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“When everything is special, nothing is special.”
when everybody gets a medal nobody gets a medal.
This is what I love about Rudy. He gets real, talks about his real feelings and issues and he's HONEST about it. This guy is real on another level.
I have a lot of respect for this man.
Lol, this bot has me dying 🤣
I feel like it’s his own twisted way of telling us he has tracked down every alpha/ eta/revised magic card. He’s bought it all lads.
Magic will likely never be the same, so I'm glad I still have all my old cards.
Same, I'm on the younger side and got into the game right when born of the gods came out. I used to be a little bummed I missed out on the 'OG' era and basically anything more than a few sets before theros. This video made me appreciate a lot of those khans and theros block cards I have a lot more
Taught my wife how to play magic and she put it on her resume, the first question she got in her interview (for medical residency) was the program director sharing his passion for the game. The game is still good, even if everything else swirling around it is confusing these days
Bias hiring
@@teaadvice4996 all hiring is bias if you know the definition of bias.
@@teaadvice4996 boo hoo : (
@@teaadvice4996 He didn't say his wife actually got hired. They just talked about the game in the interview.
I am a hiring manager, I look at the "hobbies" section often of new candidates
From the point of view of a very casual player, everything is so confusing. I know that the product must be selling well right now, but I don't know how much this practice scales.
When I look at old products they feel exclusive and special. If I bought a box of Mirrorin, that's THE Mirrodin. A card that's a special edition will feel really special. But the current product is just boring. Who cares about full art cards when half of the cards are full art pokemon or batman edition?
A lot of the new stuff just looks like noise to me. Imagine how it will feel for someone looking at current standart sets in the future. I will look at the boxes and just buy singles because I don't want half of my cards to be random alternate art that doesn't match the rest.
Very much agreed. Wasn’t happy about alter-art showcase pathway that I have opened in my REGULAR booster pack. It just seemed far to off.
I have it reverse as intended, the plain normal version of a card is the real bling to me.
it's all perception. I buy the cards I like if I think their beautiful. The market is largely based on supply. There is a shit ton of supply in the market. Set boxes, collector boxes, secret lairs, the market is glutted with cards. Double masters printed 2 rares in each pack. Set boxes often have multiple rares. The singles prices trend down, and then eventually slowly back up with certain cards (usually mythics or heavy demand rares) can spike and then tank again when they are reprinted. Just wait for single prices to go down, but the singles you like and will use or want to speculate a bit on. If you want to invest, buy sealed product and keep it sealed. Preferably buy it on a credit card you will get points on and milk those points and ebay bucks XD.
if they play magic then they won't be able to look at cards from the past because a new set will be coming out multiple times a day they won't be able to keep up, no one will be able to keep up I couldn't keep up years ago when they started releasing more than two new products a year.
I definitely couldn't afford it.
When Amazon had the Battlebond 6packs for like $18/pack. I bought 6 packs. Got equivalent of a booster box really cheap. Loved cracking packs of battlebond also. I understand where Rudy is coming from. Started playing in '95. This isn't the game I've spent most of my adult life playing or collecting.
Battlebond is a lovely product indeed, I bought a box recently, they aren't easy to find, I'm not going to open it I think.
At 24 dollars at Amazon I bought 800 dollars worth
95 here also. It's over. So sad.
I reached 'acceptance' back when mythic rarity was introduced to the game.
That was when my eyes opened to MTG going from a game that's meant to be played and enjoyed...to a total cash grab. They actually fabricated a completely new rarity...put the most desirable cards in there in order to drastically inflate the cost of standard and later the cost of every other format.
That's when I realized MTG wasn't the game I grew up with...it would never be the same...and consequently its when I stopped buying boxes and slowly (over many years) stopped buying any cards at all.
Kudos to Rudy for having way more patience and tolerance than me. These days I get together with a group of friends to play our old decks about 6 times a year. Other games have caught my card game itch and to my surprise I just wound up liking them more. My favorite ones right now being Legends of Runeterra and a solo PvE card game called Monster Train.
