Please AVOID this Yu-Gi-Oh Scam!
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If you’ve been playing Yu-Gi-Oh for years, you've come across one of these repackaged Yu-Gi-Oh cards at Wal-Mart, Target, or other retailers. They might seem like a good value but I'm here to tell you why they're a scam.
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*Have you ever bought one of these Yu-Gi-Oh mystery products? What did you get?* 👀
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Wish we had them in Australia, I'd buy them just for the thrill
I used it just wanted to say been a big fan and it would mean alot for u to respond i just wanted to meet one of u have a great 2021 :)
I bought the monster box at Walmart and got ash blossom secret rare
i dont think so i might be wrong
Yes, I got cards that required specific archetypes.
I got a mystery pack when I was a kid in Hawaii and the first yu-gi-oh series was still airing on 4kids. The pack was advertised as rare cards that you couldnt find in America. Oh, they're were right, you couldnt find these cards in America, cuz they were common cards just printed in Spanish!
lmfao EPIC
I bought a few of these once, I got good fuckin cards I wanted in a few decks I was running, but they were printed in fuckin Spanish too
@@theinsertnameherechannel2432 at least Spanish cards are still legal for tournament play.
you too?! i got it one year for Christmas years ago, i kept the normal types because they don't require reading to use.
🤦😥
You know they are a scam if they are still slapping Yugi on the box. Bro hasn’t been in the show in like a decade 😂.
You seen the official products lately? The newest ones out are the Egyptian Gods
ZenoDLC it’s Egyptian god legacy
support, right?
@@ska187 nah ghost from the past
Bro hasn't been in the show for a decade but the show is named after him, he's a Legend, period.
@@ska187 Supports, yeah, but along with a whole deck
BCCG: "Grade 10, Mint or better"
Me: "What's better than mint?!"
pristine
mint chocolate chip?
Mint toothpaste
Gem Mint
Gem Mint
Here’s a story from when I bought a Power Box with my friends to see who would get scammed the most it was one with Yu-Gi-Oh! Merchandise and I got a Spanish version of Joey’s old deck
That's a very cool pull tbh
Ive had absolutely unfair nutty luck with power boxes, i think ive pulled all 5 pieces of exodia, two gate guardians secrets, and a ton of good secrets from newer sets in more recent power boxes, from my experience anything MJholding has good value in it.
@@thischannelisnotmine I mean, these exact same cards from the reprint sets are worth almost nothing anyways. Of course they're cool if you're a casual player and is pulling them as a joke - Just like the video said - but they're not worth anything really
Hello there brother
@@mrnubbones8626 brother? Is that you
I’m just surprised that he found cards at target I can’t find anything lol 😂
Right!? Lmaoo
My target sells 2 structure decks ice barrier and light charmers it sucks
@@gavinator1775 - That's basically all my local Wal-Mart is selling as well. In fact, there basically purging all of their card game products and are basically out of everything that isn't old product at this point.
Ok....I've noticed that too...I used to be able to find something but now its MTG
@@GothamCityCritics - My local Wal-Mart is getting rid of that stuff as well.
Little did we know this whole video was just an ad for TCG player
Stop using adblock and you will know
@@eavyeavy2864 What.
Alec has cut his hair, balance has been restored to the force.
I approve of this reference
When you fix your comment and it deletes the heart. :(
Perfectly balanced as all things should be
@@gavinator1775 Heck yeah gamer.
@@coletonmarino1310 ya
What no one else talks about is case mapping; opening enough boxes in a case to pull that starlight rare and a good amount of the pricey secrets, and then selling the other boxes for a slight discount where one of them may be missing a secret or an ultra.
Secrt and/or ultra is more like it
2:03 My Favorite Yugioh Pack: Glitch code Talker
6:15 Summoned Skull☠️😎
I watch u
My man Ruxin surprised to see you in the vid
I remember a few years ago in the Magic community these mystery cubes started popping up. They became popular because the company was putting old commander decks in them (which normally sell for 120 bucks) and the cubes were like 20 bucks. People were weighing them in stores to find the boxes that held commander decks.
However they were like most other things a scam. If you didn’t find one with a commander deck in it they were pretty worthless. And some of them might have had the weight of the commander deck but not necessarily held one. They just jammed extra cards in to make it appear like there was a commander inside.
I found one once and it was all lands.
I don't play Yu-gi-oh but Ive followed this channel for about a year and I've loved how well this was filmed and edited, the script writing, the B-roll, the L/J cuts, keep it up. This is amazingly done!
