Indeed! And if you look close... you'll note that some of those glass beads were the very ones which came with the 4th Edition two-deck starter kit :)

You mean printing with the intent of making it look real? Yes cards that try to look real are counterfeit. 100% true. Having said that, I have never seen a common inkjet printer pop out some paper that even comes close to passing for a real card. Having said that... even in that case.. I always make it obvious it's a proxy. I put something very clearly identifying it as a proxy on each side I print. (usually white back because it's just a piece of paper slid on top of a real card)

@@TheCroutonman I would prefer that original print was just strongly encouraged rather than required. But it’s their format. It can make for some cool events

It's a good question honestly, because the way you sort your collection will optimize it for one thing or another. My collection was optimized around the purpose of building decks, not for completing collections. Since I never need more then 4 copies of anything nearly all extra's beyond 4 were traded away or sold. That REALLY thinned out the collection. The color separation happens because building a deck always must consider the colors in it. If I already have a certain color it makes most sense to find options in that color before adding another. Also if all of the Blue cards starting with the letter G are in one spot, it makes it very easy to find the one I'm looking for. The reason for the order Artifact, Black, Blue, Green, Red, White, Gold, Lands is partially alphabetical... why does it go from left to right? I'm really not sure. It just felt right to start that way and it's always remained. This section could change and it would not impact collecting or deck building so it's way more random. For the record, the plan is working. I can build decks and tear down decks in a tiny fraction of the time it takes others. Even though I have 30 years worth of cards in there, if I make my deck list electronically... I can pull the cards for it within perhaps 4 minutes. Also, since I only bother with 4 copies of any card... I'm free to trade away or sell extras allowing that value to instead expand my collection into stuff I didn't own before. One ONE BIG PAIN with this plan... is when I get new cards it's a bit of a pain to sort those and file away. It's irritating to me when WoTC does a lot of reprints for old cards... because if I already had 2 of a certain card, and now I get another 7 from a new print... I need to find all 9 then choose which are the 4 I keep etc.

To be clear, that didn't exist when I made this video. I'm very glad there are easier solutions now and it's a good thing people like you leave these comments. Having said that, in case that site goes down or any legal issue pops up, all windows computers have MSPAINT.EXE and can follow these notes.

Thanks Johnny :)

@@D0wnshift in the Old School formats I have played, Regrowth is restricted. So that question is answered for you

@@lilmoris1 oh wow, you knew me from those days? I still have them but I took the video files off RU-vid

@@EdwintheMagicEngineer I was but a mere child back then, I’m 28 now, I used to watch them whenever insomnia could not let me sleep, I subbed back then and every now and then I check to see if there’s any new lightsaber content by any luck lol

@@lilmoris1 Wow, thanks for remembering and reaching out. No I have not made any lightsaber content since like 2007. Some people who were very money/power hungry in the community were upset with some videos I did exposing truth from a technical perspective (as that's my background) and they did some bullying my direction. I was so irritated at the treatment and disgusted with the truth causing such backlash I took all my videos down and left that hobby. I still have my sabers, I just don't post about them.

@@EdwintheMagicEngineer Well that just sucks man! I’m an engineer too, though I took the path of freight forwarding rather than the technical side of things. I hope I can get to see your old saber videos once more, and hopefully you make new ones one day!

I actually agree. I have always personally considered the Library of Alexandria or Sol Ring a better fit for that spot.

@@L4TMTG thanks for that. In the years since I did updates on the same channel. Showed the Software I use and what I do with valuable cards

Thanks for the heads up! I didn't know Dragon Shield made an app.

Thanks Mark

Bitcoin will indeed change the world and the technology is indeed very good at some things. It has a lot of positives that are true and worthy of note. But remember, when fire was first discovered it was likely used to kill people as well as cook. When nuclear energy was finally harnessed for the first time, we made it into a bomb and killed millions with it. When the first car was made, it was revolutionary and just awful for performance even with 15 years of improvement on the technology. Bitcoin was made to be a free de-centralized currency... and what does the world do with it? Effectively said "screw using it as money, I'm going to speculate on it." And off it went with EVERYBODY (you included) buying it to make profit. Go ahead and try to convince me that everybody you know does NOT own it primarily to make profit. And have any of you actually considered how trying to profit off the ownership of a form of money... unto itself corrupts that very same money?

