whoever yelled SLEEVE IT during the tutor pull....the passion, the testi pop, the anxiety, the dedication to get that carboard in the plastic sleeve, yelled with dominance and direction. So good.
I love how they treat it like a demon core or something, like if they do a single thing wrong everything in a 50 mile radius will be completely obliterated.
What's so cool is my uncle did artwork for WoTC and WW back in the late 90's ( 96' to be exact ), he did Durnham Djinn, Dark Ritual, Stonethowing Devils and a few other cards...his name is Ken Meyer Jr., should check to see if you guys might have any of the cards he drew
@Kittarawr Yep, around 120k. There are a handful of cards that can multiply that, but you're likely to lose. Trading cards are basically gambling, this is just an extreme.
I told my mom Sandra Everingham about this video and she is ecstatic that you got 5 of her cards in one deck. She also said if you sent her that dark ritual she’d be happy to sign it and do a little doodle on it! The video was so cool to watch those alpha cards get opened.
This video perfectly encapsulates what I can only imagine what it was like to pull cards back in the day. The fact that there's not much card knowledge and they're just going by art and name before anything else is awesome. Charlie's nonchalant attitude about opening them only adds to the immersion - he wants to play with them, etc. Very cool and different unboxing video to watch. Awesome video. Liked.
Nah, it wasn't like this. We just ripped em open and shuffled through them, saw if we got anything playable or Islands, and then threw them in a binder.
@YoloSwagging Shit, pulling Islands was the BEST!!! You know how many cards you finally had access to? It was still exciting. Like, pulling a Tutor or a Lotus or Mox was still sweet. They were, like, $10-$15. It was just hard to find them, but once you got them, you could do crazy cool stuff. The game was nowhere near as convoluted as it is now with wording and rules.
That was easily the gayest thing I've ever seen. I say that from the perspective of having had a successful career on the pro magic circuit and having owned a game shop. I started playing at beta. *That was so pathetic.* The betaest thing of all time.
DrugFreeTexas shill. Y'all call nitrous oxide "hippie crack!?" I inhale this compound on a daily basis and have NEVER:; NEVER, been a hippy. They call it a noble gas" because I AM F* NOBLE. I am humble. GUESS WHAT I lived in Texas once. YEAH I'm part of the Texans. Your logic doesn't play out and everyone from Texas knows that you're dissing them. Holy moly the way people embarrass themselves sometimes...
I was in middle school when this series came out. Never had a Black Lotus, but I also didn’t ever actually play with them - I just collected them because I liked the artwork (so I kept them in great condition). Later when I was in college, I just gave all of my cards away to my dorm mate who was an avid player, but if I knew they’d be worth anything someday I probably would have hung onto them!
Hearing these numbers makes me furious. I played magic when it first came out and I collected the entire base set in duplicate. I had an album of cards that got used for decks and an album that stayed mint. I sold all of them in 99 for $300 and I hate myself for it.
Seeing someone who got into Magic like, less than a year ago, and seemingly only got into the physical game a few months ago, just casually dropping $100k on one of the last sealed Alpha starter decks is what blows my mind about this video. Absolutely bonkers how lucrative just reacting to random shit on the internet and posting it on youtube can be.
@@Alino- he can declare it as a business expense, which will offset his taxes. It could end up not only costing him nothing, but actually bringing him profit (through the added revenue of the videos + the sale of the cards)
I could've sworn distinctly remembering Black Lotus being $400 in '99 because that's when I played. If you really sold all that in '99 for $300, you weren't looking at magazine prices. lol
@@phyzzxI thought the same thing... then I realized that this was an ALPHA pack, like before anybody even knew about Magic at all. These same cards appeared for a long time... but not from Alpha print.
I know I’m 40 and had multiples of all these I once had 3 black lotus in a shoe box it was with all my trash cards I didn’t even play with😂not like it was a cool creature
@@A_Brainless_Goblin Yeah, it's like Deal or No Deal. We keep opening boxes and the potential value of each box goes up. This was a "bad box." So that's one less box without a Black Lotus.
@@LuminousSteelhow would they know that? 0% chance that all cards are known. Because there would have been hundreds or thousands of Lotus played and lost or destroyed pre-internet era.
Sold all my magic cards a long long time ago....I had about 3 or 4 of those Lightning Bolts and a bunch of those old lands. I had about 10 of those Dark Rituals. Hurts my soul. I had about 10 of those Samite Healers....had about 15 of those old Twiddle's....had several Plagued Rats. Had a million of those Giant Growths. I'm in pain right now watching this.
Prices on these are insane because of history and scarcity. Only about 1100 of each alpha rare was printed and it’s estimated that about 50% are lost from damage or being thrown away since no one knew how much they would be worth. The game debuted at GenCon in 1993 and a lot of people who opened cards there just threw them in the trash, thinking they were similar to a deck of playing cards.
@@wykydytronif you're buying singles to actually play with they cost literal cents on the dollar lol. Like you can easily get 20+ cards for less than 3 bucks. This right here is a collector's item
This is one of the most wholesome alpha starter deck openings I've seen. The fact that Charlie is sharing it with everyone is heartwarming. Regardless of the value, 10/10 person. If I ever get the chance, I hope to play against you some day, just for the joy of the game.
I love how simply opening the pack is a real tense moment, because what if there IS a lotus in there, and slightly scratching it could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. I feel pressure and haven't spent a dime!
