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A few months back WotC announced that Modern Masters 2015 boosters would be made out of recyclable material. This sounded like a pretty cool initiative. I'm all for reducing waste, even if the impact of an individual move is pretty negligible in the grand scheme of things.
At this point in time, people are getting their MM15 product in, and a video has shown up on YouTube exposing a potential flaw in the new package. You can watch the video here.
This is in some ways reminiscent of when you could see the rare through older packs. The comments on YouTube (which I can't tell you why I read) state that there is supposed to be an adhesive on the pack that wasn't present in the video, but other comments mention that a heat gun is a workaround to this barrier.
I don't personally buy sealed product, but let this serve as a word of caution. If there's a retailer that you can trust then there's clearly no reason to be concerned, but express some caution in acquiring loose MM15 packs.
Don’t forget that they at least try to find an eco solution. That’s a big plus. It takes courage to try this on your product. Most companies will not get this far.
Is it really worth the time and effort to exploit the new packaging. More than any previous packaging?
While it is bad that individual packs are now suspect, I love this for the crack-these-packs, then-repack-and-draft-them-with-friends-aspect.
These packs also damage the cards. I pulled in about 200 MM15 cards the day of release in my store, and 42% of them were LP or MP. Going back to Conspiracy, another similarly drafted/opened set, it was 4%.
The hard edges of the packs bend and ding cards – NM MM15 may demand a premium at some point.