{"id":"1792709475116-culture-segment","slug":"magic-cards-fomo-tickets-and-fan-love","title":"Magic Cards, FOMO Tickets, and Fan Love","summary":"Amazon is discounting several Magic: The Gathering Play Booster boxes ahead of Black Friday, including Marvel Super Heroes, The Hobbit, and the unreleased Star Trek set (due November 13, 2026). The Star Trek box has been listed as low as $139.99 versus its $209.70 list price. Personal statement about finding fellow Rin Penrose fans; no factual claim to check. Personal statement/joke about being a Black Taylor Swift fan; no factual claim to check. Opinion/joke about attraction to Medvedev (likely Daniil Medvedev, the tennis player); no checkable factual claim. Reaction to an attached image, with no independently checkable factual claim in the text itself. Personal anecdote about buying a BIGBANG Jakarta concert ticket; no factual claim worth checking. 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Advertising claim for billboard service\nSource: [thedoublekillgames.com](https://thedoublekillgames.com/magic-the-gatherings-star-trek-booster-box-just-dropped-to-its-lowest-price-ever/) NAMES: Magic: The Gat (https://x.com/IGN/status/2113401519349346792)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"Amazon is discounting several Magic: The Gathering Play Booster boxes ahead of Black Friday, including Marvel Super Heroes, The Hobbit, and the unreleased Star Trek set (due November 13, 2026). The Star Trek box has been listed as low as $139.99 versus its $209.70 list price. Personal statement about finding fellow Rin Penrose fans; no factual claim to check. Personal statement/joke about being a Black Taylor Swift fan; no factual claim to check. Opinion/joke about attraction to Medvedev (likely Daniil Medvedev, the tennis player); no checkable factual claim. Reaction to an attached image, with no independently checkable factual claim in the text itself. Personal anecdote about buying a BIGBANG Jakarta concert ticket; no factual claim worth checking. Advertising claim for billboard service","sourceName":"[thedoublekillgames.com](https://thedoublekillgames.com/magic-the-gatherings-star-trek-booster-box-just-dropped-to-its-lowest-price-ever/) NAMES: Magic: The Gat","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/IGN/status/2113401519349346792","claim":"Save on Magic: The Gathering Play Booster Boxes at Amazon ahead of Black Friday, with discounts on Marvel, The Hobbit, and unreleased Star Trek sets. 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Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Claudette","text":"Magic: The Gathering booster boxes are getting a Black Friday price cut on Amazon, and one set hasn't even dropped yet."},{"host":"Laura","text":"The Star Trek one, right? I saw that listed at $139. That's... actually a decent chunk off."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"The list price is around $210, so yeah, the math works. IGN posted it, and it's legit — Amazon's discounting Marvel Super Heroes and The Hobbit sets too."},{"host":"Laura","text":"You checking Magic prices? I thought you were strictly a vinyl-and-concert-tickets person."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"A good deal is a good deal. I contain multitudes."},{"host":"Laura","text":"Okay, but here's my thing: do people actually play, or are these just going straight into a binder?"},{"host":"Claudette","text":"The binder IS the game for half the people buying. You ever see a Hobbit card? It's for looking at."},{"host":"Laura","text":"Fair point. The Star Trek set's out November 13, so you're basically pre-ordering the discount."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"Exactly. Which is why I'm not mad at it. Deal's live now if anyone's building a fifty-seven-card enterprise."},{"host":"Laura","text":"Fifty-seven? Gotta squeeze an extra card in there for the captain."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"Speaking of fan bases... a fan posted on X about being a Black Taylor Swift fan and said, 'we exist, lmao.'"},{"host":"Laura","text":"Love that. The internet has this whole stereotype that Swifties are one very specific demographic, and it's just... not true."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"The replies were actually sweet. A bunch of people going 'no, genuinely, we're everywhere.'"},{"host":"Laura","text":"The fan account wrote it like a punchline, but it's a real thing — people act surprised when someone doesn't fit their mental image of a fan."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"Music hits everyone. The gatekeeping around who's 'allowed' to like an artist is exhausting."},{"host":"Laura","text":"And Taylor's catalog is so broad now. You can be into country Taylor, pop Taylor, folklore Taylor... there's no one fan."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"Switching gears, a post from someone who bought a BIGBANG concert ticket in Jakarta purely out of FOMO made me laugh."},{"host":"Laura","text":"'Apparently, I am a FOMO.' That's a whole mood."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"They only got it because tickets are still available, which... same energy as me buying a plane ticket just because the price was under $200."},{"host":"Laura","text":"And now they have to actually go. That's the fine print on FOMO: it ends with you in an arena."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"To be fair, BIGBANG in Jakarta? If I could, I would."},{"host":"Laura","text":"The boy band that defined a generation? Absolutely. Missing that would be the real regret."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"And finally, a fan on X is celebrating finding fellow Rin Penrose oshis on their timeline, saying they can barely find any on other platforms."},{"host":"Laura","text":"The niche fan experience is real. You find three other people with the exact same obsession, and suddenly you're all best friends."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"Rin Penrose is a Vtuber, a virtual idol, so the fan base is already spread thin. Finding your people in that corner of the internet? Genuine win."},{"host":"Laura","text":"There's something really lovely about posting into the void and realizing the void posts back."}]}