A Collector tried to BUYOUT all the Lotus Petal's ...and then gave up 

I tried to BUYOUT all the Evolving Wilds.. I still haven't given up yet!

I'd like to point out the flavour text of Tempest Lotus Petal: "Hard to imagine," mused Hanna, stroking the petal, "such a lovely flower inspiring such greed."

"She loves me... she loves me not... she loves me... she loves me not......"

I am currently buying out all basic islands so nobody can ever play control again

His goal was to rip up every copy in public and then own the only remaining 4 in existence. And then lose to Exodia.

He tryed to build a black lotus with all those lotus petals XD

"its heavy, its like a metal" Dude you literally just read the label that says its 22 karat gold lol

Lotus Pedals’ market price is almost $18.00 on TCGplayer so that wouldn’t be too bad of a haul today...

Chinese = purely complex pictograms Japanese = simple letter-like symbols mixed in with a few pictograms Korean = small circles fucking everywhere

6 Feb 1999...and still not curled. WotC once knew how to do it...

$5 then. $16 now. He sold at the wrong ass time.

As a type 1.5 extended player of this era, Wall of Roots makes perfect sense. It was a staple card back in the day.

Unsleeves foil, throws it in a stack, then swirls all the cards around. I guess that's your triggering moment from this video but I can't believe people watch these videos and still send you their cards.

Order was: Chinese 蓮花花瓣系列 Korean 연꽃 꽃잎 수집 Japanese 蓮の花びらコレクション Chinese signs are much more dense mostly based on sticks. Korean signs have a fair bit of separation and use many circles that look like Pokemon anons. Japanese has more simplistic signage that visually impacts the separation even further.

pls, stop throwing and harming the cards in such vile manner Rudy.

When you said he tried to corner the market, I thought you meant the whole 5K box was filled with Lotus Petals. He's only got a hundred or so in that collection -- please, that's not cornering the market, that's just having a few of a favorite card.

lotus petal is now 10 bucks each

Rudy, while looking through an impressive collection, with many signed rares.. "Weird collection. Doesn't make much sense. Nostalgia!! No real value though. Not much this. Not much that." Classic, slick, sales talk. Classic."

I can't speak for any more recent trends, but back when Tempest was still current, the petals were pretty valued. As I recall it was a common(?) but traded at around 5 dollars or so. I can't imagine trying to corner the market on them, especially if it's been reprinted. Hoarding them in the late 90's makes more sense though.

Back in the late 90s I was in middle school, and in computer applications class we were all assigned to create a digital picture. I scanned a Lotus Petal and did absolutely nothing to it. Got 100% and the teacher hung it on the wall as one of her greatest assignments ever. I wish I could've been there when some student later told her it was a magic card submitted by some random Timmy.

I've bin playing magic for 16 years now, and i have to say with exact certainty... The eager anticipation you feel before looking through a big-ol' box of cards thats still a mystery to you; And the pure joy of actually finding those rare gems, buried in unplayable crap... Its like combining the joy of Christmas, the rush of gambling and the high of drugs into... well.... into a big-ol" box of friggin magic cards :)

What's the storm count, does anybody know? You don't see that many Lotus Petals without a Tendrils of Agony over the horizon.

Legend has it, if you have 25 lotus petals in your hand, you can play them together as a black lotus.

Interesting this has popped up - 5 years ago. 2018 jumped to $10... 2022 jumped to $20... now a Mystery Card (reprint) however still made the jump to $25 this year.

i always thought i was a creepy collector but then you see those people and realize tha youre in the bottom of the Pyramid

The old Deckmaster sleeve boxes! I remember buying those back in the day as my first sleeves. Still have them 15 plus years later.

Wow, I have a small bundle of Lotus Petals I've used as bookmarks in the past because I like the artwork.

12:27 "I don't recognize the art." 11:54

Rudy selling his own collection to himself!

I have huge stacks of stone rain and strip mine. All different sets and languages and re-prints. I do not really know why, and it makes no sense because both exist in crazy numbers. When i ordered something online on magiccardmarket and someone had stone rains for 2 cents per piece or some 80 cent strip mines i just added them all to my purchase. In reallife my trade binder started with 20 pages of stone rain. Now i think the alpha and beta stone rains and the antiquities and from the vault strip mines pay for it all. This was not a buyout, just fun, another guy did it with dark ritual. One time a guy i barely knew walked up to me and just gave me 40 stone rains.

Corner the market - that's a textbook definition of a pittance. If he tried to corner the market, the UPS guy would have needed a pallet jack to bring the card boxes into the store.

After handling them, I assume most of your cards are listed as heavily played?

I know literally nothing about Magic and I love these videos.

My favorite art in mtg

Love watching you open old collections I never got into magic back then so its really cool.

Rudy i cover myself in mayo in anticipation of your uploads, thanks for coming thru comrade.

