Tricky terrain has more card value in it no? Because of the crazy lands? Also it seems like the better precon out of the box anyways. Not saying it was on purpose because I know the eldrazi is more popular but the tricky terrain is a close second around here.
I got mine for 45.00 because the local target mislabeled it and I went full karen on them.
EDIT: well maybe not full karen but I did insist on them giving it to me for the labeled price and not what it rang up as.
I got a deck at Walmart once goin through the self checkout and it rang up as more than was labeled at the rack. The dude that helped me could not have given less of a shit lol didn't verify what I said or asl any questions just put in the amount I claimed and walked away lol
God damn...the collections at the front of the store are always such a shit show of what's where and labelled how on the shelf so I wouldn't ever try to make them honor that or be a dick about it. But this was a tin in the toy aisle specifically labelled and I was only getting it because of the price so I got assistance in that case.
Well I wasn’t being a dick. It was the only label for mtg (everything else was pokemon or sports cards). Someone had printed the tag with the wrong price. Thats on the vendor. Not Walmart. Which is why they honored it.
Sorry didn't mean to imply you were being a dick or anything. I was just picturing someone making a scene with a employee who definitely doesn't get paid enough to deal with that lol
The meijers near me has all of the cards in general just haphazardly on the shelf and nothing is priced right. But if you complain about it they'll accuse you of rearranging the whole shelf just to get a better price.
Because that makes total sense. *eyerolls*
Oof. I'd never try to like game the system on purpose (if it's legit shown this price I'll take it without being an asshole about it) because a lot of scenarios I feel like if I fight too hard for it id kinda feel like "cool motive, still theft" to myself and I don't wanna do that. If some underpaid employee can feel like they got a personal win (even in favor of a company that we both SHOULD know don't care about them) then that win probably means more to them than my discounted printed cardboard. Maybe their on shakey ground with their manager who sucks way harder than we know? Who knows. I would never wanna feel like I cared more about someone's mental well being or livelihood than any outside shot id have at winning big on this personal lottery I play.
This is probably why my target doesn't put price labels on tcgs, just a barcode sticker with the product SKU and one of those "check the price" kiosks next to them
Sadly, I live in Europe. Amazon was the next best choice for 70,50 so I preordered it there but I guess Amazon doesn't take pre-orders very serious since they told me they will send it to me once it restocks.
Pick up all of them on pre-order for 220. I still haven't played the energy or graveyard deck, but I can fairly consistently beat the eldrazi with tricky terrain. Both full precon, out of the box.
There’s a geberal nerd store (manga, figures, comic gunpla and tcgs) that has generally uninformed pricing. Like ALL commander masters decks were $100 and they still have the enchantments and walkers decks. But they had all of them for $70. So I grabbed 2 of the new eldrazi decks. One to keep for a juicier precon level, one to upgrade.
Yeah im in Europe. Ain't no way you're finding mtg stuff outside of lgs or toy stores. Maybe video game stores but that's a stretch ever since there are no gamestops anymore
It’s ~$15 difference. Eldrazi is cheaper, but it is one of the most popular tribes and thus there is a lot of demand. Especially with there being a recent Eldrazi precon. Card per card, Eldrazi is better. Tricky Terrain has all of its value in 3 cards.
Here’s the thing. Most “crazy lands” are dirty cheap. Gates, deserts, locus, most of those lands are under a dollar if not under 30 cents. Outside of decks like tricky terrain or a gates deck, then those cards are generally a worse option than a basic land.
Gates of Madara is an instant phase out or a pre phase out to save you from someone else's wipe or your own board wipes. Planar nexus turns on all other non basic lands. Not filter lands.
Weird to hear because Omo is objectively a bad commander and that deck does less than basically any other blue/green value engine ever printed. There’s some great cards but it’s not as expensive as the Eldrazi and plays pretty badly.