21:46 "Who knows this card?" Oh man... Benalish Hero is heavy nostalgia for me, as I started playing MtG when Microprose released their ancient but amazing MtG video game. Cards back then were pure jank, but had an amazing retro-fantasy vibe. It's hard to describe. I also love the fact it's a simple 1/1 creautre for one mana, and it doesn't explain what "Bands" means - one of the most convoluted mechanics in MtG probably.
These early sets had the best art. The ones today... 1/4 are good, 1/4 are cropped funny, 1/4 have bad pixelation, 1/4 have strange picture or odd coloring.
@@selli9917 I played a lot of the Microprose game as a kid, but my actual first cards were from the Ninth Edition, that included two comic books explaining how to play MtG. The comic books were a 10/10 idea. Each player had a diffenet copy, and the players had to read it out loud whenever they had their turn.
@@cceynar94 As they said in the video, there was a chance for a card well into the millions, as well as several other cards in the. 5-digit range. It wasn't an investment, it was a gamble.
@@cceynar94 Also ironically enough "usefullness =\= price", we're talking about collectors items, nobody pays millions of dollars for a card to play it. Rarity and "fame" plays a way bigger role, even if by itself the card is busted
Hold on, this is paymoneywubby? Or whatever his channel is called? I know I’ve seen him a few times and I thought that’s who this was but he looks and sounds completely different from the past I saw of him a few years back.
Here I am. 🙂 It's nice to see Wubby outside of his studio. I thoroughly enjoyed watched you struggle to cut the plastic. I opened all of my mail with a sword on one of my videos. Stone Rain followed by Fog IS possible to be a legit deck, but there could still be a problem elsewhere. Looks good so far. Stone Rain, Fog, Swamp, Sinkhole, Plains, Forest - This is where I'm currently at in the video, 6 cards into the deck. It looks good, and I know what all the commons are going to be. You'll get a Lightning Bolt as the 15th card, and Dark Ritual as the last common (assuming you don't mix up the card order somehow between now and then).
Update: The deck looks fine, but there's one card that was unusual. The first Uncommon revealed, should have been an Uthden Troll instead of a Mountain. That Mountain is the card next to Uthden Troll. It looks like the Uthden Troll fell out of the assembly line at the factory. Uthden Troll missing in action, but everything else looks great.
I am mind blown away by how much that starter deck was. I remember when I was a teenager 30+ years ago. My friends and I would buy a started deck and five packs and have tournaments amongst ourselves. The winner would get to choose ten cards from each person and keep them. Spend like $25 on the whole thing. Now its a lot more it seems
Love how he said "get in there with your teeth" and then immediately had to correct himself because there was a strong chance Charlie would just do that
This was neat to watch. I gave my entire collection to my friend for his son who has severe autism. Total value was conservatively 60k. It will pay for nursing care for him for the next 2 years. I regret nothing.
When he pulled the channel, it brought back memories of the 1st round kill. Channel fireball with the right starting hand could kill the opponent before they even played.
Wubby Magic Monday has been my weekly delight lately, so seeing him do opening videos like this with other creators has been SO fun. Its been great watching him carve out a niche in something he loves so much, and having fun sharing it with friends
That's what I was thinking, at first I was like dam who's this guy he looks familiar then Charlie's like yeah this is wubby i thought no way he looks so much better
That Demonic Tutor flip! That has to be one of the best things I've ever seen on the internet. Also, I was happy to see the Goblin Balloon Brigade! I have a couple of those floating around somewhere in my collection. I love goblin cards, especially the old school silly goblin cards.
i had a black lotus i bought for $30 in 1996 at a card shop on 72nd avenue in portland, next to jiffy mart. Lost it when i moved, lost all my cards dude.......I like to imagine when my mom passes that i'll find it in her belongings
@@BfkcjscbsnjcCharlie had enough money to where this doesn’t matter, and it’s a hobby for him, this is quite obviously not the same as the people he covers, and he doesn’t usually go after people for poor spending habits, he goes at people who scam others out of money.
same! I'm not really interested in MTG itself, but I like watching Wubby, since he is genuinely into it, and it's fun to watch him getting excited.That fake Alpha starter pack was wild.
One of my favorite flavor texts is the flavor text on scathe zombies "THEY GROANED THEY STIRRED THEY ALL UPROSE NOR SPAKE NOR MOVED THEIR EYES IT HAD BEEN STRANGE EVEN IN A DREAM TO HAVE SEEN THOSE DEAD MEN RISE" SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE - "THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER" 34:10 is the only reason i thought of this... more samuel coleridge flavortext
@shinigamiking69 My uncle did a Dark Ritual commission and the card has him looking down at his hand with the saying " IF THERE WAS SUCH A THING AS TOO MUCH POWER, SURELY I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF IT! " Such a badass saying haha. He did commissioned work for WotC back in 96' so if you have any decks from around that time, check and see, you might have some of his stuff, he even did some stuff on the Arabian Nights stuff as well...his name is Ken Meyer Jr
There’s something slightly unnerving about seeing wubby without the green screen suit with most of his upper body on show. He is looking real sleak though so nice to see him making progress.
I’m obv not Tavis, but I’ve conversed with him a number of times over the years when it comes to sheet tracking. Can 100% confirm this is a real box. The common, uncommon and rares tracked the print sheets exactly. One interesting thing to note is that the final rare had a 1 in 13 chance of being a Mox Jet, but you were in a pretty crappy section of the rare sheet, so not surprised you rolled snake eyes.