I'm assuming Lotus Petal was just his favorite card. Myself, as well as a few friends of mine did the same thing back in the day. We were on a team called "Team Legend" so, as lame as it was, we collected that awkward Stonehold rare called "Sword of the Chosen" due to it's association with Legends, and the fact that nobody would ever play it, so it was a rare we could trade for cheaply and easily. At one point, we ended up having over 200 of them. And for those old-schoolers out there, does anybody remember the deck called "Flagpole" that was first created and played by Andrew Pacifico? I believe he won the Junior Championship with it at one point. I'm assuming that's the reason for the signed Walls of Roots, as well as the playset of Tradewind Riders. The deck was really popular for a while back in that time frame, and was basically one of the first Type 2 four/five color control decks. It played things like those Gemstone Mines, Wall of Blossoms, Wall of Roots, Birds of Paradise, Spike Feeders, Firestorm, some counter magic, some burn, etc... and mainly relied on bounce control with Tradewind Rider. I only remember all of this because I had Pacifico sign almost my entire Flagpole deck, lol. He even drew little flag poles into the hands pictured on my Walls of Blossoms. It seems super mundane now, but when I was 14, I thought it was awesome!

I prefer to use Lotus Bloom over the Petals because I imprint it onto a Prototype Portal, then you tap it for free and it puts the Lotus Bloom into play. Then you can do that every turn and with Unwinding Clock in Multiplayer, you ramp fast and hard, giggity.

"Wait, it's all Lotus Petals?" *loads up* "Always has been"

LOVE THESE type of vids , showing others peoples collections of all types of cards keep it up rudydudey!

9:41 the way you unsleeved that card and then proceed to throw other cards on top of it 10:56 triggered me

"Hi Thanks for sending me all this stuff guys, Can you try to organize it a little more so i can sell it more easily?" (then Proceeds to throw around cards sent by a Fan)

If he bought those petals 4 or more years ago, he's doubled his money. From 3 to 7 a piece.

How much for the gold and blue lifecounter? I'm interested.

Awesome video Rudy! I love these where we get to search through a random collection!!! Ohhh and Lotus Petal's each are listed on facetofacegames for 6-8$ Canadian, depending on condition of course!!

Rudy I suspect he just collected the card. Sometimes a particular card has meaning to a person. Mine is the original art prodigal sorcerer. It holds a fond memory of my early days playing magic and so I collect them. I've been known to spend hours in a shop getting every copy from the bulk bin and spending 5 or 10 bucks to buy them out. I have hundreds. Not as an investment but because I just want them all. There are shops I frequent that set them aside while sorting bulk and no longer charge me for them.

$400-$650 Canadian in Lotus Petal's from the Tempest set, this were Japanese, Korean and Chinese foreign Petals I believe. Looking at prices on eBay, there are individual signed Korean Lotus Petal's going for 25+ American! That is a lot of money.. moderately played players going for $23 American and up.

maaan I wish I still had my old cards from this era.. losing your collection 3 times really blows. Trying to get back into the game now and its just a mess.

Video starts at 6:03... and the title was a lie too, btw. "I don't know if he tried to corner the market, if he tried to invest in it... I honestly have no idea guys."(6:18).

The counter medallion made of gold “huh that’s interesting, feels heavy or something” *tosses it aside”

You sir are a legend!!! And will be my next EDH commander. Cool video nostalgic as heck seeing those old cards

Cool video Rudy. Thanks for sharing these weird collections with us

"that's interesting in itself!" Plop.

I wanna correct his pronunciation, but I cant tell if that is part of his mind games now...

When I see these vids with a bunch of 4th edition/Ice Age/Tempest era stuff the nostalgia hits me right in the feels.

I appreciate the boxes as well Rudy! Down here in a Aus, my brother and I got a blue and blue one for free when my local game store closed down.

personally i think those signed bolts are great, as they are signed by the late Christopher Rush

10 land mono green stompy WAS a thing. Signed wall of roots makes sense.

Every time Rudy struggles to brute force a card out of a sleeve from the bottom doing damage to the card, a Serra Angel gets her wings.

just an update; tempest Lotus Petals sell for $28.00 each in NM condition now. that is a staggering amount of money in that stack (assuming you could move them all).

Let me tell you a story about a man named Nelson. Nelson owned a Bunker. And Nelson loved to Hunt. One day Nelson thought he could Hunt out all of the silver in the world and store it in his Bunker in anticipation of better days. Nelson Bunker Hunt never cornered the market on silver and ruined himself and his business partners in the meantime.

Chinese and Japanese can be pretty hard to differentiate if you aren't really familiar with the languages, especially because they use some of the same characters, but Korean is pretty easy. Korean is mainly circles and straight lines. Once you see it on a few cards, it's really easy to tell Korean from the other languages.

I love your videos man. When I visit my grandparents in Calahan I’m gonna stop by your shop.

That counter was made for the old Legends of the Five rings card game. I used one, and many players used them since they were simple to use. They go for about $10 on ebay.

I know someone prolly said this already, but the foreign lotuses are: Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, in that order.