@EdwintheMagicEngineer Yes I have to agree with you that it is heavily about speculation at the moment. However it also seems to follow Gresham's Law. That people will only spend their Bitcoin when they've run out of fiat.

@@yorionenthusiast170 gresham’s law might not apply that well here. In greshams law we are talking about different forms of currency Bitcoin is literally not a currency. Its value swings violently from day to day, barely anybody actually uses it to transact, even if they wanted to the network has no chance of being able to handle the traffic. 10 minutes to verify transactions, 650 Gig blockchain required to use it, and a decent sized fee required to actually process your transaction. It’s NOT a currency right now. And I’m telling you it never will be.

@@EdwintheMagicEngineer there are plenty of currencies abroad that have higher volatility than Bitcoin. We are just very privileged in the first world.

@@yorionenthusiast170 And for that exact reason they are all terrible. What exactly is your argument there... that "hey Bitcoin is better than this 3rd world failing currency in terms of stability!" Let's be super clear about this... this topic is like comparing HOT to COLD temperatures. Something cannot be hot and cold at the same time... it has a temperature at any moment. The hotter it becomes, the farther away from being cold. Well MONEY and INVESTMENT are just like that. The better something is at being an Investment... the worse it is at being money. Investment MUST be volatile. Profit is made on the value change. No value change... no profit. By definition a stable asset is a terrible investment. Money on the other hand must be stable in value. The more stable it is the better it serves the purpose of exchanging value from one party to another. Just think about this for a second... imagine that Bitcoin achieves it's own stated goal and someday becomes the BEST form of world money.... on that day it becomes clear to everybody holding it... "The value of this asset will no longer change." Remember, they ALL bought it as an investment... so what do you think 99.99% of the Bitcoin holders will do with their Bitcoin on the day it becomes totally stable?!?? Sell it. Yes. They will all sell it. And what happens to ANY asset when 99.99% of the holders sell it at the same time?!?

No, that is a video for a players collection, not for value collectors. The drawers are an actual method for organizing my collection around the purpose of building decks. I have no more then 4 copies of almost all cards I own. Yet with nearly 50k cards I can discover if I have the cards, and build any deck within like 15 minutes. THAT is the point of the system and why it's set up like that.

Strong words there. Ok try me, name one thing you think I don't understand about currency and what I said that makes you think that.

Well?

You clearly didn't watch the video and missed what I said. This video was not talking about price in the short term. Even today I cannot and don't even attempt to predict price in the short term. It could go to a million dollars someday. What I'm saying... if you can fathom it... is that someday it will fail and likely for the reasons I listed. Right now it's just a speculative ride.

That's a very new perspective, keep digging. Here's some topics that if you wish to be honest with yourself about your investment you'll keep digging and learning on... If money must by definition be stable, but investment must by definition be volatile (profit is made in the swings) then how does something which 99.99% of the people buying it do it FOR investment... convert to totally stable (thus making it a terrible investment) without them all selling it? If Bitcoin is supposed to be such a good form of money, it has a market cap well into the Billions and millions of people all over the world who believe in it... why is nearly nobody (like literally NOBODY) using it on a daily basis for transactions even though it's been out for over 10 years? How will the blockchain size problem and network scaling problems ever be fixed? Since the source code is 100% open source, and any 1st world government who wishes to use all the benefits of the best version of crypto can just copy it and launch their own coin, then pass laws making that legal tender and Bitcoin illegal... why would any 1st world Government turn over billions of dollars to buy Bitcoin from early adopters when they can just have a better version for free?

First, note that this video was not making a short term price prediction. I said I cannot predict where the price will go during the speculative run or how long it will last. What I was saying, is that Bitcoin failed as a currency and it will eventually flop entirely. On that viewpoint, I now believe it even more strongly and I have more solid reasons to think so. None of the issues I called out in this video were disproven

@@EdwintheMagicEngineer This whole video was about some cryptocurrencies, not Bitcoin. There is a major difference between these things.

@@Boris247 I'm completely aware that the crypto variants are different and I'm aware of exactly how many of them are different. Some of them are better on the issues I covered here (like blockchain) but most of them suffer these same problems. Bitcoin suffers these issues the worst. None of the Bitcoin problems I discussed here have been solved, the price just went up because everybody is excited about it.