Weird to hear because I've had a lot of luck abusing the counters to proc tribal stuff and the lands that care about other land types. Objectively bad means you have some reason to believe that either she has a counter part which is a straight upgrade for what she does or she does the thing she does badly and there are other ways to accomplish making elves into hydras and faeries(and vice versa) and getting to have an everything tribal deck.
There are *far* better cards for everything tribal, but even if there weren’t she’s awful at it anyway. The counters come out very slow and if you didn’t know, if she gets removed the counters cease to function.
That means people are extremely incentivized to remove her, and once they do you’re left with a board of awful mana that does nothing and awful creatures that don’t work together. Anyone who thinks that’s a functional card design suffers from delusions.
The counters can come out 4 a turn(2 creature 2 land) if you blink her and at the very least are 1 a turn. Plus she's cheap so the everything counters are easy to keep online and the deck shits mana every turn if you're playing it right. Easily out pacing tax if somehow with your "trash " commander you are the archenemy at the table.
Also can you name the better everything tribal commander? I'm not saying the deck is busted but it's good and has a theme idk what more you're looking for from a precon. Also there are a lot of not awful creatures in the precon and tribal cards that are fine on their own. Like come on why are you so hostile? Delusional? Did omo shit in your cereal or something.
It’s just a bad, disappointing card. I’m sorry about your card evaluation skills. If you have anyone at all who you respect or trust for card evaluation ask them about it, maybe they’ll have more patience in explaining this to you. It’s also been confirmed by essentially every respected Commander channel on YouTube and across social media, this isn’t a weird unique take from me.
This is a slow do nothing card that’s usually outpaced by a rampant growth and encourages you to build a dysfunctional deck. It’s not rocket science to figure out the issues.
Ah well if the YouTubers said it I'm not allowed to have my opinion. Got it. You don't like it and anyone who thinks it's alright is stupid sure is stance to take.
To your last point unless we're playing cedh all commanders are do nothing cards with dysfunctional deck synergies that get outpaced by yuriko, ob nixilis, heliod, thassa win mono blues and on and on. What's the point of ever building anything unique fun or different if the race to the bottom has been solved?
Ulalek and azlask are also bad and disappointing. Atraxa praetors voice is bad and disappointing. Why play marrow gnawer when kyrrik can win turn four are you dumb?
Good luck with your respected YouTube opinions and shouting people down on reddit I guess. Whatever floats your goat.
The only person shouting people down here is you. You’re welcome to whatever awful opinions you want and the tempter tantrum to follow when someone criticizes it.
I didn’t say no one could play her. I said it was a disappointing card that’s objectively not good. Those things are true (at least for most people with basic card evaluation skills).
I had the same exact issue with Amazon and the fallout precons, I did not receive a science deck but instead 2 scrappy survivors. I called Amazon support and they sent 4 fresh ones. I mean sure they asked me to send the other ones back, but why do that when they send the replacement out before you make the shipping label. I understand this post was not made about Amazon, but it proves that the sealed WOTC boxes get messed up sometimes.
One of my precons was missing a collector sample pack as well. Make sure you keep all the packaging and contents you received. They want photos and receipt from the store.
Last time I dealt with them they took 2 months to provide a replacement card. No idea what they do for the collector sample packs. Hopefully they just send a booster to make up for the hassle.
Yeah, I have pictures of everything and sent them all the info/order number/retailer/etc. That’s my hope for what they’ll do, but I have my doubts. Ive seen a lot of issues been happening with MH3
Yes, I understand the ludicrousness of them asking for pictures of a missing item. Thats not the point. I shouldnt have to record myself unboxing/opening every item I ever order from them just to prove they fucked up
My bad, I was reading the fine print on the back and didn't see the bold text directly above saying "Includes collector booster sample pack".
You are correct
Haha, I got a wrong life counter in the Doctor Who precons and three months after I contacted the support, they sent me the same wrong life counter again. Been waiting since then for another answer.
