1000 Assorted Magic: The Gathering Cards Gold Collection, Model Number: B00JJXEX48

I'll preface this review that I plan to purchase at least three (3) of these boxes in total, but may go with more in the future. So far, I’ve purchased two (2) which I will analyze in detail below. The first two (2) boxes were purchased with about a four (4) week interval between them. This was purely in the hopes of getting boxes that were made from different batches, to minimize the chance for duplicates between them and get more set variety (which is all an assumption on my part, I have no idea how effective this will be, and probably won’t be able to get a large enough sample size to know for sure.)Also keep in mind that I'm a beginning player at the commander format and am interested not only in collecting cards, but also moving myself into the pauper commander format which relies heavily on common rarity cards. This by default makes this particular product appealing since the majority of the box should contain common rarity cards.As advertised, this product is stated that you will receive a Qty of 1000 Cards. 950 Commons/Uncommons, 25 Foils, and 25 Rares. As other reviewers have noted, you will typically receive more than 1000 cards.Box #1: I received a total of 1094 Cards. 739 Commons (13 of which were Foils), 197 Uncommons (9 Foils), 35 Rares (7 Foils), and 0 Mythics. 971 Cards. The remaining 123 Cards I marked as duplicates and decided to donate them to my play group. There are more duplicates I received, but these were typically the same card but from a different set, so from a collector standpoint I kept those duplicates.So in summary, there were 123 Duplicates (11.2%), 739 Commons (67.6%), 197 Uncommons (18%), and 35 Rares (3.2%).Breakdown by Color:White: C = 117, U = 10, R = 4, Duplicate = 19Blue: C = 123, U = 32, R = 8, Duplicate = 16Black: C = 132, U = 24, R = 5, Duplicate = 29Red: C = 119, U = 36, R = 4, Duplicate = 18Green: C = 123, U = 32, R = 3, Duplicate = 25Colorless: C = 45, U = 24, R = 1, Duplicate = 9Multi-Color: C = 19, U = 32, R = 9, Duplicate = 7Lands: C = 19, U = 7, R = 1, Duplicate = 16 (Note that I kept these duplicate lands and did not count them as part of the 123, can never have too many lands afterall).Breakdown on Type is as follows: 510 Creatures, 71 Enchantments, 164 Instants, 120 Sorceries, 40 Artifacts, and 66 Lands (of the 971 Cards I kept).Market Value: This is a bit sensitive, since market prices fluctuate constantly. I'm willing to say that the Market Value of the 971 cards I kept is just over $90.00 (per TCG Player). Again, keep in mind that these prices fluctuate so please take that with a grain of salt.Box #2: I received a total of 1116 Cards. 543 Commons (14 of which were Foils), 306 Uncommons (9 Foils), 33 Rares (5 Foils), and 0 Mythics. 882 Cards. The remaining 234 Cards I didn’t keep. Of the box, there were 214 Duplicates this time, but I kept 39 because of the value (175 Left). There were an additional 59 Cards that I didn’t keep because they were duplicates of cards I received in box #1.1116 – 175 = 941. 941 – 59 = 882 Cards kept.So in summary, this was 175 Duplicates (not kept, 15.6%), 543 Commons (48.7%), 306 Uncommons (27.4%), and 33 Rares (3%), and 59 Duplicates of Box #1 (5.3%).Breakdown by Color (I did not count the colors of duplicates, so those figures are left out unlike box #1):White: C = 101, U = 49, R = 6Blue: C = 112, U = 26, R = 3Black: C = 79, U = 47, R = 4Red: C = 101, U = 37, R = 2Green: C = 37, U = 26, R = 9Colorless: C = 37, U = 26, R = 2Multi-Color: C = 18, U = 63, R = 6Lands: C = 21, U = 14, R = 2Breakdown by Type for Box #2 is as follows: 467 Creatures, 85 Enchantments, 162 Instants, 82 Sorceries, 47 Artifacts, and 37 Lands.Market Value on Box #2: As my statement for Box #1, please take this with a grain of salt. Current Market Value (per TCGPlayer) is just over $110.00 for the 882 Cards I decided to keep.Overall, I’m very satisfied with the product. I will state however that I was a bit disappointed in how the duplicates played out in box #2. Definitely seemed like there were more duplicates of individual cards (sometimes 3 or 4 copies), with one card having 6 copies which I hadn’t seen at all in box #1.Once I receive and analyze box #3, I will update this review accordingly.

Amazing addition to just about any level collector or competitor looking to expand their collection or building decks to compete with especially commander decks. Cards showed up on time and in great condition. At $.037 cents per card what a steal. Seriously less than 4 cents per card for a 1000 near mint cards is unreal. Hardly any duplicates and for the most part the dupes I got were staple deck cards you want dupes of. Great verity good split between colors creatures and spell types. Also I think the best part was the range of editions spanning back over 20 years. All of this gives me plenty of confidence to repurchase 1 or 2 more times before I feel like I would start getting too many duplicates for the value. To boot it definitely appears I even got an extra 100 cards or so. Great job Star City Games for this one. I already have your 100 rares for $25 on order.

this was to bulk up my bulk. This did that. Dupicicates were not crazy, and got a good mix of cards.I put them in moxfield, and according to the site1,117 cards (833 commons; 252 uncommons; 20 rares; 1 mythic)duplicates -- I got was 2 cards with 4x, 11 with 3x, and a 100+ of 2x. THOUGH, where card XXX from set Y and card XXX from set Z count as different cards in the site i am using. I know I got 5 of the card murder, but different sets.

For the premium price of $35 (about $5 more than other 1000 bulk lots), it contained far less value than all others I have opened. I usually pull $120-$130+ from a bulk lot, but this one barely hit $80. The most valuable card in the lot was $.58 and only contained 35 cards that were worth more than $.25. This is a TRUE bulk lot of low value bulk. 99% of the cards were near mint, which was nice, and packaging was excellent. About 10% of the cards (106) were duplicates... the majority only being 2 duplicates of each and a few that had 4-5 duplicates of each. Won't buy again.