@@EdwintheMagicEngineer Thank you for your reply. I don't want to discuss other cryptocurrencies, because I also find them dubious. I only use Bitcoin, and it fits my need. It's not perfect so I understand that it's not for everyone, but if there is one thing I'd like you to know about it, is that Bitcoin is a fully open source project, and it's problem are slowly being solved by the community build around it. For an example, the Lightning Network protocol build on it solves a lot of the security and speed the base layer (blockchain) can't solve.

you totally missed the point. Being open source means if any nation wants to adopt it they can just make it themselves and pass laws making their version legal. They don't need to buy it from Bitcoin investors.

@@EdwintheMagicEngineer that’s literally how fiat money works right now. Governments in their jurisdictions deem their fiat legal tender and all other money as invalid. That already exists now with paper money. But black markets exist in poorer counties for dollars. Because paying the premium to use a different more stable money “illegal money” is better than using the worthless hyper-inflating legal tender of the jurisdiction. You missed the point. The real question is why are dollars seen as more valuable than pesos when they all operate on the open source protocol of Fiat currency, and the answer is the network effects and monetary policy and now all the fiats are competing on the same terms with cryptocurrencies. It’ll come down to network effects and monetary policy. Of all these competing assets and with bitcoin it’s a fully transparent and immutable policy. The fed changes interest rates on a whim. Now with BTC specifically I’m beholden to no central authority’s monetary policy, dictating the value of my savings. Whereas even if I use the dollar in a currency black market in Afghanistan, instead of the worthless local currency I’m still subject to the whims of the federal reserve. You’re misleading people I don’t have time to explain this to you. Just ask yourself why one of the largest pensions in the world as well as some of the world’s largest banks are buying it now. Idc if you miss the boat.

@@mylescharlesworth7771 No, I get that point. This is not a new topic to me. Just back up a second and follow what I'm saying. It's not a GOOD thing that Governments can pass laws making anything legal tender they want. A corrupt Government will take advantage of their people and that's a bad thing. Bitcoin was started for good reasons. But you forget that Governments are the ones with the laws, they have the police, they have the army, the courts and the jails. They have the power and ability to force their will. They can declare Bitcoin illegal and force us all to stop using it by threat of violence or loss. Those same governments can just copy/paste the source for their own crypto with some evil changes. That's what the dreaded FedCoin is likely to be and it's terrible. What's very likely is that they eventually make Bitcoin illegal and bless their own evil currency and then back that terrible action up with force.

@@EdwintheMagicEngineer give me liberty or give me death, if you wanna bow down and take your whippings like a good serf that's on you. some of us are more principled than that. You can't ban bitcoin you can only ban yourself from it. peaceful non-compliance they can't throw us all in cages. there won't be anyone left to tax or rule over. government also ok'd the ETF's they've rolled the trojan horse into troy. the state employees of Wisconsin are exposed to it through their pensions. people aren't gonna vote against their incentives. we're moving into the end-game of dollar Dominance. they can't ban it anymore and all things being equal. our money is better than their CBDC.

@@mylescharlesworth7771 I honor your position and I feel the same. But you are missing something very crucial. A money system only works when everybody adopts it and uses it. If you and a few other people are the only ones willing to die for your currency, it will fail. Adoption of a currency takes the critical mass of society. You CANNOT make one you believe in work by giving up your life for it. I don't like it either, it's why I mined Bitcoin, invested in it and learned about it. But my study of history forced me to accept that those in control of the guns, jails, armies, and threats can enforce what ever currency they want upon the people.

Please just note 1 thing that seems to get overlooked, this video was saying Bitcoin will fail eventually for the reasons stated. This video was NOT talking about the price of Bitcoin in the short term.

@@EdwintheMagicEngineer it's been 5 years - nothing about that is short term. When you made this video, the price of Bitcoin was $3,900. It's now $66,000+. If your predictions were even remotely close to correct (they're two of the laziest counter-arguments to Bitcoin that i've ever heard), we wouldn't see that level of price appreciation.

