Dear Rudy thank you for taking me back to when I first started playing Magic. It's nice to remember a simpler time and why I fell in love with the game
Man I remember when this first set came out...I had just built my first Commander deck, Horde of Notions, and bought a box for some fetchlands...sat down at the shop and started cracking packs...get about half way through and no fetches...Ok, I think, they must all be in the 2nd half the box...get to a few packs left and still no fetches...now I'm getting mad...crack my final pack and sure enough I don't open a SINGLE fetch in the entire box...the rares and mythics were SO bad, and worth SO little, that I left the entire box sitting on the table...the mythics were Lorthos, Eternity Vessel, Felidar Sovereign and Obsidian Fireheart, which are all STILL under a buck or two ...the rares I'm hazy on but I know there was nothing great... I was so mad the only thing I took were the basics...still to this day the worst box I have ever opened...
Rudy has the right way to go about it. buy lots of boxes and sit sit sit on them until the price goes sky high. when your buying at 100 bucks a box and then they are worth 400 to 500 in the future you can't lose. it's all about patience. even if you are in a bind you can crack the box and sell for singles and still hit a 20 to 30% return
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If you don't have cash to burn, don't open anything prior to Kaladesh anymore. The sealed prices are ridiculous and you have to get a 1 in 100 box to get your +EV
Ahh yes. Back in the days when CG was there to enhance the art with beautiful lighting effects to complement the detail work done by hand. Instead of those uncanny valley abominations that take up the whole card frame nowadays.
Hmm, now that we can all see it and think about it, I really see that Zendikar wasn't really that good of a set after all. Fetches and that's pretty much it.
@@stigmaoftherose so i was pretty close for a guess ;) i was just going off of what is available in mtgo for fullart lands and then unseries.. but either way theres not as many fullart lands as rudy makes it sounds lol not even enough to make a full mono deck with one of each haha even a red burn deck ;)
Just imagine if there was power nine treasures in there!!! Mind you, i highly those are first run print boxes... PS: this was a very good time in mtg. Infact, it was the last time i drafted, that is until i started again during rivals...come on Lotus Cobras!!!
On one video we saw he has a 10min timer on the screen, maybe he checks that to go slower or faster depending on the time left, and he takes more time to appreciate the amazing art of some cards.
I know NOTHING about Gathering the Magic but I just watch this channel and the box openings because I find it so much fun and entertaining >.
Make a video on the Pokemon SnS backlash or one on the WoW level squish.
thats the Rudy effect for sure
Spoiler alert:
Jason lost like $200 on this box, easily.
$200 worth of Rudy entertainment. :D
Which is why people should buy singles ;)
@@louiskemner3216 I understand the allure of cracking packs. But yeesh I wouldn't go all in on Zendikar haha
Yeah, gambling on mtg boxes is nuts. Really lost hard on this one.
That box was trash :/
Rudy:Scalding Tarns close to 100
Me: Goes to pull all out of my decks
I had none. :)
@@flynnrider119 Everytime I see a card spike and go check my commander decks, feelsbad
Dear Rudy thank you for taking me back to when I first started playing Magic. It's nice to remember a simpler time and why I fell in love with the game
VALUE IN BOX:
Arid Mesa x2 $90.12
Verdant Catacombs $70.89
Bloodghast $18.99
Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle $16.49
Ravenous Trap x2 $11.90
Ob Nixilis, the Fallen $8.99
Warren Instigator $8.00
Hedron Crab x2 $8.00
Mindbreak Trap $7.59
Emeria, the Sky Ruin $6.80
Rite of Replication $5.04
Beastmaster Ascension $4.26
Celestial Mantle $3.89
Gatekeeper of Malakir x2 $3.02
Crypt of Agadeem $3.00
Trailblazer's Boots x2 $2.62
Blade of the Bloodchief $1.96
Roil Elemental $1.37
Archmage Ascension $1.27
Trapmaker's Snare Foil $1.27
Lorthos, the Tidemaker $1.22
Malakir Bloodwitch $1.00
TOTAL: $277.69
*MTG Goldfish used
*Commons of value not included
15:40-15:41 definitely a foil in there, if you pause it you can see 4 cards left
6:25 EV of a Zendikar box according to tcg-mid is $385, not counting foils or cards under $1. Tcg-low is $272.
