A Collector tried to BUYOUT all the Lotus Petal's ...and then gave up
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2017
- The Lotus petal is another story of miscalculating the SUPPLY side of a card in the market
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I tried to BUYOUT all the Evolving Wilds.. I still haven't given up yet!
NOEL GUIDRY everyone does lmao
Keep going! There cannot be that much more out there!
I have at least 15 in my collection I'm not using.
I'm telling you, Evolving Wilds is a stupid card to buyout. Terramorphic Expanse is so much better!
I'm buying all swamps and island
I am currently buying out all basic islands so nobody can ever play control again
john howe you cant have any of my 1500+islands nope not happening
I semi support this but you aint getting my basics!!
I'd happily give up mine, but only when you have the rest. Don't forget non-basic blue lands though.
you are the hero MTG needs
I have a sneaking feeling they might reprint basic islands. Good luck lol
"She loves me... she loves me not... she loves me... she loves me not......"
BowlUndrFire ever better
slowly rips apart most expensive card
I'd like to point out the flavour text of Tempest Lotus Petal:
"Hard to imagine," mused Hanna, stroking the petal, "such a lovely flower inspiring such greed."
Lol
Directly hating on reserve list card owners
His goal was to rip up every copy in public and then own the only remaining 4 in existence.
And then lose to Exodia.
Last 3 blue eyes*
dingding12321 best😂😂😂
dingding12321 that’s fucking great 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wrong game 😂😂😂
@Agent 00 Bademeister splitsecond
He tryed to build a black lotus with all those lotus petals XD
hahaha
lmao i was just about to comment that
Ragmesesis nicely done lol
Ragmesesis ffffd
Fuuuuuuu-sion-ahhhhhhhhhh
"its heavy, its like a metal"
Dude you literally just read the label that says its 22 karat gold lol
Um that would be plated. The weight would be the steel or zinc the coat of gold is electro plated on.
Beat me to it.@@marcellachine5718
Lotus Pedals’ market price is almost $18.00 on TCGplayer so that wouldn’t be too bad of a haul today...
It’s even higher now. Not that he could have foreseen that. Dude got greedy and had to decide between going hungry or holding out for a boom that he couldn’t foresee.
Here when they’re around $25 a pop
@@DrewskiTheLegend Are you greedy for choosing not hungry?
25 is what i'm seeing now!
6 Feb 1999...and still not curled. WotC once knew how to do it...
hahahaha
Thats where you're wrong. Early foiling process curl as much if not more. Issues arises since urza's legacy where people stack their deck with foil lands and non foil others that led tc to issue statement that people must either use all foil deck or have them get replaced with basic lands or something like that.
I think he's referring to Professor's video.
TFW I have yet for any of my cards to curl.
Alvin Mason The former owner probably lived in a desert. The humidity is what doesn’t.
I live in a desert and all my foils are straight af.
Chinese = purely complex pictograms
Japanese = simple letter-like symbols mixed in with a few pictograms
Korean = small circles fucking everywhere
and I think it´s traditional chinese right? Thats always hard to tell for me..
Yes that was traditional
Korean always seemed to have more square shaped characters with thicker lines, to me
Korean is mix bag of 'em cause early Korean started using a system of adding certain shapes to a symbol to denounce vocabulary, grammar, and sound. Nowadays its only vocabulary/grammar as greedy emperors kept changing how the alphabet was used or discarded it entirely until it was revived, but the vocal components of the language changed while the alphabet remained dormant. Still super easy to learn to read, speaking is another task all together.
obv. Japanese and Chinese have differences in how they use the originally Chinese symbols, with Japan still using the mixture of traditional Chinese with hirigana and katakana, while East Asian and Southeast Asian countries using either Simplified or Traditional Chinese based on region. Hell China itself uses Simplified, with the exception, technically, of Hong Kong (but that's too geopolitical for this comment section).
I may have gotten 1 or 2 details wrong, but I'm fairly assured overall in the correctness of my ramblings.
