Geek Culture: Opening Packs on YouTube

6 Comments

1. Chris on 08.10.2009 at 09:04

   I can only conjecture:

   1) People in countries where a particular expansion has not launched might be interested in seeing the new cards.
   2) Vicarious pleasure might be gained from seeing someone open a booster. Since it is fun to open boosters of your own, you might enjoy a vicarious thrill from watching someone else open one (especially if it contained a particular rare card)
   3) People might be drawn to the video out of head-scratching curiosity, as presumably you were! :)

2. Pandaman on 08.10.2009 at 10:23

   It’s actually for the sake of figuring out print runs. Every box can be “mapped” in such a way that you could open a box and figure out where the “good” rares are to keep, then use the “bad” packs for drafting or something more evil. There is a chain of thought that buying boosters from an online retailer is basically buying from their possible stash of “bad boosters” using this technique.

3. il Silvano on 12.10.2009 at 04:12

   Looks like “geek porn” to me… but I’d go with the “mapping the good boosters” explanation. :)
   I remember than someone in the past find a way to count the cards in the box of a trading cards collection to track down the boosters with the “ultra-rare” cards, open them and sell the card at a very high price.

4. Eric Martin on 12.10.2009 at 16:13

   Also, new cards smell good. I think it’s the card stock rather than the ink: when you open a pack for the first time there is a strong new card smell.

   It’s funny because I don’t like new car smell but I love new card smell.

   Also, if you haven’t gotten any of that release yet, or you did but it seemed like it was a bad batch, you want to see others videos of new cards to see if you were just unlucky or if it truly is a bad set.

5. Robert C Kalajian Jr on 12.10.2009 at 18:47

   There’s nothing in the world like new card smell. Brings back memories of my Magic days, and baseball cards that came with a stick of stale gum.

6. Eric Martin on 12.10.2009 at 19:52

   Yeah, Magic is my card game of Nostalgia as well…

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