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Double Masters: The best set...Almost

    Double Masters is the newest Magic the Gathering set releasing on August 7th. Each pack will contain two of everything you usually get. So two rares or mythics, two foils, all that good stuff. The cards included in Double Masters are like a dream come true. Cards that have been expensive in the past are being reprinted: Jace the Mind Sculptor, Mana Crypt, Force of Will, Karn Liberated, Blighsteel Colossus, Dark Confidant, Doubling Season, Mox Opal, Sword of Fire and Ice, Exploration, Cyclonic Rift, I could go on. It finally feels like players will be able to get these expensive cards that they couldn't afford in the past. Unfortunately, the price to get sealed product is way too high. One booster pack, just one single booster pack, costs fourteen dollars! That is one single booster pack, not a collector's edition, not a VIP pack - one regular pack costs fourteen dollars. And a booster box? Well, you can find one of those for $320. The price is just way too high. Yes, some of the most highly valued cards are in this set, but at this point Double Masters isn't for everybody to get these cards and be able to play with them, it's for the people with a lot of money in their wallet that can afford these incredibly high prices. It's disappointing, because if a booster box costed less, maybe even $200, it could be affordable enough that maybe more people could get it. And yes, you can just buy singles by themselves, and maybe the individual prices of singles will drop. If so, great! The price of sealed product wouldn't matter as much then. But I have a feeling that singles prices won't be dropping. The cards in Double Masters will stay at their high price, and sealed product will just increase in price the more scarce it is to find. So if you think that a Magic the Gathering booster box deserves to cost more than a Nintendo Switch, go ahead and get Double Masters. But I'm going to wait and be hopeful that at some point I'll be able to get some of these cards, for a price that costs less.

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