Magic: The Gathering packs come in a few shapes and sizes (we covered the excellent Jumpstart Boosters for the Avatar: The Last Airbender set recently), but Collector Boosters are the most expensive.
Now, though, Amazon not only has Avatar Collector Boosters in stock, but it’s selling a box of 12 at a discount with a 16% saving off the list price.
Avatar Collector Boosters Are On Sale At Amazon
That brings a Collector Booster box down to $384.62 from $455.88. It’s still super expensive, but it’s admittedly slightly easier to swallow.
It drops the price per pack from $37.99 to $32.05, which is a steep enough drop to almost pay for a whole Play Booster with the money you save – imagine that.
So, what’s the deal with Collector Boosters? Why does a box of 12 command a fee of over $450 when Play Boosters can be had much cheaper?
In truth, it’s because the most valuable cards from the Avatar: The Last Airbender set are much, much more likely to be found in Collector Boosters. They contain all manner of special art treatments, including those controversial ‘Source Material’ full-art cards (no, we still can’t love them either).
The cards remain functionally the same as buying Play Boosters, but as the name suggests, these ones are aimed at collectors of Avatar superfans. We don’t often give advice, but if you do buy them, please try and put them in a sleeve to keep them in the best condition possible!
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They’re pretty regularly discounted, too, which is always appreciated, but right now Amazon has some fantastic deals on Lorwyn Eclipsed’s duo of decks and a huge bundle of Tarkir Dragonstorm decks, too. Here’s why they’re worth a look.
Save Big On MTG Precons At Amazon Right Now
Kicking off with the latest set, Lorwyn Eclipsed, there are two decks available for the set.
Blight Curse is helmed by Auntie Ool, Cursewretch (or The Reaper, King No More), and leans into the -1/-1 counters archetype that we really don’t see too much of in precons. It’s a fantastic deck—possibly one of the best in recent memory—and has a few bucks knocked off the price to bring it to $45.49.
It’s joined by Dance of the Elements, which has an even better price. The five-color Elementals deck is all about making copies of big creatures and is helmed by Ashling, the Limitless (or Mass of Mysteries). It’s currently just $37.99, a 24% discount on a great precon.
Onto Tarkir: Dragonstorm, then, and while the 2025 was somewhat overshadowed by Universes Beyond: Final Fantasy dropping right after, it remains a great set.
Its Commander decks had a wide range of reprint values, but they’re all fun to use. I own three of them myself and have had a blast playing with Sultai Arisen. Can’t pick? Good news – Amazon has a discount on a bundle of all five (that’s right, five) decks.
The bundle would cost $224.95, but is now $195, bringing each deck down to $39. While some are going for around that number, Temur Roar was particularly popular at launch and shot up in value. In fact, it’s still $60 on its own.
That deck is particularly good because it essentially drops a ton of Dragons on the board for big damage, but the others are fun, too.
Jeskai Striker is all about playing rapid spells, while Sultai Arisen has a graveyard recursion theme that helps keep opponents guessing.
Mardu Surge is focused on tokens and sacrifice, while Abzan Armor is a ‘toughness matters’ deck that turns colossal defenders into terrifying attackers.
You really can’t go wrong with any of them, and if you’re new to the format, Tarkir’s decks are relatively easy to pilot, too.
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Crimson Desert is an open-world action-adventure game that’s set to release on PS5, Xbox, and PC on March 19. Developed by Pearl Abyss, the company behind Black Desert Online, it looks seriously ambitious in all the best ways. It’s available for preorder now (see it at Amazon) in two editions and includes a preorder bonus, the contents of which are detailed below. Let’s take a look.
The standard edition comes with the game itself, plus the preorder bonus you can find detailed below (it’s a shield). The only current deals available for the game are for the PC (Steam) version, which you can at some third-party storefronts listed above.
The digital deluxe edition of the game costs $10 less than the physical version, but it lacks the physical goodies. Here are the digital items it includes:
Preorder the game on any platform and in any edition, and you’ll receive the following digital item:
Khaled Shield
Preorder the PS5 version, and you’ll get the following digital items:
Grotevant Plate Set: Grotevan Plate Helm, Grotevan Plate Armor, along with Grotevan cloak, gloves, and boots
What Is Crimson Desert?
Crimson Desert is a medieval fantasy-themed game set in the land of Pywel, where you play as Kliff, captain of the Greymanes, as the ruthless Black Bear army executes a brutal attack that leaves the Greymane forces scattered. Your job is to explore the world to reunite with your comrades and rebuild what’s been lost. As you do so, you’ll forge new alliances and discover even more dangerous threats looming over the land.
The journey takes you through all sorts of environments, from plains to deserts to mountains. You can ride mounts ranging from horses to wolves and dragons. You even have a Zelda-style glider that lets you leap from mountain peaks and soar over the land.