The best part is reading their flat out lie that mythic rarity wasn't going to be used to sell pushed cards
@@CodyFlood123 Yeah that definitely poured salt in the wounds and made my decision to transition away from standard easier, lol
Hasn't it always existed in one way or another? Before you had rare 1, rare 2, uncommon 1, uncommon 2, etc. Some cards were just rarer because there were fewer of em on the sheet.
@@heyayay not to the mythic:rare ratio in terms of scale
Yeah monster train is great
This feels like when a guy goes through the acceptance of finding out his girl has been cheating on him.
But as he acknowledges, he understands her. She cheated on him with somebody more handsome, and if he was her he would have done the same,
@@juanp7021 That’s not how this works. If you seriously go to justify uncontrolled hypergamy then you’re a not fit to be in any relationship. Period. End of discussion. You chose this relationship, and deciding to jump ship because you see someone “better” come along like a branch swinging monkey will only leave you, and everybody around you, miserable. Nobody wants or needs halfhearted commitments like that.
so understand your feelings when you get out your "old" cards!!
This past weekend while playing a 6 person round robin I bought out an old white/black desk I haven't played in probably 20 years. The look on some of their faces when they saw some of the cards I was playing with.
When Moat hit the table the groans from the token/goblin/zombie players reminded me of playing in the 90's once again :)
I'm a pokemon collector/investor but I've been watching Rudy's openings and I think I'm starting to like Magic cards. Also I never liked tacos but now I'm craving them all the time...
Yeah, same here... I've been buying old reserved list Magic cards like crazy. Be careful though... if you think vintage Pokemon is expensive old Magic cards are on a whole other level.
I missed out on Pokemon as I was playing MTG back in the day and while I was 13 in 98, played the game, and loved the show...I felt weird buying the cards. I already had to hide my love for MTG, adding Pokemon cards was just too much.
This is all to say that I currently buy both MTG and Pokemon. I love cracking a box or two, but really enjoy stocking up on sealed product and singles I love.
And if the value of these boxes crashed.....WHO CARES!?!?! I've got kids and we can enjoy playing with the cards.
welcome aboard. i did the same thing 5 years ago. once you pop, you can't stop
you should not like the cards - you should like THE GAME !!!
chulupas for the win sir
This video just admits what I think we've all felt for a while in magic videos vs metazoo or FaB. The passion isn't there. Can't blame him. With theros collectors boxes kicking off so many mythics and so many variants to what is offered now. Box toppers aren't even special anymore. Anyone notice mythic count is down in collector boxes compared to old? They've painted themselves into a corner
Yeah FaB is just getting me more and more in love with it as I continue to play it, watch content on it, and see each new set being revealed and released on the market. Everything in it is just pulling me deeper into the game.
With Magic, I don’t even know what’s even going on in that game anymore. It’s becoming shittier every time I look at it. The art is lifeless, the gameplay is shit, and WOTC is just making so many products that you can’t keep up with any of it. The only thing keeping me remotely involved with it is Commander, which is also losing it’s luster considerably in these last few months. The game just isn’t fun anymore.
@@theatheistbear3117 do you feel the lore is lost as well?
@@ttsupra87 Honestly I was never someone who got into MTG’s lore. That’s saying quite a bit as someone who loves to obsess over details.
But from what I’ve seen recently, and have talked with people who are much more into it than I am, it definitely has...regressed, to say the least.
A somber conclusion to the Five Stages of Grief.
Still happy that I haven’t looked back since Double Masters; this new iteration of WOTC doesn’t deserve anyone’s money.
We’ll all still have 1993-2001 in our memories though, for those that were around for Alpha through Silver Age!
The new trading card games boom reminds me of the late 90's when everyone and their brother-in-law was pumping out a new card game. Nearly all of them are long dead. Be very careful when investing in them people.