Wow a Mox pull would have been insane. Funny how much is known about the printing and yet have no idea what's going to be in the box before the plastic is pulled.
Please when you open all these sets through the years do it in this format or as a livestream. I only recently started playing magic and it is very cool to be able to live vicariously through you all.
Yeah the $3 million sale was for an un-played Black Lotus basically in perfect condition. If it's ever touched a table I don't think it would be worth nearly that much. The market listings for near-mint Beta are around $25k, so an Alpha would be maybe $90-$100k?
If it was alpha/beta and in good condition, you'd be a good way to that if you took like half or more and invested it. definitely way into the five figures.
Great video, guys. I'm 50 and have been playing MTG since '95. My friend group at the time played D&D, and I remember hating on MTG as "just a card version of D&D" after one of us showed up one day with a pack of Alpha. Lol, if we only knew back then what they'd be worth. By the time I got into the game, stores weren't selling Alpha or even Beta packs anymore.
I’d never financially recover from this. Here might be a strategy. Max out all your lines of credit on alpha sets. Declare bankruptcy. Sell your cards, move to mexico and retire
He spent 100k to have a once in a lifetime experience for anyone his age. And the fact that he intends on actually playing these cards rather than having them rot away in a safe just makes it more rewarding.
@@Raro404couple hundred grand is nothing when u got money like Charley plus probably had it as a business expense. Ofc he would play them dope content
Dont let your possessions own you. I collect vintage hot wheels and it bugs me how some new collectors freak out about how rare cars are handled, as if opening them is one of the deadly sins. Even if one is worth thousands of dollars on the secondary market theyre still just little toy cars made to be played with. Their perceived value is artificial. Also the value doesnt matter at all if you never plan to sell them. The people who freak out about value arent collectors, theyre traders. They buy/sell/trade the items. People like Charlie are true collectors. He keeps what he buys and doesnt freak out about keeping them perfectly mint. It's awesome to see another collector of vintage toys treat these things the same way i do. Charlie doesnt let his possessioms own him.
@UTTPArrestAllFandomsyeah sounds like someone who was bullied horrifically all throughout their entire life and now they take out their depression and anger on defenseless animals, you're truly a hero.
@UTTPArrestAllFandomsyour content is ass if you're wishing death upon another content creator. If your content was good, you'd have zero issue with out content creators.
Going through my old cards. Found an original Bizarre of Baghdad, Candelabra of Tawnos, a Mox Saphire an unlimited Wheel of Fortune and 4 Copy Artifacts. Now I’m going to have to go through all of the rest of my cards.
Oh snap! A Magic video, that's awesome! I've been a Magic judge for a long time and making videos to help players learn the deeper, more complex rules of Magic and it's been a lot of fun. So seeing you opening these old-school cards I grew up using as a kid, it was really fun.
3 minutes to find a useable knife, truly a production studio
took 12 to finally unpack lol
12 lol
@@Bfkcjscbsnjc Hope you are well, mentally.
Your annoying you will get no views @UTTPArrestAllFandoms
@@Bfkcjscbsnjc lmaooo someone’s mad
We’re watching Charlie slowly be consumed by his addiction in real time.
You a Npc
@@Zeldawrld are you fucking real, stop commenting no one gives a shit about you. Get a fuking reality check lil bro
@UTTPArrestAllFandoms Edgelord alert
@UTTPArrestAllFandomsnobody wants you here bum
@@promethiac2641 Don’t respond to them they’re bots they want interaction
whoever yelled SLEEVE IT during the tutor pull....the passion, the testi pop, the anxiety, the dedication to get that carboard in the plastic sleeve, yelled with dominance and direction. So good.
slightly late but uh 45:18. and i *thiiiiink* it was caleb?
the fucking "SLEEVE IT" when he pulled demonic tutor had me dying lmao
That demonic tutor pull gave me chills. The misdirection at first, and then the bold "nah this is the tutor" bruh
just goes to show that you don't open these.. even a tutor is -1000% EV
watching a box unopened go from 100k+ to 9k made me want to puke.
@@Sean-gh3rnsame. Don’t think people really understood, this was 100k+ opening
@@Sean-gh3rn you'll live
Chills? Wtf
Fun fact, there is one man who buys up all the Stone Rains. He will buy it from you. He owns 300,000+ stone rains
Why? Wtf
Dude is gonna blow up the planet
@@fayne1man's just lovin' them stone rains
hes singlehandedly made the price go abouit 5-10x in price too lmao
I'm the same with Devil May Cry 4. They must all be given a home
I love how they treat it like a demon core or something, like if they do a single thing wrong everything in a 50 mile radius will be completely obliterated.
I think your comment summoned an actual demon core
@UTTPArrestAllFandomsY'all really are stupid. Arresting all fandoms while r@ping your own with this shit
They did not pry it open with a screwdriver.
@@Bfkcjscbsnjc he has the money, he can do what he wants with it. Sorry he has a hobby and you don’t I guess?