Although there’s some debate on social media about whether Crimson Desert is an RPG, developer Pearl Abyss doesn’t label it as such. It calls Crimson Desert “an open-world action-adventure game.” That’s because it doesn’t have character leveling or experience points. You do expand your capabilities, but you do so by finding items in the open world, like in an action-adventure game like Zelda or a Metroid.
Based on the trailers, it does look like a hodgepodge of popular game elements. It has an extensive combat system, an explorable open world, puzzles, giant monsters to fight, and more. Here’s hoping the game is not too good to be true.
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Now, the current set’s Play Booster Box has been discounted again, reaching ever-so-slightly lower than the deal we spotted a few weeks ago. Amazon is currently offering a 22% discount on the box, bringing it to $128.94. That’s close to its lowest-ever price of $125.
Lorwyn Eclipsed Play Boosters Are Close To Their Best-Ever Price
That’s a sizeable price cut on the $164.70 list price. It means the $5.49 price of each pack drops to around $4.30.
As for the set itself, Lorwyn Eclipsed is fantastic, bringing back fan-favorite creature types and a classic location that puts the Magic back in Magic, as strange as that may sound to outsiders.
As the first Universes Within set of 2026, it’s packed with amazing chase cards – although you’ll no doubt have better luck finding them with the eye-wateringly expensive Collector Boosters.
Still, from Kithkin to Giants, there’s a whimsicality to the set not seen since maybe Bloomburrow, and after Avatar and Spider-Man sets, we’re glad to be back on familiar ground. It doesn’t hurt that the two new preconstructed Commander Decks, Blight Curse and Dance of the Elements, are fantastically well-constructed, too.
As someone that’s been playing Magic for around three or four years, it’s probably one of my favorite sets in a little while.
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Amazon is once again having a sale on Ravensburger puzzles, which means right now is a great time to pick up your next 1000 or 2000-piece project. These sales only come around every few months or so and I always try to take advantage of them to stock up on new puzzles for me or my parents. Ravensburger is one of the best puzzle brands, but you’ll rarely find them on sale at your local toy store unless you’re buying used.
All of the puzzles currently on sale are discounted via Amazon’s Lightning Deal system. There isn’t any sort of timer on the discount, but there is a limited amount of stock available for each puzzle. Once that limit is reached, the discount will disappear and that puzzle will jump back up to whatever it was priced at before. So if you see something you like, don’t hesitate to pick it up before the deal is gone!
Ravensburger Puzzle Sale at Amazon Today
All of the Ravensburger puzzles on sale right now are at least 30% off, with some options discounted by almost 50% right now. That means the more expensive jigsaw puzzles are getting the biggest overall price cuts in the sale. If you’ve got the table space and attention span for a 2000+ piece puzzle, those are the ones I’d recommend grabbing first. There’s even a nice Lord of the Rings puzzle discounted here that I’d recommend to all you Tolkien fans out there.
There are also quite a few 1000 piece puzzles discounted here, which is generally the piece count I’d recommend for adults. It’s still challenging, but a lot more doable in a casual setting. The bigger puzzles, like that 4000-piece Fairy puzzle I’ve featured here are better for folks who have immense amounts of time and patience to dedicate to a single puzzle project. You’ll also likely need a fairly substantial puzzle table for such an undertaking.
Is Ravensburger the best puzzle brand?
Plenty of different brands make puzzles, but Ravensburger is widely considered one of the very best jigsaw puzzle brands out there since it released its first puzzle back in 1964. This is in part due to the quality of each puzzle. The patented “Softclick” technology allows for you to hear an audible click each time you place a piece in the right place. Ravensburger also uses high-quality materials for each puzzle ensuring the pieces won’t be bent or broken when you open the box.
The company also has partnerships with both Disney and Warner Bros. that allows it to make some of the best franchise-specific puzzles around. Star Wars, Frozen, Lord of the Rings, DC comics, and more jigsaw puzzles like those will often come from Ravensburger.
You may also recognize Ravensburger as one of the more popular board game brands out there. They recently got into the trading card game as the official creator and publisher of the Disney Lorcana TCG.
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Mouse: P.I. for Hire is one of the most visually striking games we’ve seen in quite some time. We played Mouse last year – and we’ll be doing so again as part of this month’s exclusive IGN First coverage – but the thing is, it’s going to need more than just a unique art style in order to leave a lasting impression on the first-person shooter genre. And so today we’re digging into the people, the city, and the story underneath that rubber hose-animated black-and-white veneer.
By now you might know that the player character is played by the talented Troy Baker. That character is Jack Pepper, a war hero-turned-cop-turned-private investigator. You’ll be assigned three different cases over the course of the single-player campaign (Mouse has no multiplayer mode), sniffing out clues and talking to perps and pedestrians alike (not to mention doing a lot of shooting at gang members and corrupt cops) to try and solve each one as you roll around in the rotting underbelly of the city of Mouseburg.
