Hello, first time posting here...

I've been playing MTG for years now and its become somewhat of a tradition between me and my friends to each get a regular box (well, now Play boxes) opening day (today) and practice sealed pools with packs for prerelease weekend.

My question is: am I missing something money-wise with this set?

Wizards made these "Play packs" and "Play boxes" and pushed out Thunder Junction - fine, it had the Big Score cards and there was at least some juice in packs to justify its new $140 price-tag.

Between 4x boxes (of me and my friends), the most one box made back was $90 (and that's with over-inflated prerelease weekend prices). It feels like there are less mythics, as well as less multiple-rare/mythic packs. Moreover, there is no "special" sub-set of reprints like in OTJ and WOE - only one of us opened a Special Guest card also.

So what am I missing? What is justifying this $140 price-tag?

This set just seems like a BAD time opening and after prices stabilize, I doubt an average box pushes out $60 based on these (I looked at openings on YT as well - same story more or less).

***Note: I'm not really trying to complain or saying I deserve to make my money back - this set just feels like a slap in the face and we'll probably stop this tradition as a result.