His sponsor is TCGPlayer (the biggest singles seller), they also sell sealed product and have Dzeeff the Pachinkonami spokes-Spheal on their team but they're still defying Pachinkonami by selling singles.
I mean my first ever yugioh pack i got as a kid had Buster Blader in it and it was from a flea market. Ended up being my favorite card next to Dark Magician. This was before he appeared on the dub so you can imagine my excitement when the Yugi whipped him out against Slifer and later down the line Dark Paladin.
one time at a flea market I saw some "packs" this one person was selling and you could see the top card of the stack. It was an ultra rare Peacock from magic ruler... Peacock was a common.
Speaking of scaling and loose boosters.... I'm reminded of SimplyUnlucky's video where he got 100 loose packs of legendary duelist: magical hero. Only pulled 2 or 3 supers, no Ultras. Obviously scaled
Don't know if this is still relevant but I believe that all foil cards weigh about the same these days. Newer sets it's harder to tell. The only one that is different are ultimate rare and secret Ultras are hard to tell the difference from super rare
@@jasonstricklin2602 but in any set that is not guaranteed a Holo (side sets like legendary duelists),you can still get a precise scale, and weigh out the Holo vs non Holo packs. Can't do in core sets really, since nowadays super / ultra / secret basically all weigh just about the same
@@iowa89357 that's what I was trying to say though getting any Foil cards out of a legendary Duelist sets is like finding a diamond in a pile of backyard mud. I kinda think though with side sets they should be made same as regular sets. Tired of the scaling of packs Just not fair
Very good advice! Scaling has got to be the lowest thing a seller can do. Really takes advantage of inexperienced buyers. Gotta watch out for those Facebook scammers too
Its laughably hilarious the prices i have seen people sell yugioh cards. And dont get me started on first run pokemon cards. Not all of them are a 1st edition charizard and yet people on facebook price them as such
@@brocki95xxx lol fraud is very hard to prove in a tcg context value is inherently subjective and scaling is almost impossible to prove so yeah good luck to anyone who thinks there will be repercussions on the bad actors in the market
@@CorgiWrangler It is difficult to prove. That is why I said technically. But here is the thing. If you as a seller have a number of complaints from people claiming to have scaled boxes. It makes things much more suspicious.
I think at this point he's just accepted it, decided he doesn't care, accepted it's not changing anytime soon and chosen to do something good for the community with his platform. I, for one, applaud his cojones.
@@DrEcTaFTL Yeah but that is for vendors and stores to do as they can actually buy a large enough sample size where they can make their money back. If you just buy 1 box then you are gonna get shafted a large percentage of the time but if you buy multiple cases then you will get a more accurate representation of the ratios.
@@luminous3558 If you allow the stores to control the flow of the singles they could alow roll it, keep stock hidden and allow prices the artificially inflate. thats a whole can of worms in and of itself.
I have a friend that runs an arcade that also sells trading cards, and I specifically mentioned to them one year that a certain Pokemon set was mapped and to shuffle their booster boxes around, so no one walks in and immediately steals the good cards. I don't think he's ever stopped shuffling them.
Always the simple rule if you want to build a deck buy singles/structure decks. Want to have a bit of fun and got a bit of cash you don't mind burning buy a couple of packs/ a box.
yeah though I'd add tins and max gold to structures for me lol. Video meant loosies for booster packs. Last one forgot to mention reprint. I like being a year behind in yugioh so stuff like Utopia the Lightning or Pot of Desires is dirt cheap. I wouldn't buy boxes or overpriced cards given its fear of missing out bs. If Speed Duel isn't crap, I may buy a box eventually, it's not so bad at $50 for about 100+ cards.
I remember last time there was a mapped set, my locals would shuffle the packs before putting them out on display to avoid people from sniping the secret rare packs
I remember back in 2014 when I bought a booster pack. The seller would ring you up a box of booster packs but he would shake it up even if there were less than 10. If there is 5 or less sure he wouldn't shake and mix.
Oh man the store owners weighing packs then selling singles, this makes so much sense when I was a kid we used to go to this store (used to be OTS for awhile) and me and my brother would get a pack each and we never pulled anything besides just a rare in every pack we brought there
You know, now that you say it maybe it wasn't that my luck was so dreadful back then but that I experienced a number of scam artists that scaled the packs. The amount of supers and ultras in my entire collection up until 2007 were laughably small.
Boxes can be tampered with without even opening them. If a vendor opens a case and pulls the starlight rare/expensive shorprint they can just stop opening the rest of the boxes since they know they wont have anything good and sell those shitty boxes as is
the irony is. what if you're buying singles from a vendor that is getting his products from stealing and scaling without your knowledge. dont buy singles. buy from supported, credible, trustworthy places. and hope that your local game store is one of those trusted places.
I really like opening packs too but never got lucky as a kid till we discovered they could weight packs and it was clear to us we would never get the rare ones from the local store. It was one of the reasons I stopped collecting Yugioh as a kid because of all the greedy salesman. During quarantine I got back in to collecting Yugioh almost 14-15 years later and being grown up and able to just buy a booster box now and open a ton of packs is a lot of fun in a odd way, would be awesome if boosters were a lot cheaper so buying packs would be more of a thing instead of buying singles, especially for you kids. ^_^
This happened when I was just getting into the game. Ordered 3 dinosaur structure decks on Amazon, all 3 were "sealed" Dino boxes but 2 of the 3 contained the ancient gear structure deck instead. Upon further inspection it was obvious the boxes had been opened and resealed with the Dino decks removed and the replacement decks inserted.
@@res8791 I contacted the seller through Amazon and they replaced the decks free of charge. It's likely someone bought/replaced/returned them and the retailer was unaware of the swap.
I've had the theft thing happen to me before, I was getting a starter deck Kaiba reprint at Walmart and didn't notice anything until I got home and opened it... It was entirely filled with Magic the Gathering land cards.
He said in one of his videos titled "konami banned me" that for being critical of their products or as we call it honest they put him on an unoffical black list where they won't invite him to events held directly by the company
He got blacklisted back in 2019, all because he wasn't fond of their business practices, as well as the fact that he reminds his viewers of what products they can and can't buy.
I remember buying two packs of Rising Rampage back in December 2019. At a Walmart. Thing is, I didn't know the packs were tampered with until I went back home. And I realized that one of the packs didn't have a foil card. Whoever ripped me off like that deserves to be sent to the Shadow Realm. So to end this story, I compensated my loss with RIRA's cover card.
