Yesterday a customer came into the LGS I work at and reported finding an entire box, factory sealed btw, of NPH at Dollar Tree. He bought the whole thing for $36 and also said that there were also the Intro Pack/Duel Deck repacks. I am investigating today and will update this post with my findings.
I'm on the hunt for the Reanimate one. Anyone know what the front card is on that one for sure?
I've seen a handful around the Twin Cities, but none that I wanted to buy because I could manipulate the packaging and see it was two decks I didn't want.
You're looking for the Bring About the UndeadRB Archenemy deck, yes?
The front card was Bituminous Blast.
Anyways, me and a friend picked up some of these repacks yesterday.
Out of the three that we grabbed, we got:
Archenemy: Bring About the UndeadRB x3 Trample Civilization UnderfootGW Assemble the Doomsday MachineWUB
Other Teeth of the Predator – The Garruk Wildspeaker DeckG
The pack in mine was Eldrazi, had no notable cards. Can't remember his two packs.
Yesterday a customer came into the LGS I work at and reported finding an entire box, factory sealed btw, of NPH at Dollar Tree. He bought the whole thing for $36 and also said that there were also the Intro Pack/Duel Deck repacks. I am investigating today and will update this post with my findings.
That's a pretty tall tale. Seeing as wholesale prices are about double that for nearly every dealer, i just don't see how they could afford to.
Thanks for the heads up guys. I'll be on the lookout whenever I go to target for the Archenemy, planechase, and kamigawa ones. If I find any, I'll report back.
Are the two decks completely random or are they usually paired (like planechase with another planechase or archenemy with another archenemy deck)? Can someone compile a list of the visible card of each precon so that the rest of us have an idea of what to expect? I would really appreciate that.
Can anyone tell me what the first cards are in the packs with Jitte and Sensei's Divining Top?
You won't see the front card for those decks (a card back shows instead). But you should be able to see the booklet that has the deck's name - Rat's Nest for Jitte and Snake's Path for Top.
Yesterday a customer came into the LGS I work at and reported finding an entire box, factory sealed btw, of NPH at Dollar Tree. He bought the whole thing for $36 and also said that there were also the Intro Pack/Duel Deck repacks. I am investigating today and will update this post with my findings.
I would be interested to hear what you find out. I was at dollar tree today picking up some book baskets for my classroom and I only saw the 10 card dollar repacks that I'm sure are not worth it.
There was definitely no awesome priced boxes at mine
As for target, the ones near me have restocked the repacks but there are mostly themes decks and not the duel decks. Mostly Worldwake and scars theme decks.
Plains - John Avon - 230
Island - Jung Park - 235
Island - Vincent Proce - 237
Swamp - John Avon - 238
Mountain - John Avon - 242
Forest - John Avon - 246
Does anyone have any contact information for The Fairfield Company for those of us who got stuck with the 40 land packs? I'd love to be either reimbursed or have them send me a replacement. The back of the packages say "This package is guaranteed to contain a factory sealed Matic: The Gathering Decks & 1 Booster."
Truthfully, I came out mostly on top with these things, though. I'm enjoying the Garruk and the Planechase artifact deck quite a bit.
Just bought one and it had the BG Nissa Revane Duel of the Planeswalkers deck (Immaculate Magistrate Foil showing), a "deck" of land (grr...), and a NPH pack that had a Spellskite and Foil Slag Fiend.
Dude, you found a Nissa DotP deck? That's a MAJOR score right there. I figured they weren't doing that one.
Yep, going by memory they also had about 8 other sets on the shelves...
The Garruk DotP deck with foil Verdant Force showing, another pack with a foil student of warfare showing, and a deck from 7th edition with a sticker on it that said something like "do not shuffle". I also saw an Angelic Arbiter deck and another one from the last few sets that had a foil dragon something or other showing. No luck on the Jitte/Top decks and no repacks with a Worldwake booster.
