Players aren't thrilled that Magic: The Gathering 30th Anniversary Edition costs $1,000
Next year, Magic: The Gathering turns 30, which means it'll finally be old enough to sit down on a crowded train without feeling guilty about it. Publisher Wizards of the Coast has announced various promos and events as part of a lengthy birthday celebration(opens in new tab), but one of them has made Magic tragics even more upset than they usually are. It's a box with four 15-card booster packs in it that will set you back $999, making it the most expensive official Magic product ever released.
The 30th Anniversary Edition(opens in new tab) contains old school Magic cards like Shivan Dragon, Serra Angel, and Swords to Plowshares with their original art. Some of them are in retro frames, and to really jam the needle deep into your nostalgia vein, they include such hallmarks of 1990s Magic as the original white mana symbol(opens in new tab) and land cards that say «Tap to add» instead of having the modern curvy arrow symbol(opens in new tab) to represent tapping.
It even has cards from the Reserved List, a set of cards that would ordinarily never be reprinted like Black Lotus and the rest of the infamous Power Nine(opens in new tab). They're only included here because all the cards have a distinct back marking them out as the 30th Anniversary Edition and aren't legal for tournament play or any sanctioned Magic event. They're a collector's item, something streamers can open on-camera and coo over rather than a way of bringing Magic as it was played circa 1993 back into rotation.
The reaction online(opens in new tab) has not been positive(opens in new tab). The cost(opens in new tab) is an obvious point of contention: «All these big huge piles of money around me have really gotten in the way of me playing Magic: the
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