Some distributors have posted their Aetherdrift order pages and revealed that starting with Aetherdrift, the booster boxes will have 30 packs instead of 36.
I believe it’s been stated that the per pack MSRP will not change, meaning the overall box price will just go down accordingly by 1/6th.
A Duskmourn Play booster box is $138 on TCGPlayer, or $3.83 per pack. They are $4.25 when bought individually.
The new MSRP for Aetherdrift $5.50 per pack. If they keep the same price of $140 per box, that would work out to about $4.66 per pack when buying a box. And if they left it at 36 packs it would cost about $168 per box which I think everyone in the world realizes is just far too expensive to buy.
I wish they would stop changing stuff so often. As a retailer it sucks to get my customers informed only to have a change 2 sets later.
@mike it makes handing out product to sealed events slower.
Otherwise: meh
Besides the obvious enshitification and shrinkflation going on in this game, I think this is going to accidentally ruin some people’s private draft nights when they discover they don’t have enough packs to run it for their attendees.
They are really testing the patience of their loyal customers these past couple years. And I’ve officially had enough and called it quits after Duskmourn.
@RawrGuthlaf @mike I think they should have switched to 24 packs if they were making a change, enough for a draft would have been the right count.
I agree on the 24 packs. I think those boxes should be priced at $60-70 as well. If they did that I may actually consider gettting back into sealed products.
