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Rudy probably got to that Serra Angel before he hit record.
Darn. Beat me to it.
What do you mean?
Well, thank you. I was looking for that serra angel hashtag so badly.
Just imagine how many t-shirts you could buy with $40,000...
4 of them
That's 4 more than I thought...
@@brokengames9020 how is MTG a scam?
Its a pay to win game.
Mtg was p2w before u even knew what p2w was.
@@neverrip875 As I see it, most games are pay to win even the ones that aren't. You can pay for boosts, you can pay for gold, you can pay for the right cards, there's few games that don't involve some way to pay and gain either resource advantage or human assistance on a team. It's just how games go. Magic is upfront, you have to buy cards to play the game. It's pay to win in that respect yes, but it's at least transparent to that end.
Says it's sad that these collections dont exchange hands anymore but then states he refuses to sell any of his collection
If you can’t beat em join em.
Ya, he meant it's sad for the rest of us...
Funny that, Rudy puts out a 40k purchase video after he admits in recent videos (to his credit he admits) that it's harder to buy now, and prices not going down..In reality, the best time to buy 93/94/RL was 6 months ago.
@@adolphus28 Jeez... repeat yourself much lmao.
@@adolphus28 Pretty sure the best time to buy would have been 27 years ago.
Serra wearing that Lewinsky inspired dress!
"Prodigal Sorcerer...they call him captain timmy or something, want me to sign him." Prodigal Sorcerer was known as Tim for years and years. It's a reference to Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail.
Sweet !! Learn something everyday
"There are some who call me.... Tim." LOL wonderful!
I love how much you love magic man. Enjoy the cards Rudy. Good hands to be in.
You got railed. There's $40k just on the ones he chose and put on display at the top...
Are you the seller? if so you could have sold all these for probably 20x the price you sold them for.
I remember having a playset of p9 pulled all but 1 time walk from packs when I was 13 my entire collection was stolen its so hard now to try to rebuild I completely understand where you come from keep up the great work
Betasexual, (noun): an individual who receives sexual gratification or arousal from 93-94 era Magic: the Gathering cards.
Surely AlphaInvestments is Alphasexual though?
I’m more of an alphasexual myself, but my only lover is this grizzly bear.
I knew a guy like that, total beta male.
I love these videos, the box openings are 24k gold, but these videos are special as Rudy really shows how much he loves this game for what it's meant to be. A fun card game to play with friends
16:32 'uncommon, which is a library'
Don't know if that was intentional or not, but it made me chuckle.
The library rarity is really tough to get....😂😂
Love these videos! I nearly had my deck confiscated by the principle, never forget going to the principles office to talk about a game that is dark and possibly demonic! Also, we never sleeved our cards and power nines were flying around the grass, driveway, picnic tables and wherever we could play! Old school magic will always be where my heart is!
Correction for anyone watching: fastbond was in revised.
That Guys Bats ; yup, yup, and even saw some printing in foreign white border 1995 sets (possibly 96 even).
Thank you for sharing your experience with us, seeing your love with these cards and the history behind it from you are amazing and fun.
I worked at a comic shop when I was a teenager. My boss was collecting 5 beta sets. (actually 5 of every set up to Alliances, the current set at the time). He wanted 1 pack fresh set and 4 of every card for playing. wish I had the foresight to keep all my old beta -unlimited power cards.
You’ve got a lot of subscribers
@@ozmond yup. made lots of vids back in the day and got over 100 million views.
@@mattv2099 what happened to them
Would love to see your content dude! Bro, so many subscribers that are waiting for your vids! Sweet sn by the way 👌
Great video. I started magic in 1994. At the time my stepfather owned a “gaming shop” and I had access to all the “cool stuff.”
I never knew what was up with the “mono/poly artifact.”
Great video.
Sometimes I miss the cards I sold you and will go back and re-watch the video you made of my collection. I love videos like this because it reminds me of what it was like to play back in the 90's.
Link?
Bet you're sorry now..!
@@jovdam I actually had this conversation just last weekend. For us the timing was right and we got to do some amazing things with the money, so I don't regret selling when I did. There never is "the perfect time to sell", it's just what's best for you right now, imho
@@zr00t This is the correct attitude my friend! Enjoy life
Rudy, you should join the misprint group or talk to Tavis, the factory damage is sometimes worth more. I've sold and seen a few, especially these!
I actually saw teachers rip very high level cards up and then throw them in the garbage in front of the whole class. That shit is real.
I bet they can still be sued for such BS
A teacher tried to take my cards once. I just flat out refused to give them to him. Then he kicked me out of the classroom and I still forcibly resisted getting them taken, so they took me to the principal and after a good bit of me telling them to f off I'm not giving you my shit, they called my parents and sent me home, got suspended.
It brought me back to the days we actually played for ante. Thank you.