I’ve been noticing y’all’s video quality increasing, this video is a great example of that. Super well done guys, and as always thanks for the tidbits of info.
Look how full those shelves use to be 😭 you’ll be lucky to find anything these days cause of scalpers
At least they’re not as bad as Pokémon where you can’t even find a single pack from 2018 and the packs that are locked to shelves are already ripped open because they need a store attendant to get them for you. Yugioh has it lucky.
@@chaocobojun2098 my target has 2 structure decks and that's all they've had sinse 2020 tin
I at least got a few Lightning Overdrive packs. As I was going to the register, I saw someone just left one of those mystery boxes on a random shelf and I just got it because I want to open packs again lol
@@gavinator1775 Lucky you, I've never seen yugioh cards in any shop near me
I remember that Cimooooooooo warned us years ago about those products.
And that did nothing to stop anyone lol
Tolarian Community College, a very famous MTG TH-camr who even has collaborated with Team APS has said the exact same thing every time he reviews one of these.
Ngl, is pretty much rng. I bouggt a cube for 15 bucks. One pack had invocation, which basically paid it off
@@komeiuo3465 I have bought maybe like 8-10 of these and have been mostly okay with the results, I have gotten a ghost rare star eater and a chaos emperor dragon as the best pulls. The value of these boxes lies in some of the random cards that inflate in value because of the banlist boosting decks. Battle pack herald of orange lights were easy to get out of mystery power boxes due to BP03. Those went up to above 8 bucks for a common for a short time. It’s not value for everyone, but there’s some gems to be found everywhere.
And Cimo was wrong then like APS are now, target sealed products are a scam, but in my experience anything packaged by MJ holding has pretty massive value and are unscaled.
You guys should do something informative like this with the theme of buying things online from places outside TCGPlayer. I feel like it would be very helpful for newer people getting into YuGiOh.
Tcgplayer is very trustworthy. And I'm certain they live in America so there aren't any other sites that I know of that are as trustworthy
or yuyutei/bigweb for ocg cards
eBay can be a good site sometimes too, assuming the seller is trusting/has a good rating.
Love you guys! You're the reason I dusted off my card collection and started building decks again
I’ve always felt like these were a scam just by how their packaging looks. Good job on the ad plugs by the way! You fit them in really fluently and they were well done.
The Yu-Gi-Oh section at my local Target is always full lol so I can see why they do this.
I actually have good luck with the cubes, the other repackaged packs, not so much.
Same.
I was so tempted when I saw these packs in store forever. Thanks for the great and very informative video! 😊
damn this video came a day too late for me. Bought 3 of these at walmart. Some the of the cards were damaged, and in one of them the foil card was just a cardboard advertisement for a Yu-gi-oh video game.
Me too
Same
@Tyler Perry I'm guessing duel links
HA Ha - simpsonz laugh
Same D:
I remember when my local Target and KMart had Yugioh cards.
I remember when my local Target and KMart had anything.
They're gone now, just like my childhood.
i feel ya
The Walmarts and Targets near me don't even have any cards to stock, so I have no choice but to avoid these.
Same with me lol
Its funny because i literally just bought 2 of the random 25 count packs from target. ended up getting a Max gold Blue eyes. lolol
I pulled an envoy of the beginning from a power cube, best $10 I’ve ever spent.
Nice.
Dude, I got an Honest Neos out of it when I first started playing HEROs.
@@coletonmarino1310 I think jobber got an LoB Red-eyes out of one of those. I’m sure they’re mostly junk, like he said, but there’s definitely a chance of something cool.
@@EpsilonUnitGaming Yeah, really surprised me when I saw it. If only I had that kind of luck opening normal boxes.
I recently bought a mystery power box out of curiosity and I ended up pulling a First edition flames of destruction Infinite impermanence so I personally think alot of these are just gambles depending on the resellers
Thank you Team APS, for actually making an educational video about this without actually opening the scam products.
Action speaks louder than words, and in the past I often get upset when I see other Yugitubers trying to educate yet at the same time contradict their words through their action (by opening said products).
Well made video.