I looked through a bunch. alot had eldrazi stuff in them(gigantomancer). Found one with a NPH pack and an Ancient hellkite foil in the back. So one was the m12 r/u deck. The other deck ending up being the tezz deck minus tezz.
Misha's factory, Steel overseer, master of etherium? plus a pack? thats the value right there.
Pack had trash but it was a still a good deal.
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As for target, the ones near me have restocked the repacks but there are mostly themes decks and not the duel decks. Mostly Worldwake and scars theme decks.
Fantastic to hear they seem to be restocking I'll have to check the three near me to see what I find.
As for target, the ones near me have restocked the repacks but there are mostly themes decks and not the duel decks. Mostly Worldwake and scars theme decks.
Out of curiosity, what did you see a lot of before the restock?
I checked multiple Targets but I saw primarily Archenemy, M11 intro decks, and DotP decks. I found one with the Coalition duel deck, but no other duel decks, premium decks, and no Planechase.
I know it's supposedly "random", but I've been kind of curious if different areas saw more of certain types of decks, seeing as people seemed to see a lot of Duel Decks.
I checked it out today, saw these foil rares on the decks facing outwards:
Wolfbriar Elemental
Armament Master
Hellkite Charger
Captivating Vampire
Conundrum Sphinx
Gigantomancer
Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
Seems like they all were from recent theme decks, except Hellkite Charger which is from an Archenemy deck.
Have you guys found any way to determine what the deck is that has it's card back facing out? Each deck has some folded up booklet type of things in front of it, can you get any information on the second deck from these? Or is the second deck pure luck?
I stopped by yet another Target over the weekend to see what they had. There were 2 that I was interested as they had ROE boosters. One had a white M11 precon and the other had the green DotP deck. In the one with the M11 deck I could barely see the front card of the other deck and determined it was a gold instant with Cascade. From there I found that it was a Blightning, therefore the B/R Archenemy deck. I already have 3/4 of the archenemy decks, only missing the G/R dragons deck. Because of that I decided to go with the one that had the DotP deck. It turned out to be the G/B deck and had some great cards in it. The mystery deck was the G/R dragons Archenemy deck! I was very happy... even though my ROE pack was total crap.
What I really want to find is the Planechase decks. I only have one of those, so being able to find the others "on the cheap" would be great!
I checked it out today, saw these foil rares on the decks facing outwards:
Wolfbriar Elemental
Armament Master
Hellkite Charger
Captivating Vampire
Conundrum Sphinx
Gigantomancer
Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
Seems like they all were from recent theme decks, except Hellkite Charger which is from an Archenemy deck.
Have you guys found any way to determine what the deck is that has it's card back facing out? Each deck has some folded up booklet type of things in front of it, can you get any information on the second deck from these? Or is the second deck pure luck?
The second deck is usually pure luck. Some key elements, if it has the folded booklet, then it is most likely a precon from a regular expansion or core set. Also look at the wrapping on it. Some have a "folded" look, wrapped as if they were presents. Others have a shrinkwrap type wrapping. The shrinkwrap ones seem to be the older precons and "trainers". Also, if the deck is thin (40 cards instead of 60) then they are older (WWK or before) precons or trainers.
Occaisionally you can try and hold the booster through the packaging and push the deck down... or hold the deck and try to push the booster away from the deck. It is uncommon for them to be packaged loose enough to do this, but in my previous post I had one where I determined which deck it was based on the limited information I could glean off of what I could see (gold, instant, cascade).
The reason you can always see the intro deck pack is because they cannot really hide it with the items available to them. One side has the foil, the other the booklet, so why hide it?
I've purchased somewhere around 13.
