Packs vs Singles

[Willthomjr]

So, haven't had any luck with packs really. In the 50$ I've spent in AVR I've pulled about 15-20$ worth of cards. I could have easily spent 50$ on actual cards I wanted. What's your opinion? Straight up buy the cards or packs?

[JaCe BeLeReN]

I almost always buy singles. I have terrible luck.

[DirtyMustachio]

Decide on a set ammount of packs prior to the sets release including pre-release. After pack pick up, use those for bait and buy singles from their

[CajunJynx]

I pull good cards most of the time, I buy singles that I need and packs when I am feeling lucky.

[Imdowd80]

I like buying packs. It's fun to see what your getting, but I also will buy singles for when a deck idea strikes.

[cltrn81]

Packs are fun and there is no better feeling than opening something uber.......or wait....yes there is.....that feeling when all those singles you purchased on-line came in the mail and you open em up  to stick em in your deck and go have some fun

singles mostly for me, packs sometimes if I am having a bad day and I want some instant gratification......but that backfires when you pull crap.....especially a stupid curse from Innistrad 

[CajunJynx]

Innistrad had cards other than curses and dual lands? 😱

[Greg54js]

I'm a big pack person. Idk why.. It'd prob be more effecient for me to buy singles but hey packs are way more fun.

[Dudecore]

Singles. Cost you 10x more to pull playsets from packs. You can occasionally hit a "home run" with opening packs, but let's be honest, I've never pulled a playset of rares from any packs.

[Willthomjr]

I hear packs are more fun. It just seems like for 50$ I could have gotten 3 sigarda instead of 3-5$ rares. I might just buy one box per set then just buy the singles. Hardest part is convincing wife that one card is worth me spending 10-15$ per lol

[Coffee Vampire]

Packs are fun and there is no better feeling than opening something uber.......or wait....yes there is.....that feeling when all those singles you purchased on-line came in the mail and you open em up  to stick em in your deck and go have some fun

singles mostly for me, packs sometimes if I am having a bad day and I want some instant gratification......but that backfires when you pull crap.....especially a stupid curse from Innistrad 

Same here

[Richardalcala]

Singles all the way.

[Dudecore]

Every set for awhile I got the "variety pack", I open the fat pack, draft with friends out of the box, sell/give away intro packs. Then I buy singles. Variety pack has almost never paid off, but it's a month worth of fun. Singles is cheaper too, I think the amount of packs I'd need to open to even get an uncommon playset is more then $2.

I think I'm going to retire from standard soon and focus on legacy and commander. Standard is just too expensive, and WotC is hating in control big time.

[cltrn81]

Every set for awhile I got the "variety pack", I open the fat pack, draft with friends out of the box, sell/give away intro packs. Then I buy singles. Variety pack has almost never paid off, but it's a month worth of fun. Singles is cheaper too, I think the amount of packs I'd need to open to even get an uncommon playset is more then $2.

I think I'm going to retire from standard soon and focus on legacy and commander. Standard is just too expensive, and WotC is hating in control big time.

Dude Legacy is real expensive.  You can get by without revised dualies but all the Onslaught fetch lands are super expensive.  Then you have {force of will}, {wasteland}, {tarmogoyf}, etc. I would say the only format more expensive tgan Legacy is Competitive Vintage.

[Dudecore]

It's way more expensive for the singles, but the environment isnt changing daily or weekly. If you have a playset of {force of will}, then you have a playset.

Standard is like "oh cool, I just got this set of {Geist of St. Traft}", then everyone is like "cool, so what? He sucks now".