Blissful Beginning

 A while ago I came across another Canadian card and board game selling website - www.boardgamebliss.com/ and they were having a sale (okay, it was around Christmas time last year....it takes me a while to get to things, I know). Part of that was cleaning out what appeared to be last stocks of random Magic boosters at a really reasonable sale price. I would have bought more of these given the $3 price tag per pack, but this was all they had left of them...

Brothers' War is one of my favourite sets since there are special artifact card inserts, nice tokens, and the amount of artifacts in the set is among the highest percentages in all of Magic. As a result, there should be a few keepers for me per pack, more than the 1 or maybe 2 in "normal" packs.

There will be a time when I have multiple copies of everything and it won't make sense buying packs for the set anymore, but there's a reason I also have another bundle box of this set stashed for opening at some time.

Anyway, let's take a look at the first pack to see what we got. I should price out the keepers to see if I would have been better buying singles from 401games instead.

Decent enough commons and non-keeper cards in the pack. Still not a fan of the gold bordered multi-colour cards, just don't like them as much, but a small complaint.

Amazing. Each pack has one of the artifact retro border cards, so I get one "hit" for my collection keep, but the borderless Underground River is a surprise. Given the colourless land, it's a keeper and a $5 card itself. Heck, even the token happened to be a keeper too.

A great pack for value as it would cost me about $8.50 to buy these five cards from 401games, so first pack is a success for sure.