That’s how I feel with newer card games getting hyped. People invest before they even know if the game has “Timmy legs” because of fomo
Very, very TRUE. Metazoo for example feels like one of those fad tcgs, i mean people are only buying into it because of the whole hype. However, once this whole trading card boom ends, tcgs will resume to their normal paths, at least I'd ideally hope so.
I changed to Old School magic 2-3 months ago, and haven't looked back. I abandoned my magic arena account and have been having fun collecting the cards for an old school Ernhamgeddon deck. Those old school cards will always stay special.
Rudy my man, I recently just found your channel and I am loving it. Get some rest, and keep your spirit high. The world is changing and keep doing what you do. Sending the love from Canada my dude!
Sometimes I lay awake in bed fearing that Rudy is just gonna pop out of my closet like the way he pops into screen at the beginning of videos.
Hey hey Heeyyyy!
Proper light: game is dead, new products are worthless.
never accept improper change at the detriment of something
I just got a comic book in the mail yesterday and the mail man folded the cardboard packaging just to deliver it. Last week I got some low end reserved list cards delivered and they folded hard place card holders. Like wtf. Those cards and that comic book are now nothing never to be sold as light played or near mind book. They just don't care what they do. It sad to say but I'm thinking of backing away from collecting nerd stuff. Thanks Rudy for all your thoughts on cardboard.
Thats super shitty. But in all seriousness, i hope you documented the conditions they arrived in and will file claims with your postal service
Always film yourself opening the product and show how it arrived (if it’s damaged) and that will definitely help you in the long run when buying online
Old school magic, for me is creativity, create your own combo's, don't search the top decks on the internet and copy them... be inventive and make your own winning deck... (I 'am an ex magic player , like in the times of tempest and urza's saga) just before covid-19 i restarted with great expectations, i quit after 3 months due to the internet brainwash of socials and communities. it's more complex then that but this is less of more what I wanted to say...
Market's been nose diving since late October. All of us dumbass single flippers made a killing on tribes from Midnight Hunt (werewolves, zombies) prior to the initial crash. We all decided to double down on vamps early for Crimson Vow. There were slight upticks in the beginning, which we interpreted as being a great sign. I personally dropped about 8k total, expecting it to turn into 11k minimum within 1 month of release (had higher margins faster than this with werewolves). I'll be lucky to get half that now. Magic appears to finally be slowing down.
Oh well. At least my recent buyout of Planar Void produced some solid numbers. Can't win 'em all I guess.
For the new sets I always buy in on the foil dual lands. Especially the ones from these last 2 innistrad sets. Commander staples in foil full art has felt safe
I mean, there are still variables... Depends on the set... Depends on how good the cards are... Depends on things like flavor and theme and if a set is linked or related to something older... Etc... Currently, I agree... It is slowing. Too much saturation. I think going forward that will be hard to come out of, so you are very much right, yet my former points still carry weight. I believe the first Collector's Displays they did such as Eldraine, Beyond Death, Ikoria, Core 21' and Zendikar will continue to go up and hold solid, especially Zendikar Rising with what it offers (Premium Fetch lands with a mythic symbol to boot) After those sets, Collectors Boxes, etc... got tiring. I think older cards will continue to rise in price too. I am not confident in the state of new Magic. I did recently collect Double Masters over the summer because I LOVED it, that set also is pretty amazing, but that is an example of a set that stands apart. But what will the math be now, 1 in ever 10 sets stand apart? It is what it is I guess.
There's a term from sports cards going back to magics roots (late 80s early 90s) JUNK WAX .. things made to be collectable (but really just to sell) generally become worthless before they become valued again
that term is clearly from the vinyl record days bro
@@abolishshekeluse3782 I once had a garage sale wherein I was selling a few records that I took for free from the laundry room in my apartment building (more of a parking lot sale but anyhow) old people saw these and just decided 'hey you should sell mine and whatever you don't sell you can keep' ... I ended up with litterly 4 entire collections (200+) of records that day from people just dumping them on me and I sold maybe a handful.. this was like 2003ish. I ended up giving them to my uncle because they took up so much space 🤣
But yea it goes back in history .. probably as long as people have been buying into trends
Love you just sharing what's on your mind Rudy. Speaking a lot of truth.
