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crimson vow mtg booster box MTG Booster Box Set (30ct) Innistrad Crimson Vow (VOW) — Twenty SidedExpected Restock: Dec 2021 Supply of Set Boosters has been extremely limited. Innistrad: Crimson Vow is packed with everything you'd expect from a vampire wedding: a "radiant" bride and dashing groom, guests traveling from afar, and gifts to shareall being attended to with exacting detail. Set Mechanics Training: Whenever a creature with training attacks alongside a creature of greater power, put a +1 +1 counter on the creature with training. Cleave:
Expected Restock: Dec 2021
Supply of Set Boosters has been extremely limited.
Innistrad: Crimson Vow is packed with everything you'd expect from a vampire wedding: a "radiant" bride and dashing groom, guests traveling from afar, and gifts to share—all being attended to with exacting detail.
Set Mechanics
- Training: Whenever a creature with training attacks alongside a creature of greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on the creature with training.
- Cleave: If you choose to pay the cleave cost rather than the mana cost, you can ignore all the words in brackets on the card
- Blood Tokens: a new predefined token: Blood tokens. Blood tokens are colorless artifact tokens with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card."
- Daybound & Nightbound: Returning mechanic from Midnight Hunt. The game starts out as neither day nor night. In most games, it will become day first. The most common way that will happen is if a permanent with daybound appears on the battlefield. Once it's day or night, the game will be exactly one of those designations, day or night, going back and forth until the game ends. It can never return to being neither.
Booster Box Contents
Each Booster Box contains one single-card Box Topper Booster, and 30 Set Boosters that have 14 randomized cards in each pack.
Box Topper
Each Booster comes with one Box Topper that has a single card in it.
The single box topper card is one of 17 Dracula series cards inspired by beloved characters from the 1897 novel, Bram Stoker's Dracula.
17 of these cards can be found in the Box Topper booster and Collector's Boosters. There is an eighteenth card, and it is only available as the Buy-a-Box promotion (see below).
Booster Pack Contents
- 12 - 13 Magic Cards1
- 1 Art Card2
- 1 Token, Ad, Helper, or Card from The List3
- 1 Traditional Foil Double/Single-faced Card4
- 2 Double/Single-faced Cards5
- 1 Double/Single-faced Rare or Mythic Rare
- 2 Double/Single-faced Commons or Uncommons6
- 2 Single-faced Uncommons
- 3 Single-faced Commons
- 1 Eternal Night Full-art Basic Land7
Buy-a-Box Promo Card
Boxes purchased in-store or online are eligible for an exclusive Buy-a-Box promo card Castle Dracula while supplies last.
Castle Dracula is the eighteenth of Dracula Series cards from Crimson Vow, and it is only available as the Buy a Box Promo (it's isn't found in booster packs or preconstructed decks).
You get one promo for each box purchased.
Additional Set Booster Pack Clarification
There are some additional notes to confuse you (and us!) just a little more as there is a lot to UNPACK 😉 in these Set Boosters.- At least one foil in every pack. These can be any rarity, so this is one of several places where players can get a rare or mythic rare in a single Set Booster.
- 1 12 - 13?! One item in the pack will be a token, ad OR a Magic Card from The List. The remaining 12 items in the pack are all Magic Cards.
- 2 Art cards are foil stamped in 5% of packs
- 3 25% of the time, Set Boosters contain a card from The List — interesting cards from anywhere in Magic's history, printed as they appeared (including art, frame, and expansion symbol) plus a small Planeswalker symbol in their lower-left corner.
- 4 Traditional foil is a showcase, borderless, or any other Innistrad: Crimson Vow card of any rarity
- 5 Double or single faced card can be a showcase card of any rarity, a borderless rare or mythic rare, an Innistrad: Crimson Vow Commander rare or mythic rare, or any common or uncommon
- 6 Can be a double-faced showcase, single-faced showcase, or any Innistrad: Crimson Vow double-faced common or uncommon
- 7 Eternal night basic land is traditional foil in 15% of packs
There are 277 cards in this set.
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★★★★★ 3
Good for my collection.