@UTTPArrestAllFandoms begone foul bot! Your lousy internet comments don't phase anyone 😂🖕
What's so cool is my uncle did artwork for WoTC and WW back in the late 90's ( 96' to be exact ), he did Durnham Djinn, Dark Ritual, Stonethowing Devils and a few other cards...his name is Ken Meyer Jr., should check to see if you guys might have any of the cards he drew
Going from thunder junction collector packs to alpha starter deck is like jumping from Juul to raw fent in a week flat
you make me chuckle.
i understand this reference. thanks
And then you get what these guys got in the rares, and it's like some cut it with Clorox
"I'm not an expert, I just have money."
That's the way of things.
Yup. He spent 100k for this
@Kittarawr ya Charlie spent $100,000 for this box
@Kittarawr at minimum. all he said was 6 figure and I found some for sale for more than 100k. so really it could be more lol.
@Kittarawr Yep, around 120k. There are a handful of cards that can multiply that, but you're likely to lose. Trading cards are basically gambling, this is just an extreme.
I gave u the 666th like, for the tutor
Watching my two favorite TH-camrs share their addictions for cardboard crack
We didnt laugh
@UTTPArrestAllFandomsyou are a sad sad creature
There’s only one human reply to this comment💀
@UTTPArrestAllFandoms no one cares
@UTTPArrestAllFandoms3RD WARNING. YOU’RE DONE BUD, GET BANISHED TO THE SHADOW REALM
Mr Beast sees this and goes:
"I bought every remaining box in the world"
some people will not sell them. and beast is a boring hack. stop simping
@@beliffywu5804 Remind me to never invite you in any parties at all
It was a joke, chill out sometime bro. @@beliffywu5804
If I'm ever a millionaire, I'm gonna buy a black lotus and livestream myself eating it
then later on you make a vid called "most expensive shit ever"
digital footprint
LMFAO, I hope you make it.
@@felipecampos3045 LMAO
dude I think I know you! Pretty sure we talked in Wilburgur's discord server
I told my mom Sandra Everingham about this video and she is ecstatic that you got 5 of her cards in one deck. She also said if you sent her that dark ritual she’d be happy to sign it and do a little doodle on it! The video was so cool to watch those alpha cards get opened.
dude this is amazing
That is too cool.
I hope to god he sees this comment - Thats ace, what a legend.
Holy shit, IRL armor trimmer.
@@james3003exactly my thoughts lmao. RuneScape taught me to trust no one on the internet
Bro is sinking deeper and deeper into this addiction 😭
No one laughed
@UTTPArrestAllFandomsNo one asked, you knob
true
Fr bro needs to go to card rehab 😭
big fan of your content
This video perfectly encapsulates what I can only imagine what it was like to pull cards back in the day. The fact that there's not much card knowledge and they're just going by art and name before anything else is awesome. Charlie's nonchalant attitude about opening them only adds to the immersion - he wants to play with them, etc. Very cool and different unboxing video to watch. Awesome video. Liked.
Nah, it wasn't like this. We just ripped em open and shuffled through them, saw if we got anything playable or Islands, and then threw them in a binder.
@@jakob187 That sounds depressing as fuck.
@YoloSwagging Shit, pulling Islands was the BEST!!! You know how many cards you finally had access to?
It was still exciting. Like, pulling a Tutor or a Lotus or Mox was still sweet. They were, like, $10-$15. It was just hard to find them, but once you got them, you could do crazy cool stuff. The game was nowhere near as convoluted as it is now with wording and rules.
@@jakob187 Thanks for clarifying, when you put it that way it doesn't sound depressing at all.
@@YoloSwaggingYou need to have that explained to you? 😂
Spent a Porsche on cardboard and isn’t even fazed. Doesn’t even want them graded. He’s different.
We should all aspire to be more like charlie.
@@daminox Very different, he's Rich.
@@ajjameson154still different
@@daminoxwould love to, but i am too poor for that🤷♂️
Oh yes let me grade my cards so that they can truly be functionally useless. Not like there’s any sort of game involved
They don't call it cardboard crack for nothing.
cr4k is just like an overused term for people liking things same as the term pr0n like car pr0n etcetera..
@@FrawgfithAmblose Yeah. Why the fuck do you think it's called that?
That was easily the gayest thing I've ever seen.
I say that from the perspective of having had a successful career on the pro magic circuit and having owned a game shop. I started playing at beta. *That was so pathetic.* The betaest thing of all time.
@@theminister1154I'm a Yu-Gi-Oh player that can't quit, I've tried for years... Yu-Gi-Oh is my crack
DrugFreeTexas shill. Y'all call nitrous oxide "hippie crack!?" I inhale this compound on a daily basis and have NEVER:; NEVER, been a hippy. They call it a noble gas" because I AM F* NOBLE. I am humble. GUESS WHAT I lived in Texas once. YEAH I'm part of the Texans. Your logic doesn't play out and everyone from Texas knows that you're dissing them. Holy moly the way people embarrass themselves sometimes...
I love the 100 grit Tech Deck griptape used as a marker to maximize the damage on the Alpha Lotus 💀
Right it’s hurts to watch
It's gaffer tape dude
Why.. are they acting kike this .. take the PANTS off.. wtf
Lower grit numbers are more coarse by the way. Maybe you meant to say 40 or 60 grit or smth.
1000 grit is about as fine as it gets
I was in middle school when this series came out. Never had a Black Lotus, but I also didn’t ever actually play with them - I just collected them because I liked the artwork (so I kept them in great condition).