It sucks though, I've never had my parents support when trying to play a TCG competitively. I've done countless decklists for Pokemon and Yugioh, priced out what it would cost to build them, and looked to get the cards. But my parents don't seem to understand buying single cards over sealed product. Like, *Yes mom that one card cost the same as an entire pack, but I am not guaranteed to get that card in the pack if i buy it. Buying the card outright is the cheapest way to build the deck I want.* But it never seems to make sense to them, they can't seem to justify in THEIR head why I would pay the same price for just 1 card than just buy a pack and get more cards for the same price. They think the number of cards is what's important and not the quality of the card from a gameplay standpoint. So I've never been able to play competitively because they make a huge deal about "Wasting money" if i buy singles over sealed.
@@MrGshinobi Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if he wanted to make a video like this for a while but didn't want to antagonize Konami, but now that Konami have spited him, it doesn't matter anymore.
I love the mic upgrade Cimoooooooo! Even though I don’t agree with some of the sentiments shared in the video, I think it is really important to stay educated and informed when buying sealed product.
10:44 Fact, when I bought the Eternity Code booster box back in June, I did acquire Accesscode Talker alongside Linkross and Girsu the Orcust Mekk-Knight.
In regards to #2 (Mapping): Even if it was an "accident", there's no such thing as accidental scamming. A scam's a scam. Other than that, thank you for being the Yu-Gi-Oh! hero we need, but not the one we deserve. Stratos would be proud.
I'd encourage people to buy sealed products for several reasons : - The thrill of opening packs - Adding more cards to the card pool, which means lowering the overall price of every card - Helping your local shop - You'll have more cards to trade, which means interracting with people, and making the community live I know that on the raw value you almost always loose when buying sealed, but overall, it helps the game and its community
in edition to the fact that if you're only buying singles, whose to say you're not buying from a vendor that scales and steals without you knowing? buying sealed products is healthy for the community. and buying singles from people you know and trust is advised.
My local game shop closes last month because the Yugioh community dies in my city. They also sell comics and other card games, but they don't survive the corona. I remember to go there to play Zoodiacs after school with half of my class almost every day. Help your local shop is really important.
I believe there are two sides. It's alright to buy sealed products for the reasons you mencionated, but it's good when you have the resources and money to keep buying. People (like me) that like to play the game but really don't have the money, it's better to invest in the specific cards we want instead of sealed products. I'm sure everyone would like to buy a battle of legends armageddon right now but sadly we can't. I think either way is healthy. If you can, buy sealed products to support your local store, if you don't then just get exactly what you want 🙌 just a humble opinion
nobody is going to trade commons with you ,.... it's not like in magic where pauper exists, a format where you play with common cards only and can be combined with other formats like commander or cube draft etc. till the start of this year, when holos weren't guaranteed, you wouldn't get anything trade worthy from the majority of packs. Just more cards for your shoe box, which isn't a bad thing friends and I want to build a singleton strictly worse cube for yu-gi-oh where we take the worst cards in yu-gi-oh and make a drafting pool out of them so all decks are bad rip X'D helping your local shop I understand but I than just prefer buying singles, card sleeves, other accesories from them and from time to time structure decks or boosters when I feel like it. Or something like the 2019 mega tin. (cause let's be honest that was one amazing product) but I would also prefer if there more products like dual devastator :/
First, NOTHING will ever beat the feeling of opening a box and not knowing what you will get. Second, all the 4 first reasons are eliminated just by finding a local game shop or a online seller you can trust. That way nothing to worry about. Third, we know the odds are nor in our favor. They never are with any company, especially Konami. Singles only if you are a regular player or go to tourneys.
To be fair, when there are $200-300 cards like Pot of Extravagance that are core cards for certain decks, I'd rather try my luck with 50 packs than spending that much on one card.
For some reason ever since Secret slayers came out most of the time when I buy packs from the Meijer I work at I pull godly. Last month I bought some packs of Toon Chao and I pulled a Pot of desire collector rare.
Great vid, I personally buy the specific cards I want online LoL the only reason I would buy a box or something in the store is for fun on a rare occasion
Back when I played the game (when it was still enjoyable), I watched people scaling new packs on a regular basis, in front of the card shop owner. I also watched mapping being done by said same individuals. True, I learned the orders of where the higher rarities were placed, but the rarer cards were not placed in the same place, as with how you portrayed it. The rare cards appeared in the same slots, but it may be a secret at one point, or a super rare at another, just all in the same positions. Tampering and theft were a large problem around here, so a lot of places refused to allow touneys in their establishments after a short while. Went into WalMart at one point, bought what I trhought was a completely sealed tin, but turns out someone did what you described with it, opening it, then the packs, taking the rares out, and leaving the rest. All WM did was tape the individual packs shut, then re-shrink-wrapped the tin and put it back out. called the manager over when I realized what happened, and found out ALL of the tins had been done just the same.
With new rarities like Starlight and Collector's Rare, that worth sometimes significantly more than the box itself, it can be worth the risk. And it's always good to buy at least one box of a new set. The thrill of pulling a valuable card is greater than just getting it individually, even if the odds aren't in your favor.
Just buy a case, a case of toon chaos bought at the price at day 1 had his double worth in singles inside That's why now toon chaos' boxes are now doubled in price Same thing will be for rise of the duelist
@@doomkingraye7692 yes you can, you open the boxes till you pull the starlight and then sell the rest of the shit boxes of the case separetely, this sucks for the people who buy individual boxes instead of full cases
Using the term "Sealed Product" seems incorrect for a majority of these examples as they do not apply to a Konami sealed booster boxes which is what sealed product is.. It's perfectly valid for why you should be wary about buying loose packs or unsealed product but the emphasis in this video is quite misleading...
Scaling was so bad during the times before every pach had a foil that is not a good idea at all to try get them loose specially the first generation (even GX era), unless you have no intention of opening them, like to have a collection of packs or something.
RedCompany YGO I quit playing for so long because the only card shop I knew of closed, and I kept ending up with tampered packs from popular stores near me.
@@duelmonsters7164 that suck but I can relate. Back in 2012 near were I just to live, the stealing and tampering if yugioh products in my area got do bad that the local walmart stoped stocking yugioh products for years, and when they started to selling them again it was inside those bulky cases mean fot CDs. Thats why I personally mostly buy singles, with the only exception of structures and even then just from my local cards store.
Yeah, the odds are never in my favor except that one time when I bought 6 of those reprint Metal Raiders packs and got Thousand Dragon and Gate Guardian in the first 2 packs I opened.