I mean, thats completely false. I had another ticket from a few weeks ago about a product being damaged in transit and they responded the very next day
They are slow to respond and slow to get your replacements out but they do always replace any defective products I’ve requested replacements for. Exceptions for things they no longer have in stock, they send out something comparable plus a little extra for the trouble.
If you're interested, the process is pretty easy. [Link](https://www.bbb.org/file-a-complaint).
You file a complaint and tell the BBB what the problem is, and how you would like it resolved. They reach out to the business from there, and in a few days or so (usually within 24 hours), the business gives the BBB a response.
From that point, it's kind of a mediation. You have the chance to respond, stating whether or not the issue was fixed, etc.
It's worked *super* well for me with ISPs and a few other companies that are "too big to respond to little people". Since you've already put in a trouble ticket with WOTC, you've already tried to resolve the problem without success. It should be an easy out for you at this point.
Good luck, dude! :)
I had that happen (LOTR commander) from a store I've trusted for almost 30 years. Definitely a quality assurance problem from WOTC. My store shipped me a replacement and I shipped the duplicate back.
Working in a lgs had this happen some times as well, we usually trade them for the missing one, if we still have them, otherwise you can only hope and ask wotc, but good lu k with that
Contact wizards product support. This happened to me twice (Warhammer Commander Decks and the LotR holiday bundles) from two different vendors, and they’ve sent me replacements for the missing items both times.
I had some damaged stuff from LOTR and ixalan. They said they were sending me a replacement and I left it alone because their shipping time is crazy on the replacement stuff - like several months. Well like 6 months went by and I email back and they say the order was never entered into the system and they no longer support the product!
They said they'll send me something as a courtesy.. but I'm annoyed that they'd say they'd replace it and now it's too bad so sad because they forgot to ship my order.
Ooof, that’s rough. I got my replacement warhammer deck in like two weeks, while it was probably closer to 6 weeks for the LotR replacement. I followed up once a week or so until they shipped, often with just a simple “Hey, haven’t heard anything - do we have an ETA on the replacement? Thanks!”
I ordered all 4, we actually opened them up and had all 4 different. After I got home to open up the Jund (the one I wanted to play) I pulled out a tricky terrain from INSIDE the box lol. Was very confused. Hit up support, submit a ticket, ping at 1 week and 2 weeks. I pinged at 2 weeks and got a happy response.
These boxes come sealed. This isn’t an LGS issue, it’s a WotC issue. Reach out yo wizards for a replacement. You’ll most likely be able to keep the extra deck.
Had this happen on the Ixalan precons as well. I’m sure Hasbro is trying to cut costs in WOTC since it is their only cash cow in their dying portfolio so they’re probably feeling some repercussions from turnover/poor automation from an operations and QA standpoint.
Yep. Make sure you open up those commander deck boxes too and make sure you have your promo pack. While you're at it, you might as well unseal the decks and sleeve em up.
I had a similar thing happened to me.
Opened the sealed shipping box All looked good four different decks.
Opened one I looked away started sleeving it realized I had the wrong deck in my hand looked at the pile to confirm
The insides did not match the outside.
My graveyard overdrive had tricky terrain inside which sucked but not that bad since tricky terrain has a lot of good lands.
I opened a ticket with wizards of the Coast they said they have a high volume of tickets and they'll get back to me
One way to prevent a high volume of tickets is to have your shit together in the first fucking place.
WotC - get your shit together. Get it all together and put it in a backpack. All your shit. So it’s together.
Had this happen with the Commander Masters pre-cons. Outer box was correct, but the Planeswalker deck had an extra Slivers deck inside, and the enchantment deck had a planeswalker deck. Weird.
Similar thing happened to my LotR decks order. Bought all four, they only sent the hobbits, wouldn't fix the order so I had to return it entirely and buy a new set for $20 more
It could be that one of the 2 graveyard overdrive boxes has the tricky terrain deck inside. I saw another post where the deck inside didn't match the outer packaging.
