I'm extremely glad you were able to step away from the Hamster Wheel in the basement to Cube Draft Old School cards and play with us buddy. My absolute favorite picture from the event was when you drafted the card we altered with your face on it!!! There was a few of those in the cube courtesy of the Mariners Canadian Old School group. Probably the most funny was the Greed with his face, and the "Mox Rudy"
@@FinalManaTriggersame bro, I’ve never played magic the gathering this video was on the front page of my recommended. But I felt like I was right there too! Was a great moment to witness
Getting a power nine is good and all, but being surrounded by great friends for this moment is just priceless. It just fills my 40 yr old heart with joy.
ABSOLUTELY on point. I made it clear to everybody who came that them just being there and sharing that bro time was the gift for me. No birthday gifts were expected or required, I was just so happy to have everybody there playing together.
i played magic as a young teenager havent played in 20+ years, but i freakin love these videos the amount of you and excitement is just of the charts :D
Year 2024: open delicately a pearl mox and drop it on table mat fear off staining it with greasy sweaty hands. Friends around with their phones recording the moment, screaming and cheering you up. Year 1993: ripping a booster and found a f*cking white jewelry costing 0, throws cards on sidewalk before picking it up again and reenter shop. Friends around laugh at you for not getting a shivan dragon.
Reminds me of those people that are posting a picture of their card asking "what it will grade" as they bare fist hold it with their fingers on the edge of the card.....
I have a personal story about THAT exact card, beta too. It was '96, the Alliances set was the new rage. I registered for my first MTG tournament ever. A friend of my brother heard that I was going to that tournament and lent me THAT EXACT card, at no charge. I never even met the guy, not before nor after that. It was probably worth what, around 250 USD back then I suppose? Nothing bad happened to the card, he got it back via my brother later. I did good in that tournament for what I had, my deck was built around a new card I liked a lot called "Kjeldoran Outpost". Lost to some power 9 dude, of course, but I managed to make him sweat a bit. Getting rid of those 1/1 is not that easy! It was already crazy back then, to lend a $250 card like that, to someone you never saw. For anyone reading this, who started playing MTG 5 years ago, it must sound all made up. But remember. Working a full summer, student job, you could build a power 9 deck if you invested most of what you made into cards. Then put those cards in sleeves and shuffle them aggressively, like they were worth nothing. And that's what I did a little later. Crazy time.
Ah yes, the very elusive Chaos Pearl. Must be dropped from a height of at least one foot. If Chaos Pearl Orb turns over completely at least once during the flip and lands face up, add 1 White mana to your mana pool.
I don't know a thing about magic but it's so joyful to see you enjoy the moment with your friends. I guess that's exactly what life is about. Sharing that pure happiness and excitement with the ones you care.
@@defid.system9298 maybe? If he gets it graded he has a chance, but that’s assuming someone buys it. If it isn’t grade then he just cut the value of the booster pack in half
I started playing Magic in the late 90's but haven't played in probably 15+ years.... This video brought the biggest smile to my face!!!!! Absolutely incredible.
They opened a pack of cards from one of the oldest Magic sets, and the rare card in the pack (all of them included only one rare card afaik) was Mox Pearl, one of the so-called "Power Nine", which are nine cards from the older sets that are outrageously overpowered by today's standards (but weren't seen as such in that era). These cards are playable in some formats and banned in others. That card alone is worth prolly over 20k USD.
I shuffled decks worth hundreds of thousands of dollars at current value. My friend’s novelty deck had 2% of the alpha black lotus in the world… that is crazy. Virtual World, Magic the Gathering, and crushing dial up players with my cable modem connection. Um, my life peaked in 1994
Happy for that dude! Pulled two mox in the 90s , only two things that gave me that feeling was pulling a foil alpha Philosopher's stone from Sorcery Contested Realm and the ultimate: (though not worth a lot) , walking into the store, calling a Jeff Bagwell Gold Leaf rookie, picking one pack and getting it...owner called me the AntiChrist 😂
I remember heading to fly out to my brothers wedding, and needing a fourth stormbreath dragon for my standard deck. I went in to the shop and asked if they had one too, which of course they did not. So I bought one pack and there he was. I ended up playing a bunch of tournaments with my brother . the standard one I came in second of about 30 players.
@@KrepsyK Was crazy lucky, it should never happen actually. Opened one case of Alpha. Got Foil: P stone, Aqua Core, River of Flame, Titan...those are the foils I remember off top of my head. And NF two P stones, fraz death dealer, and some other good hits .. I really wish the separation was better like Grand Archive, b/c so many other people got hosed.
I’m glad I played in Seattle (where magic started and there were lots of cards) starting back in 94 when it was no big deal to have power cards. Everyone had at least one. Not many had all 9, but your average deck had 3 or 4. Typically 2 moxes a walk and ancestral in every deck. Anyway. I sold everything in 2000 when I went to grad school and needed the money. Sold about 12 power, 120 duals (3 sets), 12 mana drains, and sets of basically every good card (moat, abyss, juzaam, library, mirror universe). I think I got about $5,000 but may have been as high as $8,000. Definitely lower than $10,000. Power was like 120 for the 8 and 250 for lotus, drains about $30, moat abyss 30, juzaam $80, library and mirror like 40 or 50. Duals were $10 for 8 of them and $15 for tundra and underground sea. Yeah it’s worth whatever $100k or something now. But frankly I’m just happy I got to play back then. Magic in 1994-1998 is way, way better than magic today. Much more fun back then.