That last point you brought up, sadly, is precisely _why_ so many people (myself included) enjoy buying sealed product: That rush you get from beating the odds. Which is why I approach it with the same mindset I take to a casino. Use only money you can absolutely afford to lose, and accept that you're likely not going to win.
Very informative video. I’m relatively new to Yugioh and it’s really a shame knowing that people will scale packs which in turn really hurts other people. I absolutely love opening up packs for the thrill and nostalgia, but am always wary because I know there are people out there who WILL scale or repackage these packs that I’m buying
I remember before I would buy singles that I would go to Walmart and spend anywhere from $40-80 on cards. So yeah. I was spending lots of the money on the packs. Sometimes I would buy boxes from Shops. Nowadays I’m happy to be buying them online
You never buy boosters/displays to draw specific cards other than maybe commons/rares. You buy those if you either just like some of the featured archetypes from that set, to expand your card collection or to gamble. If you want a specific high rarity card, its almost always cheaper to just buy it as a single. Also I would recommend only buying at shops you trust, for example the place where you go to play locals and know the owner/the person responsible for the cards stuff.
My best history for value per pack/box or whatever has been going to LGS that buy unsold blister packs from big-box stores and sell them on the cheap from the glass. My best value was back in 2009, I went to an LGS and bought 24 Force of the Breaker booster blisters for a total of $36. I ended up getting three Super Raiza the Storm Monarch, 1 Secret Volcanic Rocket, 1 CB Sapphire Pegasus (ultra), and an Ultimate Zeradias...and all of the regular rares and commons I needed to fill out an Abundance OTK deck. About three weeks later I traded the Ulti Zeradias for two tin Sapphire Pegasus (not the whole tins...just the pegasi) and a sealed Emperor of Darkness Structure deck (one of my YGO friends at the time would buy boxes of structure decks to get 3x the cards he wanted then have sealed product for trades and Ebay...it worked out pretty well for him). That is just the single best example, but go to your LGS and buy slightly out-of-date packs on the cheap for a decent sealed value...if they do it.
My local game store always shuffled the packs in a fresh box of any booster set meant to sell single packs in order to insure that mapping was impossible and that everyone had a fair chance.
Long story short do not buy loose booster packs or the blister packs You will lose your money. I recommend buying special edition boxes and factor sealed booster boxes as it is the safest If it ain't got the Konami wrapping on it Don't buy it Vs risking Being scammed because you can't scale a sealed booster box Or a sealed special edition. If you wanna avoid this scummy stuff entirely just buy singles Then again Screw the secondary market I'm not paying your prices I'll take my chances If y'all got it cheap enough I give it a shot.
I remember buying like 40 packs (they came in pairs, so technically 20 sets) of LD: Ancient Millenium in hopes of getting the new Crystal Beast or Ancient Gear support. I got 1 Rainbow Bridge. Oh sure, I got like 3 playsets of Sapphire Pegasus and Relinquished, but the best I got out of that pack were Rainbow Bridge and a couple Bandit Keith cards. Best part, the cards I wanted were so short-printed, singles cost about $100 per playset. For CRYSTAL BEAST CARDS, because that deck is totally meta and worth that cost. Also, I remember one time I went to get one of the special box sets, and found a couple at Walmart had been opened and emptied already. What kind of desperate piece of shit do you have to be the steal cards like that? ESPECIALLY from a box set where most of the cards are the same in each set anyway. Best part, they just left the empty boxes there on the shelf, so anybody else could've bought them not knowing any better, got home to open it, and find nothing, and due to the nature of the product, I doubt they could've got their money back, so they would've spent $30-40 on an empty box all because some asshole just had to get some free cards. It was around the holidays too, so I could imagine somebody opening that present only to find it empty. As for "just buy singles," I got a reason not to jump on those: getting burnt by re-releases. Spent like $12 on a low-end Vanity's Fiend once. Not even 3 months later, a structure deck reprinted it. Matter of fact, the cards I mentioned before just got reprinted and burned the price gougers who wanted $30-50 each for those cards, so reprints aren't all bad. :)
Cimoooooooo: *proceeds to scale & map Nyhmnim's virtual Labyrinth of Nightmare booster box* Also how fitting for the booster set on the thumbnail to be The Dark Illusion, because I vividly remember buying a pack of it at Walmart and it contained 8 cards and no foil 😵
It is insanely hard to find old yugioh packs that are not scaled. I got scammed by an ebay seller and had I not taken video proof would've lost quite as bit of money.
This is why I tend to buy packs from Walmart or shops that don't sell singles. Walmart puts a strip inside the pack of the blister so they cannot be weighed correctly.
@@eileensmiller8041 For real. I bought one of those 25 card packs at Walmart that gives you a rare card and when I opened it the rare card was damaged. 🙃
It's funny how some people scam others over a children's card game, it's like the most embarrassing thing to be caught doing! Imagine an adult in prison saying "I stole Yugioh cards".
Watching this video after buying a couple of booster packs from a local store in Greece when I went there for holiday and pulling an Accesscode Talker.
Short printing is why I don't buy sealed YGO product. Rarities should be evenly distributed. If you short print within a rarity, then you know a card is more desired than another and then boosters are tantamount to gambling. I mean, they already are basically gambling because in YGO you don't even have the excuse of "drafting" like in MTG, but short printing makes it even more apparent.
well that is why i jumped to OCG as you can still get the cool rarities and more likely to get play sets and also singles are very cheap. I feel that i get more for my buck than whatever TCG offers. If OCG did what TCG does to core sets and side sets then OCG won't sell a single pack or booster box.
You forgot about the problem with the new collectors rares and starlight rares which are 1 in 2 cases. Vendors will open boxes untill they get that card and sell the rest of the boxes for the normal price with you never being able to pull the big money card.
I actually got a crush card virus and a blue eyes from one of those repacks. You definitely aren't going to get any good shinys, but sometimes you can get very lucky from those with commons.
No5: the odds are never in your favor: Buy on what you can see Not what excites you in the thought process of "possibly getting" something you always wanted
I went to insomnia in the UK a couple years ago before I got back into yugioh and saw a stand selling "ready-to-play decks", I saw a cyber dragon/geargia one and I used to love Cydra as a kid so thought id pick it up for about £10. Litterally half of the cards were clearly marked with the edges of cards like MST having green ink on the top of the card and traps having purple ink so you could see them. I litterally got sold some guys random cards he could never have sold as theyre illegal to play for £10...
