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Since Box sets are a recent addition to Redemption I was wonder what official stance there might be, for or against using box sets in the sealed deck category?

For example I think it would be really cool to uses a treasure and disciples box with a G or H deck.

If this is not ok for upperlevel tournaments, what about using them for locals or districts?

I understand the cost would be higher but sometimes sealed Deck is just my wife and I, so opening boxes and using them for a tournament would make opening them a lot of fun!

I could see sealed deck costing $15 dollars if treasures and disciples were use.


Rob or an Elder have any official ruling on this?

I'm pretty sure this would be a bad idea for upper level tournaments, solely because of the amount of high end cards found in boxes will make and break your deck.  There are so many powerful battle winners dropped in one box that a bad pack will put you completely out of contention.  There would be less strategy involved to win and more of (who pulled the grapes???) or 2 trapped in clevernesses... ect

what even is sealed deck?
sorry for my ignorance

thats the problem, 3 booster packs of anything usually isnt enough to match the colors of the starter and help out a whole bunch. texp/disciples would be an excellent idea for sealed, imo.

in my experience, every box of texp is a generous pull, especially in regards to random formats. if everyone is getting good pulls, how is that unfair?

Right .....  Its all your and your attendees preference.

I agree.

Note what the Host Guide says (page 2):
Closed Deck (2 player)
Two player only. Players receive one starter deck and three booster packs from the available expansion sets of their choice. They may add any cards from the packs into their deck. The deck they construct is the deck they play.

Are the boxes considered "booster packs"?

[edit] Just noticed that the Booster Draft rules (page 3) say:
Booster Draft (Multi-player)
Multi-player only. Players do not receive starter decks. Instead they each start with at least six booster packs (one each from available expansion sets). Starting with the first pack each player should take one card they want from the pack and pass the remaining cards to the player next to them. Upon receiving the pack just passed to them they then pick another card they want for their deck and then pass that pack on. This goes on until all cards are drafted.

That seems to disallow tin drafts... I think it needs an update.  Are the FooF/RoA cards in the tin a "booster pack"?  (And, if so, can I chose them in Sealed? )

i heard a guy pulled mayhem guardian and don in the same pack.
sealed is no fun with that stuff.

Only it's more fun with that, because the artifacts you get aren't very good, guardian isn't useful and Mayhem makes the game more fun.

Quote from: The M on August 07, 2010, 08:35:03 PM

i heard a guy pulled mayhem guardian and don in the same pack.
sealed is no fun with that stuff.

Only it's more fun with that, because the artifacts you get aren't very good, guardian isn't useful and Mayhem makes the game more fun.

duh. guardian. duh.
oops.