Magic The Gathering’s Head Designer Is Asking For Feedback On The New Bundles
Are eight set boosters enough for a bundle?
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Magic the Gathering’s head designer is wanting to hear players’ opinions on the new-style booster bundles that debuted with Innistrad: Midnight Hunt.
For the last few years, bundles (renamed from ‘fat packs’) have been boxes that contain ten draft booster packs, one promo card, a spindown life counter, and a pack of the set’s basic lands. Though costing more than a prerelease pack, they were significantly cheaper than a booster box, providing many people with a cheaper way of cracking packs. With Innistrad: Midnight Hunt, the bundle changed to feature eight set booster packs instead of the ten draft.
This change caused some controversy, leading Mark Rosewater, head designer for Magic, to ask on his Blogatog blog (the key way he interacts with the community) for feedback on the new-style bundles. He also proposed three alternatives: the old-style ten draft boosters, the new-style eight set boosters, or a mixture containing six draft and three set.
The issue with an eight set bundle is that it is a fairly substantially worse value proposition. Compared to draft boosters, set boosters are more expensive and contain fewer cards (12 versus a draft’s 15), though more opportunity for rares and other special cards. With the same price as the older draft bundles, you’re only getting approximately half a pack free when buying a set bundle over buying the packs individually, compared to the old draft style which got you one pack more instead.
So far, it appears as if the idea of having six draft boosters and three set boosters seems to be the most popular alternative. It contains more packs than the set-only bundle, and combines the limited format experience of draft boosters with the pack-cracking of a set booster. It also works nicely for limited play, as set boosters can easily function as prizes for winning the draft, making a bundle effectively a limited event in a box.
Though this post is simply Rosewater looking for vague feedback, people interacting with him via the Blogatog has helped shape Magic’s design in the past. In June of this year, somebody asked Rosewater about bundles that use set boosters instead of draft, following which he asked for feedback on the idea. It isn’t unheard of that products can change through the responses he gets on his blog, meaning there is a possibility for either another new bundle or a return to the older, draft-only style.
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