Awesome video!
Born into this world in 86, I was just a touch too young to have too much disposable income (and on the wrong side of the states, to have much luck at getting alpha / beta anyways) to have had much a chance at this old magic stuff. I want to say I remember riding home on the school bus, talking to a kid who's parents were "well off" about how they bought him some arabian nights packs at $15 each. This was probably around 1998-99. He played in tournaments in bigger cities, had his deck "ranked" if that was a real thing.... and I remember he had some cards like demonic tutor (I remember that specifically... as another kid took it from him in a joking manner and him retorting "that's fine, you don't know what to use it to look for..") but I don't remember if they were alpha or beta.
At any rate, I always felt I was just a tad too late to the magic scene. There were a handful of kids in my really small home town that played, but no one other than that one kid really had any expensive cards. At best, some unlimited stuff but more 4th, 5th and 6th edition. By the time magic was "a thing" here in Western PA the original A / B / U / AN cards were just too expensive. Especially for a teenager with parents who weren't well off. I did get into Pokemon a bit.... base set / jungle / fossil were already out of print.. I started buying base set 2 stuff.
I've always loved the artwork, the mechanics, the history of MTG even though to this day I have no clue how to play it. Watching videos like these ones, watching openbooster go through is NUTS beta booster box opening (dude has to have like as close to the best possible booster box... SO MUCH POWER 9 IN ONE BOOSTER BOX!).... seeing this collections. It's cool for me. It's like I get to "experience" it without the crazy high prices that I'll likely never be able to afford. But, to some extent, thanks to folks like you (alpha investments) and openboosters and others... I get enough of the experience that it's OK for me to not actually own the cards. I remember seeing some arabian nights booster packs for sale in the local collectibles shop, at insane prices for even the time. I want to say $30-$40 a pack... at a time when I was buying 1st edition jungle pokemon packs for around $5 each IIRC. I pulled two if not three jungle holos out of those packs, including a first edition jolteon without the jungle symbol. I regret selling my cards now :( but you live and you learn.
Great story, thanks for sharing.
I didn’t know Serra Angel had a pearl necklace print
The "Let's watch" series is my favorite kind of content. It includes Collections, and vintage booster pack openings
Your an inspiration. I always go out to eBay and check prices while watching your videos. I am reminded of how sad it is that I didn’t buy and keep sealed booster packs from the early nineties. I wish Wizards/Hasbro would do a classic edition with the new back card art for us old timers. I don’t play with cards made after the Urzas Saga block.
same will happen in Magic over the next 100 years as it happened in stamps 1840 to date: the high end rare material finds a home in life-long collections, and specific elusive items change hands in the 20 to 50 year time frame. There are items from the 1840s-1850s that have been at auction once every 40 years or so. Look up Hawaii Missionaries. Magic is a baby compared to stamp collecting. There will be great collections built that will have a dozen Alpha Black Lotuses. The super whale stamp collectors (Ferrari, Burrus, Ishikawa etc) may not have materialized in Magic yet.
Great point. Thanks for sharing
Like how you mentioned how we were all shunned for playing magic in the early days. Great video
You are like a dragon, making a giant pile of treasure and just sleeping on it.
Cockatrice was one of my favorite green cards back then. My friends would be all high and mighty playing a Serra Angel only to have it destroyed by a flying snake, chicken dragon thingy.
Yea, im suprised he doesn't think much of it. I loved playing with thicket and cockatrice in all my green decks back in the day.
@31:20 Fastbond was in revised, but overall great video! those roller lines make me sad, but I agree 20-30% of unlimited had em... bad card quality started there and then pushed into revised with the light ink, and has been on and off since then...
Due in part to the increased volume of cards printed?
@@adolphus28 I would think perhaps in part, but it's contrasted by comparing current generation cards side by side. Looking on most pre-release kits, those cards are printed in JPN, vs many boosters box cards that are printed in the US, and will have ink tone imbalances, and what I've noticed as foils that curl more easily. Having said that, I believe good quality cards are capable of being made in the required quantity, but I would assume those increased costs would be passed to us as the customer.
i started playing in 1997, me and people playing where seen as like Lepers, totally understood this part
Prodigal Sorcerer is nicknamed "Tim." It's a Monty Python reference.
Damn i always hoped that to be true. Is it realy?
I love watching your videos whenever you show the old cards. Absolutely love them.
The argument about icy manipulator and Serra angel being reprinted and it doesn’t affect the original price is because they are cards that are only bought to collect, and not play. But for cards that are expensive because they actually are wanted for decks as well as collecting, like dual lands, they would absolutely be affected by a reprinting.
It to what extent do you think?
@@ozmond don’t know to what extent, but it would definitely be a factor since both legacy and commander players would have a cheaper option, and some may even prefer the black border and new art versions, (or even foil versions). As opposed to cards like chaos orb for example which isn’t played anywhere, besides oldschool which don’t want a new version.
