks out there, here are gthe good non-rare, non-lands from Zendikar I;m very high on and are immediately inclusions in H&J.

Relic Crush - Destroys, instantly, as naturalize and can get you a s3econd naturalize for free if you want. Quite good because of its flexibility.

Gatekeeper of maliker - edicts are great

Frontier Guide - neverending mana

Expedition map gets you anuy land, not just basics, and is an artifact for any color of deck. Amazing.

Mold Shambler - Common, 3/3, destroys any non-creature, which includes Planeswalkers.

Heartstabber Mosquito - Unlike a lot of other black kjill, this takes out any creature, without any restricion.

Oran-Rief recluse - destroying flyers is gravy, and few have pro-green. the only flyer shtat surviv e- Eesha, Simic Sky Swaller, Pristine, Iridescent, and then some that no one ever plays like Zephid and Cerealn Wyvern.

Kor Catographer 0- CIP land for Whte, awesome

Khalni Heart Expedition - great acceleration and color fixin'.

Explorer's scope - Solid in the right circumstances.

Summoner's bane - Probably one of my favorite four cc counters of all time.

Journery to Nowhere - better than Oublliette

Reckless Scholar - Cephalid Seer for wizards and humans.

Kor Sanctifiers - CIP and Disenchants

Khalni Gem - Fine mana fixin' and helps with landfall.

The box I opened had a bunch of doubles... but the goods first
4 Fetches (1ug, 2 bg, 1 ur)
1 Cobra
2 Day of Judgement
1 Foil Mythic Iona

I got 2 of each of these...
Bloodchief Ascension
Malakir Bloodwitch
Luminarch Ascension
Day of Judgment
Verdant Catacombs
Magosi, the Waterveil
Oracle of Mul Daya
Terra Stomper
Elemental Appeal
Chandra Ablaze

So only 16 packs had unique rares... at least I got most of the goods I was looking for and I was able to sell one Day of Judgment on the spot. Anyone looking for a Lotus Cobra?

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Originally Posted by jrr

The box I opened had a bunch of doubles... but the goods first
4 Fetches (1ug, 2 bg, 1 ur)
1 Cobra
2 Day of Judgement
1 Foil Mythic Iona

I got 2 of each of these...
Bloodchief Ascension
Malakir Bloodwitch
Luminarch Ascension
Day of Judgment
Verdant Catacombs
Magosi, the Waterveil
Oracle of Mul Daya
Terra Stomper
Elemental Appeal
Chandra Ablaze

So only 16 packs had unique rares... at least I got most of the goods I was looking for and I was able to sell one Day of Judgment on the spot. Anyone looking for a Lotus Cobra?

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Could it be that we rocked the duplicates so much because we got our box(es) from the same case?

The first deck in next week's article looks like it would be awesome to play. I built in a lot of synergies.

Ok I have some time, let's open up my other two boxes.

Okay, first five packs so far, mythic, foil rare, rare, mythic, mythic, mythic. Four mythic sand fooil rare in five packs. Wow.

Booster Box 3:

# of duplicates, none, except for a duplicate of one of my foil rares

Fetches:3
Foil Rares: 2 Guul Draz Specter, Luminarch Ascension
Mythics: 5 - Nissa, Kalitas, Eldrazi Monument, Rampaging baloths, Felidar Sovreign

So I just got one more mythic in the box after the first five packs. Still missing:

Chandra Ablaze
Iona, Shield fo Emeria
Lotus Cobra
Day of Judgment
Roil Elemental

Two of these are rares and I haven't gotten one in three boxes, the other three are mythics. Just one box lef tot find them.

Final box:

# of duplicates: 1 Sphinx of Lost Truths
# of Fetches: 3
# of Mythics: 4 - Ob Nixilis, Sorin Markov, Kalitas, Felidar Sovreign
# of Foil Rares - 1 Bloodchief Ascension

Okay,m now the foil is good for value, since that rare is going for about 5-6 bucks right now without being foiled. Low # of fethces, low # of mythics, and noe good to make up it.

I always get these wierd things. there is always one money card I get a ton of, and then soem money cards I get raped on.

I got 0 day of Judgment despite it being just a rare, and the same for Roil Elemental. Yet I scored a player's set of the mythic Ob Nixilis, including one foil, total value on SCG for them is around 70 dollars.

Remember in Conflux where I got a ton of Nicol Bolas but was missing a bunch of other stuff? Well, the same is here.


In two boxes, I didn;t open what I failed to open in the first to and I wanted. Suck.

Blame it on Jacob. He's like the Black Cat except his radius extends way farther.