The fist set is chinese, set 2 is korean, set 3 is Japanese. Japanese Kanji comes from chinese character (Hanzi) and can look identical. In fact, you'll notice set 1 (the chinese set) has the same symbol for flower as set 3 (the japanese set). The kana is a better giveaway for Japanese cards, as there is always kana on Japanese magic cards. Just based on the kanji/hanzi though you'd basically be guessing since many of the hanzi are in kanji as well.
$5 then. $16 now. He sold at the wrong ass time.
lol yeah 😂😂😂
20 dollars to day.... crazy...
Wow like 3 dollars back then
As a type 1.5 extended player of this era, Wall of Roots makes perfect sense. It was a staple card back in the day.
lotus petal is now 10 bucks each
Just came here to say this.. man holding onto these would been a good investment
@@masondeitrick i bought 3 serra's sanctum. 20$ each. that was a good investment. in general it is quite insane looking at the value of the old cards you played back in 2000´s .
Guessing they ended up cornering the market lol
Now 20$ each
@@Ambyli how much were they 3 years ago?
What's the storm count, does anybody know? You don't see that many Lotus Petals without a Tendrils of Agony over the horizon.
lol
tryhard
my best guess for storm count is dead?
Ahh the storm deck. Its fun storming out on turn 2
I can assure you, those lotus petals were used for something far more insidious than storm count. Those were used for Tolarian Academy turn one kill in standard. You can tell because he also had the feldon's cane, spellboox, urza's bauble, and 4x stroke of genius.
When you said he tried to corner the market, I thought you meant the whole 5K box was filled with Lotus Petals. He's only got a hundred or so in that collection -- please, that's not cornering the market, that's just having a few of a favorite card.
Looks like he gave up on cornering the market pretty quickly
Unsleeves foil, throws it in a stack, then swirls all the cards around. I guess that's your triggering moment from this video but I can't believe people watch these videos and still send you their cards.
Yeah, the jokes about him not caring about the game is really true. He is just using the magic market as vehicle for wealth building :/
You're both stupid.
Thumbs up
Like most card shops, yeah?
Except he give everyone a chance to buy card super cheap
i always thought i was a creepy collector but then you see those people and realize tha youre in the bottom of the Pyramid
or ppl that buy like 300 of the same ten cent card because it has a girl on it lol
Dark Magician Girl flashbacks
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The old Deckmaster sleeve boxes! I remember buying those back in the day as my first sleeves. Still have them 15 plus years later.
Back in the late 90s I was in middle school, and in computer applications class we were all assigned to create a digital picture. I scanned a Lotus Petal and did absolutely nothing to it. Got 100% and the teacher hung it on the wall as one of her greatest assignments ever. I wish I could've been there when some student later told her it was a magic card submitted by some random Timmy.
pls, stop throwing and harming the cards in such vile manner Rudy.
that poor Lion's Eye Diamond...
Yep, I'm not even a collector but that violence against cards bothered me too. :(
he didnt put them back in the sleeves either
He handles expensive cards all day he knows what he's doing far better than you.
sabretact if he knows what he's doing why is he throwing cards and bending them under piles of other cards? lmao. fucking dumbass
Rudy selling his own collection to himself!
I can't speak for any more recent trends, but back when Tempest was still current, the petals were pretty valued. As I recall it was a common(?) but traded at around 5 dollars or so. I can't imagine trying to corner the market on them, especially if it's been reprinted. Hoarding them in the late 90's makes more sense though.
Haha yup. I got some old scryes and duelists and yes it was an "uncommon-common"
They are about 25$ now
Love watching you open old collections I never got into magic back then so its really cool.
Lotus Petals are now worth $20 or more.
I've bin playing magic for 16 years now, and i have to say with exact certainty...
The eager anticipation you feel before looking through a big-ol' box of cards thats still a mystery to you;
And the pure joy of actually finding those rare gems, buried in unplayable crap...