Later when I was in college, I just gave all of my cards away to my dorm mate who was an avid player, but if I knew they’d be worth anything someday I probably would have hung onto them!
Hearing these numbers makes me furious. I played magic when it first came out and I collected the entire base set in duplicate. I had an album of cards that got used for decks and an album that stayed mint. I sold all of them in 99 for $300 and I hate myself for it.
Seeing someone who got into Magic like, less than a year ago, and seemingly only got into the physical game a few months ago, just casually dropping $100k on one of the last sealed Alpha starter decks is what blows my mind about this video. Absolutely bonkers how lucrative just reacting to random shit on the internet and posting it on youtube can be.
@@Alino- he can declare it as a business expense, which will offset his taxes. It could end up not only costing him nothing, but actually bringing him profit (through the added revenue of the videos + the sale of the cards)
my dad did the exact same thing. feels very bad now 😔
Hey man, you can’t blame yourself for that. You couldn’t have predicted how high their price would go.
I could've sworn distinctly remembering Black Lotus being $400 in '99 because that's when I played. If you really sold all that in '99 for $300, you weren't looking at magazine prices. lol
Wubby's sheer panic the entire time is what gets me. Man was holding back demons.
these bots are everywhere wtf
@@Bfkcjscbsnjc bro spamming the comment section with the same shit. how about u get a life instead
I KNEW IT WAS HIM
It's kind of annoying. They're just cards. Chill out.
@@BeersAndBeatsPDX there’s potentially a card in there that’s worth than you’ll ever see in your lifetime so I mean
As a 41 year old man who hasn't played Magic in ... 26 or so years, this video is absolutely insane for me to watch.
42, same I went to look at how much some of the cards I got in that same deck in '94 were worth now! I just had to stop and laugh.
@@phyzzx if i didn't open anything.. .kept things nice.. would of been a millionair lol
@@phyzzxI thought the same thing... then I realized that this was an ALPHA pack, like before anybody even knew about Magic at all. These same cards appeared for a long time... but not from Alpha print.
I know I’m 40 and had multiples of all these I once had 3 black lotus in a shoe box it was with all my trash cards I didn’t even play with😂not like it was a cool creature
Yeah 36 and I had so many of these back in the day. Mostly 5th edition and Ice age, but man...
"Cards were meant to be played."
I can't remember the last time I respected someone this much.
46:40 is a perfect recreation of the last supper
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"Open it with a gun! We're in Florida!"
😂😂😂😂
No one is laughing
Which is shaped like a gun.
@UTTPArrestAllFandomsno u
36:11 Charlie: Do this one for Tampa!
Danny: Pulls out a gun
@@Bfkcjscbsnjcme when rich people spend money :(
For those who weren't paying attention:
The deck itself cost over $100k.
@@A_Brainless_Goblin Yeah, it's like Deal or No Deal. We keep opening boxes and the potential value of each box goes up. This was a "bad box." So that's one less box without a Black Lotus.
very dumb to open them now since all Alpha Lotus's have been confirmed discovered.
Thank you! What time did they say this?
@@LuminousSteel elaborate? They are mapped somehow?
@@LuminousSteelhow would they know that? 0% chance that all cards are known. Because there would have been hundreds or thousands of Lotus played and lost or destroyed pre-internet era.
Sold all my magic cards a long long time ago....I had about 3 or 4 of those Lightning Bolts and a bunch of those old lands. I had about 10 of those Dark Rituals.
Hurts my soul. I had about 10 of those Samite Healers....had about 15 of those old Twiddle's....had several Plagued Rats. Had a million of those Giant Growths.
I'm in pain right now watching this.
I cant believe i watched this. I know nothing about magic
Same and the prices are absolute idiocy if people actually pay that money for it. Still entertaining video.
@@wykydytronthe average player doesn’t
Prices on these are insane because of history and scarcity. Only about 1100 of each alpha rare was printed and it’s estimated that about 50% are lost from damage or being thrown away since no one knew how much they would be worth. The game debuted at GenCon in 1993 and a lot of people who opened cards there just threw them in the trash, thinking they were similar to a deck of playing cards.
@@frosty980 thank you.
@@wykydytronif you're buying singles to actually play with they cost literal cents on the dollar lol. Like you can easily get 20+ cards for less than 3 bucks. This right here is a collector's item
This is one of the most wholesome alpha starter deck openings I've seen. The fact that Charlie is sharing it with everyone is heartwarming. Regardless of the value, 10/10 person. If I ever get the chance, I hope to play against you some day, just for the joy of the game.
You don't want to be the only one smoking crack in a room full of people, it makes the high feel weird
@@vyvianalcott1681this is hilariously true.
This is some anime ahh plotline. “I own a $1 million deck but play it raw for the love of the game”
U mean 100k+ opening
@@os10v311 then donate 100k of your own money to charity then
I love how simply opening the pack is a real tense moment, because what if there IS a lotus in there, and slightly scratching it could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.
I feel pressure and haven't spent a dime!