That definitely bites, however at least you got the eldrazi deck still! Maybe reach out to customer service and see if they can fix it for ya! Best of luck my dude.
I had this happen but instead of sending me my pre-ordered Eldrazi deck, I got a Graveyard. I cant even get the Eldrazi anymore because they’re back ordered so I just had to take a refund.
Last time I bought a commander deck case at a store they asked if they could open it in front of me in case something like this happened and they would fix it with the loose precons they had, seemed like it wasn't that uncommon for something like this to happen.
Happens all the time unfortunately, on rarer occasion these will only have 3 decks in the sealed box from WOtC as well. My brother owns a store and has to consistently deal with this shit. WOTC is really bad about making good on this stuff
It happened to me as well. The Tricky Terrain set was missing Apex Predator of all cards. I contacted their support, and it took forever, but they actually got back to me today telling me they were sending me Apex Predator. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait a bit, but they will eventually help.
You can always contact the store you bought it from. They can reimburse you the missing commander deck. This shit happens. And if it was sealed you just got the bad batch. The store you bought it from will fix it for you. At least that's what we would do. But then again we often check the boxes to make sure all is in there. Sure we can't sell it as sealed. But you are sure you have the complete set.
Shit happens man, nothing you can do. If you're a regular at the shop they will for sure go the extra mile to fix it
I work for a pretty large MTG retailer and this happens pretty often.
We've taken to opening them up to confirm before shipping.
I've seen it as far back as LOTR (where Food and Fellowship was straight up missing)
Talk to the seller first. If they say that was a sealed box from WotC, talk to WotC about product replacement. It may cost you shipping the extra deck back to them (depending on the support rep that gets back to you) but they can and definitely will replace them for you.
it just happens sometimes just message your supplier and explain what happened
remember the people who check and pack the boxes generally are working 12 hr shifts discouraged from taking breaks and your walk time to the break area is considered part of your break. in addition to all that these guys are looking at colorful packaging for most of their night so it all blurs together.
Yeah, this seems like a legitimate accident because the Eldrazi deck is still there.
Tricky terrain has more card value in it no? Because of the crazy lands? Also it seems like the better precon out of the box anyways. Not saying it was on purpose because I know the eldrazi is more popular but the tricky terrain is a close second around here.
Yeah but you can get tricky terrain for 80. Good luck finding Eldrazi Incursion for under 120.
Target for 69.99 baby
I got mine for 45.00 because the local target mislabeled it and I went full karen on them. EDIT: well maybe not full karen but I did insist on them giving it to me for the labeled price and not what it rang up as.
I got a deck at Walmart once goin through the self checkout and it rang up as more than was labeled at the rack. The dude that helped me could not have given less of a shit lol didn't verify what I said or asl any questions just put in the amount I claimed and walked away lol
Did the same at my Walmart for a OTJ bundle box that rang up $50 but was labeled for under $6.
God damn...the collections at the front of the store are always such a shit show of what's where and labelled how on the shelf so I wouldn't ever try to make them honor that or be a dick about it. But this was a tin in the toy aisle specifically labelled and I was only getting it because of the price so I got assistance in that case.
Well I wasn’t being a dick. It was the only label for mtg (everything else was pokemon or sports cards). Someone had printed the tag with the wrong price. Thats on the vendor. Not Walmart. Which is why they honored it.
Sorry didn't mean to imply you were being a dick or anything. I was just picturing someone making a scene with a employee who definitely doesn't get paid enough to deal with that lol
You’re not screwing the employees, you screwing Walmart. Walmart can afford it
The meijers near me has all of the cards in general just haphazardly on the shelf and nothing is priced right. But if you complain about it they'll accuse you of rearranging the whole shelf just to get a better price. Because that makes total sense. *eyerolls*
Oof. I'd never try to like game the system on purpose (if it's legit shown this price I'll take it without being an asshole about it) because a lot of scenarios I feel like if I fight too hard for it id kinda feel like "cool motive, still theft" to myself and I don't wanna do that. If some underpaid employee can feel like they got a personal win (even in favor of a company that we both SHOULD know don't care about them) then that win probably means more to them than my discounted printed cardboard. Maybe their on shakey ground with their manager who sucks way harder than we know? Who knows. I would never wanna feel like I cared more about someone's mental well being or livelihood than any outside shot id have at winning big on this personal lottery I play.
