How is Your LGS Handling Modern Masters?

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How is Your LGS Handling Modern Masters?

Postby Tom Servo » Sun Jun 02, 2013 5:39 pm

It seems there's a lot of variance in the way stores are handling this set. Once this is all said and done it will be interesting to see just how limited the print was and what the prices settle at. But right now, how is your store dealing with it?

My LGS is doing a $65 sealed event next Saturday. It doesn't seem to crazy because it seems that around $60 is the norm for MM sealed, and the price includes Pizza, drinks, sleeves, and only the people playing will be allowed in the store. The only thing I could complain about is that prize support is going to be store credit instead of more MM, but the owner is also planning a draft and wants to make sure there is MM for prizes for that. The draft will be the same thing, except $40

Another store near me is doing a $25 draft with no prize support at all. I'm thinking about being that guy and just going to draft and then drop.
Depending on the environment I might stay and play though
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Postby Neo Metal Sonic » Sun Jun 02, 2013 5:47 pm

I don't even know if my LGS will sell modern masters =(

I need to call them. But maybe it will be like Commanders Arsenal: two months before the release they're selling 1 box at $250. No need to say it's sitting there. (And all I wanted was the cool life counter).

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Postby Bhikku » Sun Jun 02, 2013 6:14 pm

They probably won't even get any in at mine lol
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Postby Tom Servo » Sun Jun 02, 2013 6:24 pm

Well, that's a shame to hear. I think the print run could have been bigger (although I know absolutely no details) so stores could run more events with these.
Eric, Ren and Jensen were activists
Heads loaded with theory, their hearts are filled with passion
Shared the same left wing politics
Liked the same music, they were part of the protest movement
Now, Anna presented herself as a feminist
Studied the way they talked and dressed
Fashioned herself an anarchist
Eric fell in love with Anna at the meeting of the crime think conference
He didn't know it but Anna was an FBI informant

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Postby Tom Servo » Sun Jun 02, 2013 6:25 pm

There's probably two spots still open, come to my LGS! lol
Eric, Ren and Jensen were activists
Heads loaded with theory, their hearts are filled with passion
Shared the same left wing politics
Liked the same music, they were part of the protest movement
Now, Anna presented herself as a feminist
Studied the way they talked and dressed
Fashioned herself an anarchist
Eric fell in love with Anna at the meeting of the crime think conference
He didn't know it but Anna was an FBI informant

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Postby Neo Metal Sonic » Sun Jun 02, 2013 10:04 pm

You pay the airplane tickets for me? =D

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Postby Pendulum » Mon Jun 03, 2013 2:44 pm

Well, that's a shame to hear. I think the print run could have been bigger (although I know absolutely no details) so stores could run more events with these.
It really is a clusterfuck. With a normal set, it's completely understandable that Wizards would keep their collation information secret: they need to keep interest high and if worst comes to worst we know their main goal is making as much money as possible so they can do additional print runs or dozens of other creative things. But with this set, that model just falls apart. Especially for collectors, the information they've thrown us is entirely unusable; can I trade a normal Dark Confidant for an MM one straight up? If not, which one is going to be worth more?


Although it's a golden time for alterers; not only is there a whole bunch of new versions of very playable cards flooding the market here soon, but I've already gotten a few requests to just blank the new art and "make it look as much as possible like the old ones." ^_^
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Postby Checkbox » Mon Jun 03, 2013 2:55 pm

My LGS is selling boxes for $260 cash, $280 credit.
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Postby Stardust » Mon Jun 03, 2013 9:51 pm

My LGS got 18 boxes and is selling none of them. For 9 weeks the draft format every Sunday will be MM, with everyone scheduled in ahead of time for 1 to 3 of those drafts (depending on your attendance in the past year or something). Should be fun!
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Postby Kaitscralt » Mon Jun 03, 2013 11:59 pm

My store let people sign up ahead of time for $150 dollar boxes, but this was when Tarmogoyf was the only known card.
Standard hobos who play budget garbage should be looked upon with suspicion.