@@whatsgood22022 you are totally missing the point. This video was never about price. This video was talking about there being a speculative ride and then an eventual crash. The price even going to a million dollars per coin does not disprove what I'm saying in this video. I cannot predict the price and I cannot predict the time. What I'm saying is that there's several issues that will eventually cause it to end. Side note... MONEY is not something you can gamble on. The more it swings in value, the worse it is at being money.

@@EdwintheMagicEngineer you down to do a live debate? You're so far out of your depth with this topic it'll be really fun

@@whatsgood22022 I’m fine talking to you over video chat, but it’s a bit hard to trust a total stranger in terms of a live debate. I’ve had my fill of people mis-quoting me to make it seem like i said things I didnt say

Seems you didn't watch the video. The video made the very clear point, it will fail eventually, and here's the reasons why. I said until that point it could go anywhere.

This entire comment misses what I said in the video. I said it will fail eventually, not soon

@@EdwintheMagicEngineer The US Dollar will fail, oil will run out, and gold will have no value, eventually

True, but bitcoin would collapse tomorrow if you couldn't wash trade it in fiat. Not likely but still possible.

@@piccolojunior4766 people get so caught up in the gains of Bitcoin they miss the forest through the trees on the bigger picture. All the price gains in the world does not prove it will ever succeed as currency, it just proves to be a wild speculation. Imagine if Bitcoin ever did achieve its own goal and became “money” and thus 100% stable. No more gains or swings in price… why would anybody who bought it for investment keep their money in it… when there is gains to be made elsewhere? Why would that not cause a massive sell off as the speculators (currently 99% of those holding it) rush to the exits?

That is a completely mute point, all fiat would have to collapse. Bitcoin is a globally accepted asset that can be converted in any fiat currency. If fiat crashed all at once, all of the sudden, people that have Bitcoin would be some of the very few that have a currency of any value. In a situation like this, Bitcoin could very well replace fiat currency. If that were to happen, Bitcoin would be worth an absolutely massive amount per coin. In my opinion, Bitcoin will absorb many other assets over time which will lead to huge gains in it's value. Bitcoin is simply better, safer, faster, and under no regulated control like fiat money is. Fiat over time has and will always historically fail. Look up what the average life span of a fiat currency is throughout history. its a sobering fact. When you have a few powerful individuals or a government able to manipulate a currency, it WILL fail. Bitcoin, being decentralized is one of it's largest pillars of strength, Bitcoin is money you can't F with!

I replaced them with ergs raiders and they are pretty good

Thank you for circling back and taking the time to tell me your viewpoint. I'm an old dog when it comes to Magic. I've been deep in this area for decades and I went through every avenue to see if it made sense. The only answer that ever made sense at pleasing both the collectors/investors and the players was the proxy route. I literally spent years closely watching and testing the waters to see if the fear ever manifests... that fear being "why would anybody buy a card when they can print them for free?" It's a valid question and it makes sense on the first pass. But decades of experience made it completely clear that people don't want to be that guy with proxies. EVERYBODY with few exceptions wishes they had real cards and will eventually pay for them. The more they are willing to open their wallets is actually linked to their love and emotional investment into the hobby. It literally comes from the EXACT SAME PLACE that makes people open their wallets for a rare art variant or foil version of the same card.

The easiest answer is Ebay from an account with good feedback. There will be some fear about the packs being fake or pre-opened etc. You can mitigate that fear from hitting a sale price by putting more effort into the sale. The more effort options involve contacting people who are trusted and can verify what is being sold or sell it for you. Or perhaps having a middle person as an escrow service to verify the goods before passing on to the buyer. The more effort path could be totally worth it depending on how much you found.

If anything it's gotten worse. Many of those old cards sell person to person or over more secure methods due to their prices. So you see less transactions in places that are tracked by those websites. Some cards have such little data they show up as no price! These days if I want to check prices I look at Ebay sold, or I find a listing on a big online store, or I surf around private FB groups where people buy and sell.

Great point and very true. Kinda sad because we cannot see what that final price was. We just know it was less. Needs to be considered when figuring out prices.

Totally fine if you want to do that. The reason I suggested black is to use the least expensive ink and save the colors.

@@EdwintheMagicEngineer when done the way I am doing it, there is zero red ink exposed. each picture takes up exactly half of the red lines.