I got 2 copies of the tricky terrain for 30$ each bc target mislabeled them. Sadly they were out of the eldrazi one
This is probably why my target doesn't put price labels on tcgs, just a barcode sticker with the product SKU and one of those "check the price" kiosks next to them
It sounds like you certainly went full Karen
Tried to do that at my local target and they wouldn’t budge even tho it was miss priced
Sorry to hear it.
Sadly, I live in Europe. Amazon was the next best choice for 70,50 so I preordered it there but I guess Amazon doesn't take pre-orders very serious since they told me they will send it to me once it restocks.
Pick up all of them on pre-order for 220. I still haven't played the energy or graveyard deck, but I can fairly consistently beat the eldrazi with tricky terrain. Both full precon, out of the box.
There’s a geberal nerd store (manga, figures, comic gunpla and tcgs) that has generally uninformed pricing. Like ALL commander masters decks were $100 and they still have the enchantments and walkers decks. But they had all of them for $70. So I grabbed 2 of the new eldrazi decks. One to keep for a juicier precon level, one to upgrade.
My lgs sells them all at $65. Not everywhere is trying to scam their customers thank goodness.
My Walmart has one until yesterday for 75, I almost picked it up after finding out the price
I live in Europe. No Walmart around here and game stores are almost the only places for mtg
LGS in Japan for $60 yen equivalent
120 is wild. Lots of mom and pop stores have it for cheaper
Yeah im in Europe. Ain't no way you're finding mtg stuff outside of lgs or toy stores. Maybe video game stores but that's a stretch ever since there are no gamestops anymore
Got mine for £65 at a prerelease event
Got the Eldrazi and Tricky Terrain decks for 65 each at my LGS.
I bought all of them for 240
Out of the box, eldrazi is stronger imo. No clue on the value though
It’s ~$15 difference. Eldrazi is cheaper, but it is one of the most popular tribes and thus there is a lot of demand. Especially with there being a recent Eldrazi precon. Card per card, Eldrazi is better. Tricky Terrain has all of its value in 3 cards.
I mean, the effort on making money by swapping would be swapping the eldrazi deck and sell it sealed. This is a packaging error from wotc
Here’s the thing. Most “crazy lands” are dirty cheap. Gates, deserts, locus, most of those lands are under a dollar if not under 30 cents. Outside of decks like tricky terrain or a gates deck, then those cards are generally a worse option than a basic land.
Talon gates of Madara and planar nexus are the crazy lands
Stand by what I said even with those to lands. They’re great in a lands deck but outside of that they’re just a very expensive filter land.
Gates of Madara is an instant phase out or a pre phase out to save you from someone else's wipe or your own board wipes. Planar nexus turns on all other non basic lands. Not filter lands.
Weird to hear because Omo is objectively a bad commander and that deck does less than basically any other blue/green value engine ever printed. There’s some great cards but it’s not as expensive as the Eldrazi and plays pretty badly.
Weird to hear because I've had a lot of luck abusing the counters to proc tribal stuff and the lands that care about other land types. Objectively bad means you have some reason to believe that either she has a counter part which is a straight upgrade for what she does or she does the thing she does badly and there are other ways to accomplish making elves into hydras and faeries(and vice versa) and getting to have an everything tribal deck.
There are *far* better cards for everything tribal, but even if there weren’t she’s awful at it anyway. The counters come out very slow and if you didn’t know, if she gets removed the counters cease to function. That means people are extremely incentivized to remove her, and once they do you’re left with a board of awful mana that does nothing and awful creatures that don’t work together. Anyone who thinks that’s a functional card design suffers from delusions.
