So yeah, I decided to test my luck again with sealed MtG products. This time on War of the Spark where I loaned a booster box from Rei’s store. The card pool had decided before to skip buying a box from the set but upon seeing the value of the uncommon Planeswalker, I might get some good stuff and maybe the foil ones to open.

I dropped by Reis place after receiving a message that his new WAR boxes has arrived. I decided to have the payment in two gives, paying the initial 2K. I chose which box from the crate, dropped by the laundry to finish drying my clothes and went home to the bhaus.

I then intended to open the War of the Sparks booster packs by batches so as to sort and discuss the playable and relevant cards for the Standard format. I wanted to do a Facebook Live unboxing but my internet connection that time has been acting up and so, back to the old school pics.

Here below are the rares or mythics of the first ten booster packs.

The walkers are the auto pic cards here as Vivien, Sarkhan and Chandra are all playable in their respective deck archetypes. Next in line are Soul Diviner and Dreadhorde Arcanist, with the latter being played in Mardu or Boros versions of the Feather+pump spells deck.

The next ten booster packs opened had the following cards:

This is where I got the two Finale mythics along with a foil version of the Black Finale and Bontu Eternal God. What they said about the rumors were true. Having one Finale as your mythic means the rest of the mythics opened are also one of the Finale card cycle.

I wanted Bontu as the top curve in a Rakdos aggro shell but I haven’t seen an actual list that finished well in major tournament. Maybe I will have my own deck list soon.

The cards seeing Standard play in this batch are Domri, Nissa, Finale of Promise, Enter the God-Eternals and Planewide Celebration. The first two walkers are known to be part of the latest version of Big Gruul deck and also Nissa are in the lineup of Mono Green or Simic Ramp builds. I have seen the Red Finale in two copies in Izzet Phoenix decks, having it as a late game Phoenix trigger source.

There are no money cards in this first two batch of booster packs with Chandra as the highest cost based on the current price but for the playability, they are evenly placed.

There are sixteen booster packs left so I will just reserve the discussion on the next blog post. That is a wrap for now. Stay tuned for Part 2.