Its like combining the joy of Christmas, the rush of gambling and the high of drugs into...
well.... into a big-ol" box of friggin magic cards :)
Rudy i cover myself in mayo in anticipation of your uploads, thanks for coming thru comrade.
irishboy9780 ...what? Is that a bukkake joke I just don't get? Never heard of mayo on a floppy taco....
Order was:
Chinese
蓮花花瓣系列
Korean
연꽃 꽃잎 수집
Japanese 蓮の花びらコレクション
Chinese signs are much more dense mostly based on sticks.
Korean signs have a fair bit of separation and use many circles that look like Pokemon anons.
Japanese has more simplistic signage that visually impacts the separation even further.
Only true of hiragana and katagana. Many japanese sentences can be made with all kanji in which case you wouldnt be able to tell if youre not familiar w the language
@@lordjulian10 basically
Chinese: complex characters
Korean: has lots of circles
Japanese: simpler than chinese(very easy to recognize hiragana and katakana)
12:27 "I don't recognize the art." 11:54
HAHAHAHAHA
Interesting this has popped up - 5 years ago. 2018 jumped to $10... 2022 jumped to $20... now a Mystery Card (reprint) however still made the jump to $25 this year.
Wow, I have a small bundle of Lotus Petals I've used as bookmarks in the past because I like the artwork.
You got yourself a $7 bookmark there, Rebecca.
See? MTG-cards have practical uses. I'm not throwing money out of the window.
I like the artwork God did with your face
@@smashingpunkkids go tell your other friends and family what to do, not me
@@smashingpunkkids Like I said, don't tell me what to do big man, I'm not one of your toys
I know literally nothing about Magic and I love these videos.
Mythronos same
Mythronos You don't have enough mana
Haha dude same fr
What's a magic?
LV426 xenomorph It is not D&D at all... (I have been playing Magic and D&D since 1995)
Legend has it, if you have 25 lotus petals in your hand, you can play them together as a black lotus.
My favorite art in mtg
mines the scars mox opal
Crosby4hyg i couldn't tell
Nick McKee dammit dude that’s what I was going to comment
@@mjo2892 mine is ob nixilis reignited
Clearly
9:41 the way you unsleeved that card and then proceed to throw other cards on top of it 10:56 triggered me
glad someone else noticed besides me lol
Didn't bother me, mainly because it isn't my card lol
why? The card is pretty much worthless
theyre just cardboard....
lion's eye diamond is over $100.00
Now lotus petal goes for 17 euros 😮
Rudy, while looking through an impressive collection, with many signed rares.. "Weird collection. Doesn't make much sense. Nostalgia!! No real value though. Not much this. Not much that." Classic, slick, sales talk. Classic."
Yeah, really antipathetic, worth the downvote just the tone he uses judging for the first sight.
Way too many quotes there buddy. Are you saying this or did Rudy say it?
@@burkles4456Nerd
I have huge stacks of stone rain and strip mine. All different sets and languages and re-prints. I do not really know why, and it makes no sense because both exist in crazy numbers. When i ordered something online on magiccardmarket and someone had stone rains for 2 cents per piece or some 80 cent strip mines i just added them all to my purchase. In reallife my trade binder started with 20 pages of stone rain.
Now i think the alpha and beta stone rains and the antiquities and from the vault strip mines pay for it all.
This was not a buyout, just fun, another guy did it with dark ritual. One time a guy i barely knew walked up to me and just gave me 40 stone rains.
you could make a gaming room with dope ass wallpaper
Corner the market - that's a textbook definition of a pittance. If he tried to corner the market, the UPS guy would have needed a pallet jack to bring the card boxes into the store.
When I see these vids with a bunch of 4th edition/Ice Age/Tempest era stuff the nostalgia hits me right in the feels.
LOVE THESE type of vids , showing others peoples collections of all types of cards keep it up rudydudey!
What I've learned about trying to corner the market is that it ALWAYS costs much more than you think it will. Whatever your expectations are, quadruple it at the lowest and don't be surprised if it ends up being ten times higher than your expectations. I bought out a TON of Sylvan Advocates on MTGO a year and some change ago.
