Born of the Gods booster pack $2.75 each
Economics forum
Posted on Jan. 8, 2014, 11:16 p.m. by WovenNebula
Not sure if this best price I have found yet, but it is one of the better ones. Here is the link
I have ordered from wizardscupboard before and they were quick to ship, so from my experience reliableAnyone seen them cheaper anywhere else?
WovenNebula says... #3
lol. They also have other standard sets that are 2.75, except return to ravnica is 3.00. just so you know. @GoldGhost012
January 8, 2014 11:28 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #4
So, how many packs will I have to buy to get a reasonable chance of pulling a foil Kiora, the Crashing Wave ?
January 8, 2014 11:34 p.m.
WovenNebula says... #5
@GoldGhost012 lol that I dunno know. You could buy 20 packs and get none or buy 10 and the first pack you open has it, always, always a gamble
January 8, 2014 11:38 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #6
And unfortunately, I'll probably never see one on the Internet, because I have never, ever seen anyone selling a foil Planeswalker.
January 8, 2014 11:40 p.m.
Most boxes that i pre order i get for ~$90 which is 2.50 a pack. I mean if you dont want a full box I can see that site being pretty well worth it.
January 8, 2014 11:42 p.m.
Depending on how many you're looking at buying, Channel Fireball has booster boxes for 89 which comes out to 2.22 a pack. They also have 3 packs for $8 in a few sets, including Theros, which comes out to 2.66 per. They do charge shipping tho.
January 8, 2014 11:44 p.m.
You have a 1/80 chance of pulling a regular Kiora.
You have a 1/70 chance of getting a foil.
You do the math.
January 8, 2014 11:47 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #11
Makes me wonder whether they're mapped. Of course, the mapping process got a good deal harder some time ago, but it's still quite unusual for any retailer to offer packs so far below MSRP.
January 8, 2014 11:50 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #12
Challenge accepted. Let's see, 5600 x 2.75 is... $15,400. Totally worth selling my organs for a foil Kiora.
January 8, 2014 11:51 p.m.
GoldGhost012 Well a mythic is a 1 in 8 chance of replacing a rare. 1 rare per 16 cards. Born of the Gods is a small set so it's generally around 11-12 different mythics.
I'm not the best mathematician, but I believe the probability of pulling Kiora, the Crashing Wave out of a single pack is (1/12)*(1/8) or just about 1%. So you'd need to open 100 packs to be statistically guaranteed. Factoring in foil might bump that to 2% if your lucky.
Basically, this is why you don't open packs to find specific cards. It's always better to buy them as singles.
January 8, 2014 11:51 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #14
So it's not 15 grand? Even better!
In seriousness though, I think the only way for me to find any foil walker, let alone Kiora, is to find them in a pack. I've never seen any site that will sell a foil walker and I've never seen anyone who will trade one.
January 8, 2014 11:56 p.m.
My buddy had 9 Domri's, then traded a foil one for 4 more.
January 9, 2014 12:01 a.m.
Oops, didn't see the foil part. Yeah, that makes the math a lot worse, but most of the big sites have foil planeswalkers for sale. Not sure where you're going that doesn't have them.
January 9, 2014 12:04 a.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #17
Hmm, maybe I'm avoiding the price tag lol.
Jeez, what did your friend want with 12 Domris Jp3ngu1nb0y?
January 9, 2014 12:09 a.m.
A lot of people buy mass quantities of walkers as investments. My buddy bought 20 Jace AOT when they were like $15 and sold them off at like $28. Made a pretty penny.
January 9, 2014 12:14 a.m.
ryuzaki32667 says... #19
Yea, iv'e been collecting Liliana of the Veil only trading, yet to actualy buy one, im up to ten bc i like most everyone sees her going up, but in the end i dont think ill be able to let her go when she does
January 9, 2014 12:18 a.m.
Servo_Token says... #20
I'd just like to point out to everyone here that's going nuts over the low prices:
You need to pay for shipping as well on most of this, which adds a great deal to the cost unless you're buying tons of product.
January 9, 2014 12:28 a.m.
ebay always has foil walkers too mate, i recently bought a foil Garruk Relentless for my EDH deck, my first non promo foil walker incidently and also my only foil double sided card as I ended up rotating out my werewolves as they just NEVER flipped in EDH multiplayer games :-( which was sad because the werewolf deck that turned into my token deck worked nicely when it did work properly!
January 9, 2014 2:38 a.m.
Hallowed_Titan says... #24
My local music store sells standard boosters for $2.99. Undercuts all the card shops and walmart. They just have a limit of 8 packs per person. They also don't sell booster boxes unless it's preorder(they sell 'em for $89)
GoldGhost012 says... #2
MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE!!
In case you couldn't tell, I really want them.
January 8, 2014 11:23 p.m.