I worked at a Walmart and it frustrates me to see opened blister packs on the floor, in baskets or even in the freaking freezer. People will go to great lengths for a children's card game.
Kmart in Australia ( AUS/NZ Version of walmart ) the TCG stuff is located near the checkout so people cannot easily tamper with sealed products as there are other customers and CCTV.
In stores in my country, they have all sealed cards in glass containers under key (similar to jewels). This makes it impossible for most of the scams to happen. Also, the stores are all chains and no employee can temper or has the incentive to temper with the boxes.
I agree with the first 4 points you mentioned, but I feel that noone on this planet could be stupid enough to plan on, for example, pull Accesscode Talker out of an Konami display, right? Like "Oh, the first display didn´t have it. Well, gotta have to pay another 60 bucks. Oh, sad story, another 60...and so on...600 bucks later...and on..."
I remember, as a young duelist, buying booster packs from the flea market near my house. I had good decks but nothing powerful. I was able to scale using just my hands and was pretty consistent with it. One week I pulled a Yata-Garasuand was super hyped about it. Two weeks later I pull another secret rare; Chaos Emperor Dragon-Envoy of the End. I got to work remaking my deck around those two cards and the result was a chaos control deck that turned me into the Number One Duelist at my school. That deck was so powerful, i was able to duel 2v1 and still win. I still have some of the cards from that deck including both secrets.
Alternative title: how to not get sponsored by Konami in 15 minutes
Kudos to you my man, for putting viewers before big company
His sponsor is TCGPlayer (the biggest singles seller), they also sell sealed product and have Dzeeff the Pachinkonami spokes-Spheal on their team but they're still defying Pachinkonami by selling singles.
It would better for Konami to buy sealed boxes
Biggest scam as a kid is buying cards from the flea market
6-7 years when I was a middle schooler, I bought a FAKE Stardust Overdrive box for $20 (which at the time I didn't knew it was fake).
I mean my first ever yugioh pack i got as a kid had Buster Blader in it and it was from a flea market. Ended up being my favorite card next to Dark Magician. This was before he appeared on the dub so you can imagine my excitement when the Yugi whipped him out against Slifer and later down the line Dark Paladin.
Bruh, You bringing up some repress memories. My mom got scammed so hard trying to buy me cards.
one time at a flea market I saw some "packs" this one person was selling and you could see the top card of the stack. It was an ultra rare Peacock from magic ruler... Peacock was a common.
Try Chinatown at a herbal place that happen to have yugioh cards lol.
Speaking of scaling and loose boosters....
I'm reminded of SimplyUnlucky's video where he got 100 loose packs of legendary duelist: magical hero. Only pulled 2 or 3 supers, no Ultras. Obviously scaled
there is another one where he didnt pull a SINGLE one so yeah
I get those same packs to find Magicians’ Souls. I actually find repeats of ultra cards
Don't know if this is still relevant but I believe that all foil cards weigh about the same these days.
Newer sets it's harder to tell.
The only one that is different are ultimate rare and secret
Ultras are hard to tell the difference from super rare
@@jasonstricklin2602 but in any set that is not guaranteed a Holo (side sets like legendary duelists),you can still get a precise scale, and weigh out the Holo vs non Holo packs.
Can't do in core sets really, since nowadays super / ultra / secret basically all weigh just about the same
@@iowa89357 that's what I was trying to say though
getting any
Foil cards out of a legendary Duelist sets is like finding a diamond in a pile of backyard mud.
I kinda think though with side sets they should be made same as regular sets.
Tired of the scaling of packs
Just not fair
Cimooo really puts his fans first when he makes videos like this that Konomi doesn't like. You've got to respect a man like that!
Very good advice! Scaling has got to be the lowest thing a seller can do. Really takes advantage of inexperienced buyers. Gotta watch out for those Facebook scammers too
Its laughably hilarious the prices i have seen people sell yugioh cards. And dont get me started on first run pokemon cards. Not all of them are a 1st edition charizard and yet people on facebook price them as such
It is technically fraud so it is illegal to do so.
@@brocki95xxx lol fraud is very hard to prove in a tcg context value is inherently subjective and scaling is almost impossible to prove so yeah good luck to anyone who thinks there will be repercussions on the bad actors in the market
@@CorgiWrangler It is difficult to prove. That is why I said technically. But here is the thing. If you as a seller have a number of complaints from people claiming to have scaled boxes. It makes things much more suspicious.
My boy finally upgraded his microphone.
It does sound really good
For me sounded worse than before.
The mic is too close. There is light muzzle in the background
But he's still taking like 50 takes just to say one complete sentence...
@@GrandChaseHotStuven So?
"Never buy sealed product!"
"WTF why does Konami not like me?"
I think at this point he's just accepted it, decided he doesn't care, accepted it's not changing anytime soon and chosen to do something good for the community with his platform.
I, for one, applaud his cojones.
Good! fuck konami.
More like:
"Konami doesn't like me, so fuck 'em, I'm gonna speak the truth regardless of what they want."
I don't blame him if he doesn't care. I still think the Yugioh TCG should be handed over to another company.
Doesn’t he moderate at some events? Konami is salty now
It's more "why you should prefer buying single cards rather than sealed products" than "never buy sealed products"
The thing is someone has to go throw the pain of buying sealed products risking all he mentioned otherwise the singles prices will go sky high
@@itisaparadox6187 Yeah if no one opens sealed products, no one will have the cards and the price of this single card will be way too high
lol yep
@@DrEcTaFTL Yeah but that is for vendors and stores to do as they can actually buy a large enough sample size where they can make their money back.
If you just buy 1 box then you are gonna get shafted a large percentage of the time but if you buy multiple cases then you will get a more accurate representation of the ratios.
@@luminous3558 If you allow the stores to control the flow of the singles they could alow roll it, keep stock hidden and allow prices the artificially inflate. thats a whole can of worms in and of itself.
Cimo: 0:35
Konami: "That's it. I don't care what Hideki says. We're sending in the rare hunters and sending this guy straight to the 'shadow realm.'"
Hideki Hayakawa: As president of Konami I declare that statement invalid. I'm gonna abuse TH-cam's DMCA system to get his channel TERMINATED instead.
Alternative Title: Five ways to swipe Yugioh cards.
Yes yes
Lol
Yes indeed
Wdym?
I agree.
@@ssengageisop3952 he taught us that didnt know the best way to get cards in yugioh
I have a friend that runs an arcade that also sells trading cards, and I specifically mentioned to them one year that a certain Pokemon set was mapped and to shuffle their booster boxes around, so no one walks in and immediately steals the good cards. I don't think he's ever stopped shuffling them.
