The Zendikar Thread

I think this may be the best set in ages for my deck. You know how much I value lands, and this seems like a grand way of playing with them, but we'll see. We'll see.

I changed the threat title to Zendikar.

Now there's more exciting things to talk about with the super promotion.

What do you think is going to happen to prices? Secondary market insanity?

Abe preordered from SCG at $85 a box. They're now $110. The lowest English box of Zendikar is $120 + shipping right now on ebay.

So the number crunchers listed the odds of getting the "good card" insert is about 1: 720 packs. That's not particularly high. That's 1 in 20 boxes.

One thing I did learn from the midnight prerelease I went to. Green/White is really strong. Allies are amazing. Removal is at a premium if you aren't playing black. Almost all the rares are playable. I went 3-1 and got 6 extra packs. I'm happy. Foil Arid Mesa and Foil Mindbreak Trap (sold for $50 before I left the store :D).

Yeah, play green white. It's good.

This set looks like pretty good money. There's a couple high priced mythics, the new fetches, the off-hand possibility of treasure.... Seems like one of the best money sets since 10th.

I didn't do so well at the prerelease (my fist under 7th place), but I did only have 7 mins to build a deck because I was late. In the end it was worth it. I traded for the U/R fetch and the Exile any number of spells trap, all I had to do was get rid of a bunch of crap rares...

I opened up two boxes today and got 11 fetches, and many repeated rares. It was very odd, whenever I opened up a rare, the next rare of the same color would be the same card. Like, I opened a up a Lotus Cobra, so the next green rare I opened was a Lotus Cobra. Both boxes did this with many cards.

Thanks Chad, we'll if the rest of us have collation problems.

Picked up a foil Scalding Tarn today, for $25 =)

Here we go, first boxxxx.....

First Box Report:

Only one duplicate rare, Sphinx of Jwar Isle. I also got a duplicate of my foil rare, but that's normal.

Number of Fetch lands; 4
# of Mythics: 6 - Ob Nixilis, Kalitas, Felidar Sovreign, Nissa Revane, Warren Instigator, Mindbreak Trap

# of Foil Rare - 1, Devout Lightcaster