Thanks for all the support guys! Notable feedback to lower the background music is helpful! Appreciate you all! And I'm happy to see there are so many others like me who were interested in this subject. Dang, that 2005-2012 time was something special wasn't it?
Upperdeck gutted the VS. System community (if streaming were a thing back then it would have out shined the FGC and MTG) to pander to WoW fans who didn't care.
14 year old me scammed thousands upon thousands of gold off people by “selling” Swift Spectral Tigers, TCG turtle mounts and epic tabards. Not proud of it, but that paid for half my guild’s consumables and enchants in TBC. Curiously, the account I used to scam people and launder the gold back to my main never got banned in like almost a full year.
I remember during the golden age of vanilla, I was close to buying an unscratched spectral tiger card for like $200. But alas, I was a broke college kid. Not that I wouldn't have redeemed it and had a $4k card today, but still. It was pretty cheap back then.
I pulled around 30ish tigers back in the day. There was a time (I think around Cata?) Where they sold this big foil boxes. All the cards were foil, and they had lots of random loot cards in there. My ex and I at the time would buy boxes of these, like a pallet worth. And the return was like (spend 500 bucks, and make like 50 back), so it wasn't a lot. But it was enough to do it for fun. We did it as a hobby. Buy all these cards, and then spend hours sorting through them. Selling the tigers was obvious the best return, but all the little ones added up. I ended up playing the card game and got into pretty big for awhile because I literally had boxes of "junk" cards, the ones I wasn't able to sell. So I'd build decks with them. Play and trade with people at the local card shop. It was a lot of fun. I still miss it. I never did get into Hearthstone. It just didn't feel the same. The best luck I can ever say I had is that I got to enjoy a card game while walking away with like 500ish in profit, and it was like a year's long effort, lol... But at least I never went negative! And enjoying a hobby without losing money is like having a golden ticket. (Lego fits a very similar vibe these days). Selling retired Lego sets is often profitable. And for those who like to sort and count and waste lots of hours organizing shit. You can easily set up a BrickLink shop and buy cheap sets and part em out for some profit. Never a lot, but passion hobbies are about passion. Any way to off-set the cost is a benefit.
Oh, stupid me forgot. If anyone was curious. I never redeemed a single tiger for myself. Remember, I made about 500~ total out of a year+ worth of effort, and a single tiger was selling for 600-800 bucks. If I went into debt to redeem one and not sell it, my ex would have immediately shit-bagged on my little operation, haha. I had to sell literally every single one. But I did redeem some of the tabards since those were like 10ish bucks at the time. And I got some fishing chair.
holy balls 4 grand? I should have just sat on them. Yeah, they were selling for 500-700 during Cata. But they were also producing them too at the time with those silly holographic sets. God I can't remember what those packs were called.
My dad worked for Upper Deck around this time, I don’t have any hard proof of this but I have a feeling he had something to do with the counterfeit Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Might have been my fault because he’d bring a bunch home and ask me what I think
irl what happened? Terrible pre-release and drafting days, and Magic the Gathering was in a lull, Yu-Gi-Oh! was at it's height, and tbh a WoW TCG never had a chance. Beautiful cards and such but I guess now a days Flesh and Blood is the spiritual successor.
You don't know what you are talking about. Look into Upperdeck's VS. System Gen 1 and you'll see that the WoW TCG was a lesser copy of a copy...a watered down VS. System Gen 1 with a borrowed commander gimmick from MTG.
VS. System Gen 1, it's pro circuit, and $10,000 tournaments, died so you could ignore the WoW TCG's actual game and collect turtles and tigers instead.
Thanks for all the support guys! Notable feedback to lower the background music is helpful! Appreciate you all! And I'm happy to see there are so many others like me who were interested in this subject. Dang, that 2005-2012 time was something special wasn't it?
Upperdeck gutted the VS. System community (if streaming were a thing back then it would have out shined the FGC and MTG) to pander to WoW fans who didn't care.
Thumbs up for Gnome Child
Great vid deserves more views
Your channel is off to a good start. Keep it up.
Thank you man. Appreciate that!
14 year old me scammed thousands upon thousands of gold off people by “selling” Swift Spectral Tigers, TCG turtle mounts and epic tabards. Not proud of it, but that paid for half my guild’s consumables and enchants in TBC. Curiously, the account I used to scam people and launder the gold back to my main never got banned in like almost a full year.
14 year old WoW TCG decline accelerationist rides the spectral tiger of modernity
@ hell yeah
I remember during the golden age of vanilla, I was close to buying an unscratched spectral tiger card for like $200. But alas, I was a broke college kid. Not that I wouldn't have redeemed it and had a $4k card today, but still. It was pretty cheap back then.
I feel that dude haha.
I pulled around 30ish tigers back in the day.
There was a time (I think around Cata?) Where they sold this big foil boxes. All the cards were foil, and they had lots of random loot cards in there. My ex and I at the time would buy boxes of these, like a pallet worth. And the return was like (spend 500 bucks, and make like 50 back), so it wasn't a lot. But it was enough to do it for fun. We did it as a hobby. Buy all these cards, and then spend hours sorting through them.
Selling the tigers was obvious the best return, but all the little ones added up.
I ended up playing the card game and got into pretty big for awhile because I literally had boxes of "junk" cards, the ones I wasn't able to sell. So I'd build decks with them. Play and trade with people at the local card shop. It was a lot of fun. I still miss it. I never did get into Hearthstone. It just didn't feel the same.
The best luck I can ever say I had is that I got to enjoy a card game while walking away with like 500ish in profit, and it was like a year's long effort, lol... But at least I never went negative! And enjoying a hobby without losing money is like having a golden ticket.
(Lego fits a very similar vibe these days). Selling retired Lego sets is often profitable. And for those who like to sort and count and waste lots of hours organizing shit. You can easily set up a BrickLink shop and buy cheap sets and part em out for some profit. Never a lot, but passion hobbies are about passion. Any way to off-set the cost is a benefit.
Oh, stupid me forgot. If anyone was curious. I never redeemed a single tiger for myself. Remember, I made about 500~ total out of a year+ worth of effort, and a single tiger was selling for 600-800 bucks. If I went into debt to redeem one and not sell it, my ex would have immediately shit-bagged on my little operation, haha.
I had to sell literally every single one. But I did redeem some of the tabards since those were like 10ish bucks at the time. And I got some fishing chair.
holy balls 4 grand? I should have just sat on them. Yeah, they were selling for 500-700 during Cata. But they were also producing them too at the time with those silly holographic sets. God I can't remember what those packs were called.
music is abit loud, other than that. good video! :)
My dad worked for Upper Deck around this time, I don’t have any hard proof of this but I have a feeling he had something to do with the counterfeit Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Might have been my fault because he’d bring a bunch home and ask me what I think
@@73648 hahaha dude, that's fucking legendary! 🤣
good video !
Background music too loud
Thanks man. Ill remember that for future vids. Appreciate the feedback!
@@HopeRunsDeep22 great vid otherwise.
irl what happened? Terrible pre-release and drafting days, and Magic the Gathering was in a lull, Yu-Gi-Oh! was at it's height, and tbh a WoW TCG never had a chance.
Beautiful cards and such but I guess now a days Flesh and Blood is the spiritual successor.
You don't know what you are talking about. Look into Upperdeck's VS. System Gen 1 and you'll see that the WoW TCG was a lesser copy of a copy...a watered down VS. System Gen 1 with a borrowed commander gimmick from MTG.
VS. System Gen 1, it's pro circuit, and $10,000 tournaments, died so you could ignore the WoW TCG's actual game and collect turtles and tigers instead.