Ouch, $30k in Gideon's Spell book. I feel your pain.
Rudy, you can't get them all right. Your hits outweigh your misses, that's all that counts.
Thank you Mr. Rudy for being real and speaking to us!!
What is weird is I have absolutely fallen IN LOVE with Magic the Gathering over the last year. I learned to play a few years back but never continued with it because the closest LGS to me sucks and doesn’t really encourage people hanging out, and the people that do hang out aren’t friendly or inviting. But at the beginning of the year I started watching your videos and learning about the old cards and history and it absolutely took over my life. I have been collecting what I can, I’m up to 7 dual lands now. 5 of them are unlimited. I became a patron of yours in July. MetaZoo is cool and I’ve gotten a lot of that, and my true love will always be Pokémon, but it is my firm belief Magic is the greatest game ever made. Whatever Hasbro and Wizards does, the game is still the game. It’s history, is still its history.
Magic just needs a good healthy way for players to finally sit together and be able to play. Once we can start doing Friday night drafts again safely I believe there will be an upside then.
100% real video. First, loved the hair. Second, I was going: "Ok Rudes but Secret Lair" and BOOM he went into Secret Lair.
You know what? They should reprint Kaladesh Inventions in those, or just basically go 4x Solitude, 4 X JTMS etc. and just sell singles direct to us.
Got 5 of the MSCHF one, full set of Blood Moon and Grim Tutor with nice arts. Might leave one sealed but Secret Lair is sweeeet.
Post office = Opening scene of Ace Ventura
... millionaire asks if the work is worth it..... the answer is yes.
Is this a shameless plug for sales..... the answer is yes.
Good work rudy.
Keep that shit up
I don't see any reason draft boxes will not hold interest and value. There will always be groups of people all pitching in to buy some for their game nights.
It is this reason I personally don’t go too much into set boxes and collector boxes. Draft boxes have that value of actually getting a group together and playing the limited game. You just don’t get that with set boosters or collector boosters and why I think the idea is silly. If foils were like the old foils I might have a different opinion but I can’t stand any rainbow foil version of a card and also not really fond of alternate versions of the standard layout. I understand I might be in the minority
@@ericshutka7704 I got pulled into the shrill of Coll boxes and a few set boxes. I played back in the day... I never knew draft boxes were a thing until a while ago. I HAD never HEARD OF DRAFT OR COMMANDER. I played Sooo many years ago....draft and commander is the 'NEW' way to me to play the game. I get a few people saying here is my money i ll take my sealed and have fun for the night. Rudy... these are things magic might get back to. Just sayin.....
@@ericshutka7704 set box breakdowns don’t compare to draft either unless you can get the set box cheaper than draft which most of the time you can’t. You definitely get fewer commons and uncommons and most boxes I’ve opened it’s a similar number of rares as a draft box. The list is a joke as well, it’s a lottery of bulk. So if you’re not getting the box cheaper it’s worth going set, but it’s just not the case most of the time.
Am an OG of magic, I miss the old days too. Started in 1995, put it in storage in 2001. Grew up had kids. Last year kids came home from school telling me about this awesome game they were playing at school (2020) call magic. I nearly feel of my chair. I pulled my cards out of storage to find my old set was worth a bit now but it didn't matter to me. I just wanted to play. My pasion took off again and now collecting and playing with my kids to this day at 44yrs old. I collect cause I enjoy sharing a pasion with my kids and that I enjoy playing. Stay the couse brother rudy.
"When the card is about being a gold doubloon rather than the name of a player, we knew it was over" - "Mint Condition" on when the baseball card market crashed
Except that sports cards have seen their biggest boom probably ever in the last two years, so calling it "over" seems a bit premature.
