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Best MTG deal: Avatar Jumpstart Booster Box gets 10% price cut

Best MTG deal: Avatar Jumpstart Booster Box gets 10% price cut

TL;DR: Amazon has Magic: The Gathering’s Avatar The Last Airbender Jumpstart Booster Box on sale for $85.43, with $9.03 taken off its $94.46 list price. As a  24-pack display box, this means you’ll be paying around $3.56 per Jumpstart Booster before tax. Credit: Magic: The Gathering $85.43 at Amazon $94.96 Save $9.53 Avatar: The Last Airbender expansion is still one of the most fun crossovers with the Magic: The Gathering trading card game in recent memory, and you can now grab two dozen packs for the equivalent of just over $3.50 each.  As of June 8, Magic: The Gathering’s Avatar The Last Airbender Jumpstart Booster Box is on sale at Amazon for $85.43. That’s 10% off its usual $94.46 price, saving you $9.03 on a sealed display shipped and sold by Amazon.  This even undercuts other sellers on the site with the next-lowest pricing listed for $94.33. At $85.43, this 24-pack box equates to you paying only $3.56 per pack.  If you want to save as much money as possible, however, TCGplayer goes even lower …

MTG Foundations Jumpstart deal: Booster Box for 1 at Amazon

MTG Foundations Jumpstart deal: Booster Box for $101 at Amazon

SAVE 23%: As of Jan. 19, the Magic: The Gathering Foundations Jumpstart 2025 Booster Box is on sale for $101.56, down from $131.76, at Amazon. That’s a 23% discount or $30.02 in savings. $101.56 at Amazon $131.76 Save $30.20   If you’ve ever tried to teach a newbie how to play Magic: The Gathering, you know the deck-building phase is usually where you lose them. With Magic: The Gathering Foundations Jumpstart 2025 Booster Box, you can skip the intros and get straight to the game. SEE ALSO: Xbox is preparing to bring ads to cloud gaming As of Jan. 19, the Magic: The Gathering Foundations Jumpstart 2025 Booster Box is down to $101.56 at Amazon. That’s roughly 23% off the list price. The current market price on TCGplayer is hovering around $95, so you’re paying about a $5 premium here. Considering that includes Prime shipping (and you don’t have to hunt down a specific seller), it’s a pretty fair trade-off to get it to your door fast. Mashable Deals By signing up, you agree to …

How to Jumpstart Your Creative Process with William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Technique

How to Jumpstart Your Creative Process with William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Technique

The inner crit­ic cre­ates writer’s block and sti­fles adven­tur­ous writ­ing, hems it in with safe clichés and over­think­ing. Every writer has to find his or her own way to get free of that sour­puss ratio­nal­ist who insists on stran­gling each thought with log­i­cal analy­sis and fit­ting each idea into an oppres­sive pre­de­ter­mined scheme or ide­ol­o­gy. William S. Bur­roughs, one of the most adven­tur­ous writ­ers to emerge from the mid-20th cen­tu­ry, famous­ly employed what he called the cut-up method. Devel­oped by Bur­roughs and painter Brion Gysin, this lit­er­ary take on the col­lage tech­nique used by avant-garde artists like Georges Braque orig­i­nat­ed with Sur­re­al­ist Tris­tan Tzara, who “pro­posed to cre­ate a poem on the spot by pulling words out of a hat.” The sug­ges­tion was so provoca­tive, Bur­roughs claims in his essay “The Cut-Up Method,” that cut-ups were there­after “ground­ed… on the Freudi­an couch.” Since Bur­roughs and Gysin’s lit­er­ary rede­ploy­ment of the method in 1959, it has proved use­ful not only for poets and nov­el­ists, but for song­writ­ers like David Bowie and Kurt Cobain. And any frus­trat­ed nov­el­ist, poet, …