Paul still had the products tho... they were gotten somewhere
i remember starting to see them years ago and i was pretty suspicious. still, thanks for bringing this up for the new players who are starting out
I once bought a mystery box that said it included a first edition legend of the blue eyes booster pack...but they lied. They gave me a Spanish version of the pack that was the recent reprint
Love me some Spanish Pot Of Greed
I don’t really mind much, I want as much cards as I can have to fill 2 binders, but not to sell them it’s just for fun 😂
LITERALLY me 😂 As long as they’re Konami official, I don’t care, I just want them
I will say that in my experience with the mystery cubes and monster boxes, the packs have never seemed weighed in terms of pulls, and most of the time, I open the legacy pack and just sets that have ultis in them and keep the rest sealed. It’s really hard to find the legacy packs these days, so it’s really nice to be able to get them. That being said, this video provides some great info, people trying to build decks and play competitively definitely should avoid these. Thanks guys!
I have seen hundreds of TH-cam videos of people opening Yu-Gi-Oh mystery boxes and they all seem to get good cards. It never feels scaled.
Man, I buy these every so often because I'm a masochist who loves to be disappointed. It reminds me of the same feelings I get when I think of my relationship with my dad.
Oof
You good? You need a hug dawg?
Jesus loves you man for real I got saved from bad depression and hearing Voices... God loves you bro ik you need to hear that
It's alright guys, I'm not depressed or anything. Just a little dark humor.
@@shiroshnur I knew it well you always have the yugioh community to help out though we learned that out within the last 24 hours
Watching the beginning and seeing how many Yugioh products that store had made me realize how good I used to have it.
My Walmart has 0 Yugioh products anymore. Just an empty shelf.
Pulled my ultimate rare pot of greed out a walmart mystery box.
Never heard of that card. What does it do?
This scam also applies to other card games sold at major retailers at well, like those mystery cubes and mystery boxes they sell for magic the gathering. If you're going to spend money on trading card games, buy the singles you need every time. If you have a gambling addiction (which, lets be fair, most of us who play yugioh/pokemon/mtg really do.) buy sealed products instead, where at least the odds are a little more actually in your favor.
They aren't a scam if you're specifically for old/bad cards.
I'm a newbie to the trading/collecting cards game.
While browsing at Wal-Mart
I was shocked to see low prices paired w/ card sets of 25 Pokémon/Yu-Gi-Oh!,
a variety of Yu-Gi-Oh!/Pokémon super packs or what I now call,
' BS promises packs '
after reading the back of both products.
' The collectible products in this package have been purchased directly from the manufacturer or purchased from the secondary market & repackaged for retail sales by MJ Holding Company, LLC.MJ Holding Company, LLC is not affiliated with the individual manufacturers or trading card companies contained within this product. All related trademarks and logos are trademarks of their respective owners '.
AKA We need to profit from every card, picked from the trash, repackaged, low prices.
I didn't make a purchase.
Appreciate the videos.
I wish my stores actually had packs and stuff they only have ice barrier deck and light charmers 😢
Also did you hear about the new tin that's coming out I'm excited for that dark magician vs blue eyes
I recently purchased the mystery box and Walmart and you were correct it didn't contain a structure deck like the box had promised. I thought it was just a packaging issue, I has no idea they company's were just repackaging and selling cards at a lower value
I miss the days when these were decent. Back in gx and 5ds days it was just random stuff in them and it wasent a shock to make your value back in foils
Wasn't much of Random when you got a half a starter deck lmao
@@romkin1197 the ones I use to get had I believe 5 packs, the cube, and 5 holos for 15$. All I remember what’s pulling a ultra burei from the pack as a random insert card for when it was like a 15$ card so it paid for the rest
Thank you for this scam reveal. I've seen these and haven't bought them in the first place, but this is great for people that might.
I live in Lexington KY and yugioh product does not exist in any Walmart, meijer, target, cvs ect. To find sealed product is a miracle
I live in owatonna mn and they have 2 structure decks
I just found this out the hard way from Wal-Mart and Pokemon Cards. They're repackaged by MJ Holding Company LLC. So, repackaged by a 3rd party to resell. Being the price they are, obviously they're not gonna put good cards in them like it is randomly at the real manufacturer.
I believe MaxMoeFoe found an entire Portuguese set of cards out of one of these. Within the past month.
This product tricks grandparents looking to buy cards for their grandchildren all the time. I work retail and I have talked a lot of grandparents out of buying them because they often ask my opinion on if they will like them.
This doesn't just apply to yugioh... pokemon, mtg, and sports cards are also a target...
2:05-2:08 camera distortion
The only target that actually has anything to buy from is in an upper class neighborhood. Luckily my visit to Seattle paid off with a small store that had plenty of sealed packs.
would there packs be ok to get for collection card not caring about rarity only deck building?