Which set was it
Always the simple rule if you want to build a deck buy singles/structure decks. Want to have a bit of fun and got a bit of cash you don't mind burning buy a couple of packs/ a box.
yeah though I'd add tins and max gold to structures for me lol. Video meant loosies for booster packs. Last one forgot to mention reprint. I like being a year behind in yugioh so stuff like Utopia the Lightning or Pot of Desires is dirt cheap. I wouldn't buy boxes or overpriced cards given its fear of missing out bs. If Speed Duel isn't crap, I may buy a box eventually, it's not so bad at $50 for about 100+ cards.
I really think you should bring back the “an introduction to” Series. Its a great Series for everyone and there is alot of decks you Can cover rn 😄😄
stormfrontDP Yes!! It's really great!
Sealed product is so much fun to open though. Especially Tins!
But Yugioh isn't meant for fun and excitement.
Use the pack simulator. Not the same as physical but it is a lot cheaper!
@@LandynG137 It is not fun at all
Tins depress me especially. There's so little in each one and there's an intense guilt every time I open one, so I stopped.
eeew, you have FUN!!!?? sorry man but thats not allowed
I remember last time there was a mapped set, my locals would shuffle the packs before putting them out on display to avoid people from sniping the secret rare packs
I remember back in 2014 when I bought a booster pack. The seller would ring you up a box of booster packs but he would shake it up even if there were less than 10. If there is 5 or less sure he wouldn't shake and mix.
Oh man the store owners weighing packs then selling singles, this makes so much sense when I was a kid we used to go to this store (used to be OTS for awhile) and me and my brother would get a pack each and we never pulled anything besides just a rare in every pack we brought there
You know, now that you say it maybe it wasn't that my luck was so dreadful back then but that I experienced a number of scam artists that scaled the packs. The amount of supers and ultras in my entire collection up until 2007 were laughably small.
The best sealed product is something completely sealed: with the plastic wrap!
People do repack with the original plastic wrap
I've seen a store close down because they did this
So basically factory sealed?
With the Konami shrink wrap. I've gotten resealed and shrink wrapped boxes before.
Boxes can be tampered with without even opening them.
If a vendor opens a case and pulls the starlight rare/expensive shorprint they can just stop opening the rest of the boxes since they know they wont have anything good and sell those shitty boxes as is
So...just buy singles
In short, just buy *singles*
In short I buy structure decks because I'm broke...CRIES IN CORNER
Buying duel devastator is like buying singles basically
@@doomkingraye7692 what? No, thats not the case at all, even for duel devastator cards just buy singles its SO much cheaper
@@MrGshinobi ehm, nop, duel devastator cost less than all the cards it has inside
the irony is. what if you're buying singles from a vendor that is getting his products from stealing and scaling without your knowledge.
dont buy singles. buy from supported, credible, trustworthy places. and hope that your local game store is one of those trusted places.
Someone upgraded their microphone. Lol Trying to get that deep silky Yami Yugi voice, eh? Haha 😏
I couldn’t just buy singles... I get far too much enjoyment from opening packs.
same here, just I dont have money x"d
Otangaku D Yokeman I only get to open packs if I get some for my birthday or if I get anything at Christmas because I’m just as Broke as you are
@@Osindileyo I am broken than you xD xd
P.S. long life to a snake tsuchi xd
I really like opening packs too but never got lucky as a kid till we discovered they could weight packs and it was clear to us we would never get the rare ones from the local store.
It was one of the reasons I stopped collecting Yugioh as a kid because of all the greedy salesman.
During quarantine I got back in to collecting Yugioh almost 14-15 years later and being grown up and able to just buy a booster box now and open a ton of packs is a lot of fun in a odd way, would be awesome if boosters were a lot cheaper so buying packs would be more of a thing instead of buying singles, especially for you kids. ^_^
@@sillysnek toadally agree, welcome back and enjoy opening dude ! ^^
This happened when I was just getting into the game. Ordered 3 dinosaur structure decks on Amazon, all 3 were "sealed" Dino boxes but 2 of the 3 contained the ancient gear structure deck instead. Upon further inspection it was obvious the boxes had been opened and resealed with the Dino decks removed and the replacement decks inserted.
Disgusting
Did you get a refund? What happened after
@@res8791 I contacted the seller through Amazon and they replaced the decks free of charge. It's likely someone bought/replaced/returned them and the retailer was unaware of the swap.
I've had the theft thing happen to me before, I was getting a starter deck Kaiba reprint at Walmart and didn't notice anything until I got home and opened it... It was entirely filled with Magic the Gathering land cards.
what?! Magic: The Gathering cards in a Yu-Gi-Oh! box/set?? holy cow. terrible.
really. man, those guys went way too far with their little scam.
How the fuck does one get MTG cards in a YGO set!?
Time to send some assholes to the dreaded Shadow Realm.
Konami is definitely not inviting Cimo to events now...
That is already the case
@@itisaparadox6187 fr? Why?
He said in one of his videos titled "konami banned me" that for being critical of their products or as we call it honest they put him on an unoffical black list where they won't invite him to events held directly by the company
What events?
@scorpious1109 ex:2019 championship
Cimo: "I'm already blacklisted so what else could they do to me ayylmao"
when did he got blacklisted? and what was the reason?
He got blacklisted back in 2019, all because he wasn't fond of their business practices, as well as the fact that he reminds his viewers of what products they can and can't buy.
I remember buying two packs of Rising Rampage back in December 2019. At a Walmart.
Thing is, I didn't know the packs were tampered with until I went back home. And I realized that one of the packs didn't have a foil card. Whoever ripped me off like that deserves to be sent to the Shadow Realm.
So to end this story, I compensated my loss with RIRA's cover card.
Glad you made this video.
If you're opening for fun, go ahead.
If you're trying to get a particular card, goodness no.
Singles are way better if you're looking for certain cards.
It sucks though, I've never had my parents support when trying to play a TCG competitively. I've done countless decklists for Pokemon and Yugioh, priced out what it would cost to build them, and looked to get the cards. But my parents don't seem to understand buying single cards over sealed product. Like, *Yes mom that one card cost the same as an entire pack, but I am not guaranteed to get that card in the pack if i buy it. Buying the card outright is the cheapest way to build the deck I want.* But it never seems to make sense to them, they can't seem to justify in THEIR head why I would pay the same price for just 1 card than just buy a pack and get more cards for the same price. They think the number of cards is what's important and not the quality of the card from a gameplay standpoint. So I've never been able to play competitively because they make a huge deal about "Wasting money" if i buy singles over sealed.
