Should I open my Fallen Empires box ?
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:23 pm
Hi guys, bear with and old-time member like me since this is a not-too-serious poll and it's strictly personal too...
I'm sitting on a sealed Fallen Empires booster box. 60 packs with 8 cards each.
As we all know this is not too valuable even though it's pretty old (1994), since opening the packs would guarantee you 7-8 NM Hymn to Tourachs and little more...
Thus my best choice would probably be to keep it as it is, and see whether it grows in value in the future due to its "vintage item" status, or hope that some combos come out in the future involving cards in the set (check Grindstone from Tempest as an example when Painter's Servant was printed)... in my remote fantasies, that might happen with Icatian Town or Rainbow Vale maybe
However, there's another factor which is very tempting for me to open the box.... and quite obviously that's the chance of pulling out misprinted / miscut cards. I personally saw people pull out Fillers or miscut cards from packs in the past, and got extremely jealous since I NEVER opened one single card myself which wasn't perfectly colored, centered etc. etc. !
What are your thoughts? Is the actual chance to find misprints worth the shot? In your experience, if the first packs I eventually opened were normal, would that have an impact on the chance that the other packs in the box contain no misprints too?
Thanks for your help.
ende73
I'm sitting on a sealed Fallen Empires booster box. 60 packs with 8 cards each.
As we all know this is not too valuable even though it's pretty old (1994), since opening the packs would guarantee you 7-8 NM Hymn to Tourachs and little more...
Thus my best choice would probably be to keep it as it is, and see whether it grows in value in the future due to its "vintage item" status, or hope that some combos come out in the future involving cards in the set (check Grindstone from Tempest as an example when Painter's Servant was printed)... in my remote fantasies, that might happen with Icatian Town or Rainbow Vale maybe
However, there's another factor which is very tempting for me to open the box.... and quite obviously that's the chance of pulling out misprinted / miscut cards. I personally saw people pull out Fillers or miscut cards from packs in the past, and got extremely jealous since I NEVER opened one single card myself which wasn't perfectly colored, centered etc. etc. !
What are your thoughts? Is the actual chance to find misprints worth the shot? In your experience, if the first packs I eventually opened were normal, would that have an impact on the chance that the other packs in the box contain no misprints too?
Thanks for your help.
ende73
instead of 8 and 8 (both are still sealed obviously...!). They will probably NEVER leave my collection, since that is the weirdest error I have...(together with the 5th Edition Counterspell with the 'Lightning Bolt' in the reverse ink)...