Format: Hardcover
This was another quick and entertaining read. This instalment wasn't as enjoyable as some of the other books but it was still good. I'm glad to have it in my collection.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2014
★★★★★ 5
Alan Moore Does it Right, and Bolland Art Revision is Amazing
Format: Hardcover
The Killing Joke was a comic spawned shortly after the work of Frank Miller, and is probably the comic that established The Joker as one of the most important fictional villains of the 20th century. Batman had become a well thought out, complex character in recent years, primarily due to the work of skilled writer Frank Miller. Batman had been brought into a gritty, modern world of comic books, but I always felt that Miller's The Dark Knight Returns failed to bring the antagonistic Joker into a new light...well it did, but not in the way the character was meant to be. Alan Moore, with the help of Brian Bolland's stunning artwork helped bring to life what is widely accepted as today's standard for the famous Harlequin of Hate.
He's crazy, he kills people simply for his own twisted sense of humor, but always has a very zany, cartoonish attitude, which I felt was lacking in Miller's interpretation, where Joker seemed much too serious in appearance, dialogue, and action. The Joker presented in this graphic novel truly is a fiendish jester of fate, who for the most part is truly frightening, but never really acts like anything more than a loon. Bolland's art is very helpful in this aspect, not only bringing the Joker's exaggerated, skeletal body to life, but making it perhaps the most anatomically correct Joker ever seen, while still following the style of the 1970s Joker appearances.
The story revolves around the long struggle between Batman and his foe, and their never ending conflict. Joker, having escaped from Arkham Asylum (again), has decided to prove that one bad day can transform any sane man into a monster, such as himself. Taking possession of an old carnival he's ready to do whatever it takes to prove his point, with the assistance of a circus freak show. Meanwhile The Dark Knight questions himself on how this fight will end; coming to the realization that sooner or later one of them would kill the other, unless they tried to reason it out. A hopeless plan by our hero, but he has to at least try a single time to reason with his arch-nemesis, just so he can say he tried.
While Batman leads the hunt for the psychotic clown, Joker decides to prove his theory, kidnapping Commissioner Gordon, and shooting Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) through the spine (she never walks again). This is one of the most villainous acts in the history of comics; simply because of how pointless the shooting was, considering Barbara wasn't even in the character of Batgirl. She was just a bystander who Joker decided to use as a tool for his plot. Everyone is a puppet, or tool in his mind.
He does this act all of this while wearing a stereotypical beach-going tourist's attire, complete with a large camera, the only exception being his wide-brimmed, purple hat, which conceal his eyes. These are the eyes of a madman, and in one of the comic's final pages his eyes are concealed in shadow once again, before they come out and you see him for the hopeless case he truly is.
The story sets the stage for the most widely accepted Joker back-story through a series of flashbacks, showing him as a failed comedian with a pregnant wife, and soon winds up assisting criminals, and falling victim to tragedy. The character is shown to have had one bad day and that is how he ended up as the smiling super villain who has plagued Gotham City for decades. Of course this back-story isn't necessarily true, being that it comes from flashbacks spawned from Joker's mind, and as he famously states in his confrontation with Batman "If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!"
Gordon's capture and torture leads to a fight between these two iconic characters, where Batman tries to see if it is possible to reason with Joker logically, but the villain doesn't even try to lie about what is obviously in store for them. He can never be reasoned with, and won't stop until he's dead, and Batman refuses to kill him so it's a sick cycle that goes round and round. In the end of The Killing Joke the roller coaster has only been reset and it will only be a matter of time before Joker is back on the streets, killing again with some new, random scheme which will only make sense to him alone, depending on the mood he's in at the time, or which version of his past he remembers.
Alan Moore's story is sick, it's disturbing, and doesn't fail to leave the reader in a state of awe. The only problem is that by the end you crave for more! The story practically brings you to the point of begging for a sequel, or expansion which will probably never come. This is a one-shot story, and should remain that way, or else the original's impact may be lost. I don't have a single friend who doesn't think The Killing Joke is one of the most twisted, sick, most perfect stories of the comic medium. It's short, but it delivers a powerful punch!