In the image gallery above, you’ll see gifs of five characters:
Jack Pepper: our aforementioned hero. He enlisted in the war in his teenage years, serving in the same unit with Cornelius Stilton (see below). They owe each other their lives, along with a third member of their unit, Steve Bandel. Jack joined the police force after the war ended, but struck out on his own as a P.I. after getting fed up with the corruption of too many of his fellow cops. Jack has one major vice: gambling.
Tammy Tumbler: Born during the war, Tammy lost her mother at a young age and never learned the identity of her father. When her stepfather got busted by the police officer Jack Pepper when she was 13, she went into the foster care system and immediately sought to escape, angry at Jack and the world. She’s street-smart and resourceful, and has worked for Jack as needed for a long time. She trusts Jack as well as one other person: Wanda Fuller (see below).
John Brown: John can frequently be found hanging outside the bar behind Jack’s office. He’s a shrew (the literal animal kind) from Shrewthicket, a once-thriving town that was destroyed, leavivng John to haunt the surrounding swamps, becoming a cheeselegger (think: bootlegger but for cheese), a hired farming hand and blue cheese dealer. When the stove got too hot, he made his way to Mouseburg and opened a shrew-sized bar called Little & Big. He’s full of old stories and isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty.
Wanda Fuller: Wanda is a journalist for the Mouseburg Herald who came from similar working-class means as Jack. She uses him as a source on occasion, particularly when he was with the police. They’re not exactly friends, but they share an uneasy trust. She’s a cynic, but she genuinely wants to help people.
Cornellius Stilton: Finally we have Cornellius, an upper-class resident of Mouseburg who was a commander in the war. After the war, he went into politics, and he’s got a plan he’s been slowly executing. He’s a people pleaser, but to what end? As such, Jack can’t fully trust him.
These are a handful of the key players you’ll meet in Mouse. If you’re interested in learning more, check out our deep-dive on the crazy arsenal at Jack’s disposal. And if you’re eager to play, circle March 19 on your calendar, as that’s when Mouse: P.I. for Hire will be released on PC, PlayStation platforms, Xbox platforms, and Nintendo Switch platforms.
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A Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 commercial starring comedian Nikki Glazer has been banned in the UK, following viewer complaints that it trivialized sexual violence.
The country’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld criticism of the ad, which features a man being ordered to take off his clothes during an airport security screening. It’s then implied that Glazer wishes to perform an unnecessary search of his anal cavity.
As reported by BBC News, Activision defended the ad as an implausible situation (the joke here being that Glazer and Call of Duty actor Peter Stormare are replacement security agents, as the airport’s usual employees are too busy playing Call of Duty instead).
Activision said the ad’s humor was meant to imply discomfort rather than sexual activity, that the footage contained no explicit content, and that it had been aired on linear TV at timeslots aimed at adults.
Regardless, the ASA has ruled that the commercial’s humor was “generated by the humiliation and implied threat of painful, non-consensual penetration of the man,” and was therefore irresponsible and offensive.
“You’ve been randomly selected to be manhandled,” Stormare tells the man within the ad, getting him to bite down on a baton. “I’m going to need you to remove your clothes. Everything but the shoes.”
“Time for the puppet show,” says Glazer as she snaps a rubber glove.
“Bite down on this,” Stormare concludes. “She’s going in dry.”
Ultimately, the ASA decided that the ad can no longer be aired within the UK in its current form — although it’s unclear if Activision still had any plans to do so. Internationally, the commercial is still available online. And, at the time of writing, IGN can confirm it is still available to view from within the UK via YouTube.
Still, the advert is likely the least of Activision’s concerns around Black Ops 7, which has underperformed sales-wise amid strong competition from fellow shooters such as Battlefield 6 and ARC Raiders, as reflected in European sales figures and Activision’s own admissions. Following the release of Black Ops 7, Activision announced significant changes to the Call of Duty franchise, including promising never to release back to back games in the same sub-brand (Modern Warfare, Black Ops) again.
Image credit: Activision
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The incident prompted widespread shock and sympathy for the fledgling outlet, which lost $100,000 worth of stock in minutes. But now, the business has said the famously-litigious Nintendo has been in touch — not to offer aid, however, but to share “concerns” over its name and logo.
The Poké Court is now being forced to rebrand, with its storefront, social accounts and online site all being rebranded to “The Trainer Court” over the coming days. The previous design featured a stylized Pokéball logo that is now being replaced by a simple “C” colored in green.
In a statement posted to Instagram, the newly-retitled Trainer Court thanked fans for support “amidst the robbery and beyond” but said it was now having to change its name and logo due to a complaint from Nintendo.