Thanks for sharing Rudy. Started playing in 96 and it’s nice to see these cards again. Started playing old skool recently and I love using the old cards again. Thanks for sharing some nostalgia 😊
21:33 totally agree beautiful artwork.
Rudy been watching you for a while now, and finally started to play magic last week I’m hooked ! I LOVE that you keep these collections close you are truly a god, thank you for the awesome content ! Send me that play mat 😏👍🏻
I cant wait for rudy to also figure out that the art from resurrection also matches up to mox jet and forcefield.
some of these cards are seriously heavy hitters in the alpha 40 format. Meekstone is really gaining traction bc of its synergy with serra angel as well as a whole bunch of red creatures (ironclaw orcs, goblins, oriflamme, etc)
This brings back memories...I wish I could find my cards from back when I played in 4th - 6th grade
You will earn a lot of money
Rudy already found them
Same. I search my parents attic whenever I'm up there... maybe one day
I still have all the commons 🤦♀️
Not a regular follower, but special story thank you for sharing. I love Magic in this era
With an ending like this I can imagine Rudy doing a painting show in 20 yrs from now
I wish I still had my goodies from 1994-ish. Had my main deck swiped about a year into playing and never got into rebuilding anything major.
Hey, Rudy. Thanks for making this video. It's nice to be reminded of the good old days, coming up in a gaming store and playing mtg
15:50 I remember when you were playing prof and used that card, good times.
YESSSSSSSSSS THANK YOU RUDY!!!!!!!! I LOVE THESE KINDS OF VIDEOS
I was over at a friend's house recently (we are both teens) and her dad has probably thousands of cards in big card sorting boxes! He used to play in the 90s I guess and I'm really tempted to ask if he wants to sell them. I was nosey and peeked in one while we were in the basement and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw how vintage cards there were hiding in just one of the 5ish boxes
Psionic Blast wasn't the only direct dmg blue card, there was also Mind Bomb and Psychic Purge ;) but it was the coolest
I bet the reserved list matters. Icy and Sol ring are very famous and uncommon cards. The old art and old series is a collectors item. If they dropped the RL and started printing duals and post 1993-1994 cards like LED’s, Grim’s and cradles, Prices will plummet by tens to hundreds of dollars
Like your opening statement. Same reason why I want to open my lgs and build money and collection cause the same time during the 90s it was the only that made me cool and accepted by people I didn't know (especially in Jr high) that other people played a game that we were all equal in.
Haha it’s so special to Rudy that is why he doen not sell. Sure....it’s just a mega investment for the future. It will possibly double in price in another 10-15-20 years...where would you find such a profit.
but this guy never tires of buying cards? incredible
The more cards he owns, the more of the market he controls. Think about it in terms of stock ownership. You own a lot of stocks in a company that is only becoming more valuable. The more you buy now, the better your futures look
How to taxes work when you buy a collection like that?
mtgfinances legends say that the value of rudy's collection is immeasurable and would completely crash the magic market if ever released
Rudy once said that the value of his collection is somewhere in the 15 to 20 million dollars.
His collection is also his weakness: he can never sell eveything at once, because it would crash prices.
Yet, he buys and buys and buys.
Rudy's collection MIGHT be the downfall of MtG finance at some point in the future - depending on how he (or his relatives?) handle it.
As much as I like the videos and all - so much cards in one hand is dangerous.
It might also be a marketplace earthquake, if his collection ever gets destroyed (tsunami, flooding or anything of that magnitude).
Always nice to see the old cards Rudy. Just made me think about how rare draw as effect was back then. In that collection wasn't it just Jayemdaya Tome, Verduran Enchantress and Ancestral Recall that could do that?
Back when alpha came out I bought 4 lotus for 20 apiece and 6 alpha starter decks for I think 7.95 eac. Sad i played it as a game only and didn’t collect for long term. Well done Rudy from all us floppy tacos.
I dont even play magic. But for some reason. I've been watching these fucking videos cause of this guy. I love it!
Old school magic cards has the sickest looking illustrations of any card game.
Rudy: is it possible that you end up building such a strong position, and you end up holding the cards for so long, that sometime in the future there is no buyer for your cards? Do you worry about that at all? I assume your endgame is to use these to fund retirement, or be a backstop or insurance policy for income in retirement. What if there’s no buyer for these? I’m just really curious.
He's smart. He'll dump at the critical point (despite his self professed love for 93/94 Magic)
He's already dumping cards...this video is from 2018 😉
Lure/Cockatrice (or Basilisk) - was awesome when magic was fun.
Would be lying if I said I wasn't at least a little bit jealous of you being able to purchase a collection like this without breaking the bank! Such beautiful cards!
