Magic publisher Wizards of the Coast hasn't said how big that run will be, just that it's limited and that card shops will receive a limited supply with the bulk of the cards being sold online. They're not tournament legal and have different backing than the original cards. These cards are purely collector's items. "Each pack contains 15 cards, 13 cards in the modern frame - 1 rare, 3 uncommons, 7 commons, and 2 basic lands - plus one basic land in the retro frame, one additional retro frame card, and a token," according to Magic's website. Nine hundred ninety-nine dollars will buy a collector four sealed booster packs. ![]() It's called Magic: The Gathering 30th Anniversary Edition and will contain some cards that haven't been reprinted in decades, all with their original art. This also means that LGS’s could do some interesting events surrounding these products.An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Popular collectible card game Magic: The Gathering is celebrating its 30th anniversary by releasing packs of cards that cost $999. This means that everyone worldwide should have a chance at purchasing this product should they want to. ![]() For anyone who wants to support their WPN LGS’s, all WPN stores will be receiving one of these, while Premium WPN stores will receive three of these free of charge. Players within North America can expect their 30th Anniversary Edition shipped within the year, while those out-of-continent may get their product early next year. These will be printed ahead of time (limited print run), so shipping times shouldn’t be too horrendous, according to the weekly announcement where this product was revealed. This URL is not currently set up and will likely go up sometime in mid-October. These go for sale on November 28 on a new URL from Wizards of the Coast:. How to Purchase Wizards’ Most Controversial Productįor those interested in Wizard of the Coast’s 30th Anniversary Edition product, they aren’t for sale yet. As expected by a community as vocal as this one, there are a lot of responses to this controversial product: Wizards specifically did not allude to whether these cards were Commander legal or not, just that they are not tournament legal. As seen by the recent Warhammer Collector’s Edition spike, prices entering the four-digit realm seem to price out a lot of the MTG community. The target audience that Wizards aims for with this product seems challenging to pin down. Even some larger names in the community, like Amazonian, seem confused as to the goal of this product, commenting a simple “uh” in the Twitch chat. ![]() Pictured above is the Twitch comments to the MTG reveal when the $999 price tag was revealed by MTG creator Elaine Chase.
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