@@michaelrudolph7003 yeah. Sports cards have come back with a vengeance for sure. The 20-year calm of that market ended in 2016 thanks to Gary Vee, and went even more nuts thanks to the pandemic.
Rudy acts like an evil investor but I think deep down he's just a good guy who loves Magic cards.
Not just deep down. Rudy is the hardcore Magic fan the game always had and the people (me included) that leech every drop of nostalgia out of it and thats basically the only thing that keeps us in the game, as all the new cards are near to irrelevant to so many players.
This video is about him crying that he not making money from it. Not that he doesn't get to play the game. Smh. He doesn't care about the game. Only the money from it. This is a card flipper crying he can't flip no more. Because of mtg arena and him and others not getting new players into the game to buy real cards. Smh
@@CardGamesTV1 you shake your head a lot. Careful with that.
He just loves cards more than most people, incase you couldn't tell.
@@CardGamesTV1 because he's a business owner; why are you mad that he makes his living running a store for the game that he loves? The same can be said about literally any LGS owner. Hell, literally ANY business that's getting destroyed by Amazon.
I think the real value of something should always be from the real usage of it. Mtg cards are made to be played as a game, so the intrinsic value should be always be decided by the power of the cards in the real game. Collectors are just follow the trend and add a slight premium to them.
Lol. I felt this way when I dipped during Urzas block. Kudos if you stayed this long.
I told everyone rude was done.. lol no one believed me and laughed and made fun me. Hes tired of peoples bs and the money isn't worth his time anymore
On the subjec of the ost office ... yes, they mishandle packages all the time. For YEARS I have had packages either delivered to the wrong address, or put in the wrong spot that is just unprofessional and not on my doorstpe, and I have had plenty of damaged packages. Hell I have worked for for UPS and saw how they and other companies we ran into were handling things...they dont care. I took care of packages, but the delivery drivers...especially during xmas time...oof...
I am really glad to have come across this video. I started getting back into mtg recently and I am just so very confused by what is going on. Ice Age was my jam back in the day, not the greatest cards but some of my favorite artwork ever. Now I am looking around and I just have no idea whats going on. At this point it may be a bit fud of me but I don't think I would buy into the new direction unless they were printed on precious metals. At least then I would know they have some physical value beyond the vagaries of collecting.
Sad to see how Amazon takes so much business from smaller shops. I worked for UPS during the holidays when I was younger just doing the driver help job running packages. It was crazy to me seeing a few of the drivers I worked with throw boxes across the truck. Some were great and handled packages with respect, others didn't care if it said fragile or not.
Oh shit, Khans Origins Gatewatch in the background, the sets from the genesis period of Rudy's YT channel! That must mean shits about to change. Dont leave us man. Where would this community be without the guiding light from Rudy's watchtower to keep us all from crashing on the rocks?
Nice pick up
We'll be looking back in 5-10 years at the "Collector Box Era", then another 5-10 years at the "Secret Lair Era" - You say it yourself that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Nothing is really bad, because you'll look back on everything fondly given enough time.
Very good discussion today Iv tried buying new magic and have no idea what I’m buying…way to many variants to a single product honestly it’s sad
Yeah nah its yugioh time. Its time to DO DO DO
DUAL!
Believe in the heart of the cards Rudy!
naked rudy drinking water sitting at a table enjoying his cards should be next metazoo promo
Timing is almost impeccable. I've had this nagging felling lately about Secret Lairs. Hated them at first and thought they would tank. Now I'm eating those words. The Dan Frazier and Phyrexian drops this last run are amazing. And now with them bringing in popular IP's like Stranger Things it only brings more attention. Wizards figured out how to get into the single card market.
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@@Zerostatik 🤣
I love and watch your videos because it's from your mind and heart. Not scripted. All you. Thank you.
they kept saying "this product is not for you" so much that now products are for no one.