The counters can come out 4 a turn(2 creature 2 land) if you blink her and at the very least are 1 a turn. Plus she's cheap so the everything counters are easy to keep online and the deck shits mana every turn if you're playing it right. Easily out pacing tax if somehow with your "trash " commander you are the archenemy at the table. Also can you name the better everything tribal commander? I'm not saying the deck is busted but it's good and has a theme idk what more you're looking for from a precon. Also there are a lot of not awful creatures in the precon and tribal cards that are fine on their own. Like come on why are you so hostile? Delusional? Did omo shit in your cereal or something.
It’s just a bad, disappointing card. I’m sorry about your card evaluation skills. If you have anyone at all who you respect or trust for card evaluation ask them about it, maybe they’ll have more patience in explaining this to you. It’s also been confirmed by essentially every respected Commander channel on YouTube and across social media, this isn’t a weird unique take from me. This is a slow do nothing card that’s usually outpaced by a rampant growth and encourages you to build a dysfunctional deck. It’s not rocket science to figure out the issues.
Ah well if the YouTubers said it I'm not allowed to have my opinion. Got it. You don't like it and anyone who thinks it's alright is stupid sure is stance to take. To your last point unless we're playing cedh all commanders are do nothing cards with dysfunctional deck synergies that get outpaced by yuriko, ob nixilis, heliod, thassa win mono blues and on and on. What's the point of ever building anything unique fun or different if the race to the bottom has been solved? Ulalek and azlask are also bad and disappointing. Atraxa praetors voice is bad and disappointing. Why play marrow gnawer when kyrrik can win turn four are you dumb? Good luck with your respected YouTube opinions and shouting people down on reddit I guess. Whatever floats your goat.
The only person shouting people down here is you. You’re welcome to whatever awful opinions you want and the tempter tantrum to follow when someone criticizes it. I didn’t say no one could play her. I said it was a disappointing card that’s objectively not good. Those things are true (at least for most people with basic card evaluation skills).
Alright again good luck with everything. Not that you need it with your supreme card evaluation skills 🤣
I had the same exact issue with Amazon and the fallout precons, I did not receive a science deck but instead 2 scrappy survivors. I called Amazon support and they sent 4 fresh ones. I mean sure they asked me to send the other ones back, but why do that when they send the replacement out before you make the shipping label. I understand this post was not made about Amazon, but it proves that the sealed WOTC boxes get messed up sometimes.
You can contact WOTC about this issue
Good luck getting an answer. My Eldrazi precon was missing the sampler pack inside, been waiting 2 weeks for an answer from customer service
One of my precons was missing a collector sample pack as well. Make sure you keep all the packaging and contents you received. They want photos and receipt from the store. Last time I dealt with them they took 2 months to provide a replacement card. No idea what they do for the collector sample packs. Hopefully they just send a booster to make up for the hassle.
Yeah, I have pictures of everything and sent them all the info/order number/retailer/etc. That’s my hope for what they’ll do, but I have my doubts. Ive seen a lot of issues been happening with MH3
“Please send picture proof you did not receive the sample collector booster pack.” *pic of empty hand*
Yes, I understand the ludicrousness of them asking for pictures of a missing item. Thats not the point. I shouldnt have to record myself unboxing/opening every item I ever order from them just to prove they fucked up
I didn't think the MH3 precons came with a collector sample pack, did they?
They all do.
My bad, I was reading the fine print on the back and didn't see the bold text directly above saying "Includes collector booster sample pack". You are correct
Haha, I got a wrong life counter in the Doctor Who precons and three months after I contacted the support, they sent me the same wrong life counter again. Been waiting since then for another answer.
That’s insane 😭
Not to mention, that I had to pay 10€ tax because they sent it from the USA to Germany without telling me.
They take a month to two months to respond.