Brian Bolland's art makes this short graphic novel a masterpiece, providing some of the best art ever seen in the characters' long history, only rivaled (in my opinion) by the art of Alex Ross. Joker really is frightening to look at here, because he doesn't look like a real person in most aspects, but Bolland manages to make this character incredibly believable in appearance, without taking any liberties of changing the body type into something more universal. The tall, skeletal body of the 1970s comics is preserved for the most part, except for the narrowing of the chin, which improves the look even further (hence why it's universally used in today's comics).
Recently I got the hardcover anniversary edition of The Killing Joke, with the artwork being edited by Brian Bolland, and re-colored by Bolland personally the way he intended it to be seen. I must say that I love the changes to the colors, more so than the cheery, bright colors of the original, which I felt distracted from Bolland's line-art, because the colors were way too traditional comic book, not fitting the intensity of the art. These colors are dark, gritty, and really captures to mood of the story more effectively than the bright colors of the original release. I especially love the flashbacks being in black and white, except for concentrating on objects that reflect the color red, which leads up to him taking on the garb of The Red Hood, before his first confrontation, leading to his ultimate disfigurement and insanity. This is a seriously talented artist and I only wish he was presented with more opportunities to draw these characters. Batman and Joker look their very best in these images, and I'd be hard pressed to find a comic with better consistency of art quality.
The Killing Joke is one, if not THE best story in the history of Batman comics, and rightfully earns my rating of 10/10 stars.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2008
★★★★★ 5
One REALLY bad day.
Format: Hardcover
"The Killing Joke" is widely considered to be the be-all-end-all of Joker stories, so what better way to pay homage to the greatest comic book villain of all time near the eve of his re-unveiling in
than by reviewing his definitive story? This is the comic that (sort of) revealed the origin of The Clown Prince of Crime, humanizing him to an extent never before, and truly examined -with pictures rather than words- the antagonistic symbiosis that exists between Joker and his arch nemesis, The Batman. A beloved Gotham regular will never be the same and another will be put through hell before this story is done. Oh, and there are creepy little henchmidgets as well. Gotta love the henchmidgets.
The art is outstanding, the storytelling superb, and the character examinations are vital to understanding both combatants. The "one bad day" premise highlights the "two sides of the same coin" argument that Batman and Joker are in fact more alike than dissimilar. As if Bruce Wayne took a right when his arch-nemesis took a left. The controversial ending leaves little doubt as to Alan Moore's take on the debate, and I like it like that. While many critics have strongly resisted both the comparison and the somewhat sympathetic look at The Joker's past, the truth is that every great character -villain or hero- needs that sort of intricacy to their story to remain relevant in the world of modern fiction. Comics are no longer for children and adults realize that the world is seldom black and white, that all monsters were once men, and that unspeakable darkness and insanity resides deep inside each human mind. It can take years of suffering to bring them out or it can take one bad day. One bad day could ruin your very existence and everything you were; it's a frightening reality that cannot be overlooked while reading this comic. The more the reader is willing to ponder the ideas put forth by this story, the more you are likely to appreciate "The Killing Joke". An outstanding achievement in storytelling any way you look at it.
I was tempted to knock this down to four stars because with this book you are buying a single issue of a comic for what you could easily pay for a full trade paperback or graphic novel of equal quality like, say, Frank Miller's
, which is so good it may very well cure cancer (can you prove it doesn't?). But the fact is no Batman fan should be without "The Killing Joke" and I would rather stick to reviewing based on quality rather than haggling over price. The bonus story at the end (written and illustrated by TKJ artist Brian Bolland) is a killer little mini-comic that serves as a perfect companion piece to the main story and definitely sweetens the pot for those wondering if they should get this hardcover edition. "The Killing Joke" is an absolute mindless must-have for fans of the comic book medium and even more so if you claim to be a follower of The Caped Crusader or his twisted nemesis. End of story.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2008
★★★★★ 5
Alan Moore does it again
Format: Hardcover
Batman: The Killing Joke is by far one of the greatest one-shot graphic novels ever written, Moore is fortunate that it was of such caliber as to deserve inclusion in the mainstream Batman canon.