Intro 0:00
Taking off plastic 1:42
Commons 12:30
Spoiler warning
Stone rain 12:34
Fog 14:05
Swamp 14:53
Sinkhole 15:56
Plains 16:30
Forrest 17:17
Howl from beyond 17:52
Swamp 18:27
Forrest 19:07
Crawl wurm 19:48
Mountain 20:18
Frozen shade 20:57
Benalish hero 21:21
Forrest 22:00
Lightning bolt 22:25
Swamp 23:12
Plains 23:31
Samite healer 24:05
Forrest 24:37
Mountain 24:55
Island 25:22
Plains 26:03
Giant spider 26:11
Shatter 26:36
Twiddle 27:05
Circle of protection: Green 27:44
Plains 28:32
Hill giant 28:55
Power sink 29:26
Island 29:49
Death ward 30:02
War mammoth 30:37
Fear 31:01
Psychic venoin 31:29
Unsummon 31:49
Wall of wood 32:13
Swamp 32:49
Flight 33:11
Island 33:38
Forrest 33:43
Plague rats/Island 33:58
Sea serpent 34:27
Giant growth 35:40
Dark ritual 36:07
Uncommons 38:17
Mountain 38:17
Ressurrection 38:33
Goblin balloon brigade 39:14
Camouflage 39:51
Swamp 40:25
Control magic 40:42
Instill energy 41:42
Channel 42:20
Nettling imp 43:01
Feedback 43:45
Thicket Basilisk 44:15
Forrest/Demonic tutor 45:05
Rares 46:05
Clockwork beast 47:00
Toughtlace 47:30
End of video/Outro 49:02
(Please correct me if I spelled/did something wrong. Thank you.)
21:46
"Who knows this card?"
Oh man... Benalish Hero is heavy nostalgia for me, as I started playing MtG when Microprose released their ancient but amazing MtG video game. Cards back then were pure jank, but had an amazing retro-fantasy vibe. It's hard to describe.
I also love the fact it's a simple 1/1 creautre for one mana, and it doesn't explain what "Bands" means - one of the most convoluted mechanics in MtG probably.
@@selli9917 I had Portal cards back in the day. I started MtG with Ice Age.
god I love Below: the Contracting. great game
@@gitrekt-gudson, I started a few months before Ice Age. Bad set, horrible art direction, but so many great memories 😊
These early sets had the best art. The ones today... 1/4 are good, 1/4 are cropped funny, 1/4 have bad pixelation, 1/4 have strange picture or odd coloring.
@@selli9917 I played a lot of the Microprose game as a kid, but my actual first cards were from the Ninth Edition, that included two comic books explaining how to play MtG.
The comic books were a 10/10 idea. Each player had a diffenet copy, and the players had to read it out loud whenever they had their turn.
You know penguin has made it when he tries to open a six figure magic deck with a butcher knife and there are only a few hundred left in existence
he paid 100k+ for this card pack and its valued cards are less than 10k? Thats a terrible investment.
@@cceynar94 As they said in the video, there was a chance for a card well into the millions, as well as several other cards in the. 5-digit range. It wasn't an investment, it was a gamble.
@@namelessdisasters they said they got the best card in the game here with dark ritual or whatever and it wasn't worth shit though
@@cceynar94 dark ritual was the best at common rarity, the last 2 they flipped were the potential big money cards, but he got 2 bad ones
@@cceynar94 Also ironically enough "usefullness =\= price", we're talking about collectors items, nobody pays millions of dollars for a card to play it. Rarity and "fame" plays a way bigger role, even if by itself the card is busted
No idea who Wubby is, but him freaking out the entire time made the video for me 😂😂
I came to this video as a wubby fan. Highly recommend the confession stream video
45:18 the guy shouting SLEEVE IT should be a meme
Bro I love wubby but haven't watched him and over a year , and he looks WAY different.. cooler, skinner but different. I'm so stoked for this
Cooler is crazy but he is skinnier
@@lowdopamine1 What's wrong with wubby? I also haven't watched him since he was fat.
@@toadfan64He's got money to be healthy and do what he wants now. That's always pretty cool.
Hold on, this is paymoneywubby? Or whatever his channel is called?
I know I’ve seen him a few times and I thought that’s who this was but he looks and sounds completely different from the past I saw of him a few years back.
The mantra Charlie has regarding playing old mtg cards is amazing. These were made to be played.
Here I am. 🙂
It's nice to see Wubby outside of his studio.
I thoroughly enjoyed watched you struggle to cut the plastic. I opened all of my mail with a sword on one of my videos.
Stone Rain followed by Fog IS possible to be a legit deck, but there could still be a problem elsewhere. Looks good so far.
Stone Rain, Fog, Swamp, Sinkhole, Plains, Forest - This is where I'm currently at in the video, 6 cards into the deck. It looks good, and I know what all the commons are going to be.
You'll get a Lightning Bolt as the 15th card, and Dark Ritual as the last common (assuming you don't mix up the card order somehow between now and then).
So much hype to know someone knows this much about vintage magic
Tavis, you're a legend.
Update: The deck looks fine, but there's one card that was unusual. The first Uncommon revealed, should have been an Uthden Troll instead of a Mountain.
That Mountain is the card next to Uthden Troll. It looks like the Uthden Troll fell out of the assembly line at the factory.
Uthden Troll missing in action, but everything else looks great.
Yoooooo hell yeah it’s the man, Tavis, himself! Much love to ya! Thank you so much for all the work that you do.
could you please dm @luminoussteel, thx
I am mind blown away by how much that starter deck was. I remember when I was a teenager 30+ years ago. My friends and I would buy a started deck and five packs and have tournaments amongst ourselves. The winner would get to choose ten cards from each person and keep them. Spend like $25 on the whole thing. Now its a lot more it seems
Love how he said "get in there with your teeth" and then immediately had to correct himself because there was a strong chance Charlie would just do that
This was neat to watch. I gave my entire collection to my friend for his son who has severe autism. Total value was conservatively 60k. It will pay for nursing care for him for the next 2 years. I regret nothing.