First of all, I heavily underestimated the liquidity of the market for reselling them. More importantly, I also underestimated the sheer amount of volume that were sitting in player's collections, despite it being MTGO. My initial assumption was that a higher percentage of cards on MTGO are actively traded and played and hence tried to estimate supply through deck popularity in tournament play. I've never been so wrong.
Point is, if you're going to try and corner the market on ANY card, be prepared to spend much more than you are comfortable with.
Crypto Investor i started cornering a reserve list card then ebay became flooded with them. It was fun seeing the price spike but no one else was buying so its stagnant. Ill need to sit on them for 25 yrs ha
Legit question: You were trying to "buy out" digital cards?
Get a group of people to collaborate with you for your buyout shop you can split the up front cost..
Trying to buy out a standard rare (on MTGO!) when its still in standard? This must be a troll
@Loj1k - Yes. It's worked several times for a variety of other cards online. Only issue with online is liquidity - otherwise it is same in terms of factoring in supply and demand.
@forties - Nope. I had well over a thousand of them. Actually worked quite well til I tried tickling them back into market.
"that's interesting in itself!"
Plop.
"Wait, it's all Lotus Petals?"
*loads up*
"Always has been"
Awesome video Rudy! I love these where we get to search through a random collection!!! Ohhh and Lotus Petal's each are listed on facetofacegames for 6-8$ Canadian, depending on condition of course!!
How much for the gold and blue lifecounter? I'm interested.
I wanna correct his pronunciation, but I cant tell if that is part of his mind games now...
He used to work for Square Onyx so he is definitely trolling.
It's a shtick, an act. It's high-larious sometimes though. He's made me laugh talking about Tarmagoyfs starting with R: Rawrmagoyfs.
Ch-asm, 😒
Every time Rudy struggles to brute force a card out of a sleeve from the bottom doing damage to the card, a Serra Angel gets her wings.
Cool video Rudy. Thanks for sharing these weird collections with us
The counter medallion made of gold “huh that’s interesting, feels heavy or something” *tosses it aside”
I prefer to use Lotus Bloom over the Petals because I imprint it onto a Prototype Portal, then you tap it for free and it puts the Lotus Bloom into play. Then you can do that every turn and with Unwinding Clock in Multiplayer, you ramp fast and hard, giggity.
Sounds like unplayable garbage.
I think beside the Black Lotus, it was for the Lotus Petal - Kaladesh Inventions, I recall having those 3 type of cards alone in your deck can lead to a quick win (when combo/play) correctly with burnout mana decks also, but the Lotus Petal are like 5-7$ each and sign can go to upper 20$ sometimes when verify
You sir are a legend!!! And will be my next EDH commander. Cool video nostalgic as heck seeing those old cards
personally i think those signed bolts are great, as they are signed by the late Christopher Rush
GhoulcallerGisa yeah.. sucks to say it, but that's raised their value, is say.
Did anyone ever find out what he died from? I know he was only 50. I have a couple dozen cards of his signed, actually (including a playset of 4E Nether Shadows), and yeah, death does raise the price of signatures. I wish they were still cheap. I always heard he was a super cool dude. Also, his artwork kicked serious ass.
TheFaithfulAtheist he had a heart attack. His daughter was at GP Albuquerque last year and we caught up as we hadn't seen each other in years.
Actually, that depends. Death doesnt always raise the price of sigs. It raises the price if not many exist, but things like this it doesnt really. Signed art after death is raised, however.
Rush was also at a lot of GPs there's so many printings of bolt, and so many signed cards by him, it's not likely to really increase the price. especially considering, the likelihood there'll be interest from new players going forward is small.
10 land mono green stompy WAS a thing. Signed wall of roots makes sense.
you have been blessed by the algorithm twice, congrats!
I just love when he opens boxes nothing but red cards
I'm assuming Lotus Petal was just his favorite card. Myself, as well as a few friends of mine did the same thing back in the day. We were on a team called "Team Legend" so, as lame as it was, we collected that awkward Stonehold rare called "Sword of the Chosen" due to it's association with Legends, and the fact that nobody would ever play it, so it was a rare we could trade for cheaply and easily. At one point, we ended up having over 200 of them.
