Ive ordered this box a few times and have only had 1 disappointing box that had 4 cards that had literally 100+ duplicates. I have 4 other boxes I've ordered over the years and gotten a good mix of cards with only 2-5 duplicates. They are relatively even split each box had one favored color and the rest were pretty even with about 20 multicolor cards of varied rarities. The cards in the boxes i got a few years ago definitely skewed more towards the older sets but my most recent box i bought had a good mix of recent and even the most recent sets. Definitely worth the money for a bulk full of common/uncommon cards.
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Lots and lots of duplicates
I expected duplicates but this was a lot more than i would have thought. I went off the good reviews but they 100% got their product from a different seller. Listen to the others who chose the seller instead of using the default amazon one. I didn't even show the swamp or mountain duplicates and you can see about 200 duplicates just on the table. You will get at least double to quadruple of everything, i showed a few of that in addition to the duplicates of 10-30. The 5+ duplicates groupings came out to about 400 of the cards. Duplicates all in total more than half. I don't mind duplicates of maybe 10 or under. But multiples of almost 20 is too much. Cannot recommend this unless you are starting completely new and want a decentish variety. The 25 rares were all different so that was at least nice and you get no basic lands which is also good. So keep in mind you will probably get 40% of this bulk to be duplicates.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2013
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2013
Packaging of the cards
The cards were shipped in a card box and as a lot - nothing was packed in sets - just 1040 cards in a box. I did not receive the separate "bonus" rares that have been mentioned unless they were mixed in and I don't have the eye to spot them.
First thing that hit me after opening it, I grabbed a block of cards from the far left and every single one of them was a duplicate. One after another, after another, oh! a new card! followed by 20-something of the exact same new card. I was really worried by this point.
The fact that these were already grouped together tells me either the supplier is willing grabbing large blocks of the exact same card or this was already purchased, sorted, and returned by somebody.
Things did get more varied when I grabbed from a different part of the box, but about 65% of the cards have at least 2 or 3 duplications usually sitting next in line.
In the following numbers, if something had less than 10 duplicates, I did not count it in the "high duplication" number. I will list the mana type, the number of "normal qty" cards, the number of highly duplicated cards, and a note about the diversity of the duplicates. I had 1040 cards in total. Here is what I ended up with.
Swamps/Black - 218
-Normal cards: 161
-High duplication: 57
-note: qty 57 of Reaping the Grave
Plains/White - 157
-Normal cards: 143
-High duplication: 14
-note: qty 14 Warriors Honor
Water/Blue - 215
-Normal cards: 119
-High duplication: 96
-note: qty 22 temporal forest, qty 56 Mercurial kite, qty 18 Shoreline Ranger
Forest/Green - 115
-Normal cards: 115
-High duplication: 0
-note: many 3x, 4x, and several 8x duplicates
Fire/Red - 218
-Normal cards: 176
-High duplication: 46
-note: qty 23 About Face, qty 23 Granite Grip
Generic Mana - 96
-Normal cards: 78
-High duplication: 18
-note: qty 18 Wall of Spears
Mixed Mana - 21
-Normal cards: 21
-High duplication: 0
-note: only a couple doubles
I will upload a couple of annotated pictures for a visual representation. The most disappointing is my blue deck with almost HALF of them being duplicates. Overall I am happy with the distribution of the cards across the varied mana types. I did end up with 5 foreign language cards which doesn't bother me. The condition of the cards ranges from very good to medium wear. Most of them being in very good condition. About 15% of the cards are very old (white border) cards - I even recognize a few from when I had my one desk back in grade school.
My overall opinion?
I don't know. Prior to this, I only own a deck that was given to my by a friend to learn with. 20% of what I ordered is heavily duplicated cards and that feels like a rip-off when the justification is "Well, you get more than 1,000, so it's okay" I got 40 extra cards in exchange for 231 duplicates. It's a lot of cards, and they are varied when you ignore the chunk of useless duplicates. I know i will build a few nice decks with this and expand my knowledge of the game. I'm not displeased with the purchase, but I won't be making it again and I'll be dumping about 170 cards in the trash after writing this since it's not worth keeping and dealing with the seller to make this work better for me is not worth the time on a bulk purchase at this price.
It's not a bad product, but it's not great.
Underwhelming but better than where I started
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2013
Ordered from The Gaming Broker ordered on 8/24/2013Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2013
Packaging of the cards
The cards were shipped in a card box and as a lot - nothing was packed in sets - just 1040 cards in a box. I did not receive the separate "bonus" rares that have been mentioned unless they were mixed in and I don't have the eye to spot them.
First thing that hit me after opening it, I grabbed a block of cards from the far left and every single one of them was a duplicate. One after another, after another, oh! a new card! followed by 20-something of the exact same new card. I was really worried by this point.
The fact that these were already grouped together tells me either the supplier is willing grabbing large blocks of the exact same card or this was already purchased, sorted, and returned by somebody.
Things did get more varied when I grabbed from a different part of the box, but about 65% of the cards have at least 2 or 3 duplications usually sitting next in line.
In the following numbers, if something had less than 10 duplicates, I did not count it in the "high duplication" number. I will list the mana type, the number of "normal qty" cards, the number of highly duplicated cards, and a note about the diversity of the duplicates. I had 1040 cards in total. Here is what I ended up with.
Swamps/Black - 218
-Normal cards: 161
-High duplication: 57
-note: qty 57 of Reaping the Grave
Plains/White - 157
-Normal cards: 143
-High duplication: 14
-note: qty 14 Warriors Honor
Water/Blue - 215
-Normal cards: 119
-High duplication: 96
-note: qty 22 temporal forest, qty 56 Mercurial kite, qty 18 Shoreline Ranger
Forest/Green - 115
-Normal cards: 115
-High duplication: 0
-note: many 3x, 4x, and several 8x duplicates
Fire/Red - 218
-Normal cards: 176
-High duplication: 46
-note: qty 23 About Face, qty 23 Granite Grip
Generic Mana - 96
-Normal cards: 78
-High duplication: 18
-note: qty 18 Wall of Spears
Mixed Mana - 21
-Normal cards: 21
-High duplication: 0
-note: only a couple doubles
I will upload a couple of annotated pictures for a visual representation. The most disappointing is my blue deck with almost HALF of them being duplicates. Overall I am happy with the distribution of the cards across the varied mana types. I did end up with 5 foreign language cards which doesn't bother me. The condition of the cards ranges from very good to medium wear. Most of them being in very good condition. About 15% of the cards are very old (white border) cards - I even recognize a few from when I had my one desk back in grade school.
My overall opinion?
I don't know. Prior to this, I only own a deck that was given to my by a friend to learn with. 20% of what I ordered is heavily duplicated cards and that feels like a rip-off when the justification is "Well, you get more than 1,000, so it's okay" I got 40 extra cards in exchange for 231 duplicates. It's a lot of cards, and they are varied when you ignore the chunk of useless duplicates. I know i will build a few nice decks with this and expand my knowledge of the game. I'm not displeased with the purchase, but I won't be making it again and I'll be dumping about 170 cards in the trash after writing this since it's not worth keeping and dealing with the seller to make this work better for me is not worth the time on a bulk purchase at this price.
It's not a bad product, but it's not great.
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