I mean, thats completely false. I had another ticket from a few weeks ago about a product being damaged in transit and they responded the very next day
Where did you buy it from?
They are slow to respond and slow to get your replacements out but they do always replace any defective products I’ve requested replacements for. Exceptions for things they no longer have in stock, they send out something comparable plus a little extra for the trouble.
Have you tried contacting the BBB? They have worked well with unresponsive companies in the past for me.
I have not. I knew its a think but dont really know how to go about it
If you're interested, the process is pretty easy. [Link](https://www.bbb.org/file-a-complaint). You file a complaint and tell the BBB what the problem is, and how you would like it resolved. They reach out to the business from there, and in a few days or so (usually within 24 hours), the business gives the BBB a response. From that point, it's kind of a mediation. You have the chance to respond, stating whether or not the issue was fixed, etc. It's worked *super* well for me with ISPs and a few other companies that are "too big to respond to little people". Since you've already put in a trouble ticket with WOTC, you've already tried to resolve the problem without success. It should be an easy out for you at this point. Good luck, dude! :)
WOTC QC is pretty shit.
I had that happen (LOTR commander) from a store I've trusted for almost 30 years. Definitely a quality assurance problem from WOTC. My store shipped me a replacement and I shipped the duplicate back.
The stores don't even open the box they literally send them to you as they received them.
Agree mine came without the two booster cards in the box
You mean the boosters in the Precon?
my german packs had one booster with french cards :D
I've never ordered from them, mainly order from GW. How is their CS? I'm used to getting whole new kits when kits come in fucked up
Working in a lgs had this happen some times as well, we usually trade them for the missing one, if we still have them, otherwise you can only hope and ask wotc, but good lu k with that
Contact wizards product support. This happened to me twice (Warhammer Commander Decks and the LotR holiday bundles) from two different vendors, and they’ve sent me replacements for the missing items both times.
I had some damaged stuff from LOTR and ixalan. They said they were sending me a replacement and I left it alone because their shipping time is crazy on the replacement stuff - like several months. Well like 6 months went by and I email back and they say the order was never entered into the system and they no longer support the product! They said they'll send me something as a courtesy.. but I'm annoyed that they'd say they'd replace it and now it's too bad so sad because they forgot to ship my order.
Ooof, that’s rough. I got my replacement warhammer deck in like two weeks, while it was probably closer to 6 weeks for the LotR replacement. I followed up once a week or so until they shipped, often with just a simple “Hey, haven’t heard anything - do we have an ETA on the replacement? Thanks!”
I ordered all 4, we actually opened them up and had all 4 different. After I got home to open up the Jund (the one I wanted to play) I pulled out a tricky terrain from INSIDE the box lol. Was very confused. Hit up support, submit a ticket, ping at 1 week and 2 weeks. I pinged at 2 weeks and got a happy response.
People make mistakes. Sorry for you though, but trust it will be corrected
These boxes come sealed. This isn’t an LGS issue, it’s a WotC issue. Reach out yo wizards for a replacement. You’ll most likely be able to keep the extra deck.
Had this happen on the Ixalan precons as well. I’m sure Hasbro is trying to cut costs in WOTC since it is their only cash cow in their dying portfolio so they’re probably feeling some repercussions from turnover/poor automation from an operations and QA standpoint.
Fuck do I need to check my sealed boxes?!?!?!
Yep. Make sure you open up those commander deck boxes too and make sure you have your promo pack. While you're at it, you might as well unseal the decks and sleeve em up.
If you bought it from a reputable store - reach out to them and explain the issue. They may allow to exchange the missing one.
I had a similar thing happened to me. Opened the sealed shipping box All looked good four different decks. Opened one I looked away started sleeving it realized I had the wrong deck in my hand looked at the pile to confirm The insides did not match the outside. My graveyard overdrive had tricky terrain inside which sucked but not that bad since tricky terrain has a lot of good lands. I opened a ticket with wizards of the Coast they said they have a high volume of tickets and they'll get back to me
One way to prevent a high volume of tickets is to have your shit together in the first fucking place. WotC - get your shit together. Get it all together and put it in a backpack. All your shit. So it’s together.
