Forum:Boxes vs singles?

My 8 year old son is getting crazy over this game. When I was a kid I worked in a baseball card shop, and understand stated values of cards, as opposed to what someone is really willing to pay for it. I have some questions for a forum of pro's. Question 1. I see on Ebay, I can get a box of the Legend of the Blue Eyes dragon for around 300.00 bucks. Are there cards in the box that are worth adding to make a current deck? Or is it just for collectors because of the dragon? Are they worth opening? I see plenty of cards for sale for decent amounts at the store, and Ebay but some of the stuff doesn't sell.. I had fun buying older wax boxes of baseball cards, sometimes I would spend a fair amount of money, and got nothing. Other times, I hit the mother load! Its a gamble. Question 2. The Epic dawn battle pack. The guy at the store said it has a lot of the older cards in it. Does that mean that I can get the same card from a box that is 4 or 5 years old, just with a new card number from this year? Question 3- What are fun boxes to open, to build a deck with? ($60-100) I want two different kinds-so when I play my son, were not using the same monsters, traps, spells, etc. Question 4. I could go online, do some reading, and probably build a deck by singles for 100+ but isn't the fun of this pulling rare cards, trading with other players, learning about the different monsters? For me, I like the machines but they might not be worth a darn now. What do I know? Not much.. In closing, the one thing that I give props to this game is the deck possibilities are endless, which keeps it fresh. The most powerful cards don't all ways win because you have to shuffle the deck, a truck load of strategy is involved sometimes just to play them. Sean Spracr (talk • contribs) 02:58, July 7, 2013 (UTC)