That's awesome! Very kind of you. I also have autism but the less severe kind- "low support needs" they call it.
You’re truly amazing
you are a great friend my dude.
❤
Jesus Christ man that is something truly genuine. Respect.
Holy chad wubby looking good i didnt even know he lost weight
So corny
My first thought as well! Good for him. He is a good dude
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When he pulled the channel, it brought back memories of the 1st round kill. Channel fireball with the right starting hand could kill the opponent before they even played.
Wubby Magic Monday has been my weekly delight lately, so seeing him do opening videos like this with other creators has been SO fun. Its been great watching him carve out a niche in something he loves so much, and having fun sharing it with friends
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Wubby’s panic everytime someone tries to go at the plastic is hilarious
22:25 we got matt pulling the rarest common in magic before gta 6
“I just have money” god I feel fucking broke 😂
No one is laughing
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@@Bfkcjscbsnjcokay brokie
@@Bfkcjscbsnjc
He never talks bad about people for spending habits he calls out crappy people.
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Wubby is in great shape now
I honestly didn't realize that was him till this comment
That's what I was thinking, at first I was like dam who's this guy he looks familiar then Charlie's like yeah this is wubby i thought no way he looks so much better
@@jakebatty530 yeah he was always a stud personality wise but pretty cool he's got the look for it now too to match
yeah dude its very similar to Jesse Plemos' transformation over the last year. im not saying ozempic but idk its crazy
Didn't even realize it was him at first, he looks great...Ozempic, I am sure.
That Demonic Tutor flip! That has to be one of the best things I've ever seen on the internet. Also, I was happy to see the Goblin Balloon Brigade! I have a couple of those floating around somewhere in my collection. I love goblin cards, especially the old school silly goblin cards.
"I am not an expert. I just got a lot of money and thats how I got here" is the realest statement
3:43 Charlie effortlessly creating so much tension and freak out from all the guys in the room 😂😂
I’ve been less stressed watching actual open heart surgery
i had a black lotus i bought for $30 in 1996 at a card shop on 72nd avenue in portland, next to jiffy mart. Lost it when i moved, lost all my cards dude.......I like to imagine when my mom passes that i'll find it in her belongings
When you last it did you want to punch a wall?
I had a beta black lotus at one point as well, but it was stolen by someone I trusted too much, when I was young and naive.
I had a couple when magic first came out but stopped playing after like a year and no clue what happened to any of my cards.
Uh huh and I had a 1st edition charzard I lost in a house fire.
@@BfkcjscbsnjcCharlie had enough money to where this doesn’t matter, and it’s a hobby for him, this is quite obviously not the same as the people he covers, and he doesn’t usually go after people for poor spending habits, he goes at people who scam others out of money.
Nobody having scissors for the fat part where it seals itsself is crazy
that demonic tutor looks clean and super well centered for an alpha card.
Yea, it looked nice and it is such a strong card.
I so appreciate charlie getting expensive vintage cards and playing with them as should be
This is the greatest demonic tutor flip of all time
"were going to play them"
**Actively passes**
That is also how I felt, as an avid MTG player watching Charlie only treat these cards with half the respect they deserve
I’m just waiting for Charlie to do an epic riffle shuffle the entire deck causing Wubby to have an aneurism.
I’m not even a Magic fan, but watching my two fav streamers collab again is so sweet.
same! I'm not really interested in MTG itself, but I like watching Wubby, since he is genuinely into it, and it's fun to watch him getting excited.That fake Alpha starter pack was wild.
One of my favorite flavor texts is the flavor text on scathe zombies
"THEY GROANED THEY STIRRED THEY ALL UPROSE
NOR SPAKE NOR MOVED THEIR EYES
IT HAD BEEN STRANGE EVEN IN A DREAM
TO HAVE SEEN THOSE DEAD MEN RISE"
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE - "THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER"
34:10 is the only reason i thought of this... more samuel coleridge flavortext
@shinigamiking69 My uncle did a Dark Ritual commission and the card has him looking down at his hand with the saying
" IF THERE WAS SUCH A THING AS TOO MUCH POWER, SURELY I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF IT! "
Such a badass saying haha. He did commissioned work for WotC back in 96' so if you have any decks from around that time, check and see, you might have some of his stuff, he even did some stuff on the Arabian Nights stuff as well...his name is Ken Meyer Jr
*Where gonna play ‘em!* 💀 That sigh was the realest thing. 😂
The look Charlie is going to get walking into his LGS for commander with his Alpha deck.
There’s something slightly unnerving about seeing wubby without the green screen suit with most of his upper body on show. He is looking real sleak though so nice to see him making progress.
I’m obv not Tavis, but I’ve conversed with him a number of times over the years when it comes to sheet tracking. Can 100% confirm this is a real box. The common, uncommon and rares tracked the print sheets exactly.
One interesting thing to note is that the final rare had a 1 in 13 chance of being a Mox Jet, but you were in a pretty crappy section of the rare sheet, so not surprised you rolled snake eyes.
Wow a Mox pull would have been insane. Funny how much is known about the printing and yet have no idea what's going to be in the box before the plastic is pulled.