“The short story is Nintendo reached out to us with concerns about our name and logo,” The Trainer Court wrote. “This means we’re evolving! Same team, same ridiculous hit rate, and soon, even greater things coming your way.”
The post has already gained plenty of further support for the outlet, with more than 2000 likes at the time of writing and a comment praising the business from Sarah Natochenny, the voice actress who previously provided the voice of Ash Ketchum in Pokémon’s animated TV series.
Numerous stores selling Pokémon cards have been hit by robberies over the past year, including locations in Boston, Los Angeles and Seattle. In December, $100,000 worth of stock was swiped from a store in Burbank — an incident that Californian cops suspected was linked to “half a dozen” similar thefts within the southern half of the state. Separately, IGN has reported on numerous other examples that have also occured nationwide over the past 12 months.
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Is Crimson Desert an RPG? Does it even matter? What is an RPG anyway? Those are questions sparked by the hotly anticipated “open-world action-adventure” game as it nears release, and it’s fair to say there is a variety of opinion.
Let’s start with developer Pearl Abyss’ official description of its own game:
Crimson Desert is an open-world action-adventure game set in the beautiful yet brutal continent of Pywel. Embark on a journey as the Greymane Kliff and restore what has been lost. Explore uncharted lands, fight against threats that stand in your way, and discover the wonders the world has in store.
Pearl Abyss does not call Crimson Desert an RPG here. Nor does it call the game a ‘soulslike,’ which I’ve seen some wonder about. It’s an “open-world action-adventure” game, and it’s as simple as that. But why are people wondering if it’s an RPG in the first place?
X / Twitter user Synth Potato kicked things off by posting about how progression works in Crimson Desert, declaring the game not to be an RPG. That’s because it doesn’t have levels or experience points, which we associate with role-playing games. Rather, new abilities are gained by finding artifacts out in the world, and you can buy or craft better gear. This places Crimson Desert firmly in the action-adventure category, according to this analysis, and not in the RPG category.
But does this mean Crimson Desert cannot also be considered an RPG? Some say that playing as a character in an open world who can progress, even in this form, makes Crimson Desert a role-playing game. Levels and XP are not needed for it to be so, they say. But, following that, does that mean all open-world games are RPGs? Is GTA? Is Red Dead Redemption 2? What about The Legend of Zelda? Link doesn’t level up with experience points, but lots of people call The Legend of Zelda an RPG series.
It’s worth noting that, like in The Legend of Zelda games, in Crimson Desert you play a set protagonist (the wonderfully named Kliff) and experience a set story. You’re not making big decisions here that change the course of events, or determine which ending you’ll get. It’s a more fixed experience, although there is freedom of exploration within it.
“I think everyone is aware it’s not marketed as [an RPG],” a fan said. “It’s still got a ton of RPG systems. Gear score, skill points to progress skill trees and stats to increase for builds.” “It absolutely does have RPG elements,” added another. “What makes an RPG has become a very unclear line as well with how many action adventure games are RPGs.” “It’s more akin to Just Cause or Shadow of Mordor, which is just what I wanted,” commented one fan.
I think this is one of the reasons why they’re being really careful to not call it a RPG. That term has expectations from the player that crimson desert doesn’t have. CD definitely strikes me as an open world action adventure with an incredibly fun combat sandbox https://t.co/7guY0AsEE2
“You choose the type of character you want to play as in terms of your progression within the systems in the game,” Powers explained. “And then through head canon you’re having this very different experience than other players because of the scope and scale of the game. You’ll be distracted by something, you’ll go on this quest line, you’ll have an experience that’ll be radically different than someone else, even though they’re playing the same game and the same canonical storyline that you both are going through.”
And after the debate over whether Crimson Desert is an RPG or not went big online, Powers himself explained why Pearl Abyss doesn’t want to call it an RPG, even though it’s perfectly happy for fans to do so.
“Open world questing and action sandbox for sure,” Powers tweeted. Then, in response to someone who said it should be made clear that Crimson Desert is not an RPG to avoid mismanaged expectations, Powers said: “honestly…. it’s not my place to dictate someone else’s experience. If because of good amount of RPG elements in the game, they want to call it an RPG… Sure. I’m just explaining why WE don’t call it one.”
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Shortly after that announcement, however, players noticed that the two games included in the collection had been pulled from the PlayStation and Xbox stores.
It could be that Konami has removed the older games to avoid confusion when pre-ordering the new collection. A less charitable interpretation is that the publisher has removed the original versions to funnel sales towards the new one. Even though the games were only available on very old systems like PSP, PS3, and Xbox 360, Metal Gear Solid 4 had previously been streamable on PlayStation.
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 is coming to PC via Steam, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, and Xbox Series X/S. While we wait to see if Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 will have a more stable launch than its predecessor, you can read about what Konami is doing to reassure players.
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