Opening Riftbound Unleashed packs feels even better than Magic: The Gathering

I’ve opened thousands of Magic: The Gathering booster packs in my lifetime, and the process has its own sort of narrative flow: if it’s one of my first packs from a particular set, I’ll go slowly, reading each card so I can assess its strength. If I already have a lot of cards from that set, I’ll usually skim through to the last few to check out the rarest cards in the pack. Unless I’m participating in a draft event, it always feels as if this exercise exists in a vacuum, kind of like pulling the lever on a slot machine so that the fleeting rush of dopamine can hit. Because rest assured, opening booster packs is a form of gambling.