I for one appriciate your unprofesonalism Rudy!
Man I remember when this first set came out...I had just built my first Commander deck, Horde of Notions, and bought a box for some fetchlands...sat down at the shop and started cracking packs...get about half way through and no fetches...Ok, I think, they must all be in the 2nd half the box...get to a few packs left and still no fetches...now I'm getting mad...crack my final pack and sure enough I don't open a SINGLE fetch in the entire box...the rares and mythics were SO bad, and worth SO little, that I left the entire box sitting on the table...the mythics were Lorthos, Eternity Vessel, Felidar Sovereign and Obsidian Fireheart, which are all STILL under a buck or two ...the rares I'm hazy on but I know there was nothing great... I was so mad the only thing I took were the basics...still to this day the worst box I have ever opened...
mah favorite era of magic.
The art of this set was awesome.
I wish all your unboxing vids ran at this pace. Very cool.
I love the Zendikar edition👌
OPEN DARK ASCENSION!!!!!
Why? Its a garbage set
HA! GAAAYYYYY
everyone who got those boxes back then for $92 and still haven't opened them must be super duper happy, average price per box is 550-ish bucks
Even Battle for Zendikar is getting up to $175...I was picking them up for $82...wish I still had them.
Definately relate on the cards you dont remmember - you can open a booster and its like a new journey each time !
It's always funny to watch Rudy Throw boxes around like its a female wrestling match and be genuinely surprised when some cards are damaged xD
Rudy: "you guys ready?"
Me: Box topper?
same man :D
Upside down angel token. Clearly planted.
13:45 yeah i noticed that too, really wierd
Danzan Sandeev Right? I swear Ruby gets the strangest boxes.
@@whattime1899 That's our Ruby XD
Danzan Sandeev And that's why he's the best.
Rudy has the right way to go about it. buy lots of boxes and sit sit sit on them until the price goes sky high. when your buying at 100 bucks a box and then they are worth 400 to 500 in the future you can't lose. it's all about patience.
even if you are in a bind you can crack the box and sell for singles and still hit a 20 to 30% return
WOW that basic forest is the best land art i have ever seen.
jeez so as im still watching.. most of the art in this set (especially the black) is sick thanks for slow rolling through them!
Love these old boxes there the best
1:30 - 2:50
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Reeee! 4:45 Ravenous Trap!
As always a great video!
You’ve made my day Rudy thanks so much!
You had me at Rudy!
Omg Hes insane, Zendikar!!! Amazing Rudy, just crazy!!
ALL ABOUT THE FETCH
Every once in a while, we gotta creep around the store at 3 am. Lol
The 9 most expensive cards in the set are rares, which is cool.
Lay the fetchlands down Ruby, lay them down....fetchlands packin Ruby, lay the fetchlands down.
Awesome artwork!🤩
"This Swamp taps for one and a half mana" - Ruby from Creepy Investments, 2019
Why was your token upside down at 13:40 lol
Vampire's Bite... no giggity?
Nice video Ruby
I played Protean Hydra, so I loved Primal Urge. Great way to snipe and build up my hydra. No value, obviously, but good memories for me!
13:46 token is upside down in the pack
Darn no Ulamog. Better luck next time.
No Squee either. How bout that
Rudy can whistle, AND open magic packs? What is this revelation?
If you don't have cash to burn, don't open anything prior to Kaladesh anymore. The sealed prices are ridiculous and you have to get a 1 in 100 box to get your +EV
Moar Zendikar!
Double tap on the worst fetch. Yikes. The train to hose town is en route.
Ahh yes. Back in the days when CG was there to enhance the art with beautiful lighting effects to complement the detail work done by hand. Instead of those uncanny valley abominations that take up the whole card frame nowadays.
“I think I just got demonetized”
Lmao
Creepy Rudy about to make card prices skyrocket again
2:16 $5 uncommon just floating by...