@46:36 everyone coming into frame like the power of friendship from anime
Can we all please acknowledge how in shape wubby is now-a-days
Please when you open all these sets through the years do it in this format or as a livestream. I only recently started playing magic and it is very cool to be able to live vicariously through you all.
"It's like an easy runescape money maker" legend
“ he’s going to grow up well adjusted because you touched him “ is WILLLLLD out of context
IT FUCKING IS LOL
Wubby is looking much thinner!!
Way to go bro
I don't think anyone cares
@@Zeldawrldclearly someone does mister negativity 💀
Bro youre in every ones replies. Clearly your ass does so stfu @Zeldawrld
I care, and a lot of others who have or are currently, struggling with weight will probably care too.
For real, I had to look him up to see if this was a different wubby. Good for him!
I love this dude on the right struggling between dying whenever Charlie starts to open it and saying it would be iconic to use bolt cutters
The 2 call-outs on the best common and best uncommon is crazy
This is the video to end all videos
Corny
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I sold my lotus 12 years ago for like a couple grand….. you’re telling me if I would’ve waited I could be retired rn?
only if it is in mint condition
Yeah the $3 million sale was for an un-played Black Lotus basically in perfect condition.
If it's ever touched a table I don't think it would be worth nearly that much.
The market listings for near-mint Beta are around $25k, so an Alpha would be maybe $90-$100k?
Was your lotus an alpha lotus and was it in mint graded condition? If not, it would not go for millions, no, maybe $20k or so.
If it was alpha/beta and in good condition, you'd be a good way to that if you took like half or more and invested it. definitely way into the five figures.
@@JohnSmith-vk9ds No closer to half a million.
Great video, guys. I'm 50 and have been playing MTG since '95. My friend group at the time played D&D, and I remember hating on MTG as "just a card version of D&D" after one of us showed up one day with a pack of Alpha. Lol, if we only knew back then what they'd be worth. By the time I got into the game, stores weren't selling Alpha or even Beta packs anymore.
Randomly found and watched this, the personalities at play are so much fun and entertaining . Thank you guys
"oh yea my hands are washed" proceeds to comb through his hair with the hands 🤣
I've never heard so many victory screeches for a card pull.
the week i start playing MTG again after years of not touching them cards I get an MTG vid from Charlie. The voices are thriving with this one.
This is like going from weed to heroine essentially to a collector from am addicts standpoint.
Charlie is like a kid at his birthday with his 2 divorced parents arguing about the present rn.
I’m not really into magic but I absolutely need another video of them opening a deck
Matt sitting down next to the pile of cards and pulling out the most expensive common instantly is wild
"so we can tell by the plastic that it is fake" got me
was it? I could not tell 😅
My broke ass watching Charlie not only spend a fortune on playing cards but then proceed to make a fortune back out of them only to never sell them
I’d never financially recover from this.
Here might be a strategy. Max out all your lines of credit on alpha sets. Declare bankruptcy. Sell your cards, move to mexico and retire
hes still down over 90k lol
He spent 100k to have a once in a lifetime experience for anyone his age. And the fact that he intends on actually playing these cards rather than having them rot away in a safe just makes it more rewarding.
@@Raro404couple hundred grand is nothing when u got money like Charley plus probably had it as a business expense. Ofc he would play them dope content
Dont let your possessions own you.
I collect vintage hot wheels and it bugs me how some new collectors freak out about how rare cars are handled, as if opening them is one of the deadly sins. Even if one is worth thousands of dollars on the secondary market theyre still just little toy cars made to be played with. Their perceived value is artificial. Also the value doesnt matter at all if you never plan to sell them. The people who freak out about value arent collectors, theyre traders. They buy/sell/trade the items. People like Charlie are true collectors. He keeps what he buys and doesnt freak out about keeping them perfectly mint.
It's awesome to see another collector of vintage toys treat these things the same way i do. Charlie doesnt let his possessioms own him.
Surprised neither of them noticed the lack of factory tape
pretty sure the alpha boxes were never factory taped? Could be wrong though
alpha ones never had factory tape
My favorite part of the video is at 6:03 when you lift the deck up and straight up just show the bottom card 😂
15:40 The guy with CHarlie was hilarious. Loved his nervous energy!
The fact they’re in his warehouse and have 0 box cutters is crazy
Finally I get to enjoy this with good audio
Npc moment
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28:58 Where does Hill Giant go shopping? That's right, Giant Walmart.
Going through my old cards. Found an original Bizarre of Baghdad, Candelabra of Tawnos, a Mox Saphire an unlimited Wheel of Fortune and 4 Copy Artifacts.
Now I’m going to have to go through all of the rest of my cards.
All worthless, I can take them off your hands free of charge
Watching Wubby nearly have a panic attack for the entirety of this is entertainment in itself.
God damn Wubby lookin good.
Keep it up brother!
Seeing this motivates me to keep going to the gym!
The unsummon is a missprint btw supposed to say "are discarded" not "are CARD ed." 32:01
does this mean it is more valuable?
Oh snap! A Magic video, that's awesome! I've been a Magic judge for a long time and making videos to help players learn the deeper, more complex rules of Magic and it's been a lot of fun. So seeing you opening these old-school cards I grew up using as a kid, it was really fun.
16:09 that sprinkle of dust falling on top of the deck almost killed me