Hey, im in university learning game design and unreal engine. The guy in the skillshare sponsor talking about the ability to learn is greater than what you learn/already know is very very true. Open mind, and thinking and internalizing new information is more important than having info. Learning and growing as a professional is a big core part of a career.
really high production value on this one, keep it up!
This explains why me and my friends never get any good card in the single booster pack back in 2003/2004. We kept purchasing the leftover ones.
Monster boxs are the best of these products. You can often get pretty decent pulls more frequently from it as opposed to the others. Examples: Secret Imperm, 2 secret invocation, ghost neo galaxy eyes photon dragon, etc
Oh? And what are these monster boxes?
Oh what I do to get a ghost galaxy eyes I need a version of it I built a deck of galaxy eyes without galaxy eyes photon dragon
The only ones that are worth getting are the monster boxes. It has the packs you get on the back of the box and you are basically buying 10 boosters for 4 bucks each. Also there aren't any battle or star packs
2:10 actually, they mix them with some good things as well to attract buyers
That still kinda blows my mind. I am not even sure i ever saw a repackaged, not konami licened yugioh product in ANY store in germany. Yes some game stores like where you play and can buy singles sometimes have such gimmicky packages but not a real storechain like that where it is professionally repackaged. Feels so weird to see that.
Man, at this point, I’ll take any cards I can find at a store
You gotta do what u gotta do.
@@coletonmarino1310 I need my fix
Reminds me of CDOs. A bunch of bad stuff packaged together makes something (actually not) less risky
Is that my boys from the Konami Crew😎👍
A few parts of this is wrong. The distributor does not buy back the unsold merchandise. It's not really in store inventory at all.
Pay from scan or Pay on scan merch is pretty common. A lot of damaged, partially stolen or old merch gets returned regularly. That's where they get the stuff to fill these packs with.
Dude at least your wal Mart and target has cards lmao there’s literally NONE in my area
Same
Basically lookout for anything with the word “mystery”
Mystery means, the fun adventurous feeling of not knowing something (especially what you’re getting)
Me- (who only buys only decks) Okay
Me who wishes i could buy them cause target has nothing there but 2 structure decks that I have
Watching this kinda made me wish that konami would make little blister packs with those keychains and pins more. Seems like a fun way to branch out more and give fans more to collect.
Man the production value lately has been insane good shit yall
I bought one of these last October when I was just getting in to Yugioh. I got a sweet plastic box to store some of my cards in.
lmao
In most cases, the plastic box is worth more than the cards from the packs you get from it.
In a nutshell: all of your dreams are a lie and you will never get ahead in this world.
The way I see it is if you want specific cards go with TCG player or by sealed boxes. If you just want to expand your collection then booster packs or Walmart mystery boxes.
Woah woah woah woah woah woah woah, hold up the monster box SLAPS. I literally buy one every time I see them.
i play magic the gathering and this is happening in our community as well. you hate to see newer players falling for it.
Me watching this from erbil: at least you don't have to order online a structure deck is 10$ but with delivery and all for me it is 30-40$ also me: realizes this is a vid how not to get scammed oo ya about that
No all jokes aside can we appreciate the video
Thank you for these reviews for the average consumer. Not everyone can splurge for the top tier sets and usually have to settle for these 'value packs'. One of the many reasons I adore this channel.
thank you for talking about the Yu-Gi-Oh Scam
Its kind of funny when I was still playing the game and I saw these boxes, I thought someone would just repackaged these and just sell them for a profit.
Ayyyy I’m early for da first time
Ayyyy I'm early for DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA first time 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I haven't heard that since 01.
Since like, the top deck days I've had a graded dark energy a friend gave me. It's not only a common but it's not even a first edition. I have no idea why it exists.
Sheesh, haven’t seen a big retailer with yugioh or Pokémon in my area for months.
It's nuts bro same here in cali can't find cards anywhere!
I've seen those a few years ago and I didn't buy it because there is a fine print on the box somewhere that clearly state that it's just leftover cards and some would be preowned with unknown condition. So yeah, that's when I was like "yep I would shell more money for randoms than unwanted cards".
Ygo cards are nearly nonexistent in my city. Only 1 store sells them and they fly off the shelves.