Cimoooooooo wow komoney is going to be mad at this one.
They’ll probably flag the video knowing how TH-cam is
He is literally saying that if you buy sealed you should buy a box with the original sealing
They already hate him, he has nothing to lose
@@MrGshinobi Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if he wanted to make a video like this for a while but didn't want to antagonize Konami, but now that Konami have spited him, it doesn't matter anymore.
and so Cimooo continues his heroic crusade to indirectly damage Konami's sales as much as possible.
This is why I like you as a Yugituber. You always keep it real with us.
*1 Reason, why u HAVE TO BUY Sealed Product: It's hell of fun and joy to crack up packs by yourself!*
Even better to open packs with friends so you can shit on the person with the worst cards
I love the mic upgrade Cimoooooooo! Even though I don’t agree with some of the sentiments shared in the video, I think it is really important to stay educated and informed when buying sealed product.
10:44 Fact, when I bought the Eternity Code booster box back in June, I did acquire Accesscode Talker alongside Linkross and Girsu the Orcust Mekk-Knight.
In regards to #2 (Mapping):
Even if it was an "accident", there's no such thing as accidental scamming. A scam's a scam.
Other than that, thank you for being the Yu-Gi-Oh! hero we need, but not the one we deserve. Stratos would be proud.
I'd encourage people to buy sealed products for several reasons :
- The thrill of opening packs
- Adding more cards to the card pool, which means lowering the overall price of every card
- Helping your local shop
- You'll have more cards to trade, which means interracting with people, and making the community live
I know that on the raw value you almost always loose when buying sealed, but overall, it helps the game and its community
in edition to the fact that if you're only buying singles, whose to say you're not buying from a vendor that scales and steals without you knowing?
buying sealed products is healthy for the community. and buying singles from people you know and trust is advised.
My local game shop closes last month because the Yugioh community dies in my city. They also sell comics and other card games, but they don't survive the corona. I remember to go there to play Zoodiacs after school with half of my class almost every day. Help your local shop is really important.
I believe there are two sides. It's alright to buy sealed products for the reasons you mencionated, but it's good when you have the resources and money to keep buying. People (like me) that like to play the game but really don't have the money, it's better to invest in the specific cards we want instead of sealed products. I'm sure everyone would like to buy a battle of legends armageddon right now but sadly we can't. I think either way is healthy. If you can, buy sealed products to support your local store, if you don't then just get exactly what you want 🙌 just a humble opinion
nobody is going to trade commons with you ,....
it's not like in magic where pauper exists, a format where you play with common cards only and can be combined with other formats like commander or cube draft etc.
till the start of this year, when holos weren't guaranteed, you wouldn't get anything trade worthy from the majority of packs. Just more cards for your shoe box, which isn't a bad thing friends and I want to build a singleton strictly worse cube for yu-gi-oh where we take the worst cards in yu-gi-oh and make a drafting pool out of them so all decks are bad rip X'D
helping your local shop I understand but I than just prefer buying singles, card sleeves, other accesories from them and from time to time structure decks or boosters when I feel like it. Or something like the 2019 mega tin. (cause let's be honest that was one amazing product) but I would also prefer if there more products like dual devastator :/
@@anblueboot5364 nobody is gonna trade you commons *laughs with common upstart goblins and common monster Reborn*
I remember when ghost rares were a thing. It was impossible buying booster sets online at like amazon or ebay without getting shafted.
First, NOTHING will ever beat the feeling of opening a box and not knowing what you will get. Second, all the 4 first reasons are eliminated just by finding a local game shop or a online seller you can trust. That way nothing to worry about. Third, we know the odds are nor in our favor. They never are with any company, especially Konami. Singles only if you are a regular player or go to tourneys.
Cimo: Don't buy sealed product.
Rev: Yu-gi-oh! from scratch.
Isn't rev a store owner himself, i'm sure he's got little to worry about.
Man, Cimo is never getting invited to Konami's birthday party.
I once bought a box of soul fusion w no ultras or secrets. Be wary of buying cards online, it's a serious issue
What was the site you bought from?
what was the site you bought from?
This was a perfect video to ad that tcg player affiliate link . And he didn't do it... Props cimoooooooo
i just got the theft thing happened at a local target...fortunately i was able to get a full refund of my money...
To be fair, when there are $200-300 cards like Pot of Extravagance that are core cards for certain decks, I'd rather try my luck with 50 packs than spending that much on one card.
But then you likely won't get it with 50 packs and you'll have apent that amount of money anyway
that's really the only downside of buying singles (that I can think of).
Whenever he starts talking I just notice his shirt I really want one
Normal &
Special &
Fusion &
Ritual &
Synchro &
Xyz &
Pendulum &
Link
I got 8 ETCO packs from Wal-Mart. I wanted an Accesscode Talker. I was disappointed when I didn't pull one.
I pulled two :(
That sucks, where do you live, I can give you a free ultra :)
For some reason ever since Secret slayers came out most of the time when I buy packs from the Meijer I work at I pull godly. Last month I bought some packs of Toon Chao and I pulled a Pot of desire collector rare.
Um why are you sad you got 2 acced talker
Great vid, I personally buy the specific cards I want online LoL the only reason I would buy a box or something in the store is for fun on a rare occasion
Back when I played the game (when it was still enjoyable), I watched people scaling new packs on a regular basis, in front of the card shop owner. I also watched mapping being done by said same individuals. True, I learned the orders of where the higher rarities were placed, but the rarer cards were not placed in the same place, as with how you portrayed it. The rare cards appeared in the same slots, but it may be a secret at one point, or a super rare at another, just all in the same positions.
Tampering and theft were a large problem around here, so a lot of places refused to allow touneys in their establishments after a short while. Went into WalMart at one point, bought what I trhought was a completely sealed tin, but turns out someone did what you described with it, opening it, then the packs, taking the rares out, and leaving the rest. All WM did was tape the individual packs shut, then re-shrink-wrapped the tin and put it back out. called the manager over when I realized what happened, and found out ALL of the tins had been done just the same.
This is such a great video listen too every word folks this will save your wallets
Number 5 is a bit exaggerated since most people who buys packs don't just want 1 specific secret and isn't going to just buy 1 pack.
All the local game stores:I am never going to financially recover from this
I'll admit it, you got me to stop needlessly buying boxes out of FOMO with this video thinking I'd be "saving money" later on.