The Joker is the single most evil non-superpowered being in the DC universe, and almost nothing is known about who he was before becoming the arch-nemesis of Batman. While curiosity abounds for fans, even more prefer that he maintain this aura of mystery since it is believed that his pre-villain life was not one that would have been considered anything worth writing about; it is because of he IS the Joker that he means anything in the DCU at all.
All that aside, Alan Moore - the creative genius behind such works as
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and many others - took a chance and in 1988 presented the comic community with what DC has accepted as the official Joker origin story.
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD
The Killing Joke is about madness. The Joker has escaped from Arkham Asylum and is setting about a new and truly evil scheme; unrivaled since he murdered Jason Todd/Robin #2 in
. While Batman is frantically trying to track him down, the Joker has purchased a dilapidated carnival (like something you'd expect to find in a 21st century teen slasher flick, but in his hands is decidedly worse) and is now off to secure his "main attraction". Later at the home of Commissioner Gordon, Barbara answers the door to find a sick fixed smile shooting her through her spine, crippling her; after several off-color disabled jokes, Gordon is kidnapped and spirited away to the the Joker's carnival of horrors. (Moore and DC received a hailstorm of praise and criticism for rendering Batgirl a parapellegic, but the decision stuck and arguably many good, if not great, stories came from it.) Gordon regains consciousness to find himself being stripped down by a host of sideshow freaks and lead at the Joker's behest to a House of Horrors ride filled with the Joker's own snap-shots of Barbara fully undressed and in pain and filled with the Joker and his cronies singing a sardonic song about lunacy (GOD I WISH I KNEW THE TUNE!!!); all of this intended to drive Gordon insane.
Batman uncovers the Joker's plot and rushes to the carnival to stop him; a chase ensues through a booby-trap-laden house of mirrors in which the Joker states that he's proven his point with Gordon's unquestionable descent into madness: "All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy!" The joker goes on in his analysis with Batman, stating that he too is crazy, but won't admit it and tries to get him to accept it. The final confrontation between them is left a mystery, but it is clear that the Joker - after decades of campy portrayals - has most definitely re-earned the title of most evil comic book villain.
Throughout the story, the Joker offers flashbacks to his life before becoming the monster he is today. He was once a technician at the ACE Chemical Plant who quit his job to become a stand-up comedian. Unfortunately he fails miserably and worries about how he's going to support his very pregnant-in-the-late-trimester wife and soon-to-arrive baby. He decides to make fast, easy money by throwing in his lot with criminals looking to rip off a playing card company next door to the chemical plant and he offers his services to get through unnoticed. So as to protect his own identity, the gangsters present him with his disguise: The Red Hood. While in discussion for the crime, a couple of cops show up to tell him that his wife has died while operating a defunct bottle heater. In his shock, he tries to back out of the crime since he no longer has a reason to go through with it; but the gangsters hold him to it. Later on, they break into the plant, but everything goes wrong as the cops show up and take down the gangsters and that Batman appears to apprehend who he believes to be the Red Hood. Whether he jumped, fell or was pushed is unclear, but the man landed in a vat of chemicals that washed him out of the factory. When he reaches shore and removes his disguise and sees his reflection in a puddle of rainwater, he begins to laugh, turns and reveals himself as the Joker.
At the end of this story follows another one from the mini-series
called here "An Innocent Guy" about a man - clearly disturbed, making the judgment that if anyone is to truly live a life devoted to good, then they must commit an act of evil to know that that is what they really want. After laying out his basic concept, he arrives at the conclusion that he must kill Batman. He lays out his plan in disturbing detail and closes with the a that after this one act of evil, he can go on to live a thoroughly good life and go to heaven when he dies.
Masterfully written by Alan Moore and beautifully illustrated by Brian Bolland, Batman: The Killing Joke is a must have for all comic collectors.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2009
★★★★★ 4
Care and crime
Format: Kindle
I dislike the hype, for a good story. It didn't sweep me away but it made me think. I'll never be certain if I would like it not knowing the source. Still it has soul
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Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2026