A possible answer to your question of why they will not do everything direct is the international market. Amazon and direct works fine for US consumers, but for many places in the world it does not. I agree the disconnect has increased a lot, and it feels like a large chunck of sales are ending up at collectors/investors and not players. It will be interesting to see how MtG and FaB move seeing as LSS is picking up most of WotC old market plan, while WotC moves on in a new direction.
WoTC went the same way Blizzard went; the marketing and business people took over the company and ruined it.
I think Rudy and MtG are missing the whole point of the trading card GAME. The prices of new product and long term value of cards 100% depends on the players, not the collectors. No one will care about serialized cards or 1000s of secrets lair. This is literally marketing 101 here and the psychology of sales, if everything is special NOTHING IS. Slapping a number on it or making it 1 or 1 super premium etched ultra foil does not matter if they players don't need it or want it. ALL these products that are worth anything are due to PLAYERS not collectors, otherwise it's just a game of hot potato between collectors to see who gets burnt the least. Old Product is worth a damn because it got USED, it got PLAYED, it has memories and nostalgia and 100s of thousands went through a laundry machine or 2, stuck in a kids pocket. It NEEDS to be USED for it to be worth shit all in the future.
I mean, that certainly not the case in sports cards.
@@ctubridy this isn't sports cards this is a collectible card GAME. The reason people got into this isn't the same as sports cards
It doesn't help that its difficult to find an LGS these days to show the cards you have and make friends. What am I supposed to do with all these special variants if I have no one to show it to?
*Morgan Freeman's voice* He's right, you know.
Oldschool Cards....1 Variant....2, max 3, was the way to go. This Dilluded everything.
I'll always be here waiting for a spot on that patreon v.v i found you too late, but its never to late to wait
This is some heart felt insight from Rudy. I agree with what you said in that direct to consumer is a better overall business model. It also solves the issue of them over and underprinting since its made to order
my playgroup and i personally only care for "old school" magic. we've fallen so out of touch with the game lately its not even a thing i ever think about till i see uploads like this in my feed. i cant even remember the last set i purchased. completely agree with the vid though, its never coming back and the sooner we accept that the better
The best sets printed old-school border cards, like the Modern Horizon set.
These look and feel like REAL magic cards from the days, so thats the latest cards i ordered.
I pretty much stopped buying MTG from Rudy on Patreon after switching to set booster boxes. Hoping they'll appear on the patron list now that the box design is easier to ship, but being a patron is still well worth it for all the behind the scenes shenanigans and Rudy thoughts👍
So The Timmy's Are Still Paying For Patreon BUT Not Ordering MTG Cases As The Cool Aid Is On The Nose!?!? You're A Bloody Genius Rudy!!! No But Seriously, All Jokes Aside, Great Video! Real Talk!
Great Video down to earth and real
Who's going to be buying Secret Lairs in 10 years? Everyone will be too busy defending their water supplies from raiders to deal with luxuries like toilet paper.
Welcome to Monopoly The Gathering™ folks Magic in 2022 is going to look very different, and Rudy is right, we are not going back to what Magic used to be, so instead of being negative about it and whining, we simply have to accept it.
Rudy didn't even mention the Universes Beyond stuff. So not only is Magic not gonna sell like magic used to, it's not even gonna LOOK like it used to! And what Rudy had to say is how I've felt about it, I can't be mad because magic is doing well, and even if we hate that we're getting Lord of the Rings Modern set, I can't be mad at the fact that might bring in new players and grow the game. More people playing and appreciating magic is not a bad thing.
~Dave F.(a Rudy Patron).
I have bought Volrath Stronghold, Debt of Loyality (did not read oracle though) to my EDH, some Pauper stuff and bunch of monochromatic innistrad basics and I am pretty happy with my aquisition. Also Strixhaven is dead giveaway deal with all those sweet, sweet mystical archives in every pack.
Imagine buying cards right before the collapse
big facts mane
hey at least you'll have something to play with those around you
Get James White to release print numbers and spice FAB up
the print numbers are on the website for the first 3 sets according to what i saw honey!
@@dorintheaclaxton7749 I'm referring to the other two sets.
