I broke.

After seeing the retail prices of single Collector Booster packs from various outlets, I decided to pick up a box of 12 for a good price on Amazon.

Mainly I purchased these to provide some structure to the foil pages of my binders. I am badly in need of bulk foils to fill out the spines of both the TLA and TLE sets. This purchase also helped me grab a lot of the TLA foil tokens I'm missing. There is of course the added benefit of (hopefully) pulling some rarer Booster Fun variants. Maybe the Avatar himself is with us?

Spoilers: he was not. Didn't even pull a Neon Ink. Fortunately I got very few duplicates, but I suspect I am now well into the diminishing returns phase of Collector Booster openings after cracking an entire box. I also got my first few CB art cards, which were a little underwhelming to pull.

The biggest hit was the Field Note version of Wan Shi Tong, Librarian. This card's playability (and no doubt its iconic character design) is driving up prices, so I was glad to lock down this variant.

The pull I was most delighted with was actually a foil That's Rough Buddy. I can't believe this highly quotable card is restricted to the TLE set. I can't have been the only one expecting to find it in regular Play Boosters.

Unfortunately, my January acquisitions have been coming in too fast. I am officially out of Dragon Shield sleeves! Some of these pulls will have to sit raw for the next week or so until I can get more.