When I was younger, I collected yu-gi-oh cards. I did spend $500-$1k on some of the earlier sets around 2003-2005. I didn’t have a big collection but I remember buying some boxes from a local card store and not repacks from a large retailer. I foolishly sold my “collection” for cheap and never looked back. Two or three years later I started collecting Magic: The Gathering cards and have just recently stopped collecting but I have several thousand cards and have spent thousands of dollars in that time frame, roughly 14 years. I started watching a few random YGO pack openings on this channel and got the itch again so to speak. I went to Walmart and bought some of the Gold Collection boxes, random power cubes, blister packs and the 9 mystery pack sealed products.
After opening all the packs and checking some pricing on the SR’s, UR’s and foils, I had an idea that most of my cards weren’t worth much except for the non-repack stuff I had bought. To be honest, as a new collector, I just wanted cards again. I’m glad you guys put out this video. I probably won’t be buying any repacks or things resembling them. I never took that risk with MTG and I guess I got careless. Kudos.
Ha, I picked up the Monster Box in the thumbnail today on a whim knowing full well they're subpar packs and likely scaled. Managed a Secret and 2 Ultras from core sets, but notably core sets where nothing in them is worth more than ~$10.00. The Metal Raiders pack had a SR Harpie Lady Sisters though which surprised me...so the Monster Box may not be scaled but are certainly stuffed with near-worthless sets.
Definitely fun to open, never purchase as an investment.
So I bought a couple of these at Target for like $5 a while back.
They can be all right for someone who hasn't played in a decade and wants to play casually with friends.
I pulled an Artifact Lancea from one and it turned out to be a pretty good call against my friends who threw feather duster at me.
The only noted "rated 10" card from one of those mystery boxes was a Change of Heart.
Big fan of this sort of video essay style! Good work!
Target does the same thing with Magic the Gathering stuff as well. Ever since I found the Demonic half of Divine vs. Demonic in one of the repackaged plastic cubes I've always checked for value there. Funny thing is that I didn't know the Demonic half was in there, I just wanted the original Ravnica Orzhov starter deck that was on one side.
I hadn't bought a single pack of Yu Gi Oh cards for more than a decade BUT....but I had downloaded the Yu Gi Oh game app from the app store & playing online. Managed to save myself a headache from buying at Walmart or other retail stores.
Thank you for shedding some light on this shady business model! When i was younger i also got tricked into buying these because money was tight and i thought i'd get some great value out of these.
Also love the format you should do these informative videos more often.
I bought one of these a while back for 10 bucks. It came with a pretty good cyber dragon deck. Besides that the rest was dog water, but the plastic box was also quite nice
I use to be able to hold and feel a pack of yugioh and 98% of the time reveal a foil within that pack. Weight and thickness always seemed different than most packs. Strange talent i had.
The worst scam are the Dollar Store brand sets. They sound great (I mean cmon, $4 for a box of cards!!!) but if you read the fine print they are repacked sets (aka someone opened, removed any good cards, and crammed a bunch of useless commons in the box). In grand scheme of things they are not even good for your kids starter decks for school since missing certain cards there is no synergy and even sometimes lack materials to even properly summon or just work in general
Years ago around 2005 or so, I had bought one of these products. It was one of those 20 card packs with a random foil.
To my suprise, I got a HALF a starter deck of Kaiba Evolution. Like bruh...
As for a Cube, I bought one of those, got some cool cards, but mostly if not all were worthless. Though I did like my Dark Necrofear.
These aren't worth it.
Some people who have been buying only these packs, just screwed up a bit.
Hm... Aaah... yes, I remember these. When I was a child waaay back, when the pegasus deck was still new, I got given one of these full of Masked Beast and THousand Eyes Restrict.
I always enjoyed the mystery cubes because they usually have a complete deck. I got the foil Noble knight deck out of one
Keep on warning people about these please, I remember when I was a kid and got them boy do I regret those. Sad thing is my local stores don't stock very well and that is all that is left. I very much prefer card shops but my closest one is about a hour and a half away, so now a days I get most of my stuff offline.
I like hunting for cards by luck and not weighing them to see what packs I should buy. I find it more fun to see what cards I could get out of a random pack.
Thanks for making vids that no one normally are not really made love the vids
I found two cubes at my local walmart and bought them. I didn't know any of that stuff before now
Ah, the MJ Holdings Mystery Box. We have those in Magic: the Gathering. Avoid at all costs. Now, the ones in the clear plastic boxes? Those can have value sometimes...especially if you hit certain Commander decks.
i got one of those that was supposed to come with a mystery deck, bunch of packs, and a graded card, the graded card wasn’t there and the mystery deck were printed in spanish