Besides random intro decks (from either Zend/WW to SoM), I've gotten (off the top of my head):
4 Crushing Civ Archenemy Decks
2 Liliana side of the Duel Deck (no PW of course)
1 Dragon Archenemy Deck
1 Artifact Archenemy Deck
1 random old base set 2-player starter deck (no, really, the ones that say 'don't shuffle this' so it could walk you through it. This pack was the 'big loser' hehe)
2 Elspeth Decks
1 Zendikar Land set (hey, always want more)
1 Fire and Lightning deck (minus the non-deck based goodies)
And boosters from Zend and RoE..not sure if I recall any others..
This is from one Target in town (with a restock) and one in Decatur, IL where I was just visiting...
1 random old base set 2-player starter deck (no, really, the ones that say 'don't shuffle this' so it could walk you through it. This pack was the 'big loser' hehe)
I got one of these too. It's what I call a "trainer" deck... the crappy part is that there are no rares in them and they are white border (mine was from 9th I think.) One easy way to tell on these is that they are heat-shrink'd and are a small deck (I think only 30 cards.)
I picked up one of these with the Planechase artifact deck showing (it has the Darksteel Forge on top) plus a booster of RoE. The 'hidden' deck was the Premium Slivers deck (minus the good loose cards). Plus, I pulled an Emrakul in the RoE deck, so all in all, this was a great repack!
I picked up one of these with the Planechase artifact deck showing (it has the Darksteel Forge on top) plus a booster of RoE. The 'hidden' deck was the Premium Slivers deck (minus the good loose cards). Plus, I pulled an Emrakul in the RoE deck, so all in all, this was a great repack!
I got that same premium sliver deck and just sort of shrugged. The stuff it was missing really made it what it was, and I have long-since traded away my Sliver Queens.
You're looking for the Bring About the Undead RB Archenemy deck, yes?
The front card was Bituminous Blast.
Anyways, me and a friend picked up some of these repacks yesterday.
Out of the three that we grabbed, we got:
Archenemy:
Bring About the Undead RB x3
Trample Civilization Underfoot GW
Assemble the Doomsday Machine WUB
Other
Teeth of the Predator – The Garruk Wildspeaker Deck G
The pack in mine was Eldrazi, had no notable cards. Can't remember his two packs.
EDH:
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
WDarien, King of KjeldorW
UAzami, Lady of ScrollsU
UWRasputin DreamweaverWU
BGGlissa, the TraitorGB
UBRMishra, Artificer ProdigyRBU
RWURuhan of the FomoriUWR
That's a pretty tall tale. Seeing as wholesale prices are about double that for nearly every dealer, i just don't see how they could afford to.
Are the two decks completely random or are they usually paired (like planechase with another planechase or archenemy with another archenemy deck)? Can someone compile a list of the visible card of each precon so that the rest of us have an idea of what to expect? I would really appreciate that.
I'll start with my pulls from yesterday, hopefully other people will fill in theirs.
Target Repack Deck List
Archenemy:
Bring About the Undead BR
Visible Card - Bituminous Blast
Trample Civilization Underfoot GW
Visible Card - Wax/Wane
Assemble the Doomsday Machine WUB
Visible Card - Dreamstone Hedron
Duels of the Planeswalkers:
Teeth of the Predator –Garruk Wildspeaker Deck G
Visible Card - Verdant ForceFoil
EDH:
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
WDarien, King of KjeldorW
UAzami, Lady of ScrollsU
UWRasputin DreamweaverWU
BGGlissa, the TraitorGB
UBRMishra, Artificer ProdigyRBU
RWURuhan of the FomoriUWR
You won't see the front card for those decks (a card back shows instead). But you should be able to see the booklet that has the deck's name - Rat's Nest for Jitte and Snake's Path for Top.
I would be interested to hear what you find out. I was at dollar tree today picking up some book baskets for my classroom and I only saw the 10 card dollar repacks that I'm sure are not worth it.
There was definitely no awesome priced boxes at mine
As for target, the ones near me have restocked the repacks but there are mostly themes decks and not the duel decks. Mostly Worldwake and scars theme decks.
