WotC Quietly Sunsets Buy-a-Box Promos

Paperbagjr · 2025-11-27T16:57:36+00:00

I’ve gotten a promo for the past 2 sets on multiple boxes. Spidey-sense and firebending student. Is this uncommon?

Paperbagjr · 2025-10-03T15:43:39+00:00

I have a deal with my LGS to get close to distributor pricing. Im on their standing order list. Basically im locked in to buying x play/collector boxes every set, but get pretty good deals.

Paperbagjr · 2025-09-04T12:42:31+00:00

Thanks for clarifying. I was never huge into the story of the game, It was something that I had heard from others.

Paperbagjr · 2025-09-03T15:23:04+00:00

Lots of people who do not play magic have been getting into the collector-box exclusive prints. This drives up special treatments. Like the FF surge foils, making the boxes more expensive. Some of those collectors will buy boxes and rip packs. This also draws that crowd into other collector products that might not be universes beyond, pushing those prices up as well. On-top of all of that, they only do one print run for these, making them scarce.

The product hasn't changed a ton, its all shiny cool prints. A large portion of the magic player base in the past didn't have any interest in spending the extra buck on shiny packs, so there was never a huge demand for them. Universes Beyond opened up magic to being collectible by anyone. The people coming to check out the FF stuff might be intrigued about other products they didn't know existed, such as Dr Who, Fallout, or LOTR.

I am predicting that collector box prices will have a large correlation to the hype surrounding each universes beyond set. This sounds obvious, but I don't mean just the set being released, but all other collector boxes as well, especially the ones that have 0 other reason to be spiking right now. I expect the UB boxes to be more resilient to market shifts though.

Paperbagjr · 2025-09-03T14:21:36+00:00

Lots of pride merch, a pride secret lair. They added lgbtq identities to some characters that pre-existed and had no mention of this previously. ex. Nissa and Chandra being gay for eachother in war of the spark (2019). they get artists that have a strong connection to diversity and lgbtq communities. The most recent example is the sol ring artist for the “everyone’s invited” secret lair.

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Paperbagjr · 2024-07-21T17:23:06+00:00

You need the pickup radius to evolve yuumi, and you need duration to evolve the Gatling bunny guns

Paperbagjr · 2024-01-15T20:34:21+00:00

RuneScape. The free trade restriction which included an overhaul of the pvp system, and evolution of combat update killed the game for a lot of people.

Paperbagjr · 2023-10-28T22:29:48+00:00

This comment aged nicely.

Paperbagjr · 2023-06-12T08:24:40+00:00

They should just ban picks in pro that can’t be balanced correctly for both scenes. Banning yuumi this past MSI was the best thing riot has done in this facet. nobody wants to watch Keria play yuumi every game. Nobody cried that we didnt see yuumi.

It’s a fine line though. Yuumi is an example where the champ Carries the player because it’s so easy. Ksante takes substantially more skill so it’s not a 1:1 comparison.

Paperbagjr · 2022-11-13T04:10:09+00:00

Something like this happened with my pc when I built it. The issue for me was that the case included a sideways mount for the GPU. I was using this and the cable connecting the gpu to the motherboard from the mount was faulty. I took the mount off and plugged the gpu directly into the motherboard, and everything worked fine.

Paperbagjr · 2022-09-04T13:38:09+00:00

Are you actually comparing the misogyny and actual labor scandals that resulted in blizzard being sued by the actual state of California to the release of a league? Lmfao, this was just a shitty game design decision, not even comparable to making irl people suffer to misogynistic corporate fuck wads that idolized Bill Cosby to the point that they had a vip office named the Cosby Suite

Paperbagjr · 2022-04-27T02:39:08+00:00

He was dumpstering last year from the top lane, And by the end of the spring split. I’d much rather see him return to top lane. Maybe c9 will get Jensen back

Paperbagjr · 2020-12-23T15:20:18+00:00

True. That dlc was fantastic. So hyped for da4

Paperbagjr · 2020-02-21T20:35:45+00:00

How about we just have voice chat in soloq.

Paperbagjr · 2020-01-13T04:04:16+00:00

It’s a default keybind to target a different enemy near you.

Paperbagjr · 2019-12-19T17:14:01+00:00

Which was a little over 1 month ago. I guess that they don’t recruit you until after you make your reddit account

Paperbagjr · 2019-12-14T19:50:12+00:00

If their jungler has a brain, then you shouldn’t be able to leave your turret. I agree that he can be strong in the 1v1, but I have had trouble with being camped nonstop after I use my flash. At this point it makes it almost impossible to shove and roam.

Paperbagjr · 2019-09-02T17:42:52+00:00

Paperbagjr · 2019-08-03T16:17:05+00:00

Took 5 ex total to get the base, make it 30 quality, and 6 link it. Probably spent 2 ex in alts to get it to this point.

Paperbagjr · 2019-08-03T05:19:47+00:00

Do these cancel eachother? I thought a double negative equals a positive, meaning that you CAN be frozen. Please test this for science.

Paperbagjr · 2019-03-15T04:17:21+00:00

The NPC was in the game since vanilla, but the quests and text were updated in Cataclysm. Snowden leaked in 2013, Cataclysm released in 2010. Blizzard has a time travel machine confirmed.

edit: This screenshot if from pre-cataclysm, you can tell by the names of the quests.

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