What I've learned about trying to corner the market is that it ALWAYS costs much more than you think it will. Whatever your expectations are, quadruple it at the lowest and don't be surprised if it ends up being ten times higher than your expectations. I bought out a TON of Sylvan Advocates on MTGO a year and some change ago. First of all, I heavily underestimated the liquidity of the market for reselling them. More importantly, I also underestimated the sheer amount of volume that were sitting in player's collections, despite it being MTGO. My initial assumption was that a higher percentage of cards on MTGO are actively traded and played and hence tried to estimate supply through deck popularity in tournament play. I've never been so wrong. Point is, if you're going to try and corner the market on ANY card, be prepared to spend much more than you are comfortable with.

Man, I love those tempest/urza cards from back when I started playing.

I have a forest version of that spin down life counter, love it!

Rudy I did it i did it i followed your advice and I bought out a card from a set with a lot of printings a card from ice age but we'll whatever it's called Ice Cauldron

been watching a lot of MTG videos lately for literally no reason, i dont know a damn thing about it, but i really want to start collecting tho now.

you said you give the ma shipping label, do you give them anything else like half of the profits? i believe we have some books fileld with unplayed magic cards from whe nthey first came out up in a closet somewhere

My favorite card is Spiritmonger 3GB 6/6 1B: regenerate 1G: becomes color of choice when it does damage put +1/+1 counter on it. Put flying or can block fires it can actually beat protection from black

Damn , id love to own a signed set of petals!

Hey Rudy have you ever considered giving discounts on singles to patreons? Maybe a percentage discount or something?

"What are these worth a few bucks a piece." I'm watching this video in 2022 and Lotus petals are between $12-$18 a pop....

Am new to magic- starting to get cards and want to know how you organize your cards. By rarity and cmc? Alphabetical? Colors/guilds?

What a hit with that Lotus Petals collection being in 2021

IDK about lotus petal, but... I used to buy up wastelands back in the late 90s wherever I went. I mostly picked through the uncommon bins at comic book stores and got them for 25 cents each. I made a dumb deck with 30 wasteland and then a bunch of random artifacts (stax with some stalking stones lol) just to troll on kids who paid $10-20 for each of their dual lands. I stopped playing MTG in college and med school, then came back to the game in 2013 when I found my box of mtg at my mom's house. I sold 100 wastelands to a dealer in Virginia for $8,000 and then paid off one of my school loans, haha. Basically all I'm trying to say is that back then a lot of stores had big cardboard boxes just sorted by rarity; a lot of the time commons were something like 10 cents and uncommons were 25 cents. So it was pretty easy to just buy a bunch of a certain card if you wanted to collect them for some crazy deck idea.

white weenie was fun with cataclysm. This guy was playing with illusions of granduer he was playing extended around urza it seems.

I had a couple of those custom life counters, had a Nirvana smiley face made out of 22k gold leaf :)

If u have enough lotus pedals, eventually u can trade em all for a whole lotus💪😂

"that's interesting in and of itself." *yeet*

Wow, I actually bought one of the Korean signed petals this past winter and I’m running it in Kess edh. It’s cool to see where it’s from!

I think beside the Black Lotus, it was for the Lotus Petal - Kaladesh Inventions, I recall having those 3 type of cards alone in your deck can lead to a quick win (when combo/play) correctly with burnout mana decks also, but the Lotus Petal are like 5-7$ each and sign can go to upper 20$ sometimes when verify

The foreign Lotus Petals are Japanese and Korean. Poor April, that's a lot of signed cards.

RUDY, that was not a life counter, it was an honor counter for Legend of the Five Rings CCG (now actually LCG, after acquisition by FFG).

Do signatures decrease the value? I buy the 5-10 card lots off Ebay for a buck or 2 to get signed.

I couldn't make it through 2 minutes of this. If I ever saw someone handling my stuff this disrespectfully in person, they certainly would not be leaving with intact eye sockets.

Will it kill you to handle the cards in a more respectful manner ?

i can say with utmost certainty, that no girl will ever see this comment

im in the process of collecting harmless offering from EMN. SOI was the first set i started playing in, and i loved the theme of innistrad. when eldritch moon rolled around, and for that brief time with MAO still in standard, i saw the card stated above, in a grixis control deck with demonic pact. ever since playing against the deck, i found the card to be somewhat trolly and i love the art and flavour. the card will remind me of that game against the demonic pact deck. so i will collect every copy of it that i can :)

How can I buy the 5 Korean signed petals from u if u still have them? Or just a play set of signed petals (foreign preferred)

HAH looks exactly like my collection. Tons of late 90s golden age crap

Lotus petal goes for $10 at my local store

I got some old cards from around that era. Gonna have to check what I’m sitting on.

When i played back in late 90's, i saw a lot of signed stronghold and tempest and exodus cards, even common's

4:59 Tosses out the 24K gold like it's trash lol

Rudy’s petal is floppy

That legend of the 5 rings counter is used either for the RPG or the cardgame by that name, it's a pretty good one

That us actually a Legend of the Five Rings Honor Counter, around 4:56 you can see it written on the back!