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Plains - John Avon - 230
Island - Jung Park - 235
Island - Vincent Proce - 237
Swamp - John Avon - 238
Mountain - John Avon - 242
Forest - John Avon - 246
Truthfully, I came out mostly on top with these things, though. I'm enjoying the Garruk and the Planechase artifact deck quite a bit.
I'll have to expand my search zone now that I know that deck could potentially be found.
Yep, going by memory they also had about 8 other sets on the shelves...
The Garruk DotP deck with foil Verdant Force showing, another pack with a foil student of warfare showing, and a deck from 7th edition with a sticker on it that said something like "do not shuffle". I also saw an Angelic Arbiter deck and another one from the last few sets that had a foil dragon something or other showing. No luck on the Jitte/Top decks and no repacks with a Worldwake booster.
Misha's factory, Steel overseer, master of etherium? plus a pack? thats the value right there.
Pack had trash but it was a still a good deal.
Modern:
Affinity
EDH:
Rhys (Tokens)
Karrthus (Dragons)
Bruna (Auras OP)
Fantastic to hear they seem to be restocking I'll have to check the three near me to see what I find.
Special thanks to Bornnover for the Sig
Out of curiosity, what did you see a lot of before the restock?
I checked multiple Targets but I saw primarily Archenemy, M11 intro decks, and DotP decks. I found one with the Coalition duel deck, but no other duel decks, premium decks, and no Planechase.
I know it's supposedly "random", but I've been kind of curious if different areas saw more of certain types of decks, seeing as people seemed to see a lot of Duel Decks.
Wolfbriar Elemental
Armament Master
Hellkite Charger
Captivating Vampire
Conundrum Sphinx
Gigantomancer
Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
Seems like they all were from recent theme decks, except Hellkite Charger which is from an Archenemy deck.
Have you guys found any way to determine what the deck is that has it's card back facing out? Each deck has some folded up booklet type of things in front of it, can you get any information on the second deck from these? Or is the second deck pure luck?
What I really want to find is the Planechase decks. I only have one of those, so being able to find the others "on the cheap" would be great!
The second deck is usually pure luck. Some key elements, if it has the folded booklet, then it is most likely a precon from a regular expansion or core set. Also look at the wrapping on it. Some have a "folded" look, wrapped as if they were presents. Others have a shrinkwrap type wrapping. The shrinkwrap ones seem to be the older precons and "trainers". Also, if the deck is thin (40 cards instead of 60) then they are older (WWK or before) precons or trainers.
Occaisionally you can try and hold the booster through the packaging and push the deck down... or hold the deck and try to push the booster away from the deck. It is uncommon for them to be packaged loose enough to do this, but in my previous post I had one where I determined which deck it was based on the limited information I could glean off of what I could see (gold, instant, cascade).
I've purchased somewhere around 13.
Besides random intro decks (from either Zend/WW to SoM), I've gotten (off the top of my head):
4 Crushing Civ Archenemy Decks
2 Liliana side of the Duel Deck (no PW of course)
1 Dragon Archenemy Deck
1 Artifact Archenemy Deck
1 random old base set 2-player starter deck (no, really, the ones that say 'don't shuffle this' so it could walk you through it. This pack was the 'big loser' hehe)
2 Elspeth Decks
1 Zendikar Land set (hey, always want more)
1 Fire and Lightning deck (minus the non-deck based goodies)
And boosters from Zend and RoE..not sure if I recall any others..
This is from one Target in town (with a restock) and one in Decatur, IL where I was just visiting...
I got one of these too. It's what I call a "trainer" deck... the crappy part is that there are no rares in them and they are white border (mine was from 9th I think.) One easy way to tell on these is that they are heat-shrink'd and are a small deck (I think only 30 cards.)
I got that same premium sliver deck and just sort of shrugged. The stuff it was missing really made it what it was, and I have long-since traded away my Sliver Queens.
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