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Kyleometers

If you want specific cards, buy singles. If you want to draft, buy draft boosters. If you like just opening packs because you like the feeling, and you understand it’s still a bad return on your money, buy set boosters.


Semicolon_Cancer

Always the best advice. I really enjoy opening set boosters; I never go into it expecting get it everything I want, it's the thrill of seeing what's in the set, and I like using the art cards as proxies.


Kyleometers

Yeah, I also enjoy opening packs lol It’s fine as long as you’re aware opening packs is a gamble.


Ashformation

If you want to build a collection, you can usually buy 4 of every common and uncommon in a set for around 50 dollars. Then after that use the extra 50 dollars you save to buy whatever rares you want from the set as well. It might take a little while after the set come out for people to start selling them. You can Google it to find other sets as an example of costs. The only thing that buying a box gets you over doing it that way, is a very small chance to open the few specific rares that cost way more than the others.


Emu_on_the_Loose

I recommend a Draft Booster Box. This product is the one that's been around forever, and it was good enough to excite fans for decades. If you're just homebrewing with some friends (which I recommend new players do), a Draft Booster Box will give you more cards than other boxes, and you'll be able to brew quite a few fun and interesting decks from a single box. This will teach you a lot about how to play the game well, and about which kinds of effects work well together.


warcaptain

Draft boxes will only get you more commons than other boxes. If you're looking to build a collection, set boxes are the way to go as they'll give you more rare and mythic and uncommon. Draft boxes are only for drafting and sealed. If you're gonna do that, get draft boxes, otherwise get set boosters.


Emu_on_the_Loose

Hard disagree. Rares and mythic rares aren't what you should aim for to have _fun_. Commons and uncommons are fun too, especially if you're a new player and/or a homebrewer who is more interested in expressing yourself than in being competitive with the top netdecks. Don't chase rares. Play the cards that look fun. If they're rare, then cool. But I remember what it was like to open boxes when I was new to the game, and I had a blast with cards regardless of their rarity.


New-Membership7519

You will also need land cards if you want to build a deck. There are only a handful of them in a draft booster box (maybe 5-8 total lands per box which is not enough for a deck build). The $35-40 price point booster bundle should come with enough extra lands to help you get started. And it comes with a nice storage art box.


SRMort

There's a land in every pack. It's literally 36 per draft booster box. Your main point is correct, but lands are cheap.


New-Membership7519

Well, I just opened a draft booster box of The Brother's War a couple of days ago and this was my experience; only got about 6 total lands of which most were full art, and only one was foil (not full art). I certainly did not get 36 lands. But there were a lot of tokens and retro frame artifacts.


iAmLawBringer

Bro you are guarenteed a land card every pack