When was the last time you opened worldwake
256.09 EV on the box. Still got 3 fetchlands though xD
Have you ever got a priceless treasure from one of the boxes
at $700 a box, even 3 fetches is Hosetown. Can't believe BFZ is fetching $175 per box
From the popular: WHERE ARE THE MYTHICS??? we present you : WHERE ARE THE FETCHES????
Some of those were reprints right?
Maby im confusing it with other cards but, i thought i owned some of these BEFORE the days of mythics.
The hair on this man's brazos
Mom gimme fetchies
Can i buy a box?
Hmm, now that we can all see it and think about it, I really see that Zendikar wasn't really that good of a set after all.
Fetches and that's pretty much it.
The eldrazi in the set hold some value toghter with valakut, bloodghast and the fetches. It's a very good set but not worth the 400-500 price tag
itay azikri what if yoi get 3 scalding tarns and 1 scalding foil and 4 valakuts and 4 blood ghasts
@@livonianemperor7339 ever thought of trying lottery then? Your luck's wasted on that box!
@@reye_bruh Eldrazi don't appear until the third set.
@@bondeulv might have got confused with the cards in the set then, sorry
I have an itch for fetches!
isnt there only like 15 or so of each fullart land?
If you include unstable and the new full art snow lands, the duplicate arts from different sets, there are 17 of each basic land.
@@stigmaoftherose so i was pretty close for a guess ;) i was just going off of what is available in mtgo for fullart lands and then unseries.. but either way theres not as many fullart lands as rudy makes it sounds lol not even enough to make a full mono deck with one of each haha even a red burn deck ;)
RUDY!!!!!!!!!!
UNBENCH THE FETCH!!!!
Holy crapbaskets I miss Zen...
one thing i noticed that Rudy never clean up the dust... he's too busy sorting cards but no time to wipe them
The time when the art style was more swords and sorcery kind of fantasy instead of generic fantasy or something similar
horrible box....i would cry
Free arm hair for every box you buy? Yes please.
TDK Box Ruby.
Nooo
The disfigured is disfigured....how in the flipping taco Tuesday could you not of made that pun...
He put a foil in the tokens!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just became a patreon
Box - $259.91
i need the spreaading seas!!!! :)
Just imagine if there was power nine treasures in there!!!
Mind you, i highly those are first run print boxes...
PS: this was a very good time in mtg. Infact, it was the last time i drafted, that is until i started again during rivals...come on Lotus Cobras!!!
When Cobras were $50 and fetches were $8 lol
yea ZEN fetches are cool....
Please open 145 more packs
How does Rudy take 18 minutes on his videos regardless of whether he's opening one or two boxes
On 2 boxes he skip the commons
@@enternalking8527 and often the uncommons
On one video we saw he has a 10min timer on the screen, maybe he checks that to go slower or faster depending on the time left, and he takes more time to appreciate the amazing art of some cards.
6:09 You owe me 20$ bucks Rudy!
I hear if you open enough original zenkidar boxes you'll find a black lotus attatched to a taco bell coupon
My boy Kozilek took Lorthos out like a total bitch!!!
Heh..."Myr-folk"
;)
PS: not a single planeswalker...wtf
Even if he got a Tarn in addition to the other fetches, he still would have lost a lot of money. This was brutal.
But you also have a unusual chance to get a treasure card
Zendikar, zendikar all day
Everybody keep calm, let me throw this booster and destroy all my piles xD
Give me the fetch dads
If you want fetches just open Modern Masters 2017, it’s cheaper and has better estimated value overall
where are the shocklands
Someone disfigured that Disfigure. . . I'll go now.
I’m calling foil fetch
Why is it your so excited, why are these cards worth money beyond packet face?
i appreciate this opening but... can we at least have 1 uma weekly :s?
I doubt Rudy wants to go through that much of his heavy hitters
Suppp
Pulls two of the cheapest fetches and goes berserk.
Still 43 median tho, good enough for 2 packs
Arid Mesa = $45 on tcgplayer for those who were wondering
Ahh.. the Warren Investigator.. What a card people!
Arena is good again.
Hamburger
Hamburger
Oooomf!
Bob Nix
Ruby you said we would never see the art work again, now you owe us $20 each 🤗