Big stores that sell trading cards in Germany usually put them behind a glass case with a key. That cuts out 100% of all theft.
With new rarities like Starlight and Collector's Rare, that worth sometimes significantly more than the box itself, it can be worth the risk. And it's always good to buy at least one box of a new set. The thrill of pulling a valuable card is greater than just getting it individually, even if the odds aren't in your favor.
It isn't "worth it", but it can be really fun to open a box
Just buy a case, a case of toon chaos bought at the price at day 1 had his double worth in singles inside
That's why now toon chaos' boxes are now doubled in price
Same thing will be for rise of the duelist
Just so you know, vendors can scam you by opening the boxes with the starlights on them and then selling you the non-starlight boxes
@@MrGshinobi 1) you can't know which box has the starlight
2) buy a case
@@doomkingraye7692 yes you can, you open the boxes till you pull the starlight and then sell the rest of the shit boxes of the case separetely, this sucks for the people who buy individual boxes instead of full cases
Using the term "Sealed Product" seems incorrect for a majority of these examples as they do not apply to a Konami sealed booster boxes which is what sealed product is.. It's perfectly valid for why you should be wary about buying loose packs or unsealed product but the emphasis in this video is quite misleading...
@Fred G. Yes... If they arrive unsealed that is 😅
I guess so
Fred G. Same. Just bought $100 box of BOL:A I should be concerned bro
@@richyg7343 No. As he said these things are only as issue with non-sealed "straight from Konami" so to speak products.
@Fred G. not if it is a full sealed box.
I think you and nym nym are creating a whole new yugioh draft format yourselves and I’m loving it
Suspended e-mail from Konami soon :)
Or worse. Cimo loses his entire channel because of this.
Didn't Cimo state in one of his vids that he doesn't work with Konami?
Weareonenation303 ??
Packs being weighed really stresses me out when I’m debating buying vintage packs. 😓
Scaling was so bad during the times before every pach had a foil that is not a good idea at all to try get them loose specially the first generation (even GX era), unless you have no intention of opening them, like to have a collection of packs or something.
RedCompany YGO I quit playing for so long because the only card shop I knew of closed, and I kept ending up with tampered packs from popular stores near me.
@@duelmonsters7164 that suck but I can relate. Back in 2012 near were I just to live, the stealing and tampering if yugioh products in my area got do bad that the local walmart stoped stocking yugioh products for years, and when they started to selling them again it was inside those bulky cases mean fot CDs.
Thats why I personally mostly buy singles, with the only exception of structures and even then just from my local cards store.
RedCompany YGO I’m glad it seems like the tampering of sealed konami official product has gone down in my area finally.
Isnt it really fk awkward to bring a freaking scale into a shop and weightvthe products? xD
They taking the pendulum scales mechanic too far
😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah, the odds are never in my favor except that one time when I bought 6 of those reprint Metal Raiders packs and got Thousand Dragon and Gate Guardian in the first 2 packs I opened.
That last point you brought up, sadly, is precisely _why_ so many people (myself included) enjoy buying sealed product: That rush you get from beating the odds.
Which is why I approach it with the same mindset I take to a casino. Use only money you can absolutely afford to lose, and accept that you're likely not going to win.
I remember I got scammed at my first regional tournament by one of the venders. I ended up quiting the game shortly after that
Very informative video. I’m relatively new to Yugioh and it’s really a shame knowing that people will scale packs which in turn really hurts other people. I absolutely love opening up packs for the thrill and nostalgia, but am always wary because I know there are people out there who WILL scale or repackage these packs that I’m buying
I remember before I would buy singles that I would go to Walmart and spend anywhere from $40-80 on cards. So yeah. I was spending lots of the money on the packs. Sometimes I would buy boxes from Shops. Nowadays I’m happy to be buying them online
Imagine having this knowledge as a kid and walking in walmart with a scale you either "borrowed" from school or your neighborhood dope dealer.
Back in my day, there were only two secret rares per set
When normal monsters could be secret rates
You never buy boosters/displays to draw specific cards other than maybe commons/rares.
You buy those if you either just like some of the featured archetypes from that set, to expand your card collection or to gamble. If you want a specific high rarity card, its almost always cheaper to just buy it as a single. Also I would recommend only buying at shops you trust, for example the place where you go to play locals and know the owner/the person responsible for the cards stuff.
My best history for value per pack/box or whatever has been going to LGS that buy unsold blister packs from big-box stores and sell them on the cheap from the glass. My best value was back in 2009, I went to an LGS and bought 24 Force of the Breaker booster blisters for a total of $36. I ended up getting three Super Raiza the Storm Monarch, 1 Secret Volcanic Rocket, 1 CB Sapphire Pegasus (ultra), and an Ultimate Zeradias...and all of the regular rares and commons I needed to fill out an Abundance OTK deck. About three weeks later I traded the Ulti Zeradias for two tin Sapphire Pegasus (not the whole tins...just the pegasi) and a sealed Emperor of Darkness Structure deck (one of my YGO friends at the time would buy boxes of structure decks to get 3x the cards he wanted then have sealed product for trades and Ebay...it worked out pretty well for him). That is just the single best example, but go to your LGS and buy slightly out-of-date packs on the cheap for a decent sealed value...if they do it.
My local game store always shuffled the packs in a fresh box of any booster set meant to sell single packs in order to insure that mapping was impossible and that everyone had a fair chance.
Long story short do not buy loose booster packs or the blister packs
You will lose your money.
I recommend buying special edition boxes and factor sealed booster boxes as it is the safest
If it ain't got the Konami wrapping on it
Don't buy it
Vs risking Being scammed because you can't scale a sealed booster box
Or a sealed special edition.
If you wanna avoid this scummy stuff entirely just buy singles
Then again
Screw the secondary market
I'm not paying your prices
I'll take my chances
If y'all got it cheap enough I give it a shot.
As a joke, i would never spend 1k+ on a 10k dragon, thank ya
I remember buying like 40 packs (they came in pairs, so technically 20 sets) of LD: Ancient Millenium in hopes of getting the new Crystal Beast or Ancient Gear support. I got 1 Rainbow Bridge. Oh sure, I got like 3 playsets of Sapphire Pegasus and Relinquished, but the best I got out of that pack were Rainbow Bridge and a couple Bandit Keith cards. Best part, the cards I wanted were so short-printed, singles cost about $100 per playset. For CRYSTAL BEAST CARDS, because that deck is totally meta and worth that cost.
