# Anything New and Awesome in Magic: The Gathering?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-new-and-awesome-in-magic-the-gathering/643553>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 10, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-new-and-awesome-in-magic-the-gathering/643553 "2012-12-10T01:03:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-new-and-awesome-in-magic-the-gathering/643553/1 "2012-12-10T01:03:55Z")

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Why yes, I’m looking for gift ideas for my 19 year old son, who’s increasingly difficult to buy for each year…

I’m afraid I know nothing about the game, his deck(s) or anything else useful. Anything “wow, COOL!” that’s come out this year?

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-new-and-awesome-in-magic-the-gathering/643553/2 "2012-12-10T01:05:19Z")

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:smack: Oh, right…there’s a Games Forum now. Self-reported for forum change.

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**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-new-and-awesome-in-magic-the-gathering/643553/3 "2012-12-10T01:23:24Z")

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This year they released a [Holiday Gift Box](http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1039). It’s a nice storage box with dividers and labels and stuff, and it comes with, I believe, four booster packs and a stack of land cards. It’s designed with just your situation in mind – you don’t have to know anything about the game or you son’s deck to know he’d like a few extra packs and a nice place to store his cards. MSRP is $20, and Target seems to have plenty. (Of course, if you buy it at a game store, they’ll probably mark it up.)

–Cliffy

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-new-and-awesome-in-magic-the-gathering/643553/4 "2012-12-10T01:56:33Z")

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> [@Cliffy](#):
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> This year they released a [Holiday Gift Box](http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1039). It’s a nice storage box with dividers and labels and stuff, and it comes with, I believe, four booster packs and a stack of land cards. It’s designed with just your situation in mind – you don’t have to know anything about the game or you son’s deck to know he’d like a few extra packs and a nice place to store his cards. MSRP is $20, and Target seems to have plenty. (Of course, if you buy it at a game store, they’ll probably mark it up.)
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> –Cliffy

Sweet. Perfect. Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-new-and-awesome-in-magic-the-gathering/643553/5 "2012-12-10T01:58:42Z")

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There you go, moved to the games room.

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**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-new-and-awesome-in-magic-the-gathering/643553/6 "2012-12-11T01:58:07Z")

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Buy that boy a Thragtusk. Can’t have too many.