New Redemption Grab Bag now includes an assortment of 500 cards from five (5) different expansion sets. Available at Cactus website.
While I don't really have a collection anymore, I have access to the collection of someone who's been collecting and playing around the time I started, so I'll speak purely from the perspective of someone who's collected the game from the Priests era and has most of the playable cards in the game in multiples.The problem with an idea like this is, while it looks good on paper, most of the other cards in the box are not desirable to people with money to spend and who already possess a substantial collection. This is excepting things like CoW and RoJ, where the rare cards actually hold value, but for the most part that is not the case with the other sets.The last few years have seen great sets at the great expense of the older ones, to a severity I did not expect. Cards are so devalued I would not pay anything at all for a stack of tin cards, Di cards, TexP cards (outside of Grapes/Mayhem), or any foil booster cards of any kind. There's just no reason to hold onto them anymore. Adding to the fact that talks of rotation have given credence to its reality in the future, and you're left with 50%-60% of the cards in modern boxes ultimately being worthless in the future.So, what you're left with is the commons/rares from the box sets. For people as myself, excluding those rares and commons with value (LS, player cards, splashy staples, etc), you're not left with much. There's a huge chunk of common cards and even rare cards in all sets that are just not played. Their value will never increase and can only go down. People like us do not get boxes of sets we already have for commons and rares (outside of CoW and RoJ) and will pretty much only buy boxes if we are just beginning to collect the set. There are exceptions to this: FoM's skewed packaging of Legacy rares taking cards out of the packs made getting more of those packs necessary if you're not buying the set outright. Most of the value of the boxes comes solely thanks to the UR. This is the reason I would not buy a box of EC period, and the reason we'd consider buying multiple boxes of CoW and RoJ despite having those sets.Long story short, I could see this working for something like a box of CoW or RoJ, where I could see someone paying around 50% of the box price for the remainders of the box. But (also assuming the Legacy rares with value will be pulled from FoM boxes), the prices would have to be far lower for the others in order to get people like us to consider buying 'neutered' boxes over a few good singles from the set.I'd be interested to hear the perspective of a newer player or someone who sells a lot of Redemption.
What exactly do you need at the moment? If you can point me to that, I am willing to do a large trade to get you where you need to be while acquiring stuff for my playgroup.
