Birthday

[Ptsgpbk]

Right guys, birthday tomorrow and even though I have only started a few weeks ago, I got a cool playmat, some avacyn restored sleeves and a purphoros, also £75 and got exams soon but once finished I get another £120 for paper round so not sure what to spend it all on I was thinking fat packs and the like so what would you guys suggest?

Ps I got my presents a bit early, ie now

[MuggyWuggy]

.love. fatpacks.

[Ptsgpbk]

Are they worth the cash?

[MuggyWuggy]

I call em crap packs
I get terrible pools and am better off with buying a box personally.

9 packs for 35-40 USD or 36 packs for 110 USD.

Rather just save and buy a box or buy singles

[Ptsgpbk]

I will have about £200 so I have enough for a box (£90) just not sure which one, becaus I can buy far packs for the rest, also I need boxes to store my cads in well

[MuggyWuggy]

Buy a box of RTR or Avacyn.

Draft the Theros block casually at your local store, you will pick up cards that way for cheaper.

Buy singles to finish a standard deck, don't rest on pack cracking, you'll just end up spending money to feed the beast

[PrEZchoICE1]

Dont buy boxes at all. Only time u should ever crack a pack is at a draft. Make a wishlist for your desired format(s). Revise it weekly and use your money to purchase those items. While u may crack that amazing rare or mythic the chances are higher that u crack a dud. Just my 2 cents, or pence, as it were.

[Rass]

Well happy birthday. I enjoy opening packs so I would say a box. If your all worried about value then stay away from packs and this game(I would suggest buying dominion or ascension and investing your money) I am a casual player so I just play with what I get and have fun. I enjoy buying a box then splitting it with a few people(usually 3 others each paying 25% of the cost) and do a sealed and a draft for fun. That's just my suggestion.

[Ptsgpbk]

Dont buy boxes at all. Only time u should ever crack a pack is at a draft. Make a wishlist for your desired format(s). Revise it weekly and use your money to purchase those items. While u may crack that amazing rare or mythic the chances are higher that u crack a dud. Just my 2 cents, or pence, as it were.

Haha, ok I just like the idea of going and buying a pack, I am travelling down to Cornwall in the holidays so will need something to do for 7 hours and was thinking of making 6 draft decks from a box

[MuggyWuggy]

Dont buy boxes at all. Only time u should ever crack a pack is at a draft. Make a wishlist for your desired format(s). Revise it weekly and use your money to purchase those items. While u may crack that amazing rare or mythic the chances are higher that u crack a dud. Just my 2 cents, or pence, as it were.

Depends on set and size.

Bought of a box of Morningtide, did a 4 player sealed. Totally fun and pulled mad money.

Boxes are great with friends and also if you're a set collector like myself

[Ptsgpbk]

I am new and trying to sort out a standard deck for a possible weenie purphoros deck

[Dmreiss]

Really,this depends on the direction you want to go.  There has been a wide variety of ways you could spend the money, but it depends on your goals for the game.  Wanna create an awesome new deck?  We can suggest singles.  Wanna do a birthday draft with friends and still get some value?  We can make suggestions for that too.  Until then, you will get a variety of suggestions, and they can be counter points to each other.  People play this game many different ways; you must decide how you want to play.  Each method has their merits, as well as their issues.

tl;dr

Tell us what you want to play and we can give specific advise.

[Ptsgpbk]

I want to have fun with cards going solo as it will be 7 hours of waiting travelling down the country so I need advice for that, also any good accessories I may need if I go into FNM when down there

[MuggyWuggy]

Have 2 standard decks, 2 EDH decks when you travel. You will always find games

[Ptsgpbk]

I haven't even got 1 standard deck yet