And for those old-schoolers out there, does anybody remember the deck called "Flagpole" that was first created and played by Andrew Pacifico? I believe he won the Junior Championship with it at one point. I'm assuming that's the reason for the signed Walls of Roots, as well as the playset of Tradewind Riders. The deck was really popular for a while back in that time frame, and was basically one of the first Type 2 four/five color control decks. It played things like those Gemstone Mines, Wall of Blossoms, Wall of Roots, Birds of Paradise, Spike Feeders, Firestorm, some counter magic, some burn, etc... and mainly relied on bounce control with Tradewind Rider. I only remember all of this because I had Pacifico sign almost my entire Flagpole deck, lol. He even drew little flag poles into the hands pictured on my Walls of Blossoms. It seems super mundane now, but when I was 14, I thought it was awesome!
I don't remember it by the name "Flagpole", but I remember all those cards being played together. Don't forget the Diabolic Edict and Mog Fanatics :)
That kicks major ass, dude, and you’re probably right
Birds of paradise is a trigger from back in the day
I collected Tamiyo because I loved the artwork. I still have my foil Tamiyo.
Don’t remember “Flagpole” but I do remember “ATS (Angry Tradewind Survival)”
What a hit with that Lotus Petals collection being in 2021
Man, I love those tempest/urza cards from back when I started playing.
I appreciate the boxes as well Rudy! Down here in a Aus, my brother and I got a blue and blue one for free when my local game store closed down.
been watching a lot of MTG videos lately for literally no reason, i dont know a damn thing about it, but i really want to start collecting tho now.
If he bought those petals 4 or more years ago, he's doubled his money. From 3 to 7 a piece.
And now they’re around $18 plus the foreigns are a little more. So it’s a great haul if he still had them as well as a lot of the cards in their!
That counter was made for the old Legends of the Five rings card game. I used one, and many players used them since they were simple to use. They go for about $10 on ebay.
And there gold? I cant find em
$400-$650 Canadian in Lotus Petal's from the Tempest set, this were Japanese, Korean and Chinese foreign Petals I believe. Looking at prices on eBay, there are individual signed Korean Lotus Petal's going for 25+ American! That is a lot of money.. moderately played players going for $23 American and up.
Damn , id love to own a signed set of petals!
maaan I wish I still had my old cards from this era.. losing your collection 3 times really blows. Trying to get back into the game now and its just a mess.
the second time your house burned down you should have moved in a cave, it's fireproof
white weenie was fun with cataclysm. This guy was playing with illusions of granduer he was playing extended around urza it seems.
Wall of roots signed sounds awesome to me. Especially since I felt it was a backbone to some early green based decks
After handling them, I assume most of your cards are listed as heavily played?
"Hi Thanks for sending me all this stuff guys, Can you try to organize it a little more so i can sell it more easily?" (then Proceeds to throw around cards sent by a Fan)
Wow, I actually bought one of the Korean signed petals this past winter and I’m running it in Kess edh. It’s cool to see where it’s from!
I love your videos man. When I visit my grandparents in Calahan I’m gonna stop by your shop.
Rudy I did it i did it i followed your advice and I bought out a card from a set with a lot of printings a card from ice age but we'll whatever it's called Ice Cauldron
Chinese and Japanese can be pretty hard to differentiate if you aren't really familiar with the languages, especially because they use some of the same characters, but Korean is pretty easy. Korean is mainly circles and straight lines. Once you see it on a few cards, it's really easy to tell Korean from the other languages.
Chinese characters are more complex (each character is a word) while Japanese are more simple (half the characters are just sounds) - also, the psuedo-period is a give-away on Magic cards - Chinese has a circle in the middle of the line, Japanese has a circle flush with the bottom of the character line. First cards were Chinese, 2nd set was Korean, and 3rd pile was Japanese.