I legit thought Rudy was wearing a cape
Not all superheroes wear capes.
Dammit, when I see serious videos I start to wonder if I should sell everything
I would not be surprised if Wizards started phasing out the printed cards and doubled down on MTG Arena. Its less expensive to print digital cards, they are in total control, and its more profitable. Plus, it would eliminate the secondary market.
I think that’s to risky. If player count keeps down trending that would be disastrous for them. Given the sucky arena economy and the poorly designed cards as of late I don’t know how it’s going to fair long term.
@@ValariaxSword You might be right. But consider they built it to compete directly with Hearth Stone. Which is a completely digital game and it makes a profit without physical cards. If Wizards put more effort into improving Arena it might draw more players. But who knows.
They still haven't even fixed that wreck of a platform. I totally quit playing on it.
Thanks for the shout out!
The “light of the future” is actually light of the past 🤯
Unsanctioned was a failure because it was just five set decks that you'd combine two together (like Jumpstart) and play vs another two put together.
I live to far away to get Secret Lairs. So I am only buying one collector box of every set they release. When the product is really good I might get more than one (like MH2 of which I have 3 or ELD of which I have 5), but the general concept is in 10 years time have a complete sealed collector booster collection featuring the 60 or so different collector boxes since they statrted with Throne. My heavy money is now going to FAB (and occasional ABUR single gems like dual lands and that kind of stuff).
I have just started buying older magic cards as investment pieces and such. Already black lotus hunting and even stocking up on graded alpha & beta cards to have. Im still buying a few booster boxes from each set that gets released and putting them in various rooms in my house for the future!
I already know I will miss the videos in a **post-Rudy-TH-cam world**
An apt assessment, sir. Good luck!
So sad..and yet so true...thank you Rudy for teaching us everytime,i'm going to make some change is my MTG investing after this video..you alwais open my mind to new possibility,thanks
Can't MtG just be about the game instead of collecting for investments? There is no scarcity any more. Not in foils, not in regular cards. This makes for a great game due to availability in cards. Collecting MtG for a longterm investment is dead and will never return.
Except when everything is special nothing is. A valueless game rots from the inside out.
@@KrepsyK Exactly. The game is eating itself from the inside out.
Longing for the days of future past takes adumantium bones my friend. I feel you, I started when The Dark came out. Not sure what the hell happened over the last 25 years? But here we are
Rudy I really hope you read this comment! How is WOTC not in danger of being held liable for not going the route of Amazon/secret lair? I’m an avid wrestling fan and WWE has been making huge cuts due to budget constraints and Fiduciary responsibility… doesn’t WOTC also have the same Fiduciary responsibilities to maximize profit margins for investors? Are they going that way but we the public don’t see it because it’s not an overnight thing?
I'm really considering moving my high end modern cards. I'm not sure the prices will stay.
They probably won’t. After enough master sets and modern horizon reprints their value could tank. I would keep them if you enjoy playing with them. If you’re concerned with value then RL and sealed might be better.
I agree. I personally sold most my high end cards unless they were cards I genuinely liked playing with and didn't care just so I can still have my few key decks I love and play with. I've weeded out most the rest at this point considering every week WOTC pumps news products with likely reprints too
Tough day in Rudyland
This is why reserved list and vintage is my main focus when purchasing. I am also an avid EDH player so if there good cards from the newer sets I will just buy them as singles if I want to put them in my decks. The only newer set I keep sealed is MH2 as it seems to have the least amount of variants/reprintable cards, but then again who knows what will happen
The real danger is the lack of young people playing MTG. All the paper events I go to are filled with 30 year old and older men. Most of these men are educated and have plenty of available cash so the sales of product is high. But for how long? All the new blood is in Arena.
That Dragons maze box in the background is scary for some reason...like a bad sign...🤣
I played from Theros to Shadows Over Innistrad and had a blast. But then I moved away from my play group. It was good times back then…
Why we dont buylist most variants is the same reason we don't really buylist foils. They move like molasses compared to the normal (cheaper) versions, let alone the older ones like those from Throne of Eldraine for the same margin. And we'd rather allocate our funds to high volume vs high availability.