Also, I remember one time I went to get one of the special box sets, and found a couple at Walmart had been opened and emptied already. What kind of desperate piece of shit do you have to be the steal cards like that? ESPECIALLY from a box set where most of the cards are the same in each set anyway. Best part, they just left the empty boxes there on the shelf, so anybody else could've bought them not knowing any better, got home to open it, and find nothing, and due to the nature of the product, I doubt they could've got their money back, so they would've spent $30-40 on an empty box all because some asshole just had to get some free cards. It was around the holidays too, so I could imagine somebody opening that present only to find it empty.
As for "just buy singles," I got a reason not to jump on those: getting burnt by re-releases. Spent like $12 on a low-end Vanity's Fiend once. Not even 3 months later, a structure deck reprinted it. Matter of fact, the cards I mentioned before just got reprinted and burned the price gougers who wanted $30-50 each for those cards, so reprints aren't all bad. :)
Cimoooooooo: *proceeds to scale & map Nyhmnim's virtual Labyrinth of Nightmare booster box*
Also how fitting for the booster set on the thumbnail to be The Dark Illusion, because I vividly remember buying a pack of it at Walmart and it contained 8 cards and no foil 😵
That sounds illegal (trademark)
It is insanely hard to find old yugioh packs that are not scaled. I got scammed by an ebay seller and had I not taken video proof would've lost quite as bit of money.
This is why I tend to buy packs from Walmart or shops that don't sell singles. Walmart puts a strip inside the pack of the blister so they cannot be weighed correctly.
Cimooooooo using kevin macleod music.....i never thought i would see that.
So basically
Sealed BAD.
Singles GOOD.
👌
Konami: Cimo BANNED
you can avoid all this bullshit by buying a sealed blister
james brown he explained in the video why sealed blisters can be tampered with. It’s very unfortunate but people will do anything for a quick buck
7:13 - "It happens a lot more commonly that you might think."
What's that now?
The Walmart in my area has their Yugioh Cards and other trading cards in the front by self checkout lines and there's always an employee there. 😂
Same. I won't buy from a store that has their cards in the back.
@@eileensmiller8041 For real. I bought one of those 25 card packs at Walmart that gives you a rare card and when I opened it the rare card was damaged. 🙃
@@xKingofDaNorthx That's just messed up. I mean at least most of my cards are in great condition.
@@eileensmiller8041 Most of mine are just a few damaged.
@@xKingofDaNorthx Same here and that's because they were loose cards from the buy 100 for $5
The music doesn't go with Cimoooooooo's enthusiastic style...
His video editor was probably trolling or Cimooo justbhad nothing better to add as BGM
Seriously the feeling of opening a box and not making half your money back is really upsetting ...
thought there was something wrong with my pc when the video went to black and white lol
It's funny how some people scam others over a children's card game, it's like the most embarrassing thing to be caught doing! Imagine an adult in prison saying "I stole Yugioh cards".
Watching this video after buying a couple of booster packs from a local store in Greece when I went there for holiday and pulling an Accesscode Talker.
Short printing is why I don't buy sealed YGO product. Rarities should be evenly distributed. If you short print within a rarity, then you know a card is more desired than another and then boosters are tantamount to gambling. I mean, they already are basically gambling because in YGO you don't even have the excuse of "drafting" like in MTG, but short printing makes it even more apparent.
well that is why i jumped to OCG as you can still get the cool rarities and more likely to get play sets and also singles are very cheap. I feel that i get more for my buck than whatever TCG offers. If OCG did what TCG does to core sets and side sets then OCG won't sell a single pack or booster box.
God i love the sound of his voice on this new mic 10/10
Cimo really gonna play that meme music huh
You forgot about the problem with the new collectors rares and starlight rares which are 1 in 2 cases. Vendors will open boxes untill they get that card and sell the rest of the boxes for the normal price with you never being able to pull the big money card.
I actually got a crush card virus and a blue eyes from one of those repacks. You definitely aren't going to get any good shinys, but sometimes you can get very lucky from those with commons.
Ik single is a good idea but if you need to get 3 copies of and expensive card they would buy the packs to try chance to get them in s cheaper way
No5: the odds are never in your favor:
Buy on what you can see
Not what excites you in the thought process of "possibly getting" something you always wanted
I went to insomnia in the UK a couple years ago before I got back into yugioh and saw a stand selling "ready-to-play decks", I saw a cyber dragon/geargia one and I used to love Cydra as a kid so thought id pick it up for about £10. Litterally half of the cards were clearly marked with the edges of cards like MST having green ink on the top of the card and traps having purple ink so you could see them. I litterally got sold some guys random cards he could never have sold as theyre illegal to play for £10...
Buying singles is much more easier and faster than buying sealed products, Cimo thank you for teaching me how to save my money on those kind of scams.
I worked at a Walmart and it frustrates me to see opened blister packs on the floor, in baskets or even in the freaking freezer. People will go to great lengths for a children's card game.
Kmart in Australia ( AUS/NZ Version of walmart ) the TCG stuff is located near the checkout so people cannot easily tamper with sealed products as there are other customers and CCTV.
Store workers let people come in with a literal scales and sit there weighing packs? That's pretty wild.
In stores in my country, they have all sealed cards in glass containers under key (similar to jewels). This makes it impossible for most of the scams to happen.
Also, the stores are all chains and no employee can temper or has the incentive to temper with the boxes.
I agree with the first 4 points you mentioned, but I feel that noone on this planet could be stupid enough to plan on, for example, pull Accesscode Talker out of an Konami display, right? Like "Oh, the first display didn´t have it. Well, gotta have to pay another 60 bucks. Oh, sad story, another 60...and so on...600 bucks later...and on..."
Number 4: Fans of Little Kuriboh and his booster pack deckbuilding challenge series know exactly what this is like.
You can also map starlight boxes out of cases then sell the rest of the case There is no stopping it unless you make every pack truly random.
Telling ppl not to buy sealed product kinda stops you from getting the cards you want since less packs would be cracked open
I remember, as a young duelist, buying booster packs from the flea market near my house. I had good decks but nothing powerful. I was able to scale using just my hands and was pretty consistent with it. One week I pulled a Yata-Garasuand was super hyped about it. Two weeks later I pull another secret rare; Chaos Emperor Dragon-Envoy of the End. I got to work remaking my deck around those two cards and the result was a chaos control deck that turned me into the Number One Duelist at my school. That deck was so powerful, i was able to duel 2v1 and still win. I still have some of the cards from that deck including both secrets.