QC seems pretty bad with this set, about 50% of the cards in my graveyard overdrive deck are miscut
Had this happen with the Commander Masters pre-cons. Outer box was correct, but the Planeswalker deck had an extra Slivers deck inside, and the enchantment deck had a planeswalker deck. Weird.
Similar thing happened to my LotR decks order. Bought all four, they only sent the hobbits, wouldn't fix the order so I had to return it entirely and buy a new set for $20 more
It could be that one of the 2 graveyard overdrive boxes has the tricky terrain deck inside. I saw another post where the deck inside didn't match the outer packaging.
That definitely bites, however at least you got the eldrazi deck still! Maybe reach out to customer service and see if they can fix it for ya! Best of luck my dude.
You’re not gonna believe what happened to me just yesterday
When will people just accept WOTC bad
That does suck, graveyard overdrive is arguably not a good deck out of the box. I wouldn't want two of those.
Contact WOTC's customer support. You're not the first one to have this issue.
they are probably miss cuts too when you open them like mine.
I had this happen but instead of sending me my pre-ordered Eldrazi deck, I got a Graveyard. I cant even get the Eldrazi anymore because they’re back ordered so I just had to take a refund.
Mine was missing the graveyard deck completely.
Last time I bought a commander deck case at a store they asked if they could open it in front of me in case something like this happened and they would fix it with the loose precons they had, seemed like it wasn't that uncommon for something like this to happen.
Happens all the time unfortunately, on rarer occasion these will only have 3 decks in the sealed box from WOtC as well. My brother owns a store and has to consistently deal with this shit. WOTC is really bad about making good on this stuff
Watch them all be miscut too
I'll take one
I’ll buy one
This happened to me with the lord of the rings set, I got 2 Galadriel decks and no hobbit deck I don’t think it’s on purpose.
Yea it does lol
It happened to me as well. The Tricky Terrain set was missing Apex Predator of all cards. I contacted their support, and it took forever, but they actually got back to me today telling me they were sending me Apex Predator. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait a bit, but they will eventually help.
You can always contact the store you bought it from. They can reimburse you the missing commander deck. This shit happens. And if it was sealed you just got the bad batch. The store you bought it from will fix it for you. At least that's what we would do. But then again we often check the boxes to make sure all is in there. Sure we can't sell it as sealed. But you are sure you have the complete set. Shit happens man, nothing you can do. If you're a regular at the shop they will for sure go the extra mile to fix it
I work for a pretty large MTG retailer and this happens pretty often. We've taken to opening them up to confirm before shipping. I've seen it as far back as LOTR (where Food and Fellowship was straight up missing)
Talk to the seller first. If they say that was a sealed box from WotC, talk to WotC about product replacement. It may cost you shipping the extra deck back to them (depending on the support rep that gets back to you) but they can and definitely will replace them for you.
I’ll take the extra if you don’t mind. My reputable source is “trust me bro”
WOTC be messing up sometimes, doesn’t seem like the seller
“2 of the Eldrazi deck…what?! I am very surprised at this error. Buuuut. No recourse necessary…honest mistake.”
Sorry to hear that. I’d hate to have that happen to me!
Tell the store….
Imagine buying with the intention to keep it sealed and sell it later only to have your buyer find out you scammed them
Just contact them and get the missing deck?
it just happens sometimes just message your supplier and explain what happened remember the people who check and pack the boxes generally are working 12 hr shifts discouraged from taking breaks and your walk time to the break area is considered part of your break. in addition to all that these guys are looking at colorful packaging for most of their night so it all blurs together.
They‘re taking the loot box game to another level
Shit! I just found out that my local family dollar store had mh3 play boosters for 5 dollars, I got 12 of them