Melbourne, VIC – Customers at a Game Store were shocked this Friday, when local Magic player Henry Cross purchased a single booster pack and proceeded to open it only seconds after the transaction was completed.

Cross, who reportedly has been playing the game for many years, appeared to have purchased the booster pack with full intent to open it immediately. ‘I’m playing standard this season and I’m really chasing a Jace, Vyrn’s Prodigy.’ Cross told reporters.

‘I did open a foil land which is pretty cool,’ Cross went on. ‘But the rare I got is probably only good in draft. I might add it to my Commander deck, but I’d have to find a card to cut.’

‘It was strange,’ said Store-Owner Randy Flier of the incident. ‘One moment he was asking me for a booster of Magic: Origins, presumably to finish a draft set or to play MiniMasters, and the next he is just standing there, tearing open the packaging and flicking through the cards. I’ve never seen anything like it.’

Cross stated that while he was happy with his foil land, most of the commons he opened ‘didn’t appear to be very good’ and the uncommons were ‘not Standard playable’ which was ‘a real shame.’

‘I don’t get it. He’s usually a really normal guy.’ Said Chase Winters, local MPTC and friend to Cross. ‘I mean, between you and me I heard he was kinda on the rocks with his girlfriend. Maybe this is his way of dealing with loss? I dunno.’

At press time, Cross was thumbing at his moustache and looking over the leftover Born of the Gods Fat Packs. ‘I need a new box for my spare draft commons – and having the extra land couldn’t hurt.’

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