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Postby iamabadman » Tue Jun 04, 2013 11:30 pm

mine is having a $25 draft. with mm prizes and random promos. not sure if i wanna go there or to the 6 year anniversary of a local video game store

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Postby Col. Khaddafi » Wed Jun 05, 2013 1:22 am

150€ for regulars, 170€ for general public. 2 boxes max for regulars, 1 for others.

One draft next Saturday for 20€. Regulars only
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Postby Second Harkius » Wed Jun 05, 2013 2:35 am

Is there a shortage of this set that's forcing players to battle tooth and claw to acquire overpriced booster boxes and singles?


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Postby Jaykec » Wed Jun 05, 2013 4:35 am

Sign ups in advance for drafts, no boxes being sold to individuals.

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Postby Kaitscralt » Wed Jun 05, 2013 6:27 pm

I find the stores refusing to sell boxes pretty amusing.
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Postby Sir Sapphire the 3rd » Fri Jun 07, 2013 5:35 pm

mine is having a $25 draft. with mm prizes and random promos. not sure if i wanna go there or to the 6 year anniversary of a local video game store
Vidya games over this MM mess.

I think the set will sell well but will be a train wreck. The massive limit print on a very much in desire set is very BLAH. For a format they want to support this seems to be a shitty support to it.
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Postby Platypus » Fri Jun 07, 2013 7:36 pm

I went to my local store (WPN store) today to buy one booster of MM. They had none for sale, and only got enough to fill preorders and a small draft. Well, it's nice that they got enough for the preorders and a draft, but this limited availability just sucks.
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Postby Tom Servo » Sat Jun 08, 2013 2:28 am

I just found out my lgs got twice as much mm as they said and they're drafting non stop this weekend aside from tomorrow's sealed event.
Eric, Ren and Jensen were activists
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Shared the same left wing politics
Liked the same music, they were part of the protest movement
Now, Anna presented herself as a feminist
Studied the way they talked and dressed
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Eric fell in love with Anna at the meeting of the crime think conference
He didn't know it but Anna was an FBI informant

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Postby Sasky » Sat Jun 08, 2013 1:56 pm

Availability is actually quite decent here. I saw one guy walk out of the shop with 6 boxes though, making me want to murder his grandmother.

I personally got hold of 2 boxes, with one on ebay coming my way as well.
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Postby Col. Khaddafi » Sun Jun 09, 2013 1:19 am

I found Modern masters packs casually on sale on a newspaper store. seems like the scarcity of this edition got seriously overplayed...
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Postby Yannaria » Sun Jun 09, 2013 3:01 pm

I was in a Newbury Comics (New England chain that sells music) yesterday and they had MM packs for 11 dollars.

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Postby Geleroff » Tue Jun 11, 2013 6:26 pm

For us it was like

Players: Hey will you have modern masters?

Store owner: Yeah! like 3 boxes.

Players: Will you schedule a draft?

Store owner: Nah! i already sold them all to my friends.

End of story.

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Postby DerWille » Tue Jun 18, 2013 2:14 am

The store I go to the most basically presold almost everything he had and kept a box or two to sell as boosters. He was able to get another few boxes in, presold most of those, kept 1 for a draft deck, and I think kept one to open for the store so he could sell the singles.

What's interesting though is that when he went to order more boxes recently, his supplier tripled the price of boxes. Apparently Starcity Games and Channel Fireball have bought almost every box of modern masters on the west coast and most supplier have little to no inventory left.

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Postby imopen2 » Tue Jun 18, 2013 5:10 am

I don't understand their online availability....it seems that none of the bots on mtgo have any packs to sell. are they untradeable?
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Postby Thrillho » Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:18 pm

Apparently the store in midtown I play at has been doing store-packed MM drafts over the past week, but I've been indisposed during that time and had to miss out on what is not a very interesting limited format.

It's unfortunate that value drafting and drafting a good deck are largely mutually exclusive.


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