$30,000.00 - Collection Audit 

Well said man. This is such an underestimated component to why vintage mtg has so much value. It was more than just cardboard to us 90s kids. Born in 83 and I remember my friend pulling out a craw wurm and thicket basilisk and dragon whelp and just being blown away with what this game was. Nobody had ever seen anything like it. And nobody will ever see anything like it again

I enjoyed reading this, beautiful post

@@rorobear1940 thanks. Im sure this is similar to alot of peoples experiences.

rudimentary ? ;)

I like POV

You could probably order them through singles for a couple hundred

@@KrepsyK Not if I get to them first! 📈

I'm currently in the middle of completing my 4th edition collection. Just for the sentimental value. It's affordable and the last batch with the original art work. These are the paintings I rest my eyes on

Unlimited

Size decision. We are about to put our money back on a precious metals standard. This person will be able to flip the silver and buy those or some of the cards back very soon.

if WW3 start, AG will be alot better.

Dragon shield sleeves. There ya go

Fully hermetically sealed basement flooded with nitrogen gas. Also good to deter intruders, as they pass out with hypoxia and drop dead on the floor. 👍

I will absolutely take signed Jim Lee cards off your hands. Lol

Years ago when i was heavy into sports cards i saw a video of Ryan Braun with a coffee table full of cards and stickers to sign for topps and the whole thing seemed so depressing that i instantly stopped caring about signed cards

@@delbomb3131 Also a great point! I'm sure getting the cards signed in person or meeting the artist and having that connection adds value on a personal level. But just collecting inked/signed cards might be less attractive now.

Because the other Power Nine are not allowed in Commander format.

playable in commander, wheel decks using Narset and Hullbreacher (pre-ban) loved the card

Legends was sold after revised was already released, but the print run was very low (compared to revised). My dad played in 1994 and his first set was revised, but he said the same thing as you, every store sold The Dark, Revised, and Fallen Empires. We live out West in the US and it was still difficult to find legends. Not only was it a popular set, but the low print run and high demand made it almost impossible to find. Even ABU was impossible to find back in 1994 because everyone wanted it. I hope this gives some insight. Edit: revised print run is around 600 million. Legends print run is about 35 million. This means there's about 289,000 of each rare in revised that was printed compared to Legends, which has about 17,500 of each rare printed.

I am pretty sure A, B, UL, AR, AQ and legends boosters were never distributed in Canada, I started playing in 94. Never saw them. Still, I saw a shop selling legends booster 35$ in Montreal in 95. But it was probably an import. Everybody that had "big cards" (including me), were getting them from the US. We were buying them from news groups on the internet (I was in a University). Ah the good old days.

When you're buying at 60 cent on the dollar you don't get to choose. You can only buy what they're willing to sell, and it's going to be stuff that's more work to move. They accept the discount because they don't want to do the work. No one's offering to sell high end graded (easy to sell) at discount prices.

i think he pays 50% with an additional 5% worth of free Tacos. if a store around me is buying at 60% to stay afloat, why would Rudy, a guy that only buys cards if its 100% to his advantage, pay more than 50%? half these people probably sell him their collections just to see they're handwritten crayon note and say "hey im on youtube". ALTHOUGH, if you're selling to Rudy, you'd probably have to split it into 10 different collections to sell it to anyone else because Rudy ONLY buys the good (bulk) stuff

Unlimited and Revised yes, but 4th edition has a copyright date of 1995. 5th edition with 1997. After that they got a set symbol.

The font size of the artists name is smaller and more centered between the text box and white border. Also the deeper color. Revised used a sideways "T" where unlimited said "tap to". Artifacts didn't use "continous" or "mono" in revised.

@@justinlewis420 Oh ok, the tap symbol and the continuous/mono is easy to understand I remember that. I guess I just have to get good at noticing the difference of the text sizes for the artist and name of the card Thank you for letting me know.

*also damaged

That's what I'm counting on! 📈🚀

@@fsmoura we all do. spread over several cardgames there is a realistic chance its just those gd fees everywhere that makes it non lucrative to sell stuff with low profits.

people play old school and abu40 card formats, i guess? people go crazy on these formats lol.

@@LoupStephens I mean yeah but it's really just a tiny tiny fraction of people who play those 500 dollar beta bears.

@@watcher8582 mp-hp cards market is what makes it worth though, since good copies are basically too expensive.

The print run of A, B, UL, AR, AQ and LG is tiny. There're millions of players, thousands of collectors. Supply and demands.

>Is it just sellers buying from sellers? its buyers buying from sellers duh (" -.-)

Oh really? Then why are people buying/selling these cards at those prices every single day?

because there shills

You think WWIII wouldn't be so bad because people want their collectables to increase in value? What??? I'm sorry, but you need help dude. It is NOT normal to be that envious. You're basically saying you'd rather see the literal end of the world than see people who are more financially successful than you. That is batsh^t crazy. *"I mean at some point do people with access to large sums of items with no real monetary value think everything they have will sell at infinite amounts of money? cause man I know a ton of people and very few of them like 1 could pay the prices Rudy feels his stuff is really worth."* What constitutes "real" monetary value? Because if you want to go down that line of logic you could essentially argue that almost NOTHING has "real" monetary value. Also, nobody has ever said that collectable items have no price ceiling. So i don't even know where you're getting that. You might not know anyone who can afford buying this stuff at these prices, but there are TONS of people who do. The number of people who want these cards (and can afford them) far outpaces the supply. *"how many people all of whom are only rich on paper mind you afford buying this stuff in 50 odd years when most of it (if it lasts that long) will probably be worth billions"* Lol so all rich people are only rich "on paper", whatever that's supposed to mean. So if no rich people are actually rich, than what does it even mean to be rich? Can you explain that? Again, this is all just jealous talk from someone desperately trying to bolster their self-esteem by telling themselves these nonsensical lies about how rich people aren't "really" rich and high-demand vintage Magic cards aren't "really" worth money. *"how many people will there be in 50 oddish years who will be capable of buying a single gamecard for a billion bucks? how many of them would be willing to spend a trillion or ten on a low maybe mid tier deck?"* A billion dollars? Dude... just stop with the childish hyperbole. It's embarrassing. Over 90% of the people who buy these cards are collectors and investors, not players. *"I'm really just thinking out loud as to how all this will work when most of us here will likely be long gone, problems for the next generation I suppose."* What problems is this causing the next generation? You mean the next generation who plays old school or legacy format Magic? You can't even play with most of these cards outside those formats, and I seriously doubt that you play either of those formats. There's commander, but that's not even a big deal because you can only have one copy of each card and you don't even need these to play. Based on your comments you also most likely don't even collect these cards. So why on earth do you have such a problem with this? There's only one plausible answer. Envy and personal animus towards people who are more successful than you.

@@uthmanibn-jafar1159 I'm not one bit envious, not even a little, if that happened everything would be worthless.

The cards you were looking at are historic and iconic. First CCG, tiny print run. Its like saying drawing found at Lascaux are ugly. Personally, I found the art of the 4 horsemen sets the most pleasant and fun to look at. I am like Rudy, there's something special in these 4 sets.

We're not in it for the art, or we wouldn't buy Metazoo 📈