Rule of thumb is... if the characters look like Tic Tac Toe, its Korean. If the name have a mixture of symbols that are both complex and simple then it's Japanese. If all the characters are complex then its Chinese lol.
That us actually a Legend of the Five Rings Honor Counter, around 4:56 you can see it written on the back!
This REALLY takes me back. The Lotus Petals...
I don't know if this is from the same guy, but I can tell you a little story about a guy I knew in the 90s and his commitment to the Lotus Petal.
Once upon a time in Arkansas there was this shop where a guy named Chris worked, I and my friends played in tourneys there, I was really into 1.5 and Extended myself. My friend Joey was all about Standard. Anyhow, this dude who worked at the place always asked for Lotus Petals anytime somebody got Tempest cards. I found out when I and my friends bought a few boxes, and he tells me "I'll give you a deal on any Lotus Petals you don't want".
I kept four, but I had a load of them after opening 3 boxes of cards, so I brought the small stack to him along with a few other spares thinking he might be interested in some of those too, but he just wanted the petals. He was still salty that he'd never gotten an actual Lotus in the day. And resigned himself to the fact he'd never own one. But he figured he'd get all of the petals he could and hold onto them until they were worth something. Maybe he'd cash out one day and get a real Lotus.
It was kinda sad and funny, me being a young prick I decided to have a little fun at his expense and started collecting Erg Raiders and telling a similar story about how I knew I'd never own a Bazaar of Baghdad and hoped to trade them in for one one day. I ended up buying four of them a month later for $15 each, because it was still the 90s and nobody knew how badass that card was yet. I don't think he ever get his Lotus.
Hey Rudy have you ever considered giving discounts on singles to patreons? Maybe a percentage discount or something?
Rudy I suspect he just collected the card. Sometimes a particular card has meaning to a person.
Mine is the original art prodigal sorcerer. It holds a fond memory of my early days playing magic and so I collect them. I've been known to spend hours in a shop getting every copy from the bulk bin and spending 5 or 10 bucks to buy them out. I have hundreds. Not as an investment but because I just want them all. There are shops I frequent that set them aside while sorting bulk and no longer charge me for them.
zendahl wow keep up the good work.
That's pretty cool, i have a lot of comet storms. I don't like the card or even burn in general and i don't play red, but the card amuses me and costs less than a dollar so i have about 50 now.
raziel11 sometimes you just like an oddball card. Nothing wrong with it.
Yeah, i've also wanted to start getting a bunch of oblivion sowers. I like eldrazi and cards that interact with decks.
I do that for all cards with John Avon art just simply cause he was the first Magic Artist that i really learned the name of and I actually like his art no matter how shitty the cards are.
That legend of the 5 rings counter is used either for the RPG or the cardgame by that name, it's a pretty good one
Those lotus petals are now going for like $13+ a piece
"that's interesting in and of itself." *yeet*
RUDY, that was not a life counter, it was an honor counter for Legend of the Five Rings CCG (now actually LCG, after acquisition by FFG).
Really? I had the green one from that series and it looked remarkably like the green mana symbol. And I used it as a life counter for years. Lol :D
I recall them having removable/changeable top plates so you only had to buy one base but could get various clan tops. They probably did a set of mana symbols also.
Wall of roots was in at least one World Champion deck. It's a powerful card that doubles as both early game defense and mana acceleration. It was particularly powerful because you don't need to tap it for the mana and you could grab mana from it both on your turn and your opponent's. The one deck that comes to mind where I remember seeing it used was the reoccurring nightmare and survival of the fittest deck that took 1st place back in the day sometime in the mid 90s. It was particularly powerful in that deck because it could be sacced to reoccurring nightmare once it's counters were building up to high.
I remember setting up my greatest combo deck out of so-called "useless" cards including Glacial Chasm. It all started with Storm Cauldron and my desire to find a use for it, not just a situational one-off use, but a center stage glorious STAR of the deck.
