WotC New M:tG set announced: "Adventures in the Forgotten Realms"

[MoonSong]

Well, it's official, I'm going to be a destitute bunnycat one year from now. And I'm not getting the DMG until 2022 at the least. In case you're not familiar with the MTG product line, it typically consists of these products:

• Five thematic decks (one per color).-60 fixed cards each plus two booster packs. about $60 for the whole set
• The deckbuilders toolkit.- 285 fixed cards, including a bunch of lands (I think there's 100) the box is sturdy and good for storage. About $30-40
• The bundle.- ten packs, one life counter, one booklet with the whole set illustrated so you can keep track of your collection and 40 lands. The box is sturdy and good for storage and double the size of the toolkit. About $50-60
• The gift box.- 4-5 packs, a pack of sleeves and a life counter. Not all lines get one. about $40-50
• The booster box - 36 packs. about $100-120 each
• The event pack.- Five packs, a promo foil card, and a life counter. About $20-30 and you need to take part on the pre-view event. The cards in this pack are all on your local language version. So both me and @LuisCarlos17f can expect to have about 100 Spanish language FR cards.

So, about $400 it seems. No way I'm not preordering with my local shop. I hope they make it to next August.

Edit: Also, cards take 1-2 years to make it into Star City games gold collection, so I'm expecting to get a couple of boxes in 2022-2024. (The gold collection is a box of 1000 cards including 80 lands. It is a mix of old and new cards, but the bulk of them are cards from the past two years)

 

[Cadence]

So, about $400 it seems. No way I'm not preordering with my local shop. I hope they make it to next August.

Except now they also have the Set Boosters, Theme Boosters, and Collectors Boosters and sometimes Commander Decks, if they go by the last few sets: Zendikar Rising Product Overview (they might have stopped the Deckbuilders Toolkits though...).

 

[Cadence]

Oops.

 

[MoonSong]

Except now they also have the Set Boosters, Theme Boosters, and Collectors Boosters and sometimes Commander Decks, if they go by the few sets: Zendikar Rising Product Overview (they might have stopped the Deckbuilders Toolkits though...).

Ok, another $100 for the commander decks. No way I'm throwing money at collectors Boosters. How old are set boosters? I haven't seen them yet -last thing MTG I bought was in shadows over innistrad-. Assuming a similar cost with a premium, we are looking at like $800?

 

[Remathilis]

Ok, another $100 for the commander decks. No way I'm throwing money at collectors Boosters. How old are set boosters? I haven't seen them yet -last thing MTG I bought was in shadows over innistrad-. Assuming a similar cost with a premium, we are looking at like $800?

They're boosters with no commons; uncommon and rares only.

And it depends on what you intend to do; if you want a complete set, singles are way cheaper. I'd you want a playable deck, your still better off with singles. If you want to collect one of every supplemental product, God bless your soul.

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah, I'm waiting to see what the exactly product offering is before worrying about cost: I'll probably be happy with buying all the precon decks, but I might want boosters for the fun of opening them. Time shall tell ..

 

[cbwjm]

The set is Forgotten Realms in the sense that every Magic expansion requires a setting, and obviously they were going to pick the most popular D&D setting for the first D&D crossover set.

But that doesn't mean the set needs to be laser-focused on FR alone. Magic sets take 2+ years to create and playtest, and I'm sure they will want to see the reception of this one before greenlighting another D&D crossover. So we're not going to have another one for a while. I can't imagine they would leave out the two iconic D&D artifacts just because they aren't unique to the Realms.

Whether they go so far as to bring in Vecna himself is another question. I could see them going either way. But I don't think "Vecna isn't FR-specific enough" would be a reason to keep him out. Vecna goes where he likes.

Artifacts I could see, I highly doubt that any gods included in the set would be non-FR specific but who knows, maybe Vecna entering the realms will be the overarching story of the set.

 

[Parmandur]

Except now they also have the Set Boosters, Theme Boosters, and Collectors Boosters and sometimes Commander Decks, if they go by the few sets: Zendikar Rising Product Overview (they might have stopped the Deckbuilders Toolkits though...).

They are always adjusting the product offering: the Core Set the past couple years had the deck builders toolkit, and this might be filling that slot: same with Planewalker decks and Commander, Core had no Commander IIRC, but the other sets didn't have Planewalker decks after Theros. All very in flux, har from predict what they will.

 

[cbwjm]

Yeah, I'm waiting to see what the exactly product offering is before worrying about cost: I'll probably be happy with buying all the precon decks, but I might want boosters for the fun of opening them. Time shall tell ..

I'll probably just mess around with the set on MtG arena rather than buying the physical cards.

 

[Parmandur]

Artifacts I could see, I highly doubt that any gods included in the set would be non-FR specific but who knows, maybe Vecna entering the realms will be the overarching story of the set.

I think we'll see famous named relics, but probably no god cards: not the way things are done in the FR these days.