Thanx Rudy. That was a treat.
thank you so much for showing us all theses beautiful pieces of history, it made my day!
So hard to find a mint Juggernaut on these older cards. Not many people played with sleeves back then and that card went well in any kind of aggro deck.
The color that was on Serra... Not what I initially thought...
Drinking game: take a shot each time Rudy says infamous. I'll start digging a grave for you.
I think he may not know the definition either, cause almost nothing he calls infamous is actually infamous.
Rudy. I hope you know, the way to break Island Sanctuary is to pair it with Mystic Decree
I run all 5 circles of protection, Rhytic Circle, and Island Sanctuary in an Alela EDH. They're pretty good.
Rudy, this card proves the Reserve List doesn't matter.
That was awesome Rudy! Thanks a bunch! It really get perspective into the game, there was so much power and at the same time very lame power. Loved
I still have a permission/deck destruction blue/white deck that used island sanctuary to effectively end all hope of touching me with anything. Tough card to use, but not impossible. Don't have a lot of beta, though, mostly unlimited/revised
Does this man have every magic card
Wish I still had my old cards.. think the basement flooded and they ended up getting thrown away
What is it with Serra having stains? All of my old ones have stains too, but its not er chocolate like that one. The Mana Vault is super sweeeeeet!!!!! Also the Nightmare, it's gorgeous. I'm waiting for my invitation to go to Florida and play magic Old School 93-94!! My first rare was an unlimited Personal incarnation. I traded it for Vesuvan Doppelganger!
Meekstone was the cornerstone of Zak Dolan's first world championship deck.
It's funny that Rudy talks about cards evading him because we found this too and I think it had something to do with the printing. like the infamous Legends uncommon A/B fiasco. My friend openned a whole case of Legends and didn't pull even 1 of the uncommon Thunder Spirits he wanted because of the printing.
Icy has an interesting price history worth considering.
Oh at 17:54 that's a wraith not a rath. Like in the old movie the Wraith, with the cool car.
Rudy are you green screening? What are you hiding behind the green curtain?
well said sir. Playing back in 1997 was a like being a witch in Salem!
I am absolutely shocked and floored by this video...
There was play wear on a clockwork beast.
Rudy, some people pay a premium for those mox with a roller line on them, check out the misprint community there are some folks who will pays a huge amount for that mox with the roller mark
According to Rudy, 19% of ABU cards are infamous.
A beautiful Chaos Orb, I see what you did there. Chris Wilson would be proud to hear it I bet!
You don’t think there’s any common artifacts in alpha beta? You’re just now realizing that? There’s also no common artifacts in unlimited and revised.
Great video Rudy. Love the nostalgia.
I get there’s a gamut of things to checklist authenticity. Even more abstract things like feel or intuition. What’s to stop a team of counterfeiters to thinktank a reverse engineer to print these things? Is it too much work for not enough profit? Essentially building your own paper mill, printing press. Mixing your own ink. Using retro software. And doin quality control until you get it right. It’s certainly not above board but that’s never stopped mankind’s sheer will and determination. Thoughts?
Would not be profitable. Maby for a few cards but most of the value in these cards comes from low supply. This means that the ammount they would have to print to make a profit would crater the market so hard that it would not be profitable anyway.
I always knew you were a black mage at heart. We can tell our own.
I love that you share these experiences 🤘thank you dude
are you going to set up a museum/archive or make a book on this stuff if you aren't selling?
11:51 that artwork is so op
Hats off to Rudy, the shrewd businessperson he is. Rudy puts out a 40k purchase video after he admits in recent videos (to his credit he admits) that it's harder to buy now, and prices not going down..In reality, the best time to buy 93/94/RL was 6 months ago.
Glad I kept all mine lol great to show people, oldies but goodies
Love the Dr V. My favorite. That Angle looks like a booger on it.
Ok you've convinced me, I'll stay the damn course!
I quit after revised. Would've never guessed 40k. Lotuses were 2-3 hundred when I quit
I'm watching this in February 2021 and these cards have probably quadrupled in value right now, if not more. What a strange year it's been.
Someone had dookie on their fingers when they held that serra angel.
Rudy, why the heck is there a soft taco on your shelf?!?!?! Of all the the random items to have displayed...???
Rudy, no worries, you still retain your outcast title.
Well, these days are the LGBTIQ community still the outcasts?
Lich is always under appreciated. Theres something refreshing about taking your own life and saying ok now try to kill me. Its a flavorful card in my opinion.
The orb was probably held in hand a lot
They gotta add Tibalt to the reserve list.
I cant imagine spending 40k on cardboard, but much respect.
It make one kind of think about it, right?
As much as I love the cards, I simply couldn't spend that much money on it. It feels ... 'wrong' ... I don't know any other word to describe it.