Here's how it goes: Storm Cauldron, Fastbond, Glacial Chasm, any "do X damage" spell as the finisher. Storm Cauldron returns any tapped land to your hand, Fastbond lets you replay them for mana immediately at the cost of damage, Glacial Chasm reduces that damage to zero. *Infinite mana.* For extra fun, make the X damage card a Hurricane or Earthquake to bring ruin to an entire table's worth of players in a multiplayer game.
This also brought one of my favorite "Did you even READ your card?" moments as I performed that combo and concluded "... and I cast hurricane with 10 billion mana, so everyone and everything takes 10 billion damage, except me who takes zero because of Glacial Chasm."
One of the players thought he had a GOTCHA and replied "I FORK YOUR HURRICANE! SUCK IT, LOSER!!!"
There was a moment of silence around the table as everyone stared at him silently. Clearly, he was the only one who did NOT understand the futility of what he had just done.
"Okaaaaaay... now everybody takes *20 billion damage* except me. Because you know, Glacial Chasm? The card I just told you reduces all MY damage to zero? You just made everybody lose twice as hard, seriously man do you even understand how Fork works?!?"
I know someone prolly said this already, but the foreign lotuses are: Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, in that order.
IDK about lotus petal, but... I used to buy up wastelands back in the late 90s wherever I went. I mostly picked through the uncommon bins at comic book stores and got them for 25 cents each. I made a dumb deck with 30 wasteland and then a bunch of random artifacts (stax with some stalking stones lol) just to troll on kids who paid $10-20 for each of their dual lands.
I stopped playing MTG in college and med school, then came back to the game in 2013 when I found my box of mtg at my mom's house. I sold 100 wastelands to a dealer in Virginia for $8,000 and then paid off one of my school loans, haha.
Basically all I'm trying to say is that back then a lot of stores had big cardboard boxes just sorted by rarity; a lot of the time commons were something like 10 cents and uncommons were 25 cents. So it was pretty easy to just buy a bunch of a certain card if you wanted to collect them for some crazy deck idea.
I got some old cards from around that era. Gonna have to check what I’m sitting on.
I've had random urges to collect a random specific card before. After pulling 6 in a row in Kaladesh Drafts I started collecting Aetherworks Marvels, had about 15 before the Marvel Deck came out. Really annoyed me as I was collecting them because I believed it to be a garbage mythic. I still maintain that the only reason the deck did well in tourneys is because the judges didn't catch the players cheating.
In other news, I'm pretty sure I bought the French Lions Eye Diamond in this video.
Let me tell you a story about a man named Nelson. Nelson owned a Bunker. And Nelson loved to Hunt. One day Nelson thought he could Hunt out all of the silver in the world and store it in his Bunker in anticipation of better days. Nelson Bunker Hunt never cornered the market on silver and ruined himself and his business partners in the meantime.
But he DID corner the silver market. The government stepped in and fined him billions of dollars citing market manipulation and other charges, mainly because they are the only ones they think should be able to manipulate things.
"When you're doing buyouts"
doomtomb3 conspiracy Rudy
I had a couple of those custom life counters, had a Nirvana smiley face made out of 22k gold leaf :)
I don't play Magic but wouldn't they have printed tens of thousands of those Lotus Petal cards?
HAH looks exactly like my collection. Tons of late 90s golden age crap
Heck, that first collection looked like the cards I started playing Magic with.
I have a forest version of that spin down life counter, love it!
hey Rudy do you have an actual store? can't seem to find anything online or google
If u have enough lotus pedals, eventually u can trade em all for a whole lotus💪😂
Yes but you only get the super worthless yellow lotus. Not the ultra rare black one.
@@slaytronic great deal i would say🤣
Video starts at 6:03... and the title was a lie too, btw. "I don't know if he tried to corner the market, if he tried to invest in it... I honestly have no idea guys."(6:18).
Reminds me of a meme comic I saw years ago. A Pokémon trainer was catching every “kangaskhan” just to throw them in their pokeballs in a furnace. Last frame was him showing off his one of a kind legendary kangaskhan.
The life counter is from an old card game in the 90's I think it's still around. Legend of the Five Rings.