3:34 I do the same thing Rudy. You're fine.
In 2020 I almost got out of magic until I tried arena … and I have to admit I’ve played it a lot and the amount of paper I buy has drastically went down . I still buy some but mainly just a box or two of each set to have …. I just found it hard to keep up with all the variants anymore .
I've just started out with Arena. I really like it for the quick play, especially during Covid times, but it kind of lacks the social aspect. You can't really chat with opponents other than emotes and there's no way of adding someone to your friends list after you've had a fucking good match against them.
That said, what's your Arena friend code?
I do agree with investing in the secret lairs. I kind of doubt they will be reprinting those cards in exactly the same way. I've been snatching them up in favor of other things, but still only buying singles after they hit the market.
Oh yeah, and reserve list.
Got me on the feels bud..got me in the feels ☹
The new "UN-Set" is called Unfinity
1. Rudy refers to himself as an old fart yet he doesnt appear to age, only expand.
2. Does anyone know a quick breakdown to what happened during the TCG Boom of the early 2000s? Neopets, digimon, pokemon, Duel Masters, Yugioh, Star Trek every time I went to mcdonalds as a kid I remember my brother getting another free booster pack of some random new TCG that doesnt even exist anymore. I wonder if theres any comparison people will be able to make in 5 years between now and then
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Rudy Now Accepts Floppy Tacos!!
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Also the subtle bubble popping noise…..was noted
What camera settings gets you TacoVision? Guessing aperture around f11
We already know this stuff but it isn't clearly aired. The fast pace of releases clouded the issue of product value stability to unpredictability. I invested money in mtg cards to hide away spare change but in no way do I see it as a way to make money lol. If I buy a box of Unfinity I should only expect to break even just like any set these days. When the price of gold is at all time high this year and the value of the USD going down so much in value that a soda costs 100% more than 10 years ago. If I bought a magic card for $20 ten years ago and it is still worth around the same, It is actually losing 50% if I sell it because I can buy half as much soda as that $20 ten years ago.
Smashed the thumbs up as soon as I heard "Serious talk today"
True on the shipping damage. Things have gotten measurably worse
If you compare cards to action figures for an example the variants end up becoming more expensive depending upon on many survive the years of use. I think that Magic the Gathering is changing, but the hardcore will remain, and they will also direct the ship to a degree. It won't be EXACTLY how you want. Just like their are comic variations you don't like. In the end the ones that are less bought become more expensive to collectors due to them having fewer in circulation. I think you are looking at this personally and it is altering your projection. But, I could be wrong. I used to play Magic the Gathering and I just started to get back in to it due to the Inistrad Vampire set.
Here’s what I’m learning after being out of collecting and paper magic for 20 years and returning to it during the pandemic. I LOVE PLAYING THE GAME regardless of the market. No one at mtg Vegas or Tuesday night modern at the LGS gives two shits about the market or showcase this or serialized that. They just want to play and compete.
Them bubble pop noises were not a coincidence 5:18
Playing war and dom draft and the prerelease felt really fun back then. I’m nostalgic for those sets and it hasn’t even been that long. I may see if I can grab a box or two in the coming months to collect and maybe even crack open one day and play a draft with my friend who I went to those release events.
I personally don´t have thousands of Euro for Cards each month, so i collect different Booster from Magic and Pokemon.
Over 5-10 years each booster will/should go up to minimum 10 bucks.
So i pay 2-4 Euro per Booster and then i minimum double my money later, so you will not loose money.
Don´t open the booster, sleeve the booster, fill up the plastic box and simple forget it for 10 years.
When i´m getting 65 years we have 50 years Magic and with 67 years we have 50th Anniversary of Pokemon.
Then you won´t have problems selling of 25 year old Booster for at least 3-5x the original price.