As not only a sport collector and from another country, I'm watching with a mixture of confusion and impatience, but have to note the passion at the end and the comedic and dramatic value of last card "magic". So big ups fam I guess.
Old land cards are actually worth a decent amount. Reason I was told is that most of the vintage cards can't be played in most formats, but the lands are exempt. So you can be playing a modern tournament but you could have Alpha or Beta basic lands in your deck. Some of those players walk around with decks worth as much as a car, they aren't going to want to throw in cheap land cards along with cards that are each worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars. So they are more than willing to pay $30-40 for even a beta land card. Granted there are better cards, but a land in one of these packs is above average from a price perspective.
Lands are going up in price, and they are honestly more useful than many of the commons so they are more expensive than most of them. I'd be happy with a land pack, just not in the uncommon section...
I watched a lot of Andy Shrock when I was really into skateboarding around 12 years ago. Then, I get into magic a few years ago and an alpha booster opening by Andrew shrock shows up on my page. Couldn't believe his interests followed mine. So cool!
You are not taking into account purchasing, inventory and selling costs. Its by no means profitable. I've seen tons of youtube channels of people who make a living out of trading cards and they are very far from rich. If they put that amount of time to any other work they would be wealthy af. Btw, a few decades ago some people knew how to statistically always win the lotto. Basically when there was no winner and the pool prize increased but the ticket cost remained the same it was profitable to buy as many tickets as you could. There is a movie and a documentary about it.
@chettonex no I mean you are more likely to make a notable amount of money buying a pack of mtg cards and selling off the valuable ones than you are with a scratch off. Still not a good idea as an occupation, but better than lotto. Also, that movie takes a lot of liberties with basic math. If it were statistically winnable, it would not be consistently profitable. It's like the method where you double what you lost each time. Does it mathematically work? Yes. Is it practical? No.
@@derekstanyer oh I don't necessarily mean Gen A and B. I just mean packs in general. Also, lotto cards are generally not profitable. I just said you have better odds.
I grew up with these cards. Once invited 12 kids to my birthday and my parents were angry cause they only allowed 8, but I just did that cause i wanted to get more boosters and starters from them ;D Years later i gave all my ~6000 cards to the little brother of my gf back then. In retrospect i gave away a lot of money but then they weren't worth much and he was very happy with it. Hope he used them well.
This was absolutely awesome, but it also really shows you how ridiculous it is to open a pack like this. Even after pulling one of the best possible outcomes, you are still in the hole for at least 1-2k, maybe even more depending on grading outcome.
@grand_master_glass there's no single answer to that. They have condition, because they may be searched. A searched pack is almost worthless if you detect it
@@grand_master_glass Honestly, the grading on that pack does not really matter, it does not really add any value, especially from a very bad grading company like that. Beta boosters even ungraded are in the 10k range regardless.
Ungraded Beta Mox Pearl (lightly played) $4-5k USD. Idk how much of a premium the grading/NM adds, but I think you are correct. He is still down at least a few G’s
someone who opens a pack like that is not doing it for money, they do it for the experience... getting a mox was a nice surprise that can cover the experience's price.
You cant replicate these vintage openings with hyped fickle packs these days. Sure its a rush pulling a dockside from a modern pack, but this....this transcends location and time....really amazing pull. Watched it from zero to end and it was amazing. Its like i was there. Thank you guys for letting me relieve those times past.
Beta power 9 at that. In the 90s black border meant something. Now people are excited about white border for mb2. Not me, for me white borders will always be associated with broke.
honestly I enjoy the Charlie and Wubby MTG openings but there's nothing in the world like a good Dan opening, especially if Edwin, Travis, and Rudy are standing around the table
Watching a video of someone doing something I can remember doing as a kid, and then seeing *that* card appear made my jaw drop. Congratulations. I haven't played MTG in decades, and I'm still jealous. :P
How can something in original packaging not be a 10... Card inflation is one of the funniest scams in history, creating fake grading systems and everything 😂
i don't even like magic much but if you're really wondering... checking to make sure the centering, corners arent bent and the ink isnt flawed. theres a lot to consider especially if most of them are off a bit, that's like pulling a rare card that's rarer because it was made perfectly. some batches look awful while some are a 10.
Back then the centering was bad because the machines wouldn't be lined up completely right so one side of the card would have more of an edge on one side than the other.
Because you don't understand how things work, centering mattress, just cause it doesn't have any dings or scratches , doesn't mean it's a perfect card which is what a 10 is suppose to mean .
@@wesleykeur9148 No, completely wrong. There is no average price for PSA-9's. It also ENTIRELY depends on the card. A PSA9 of a new card is barely worth the $20 it cost to grade it. A PSA-9 of an Alpha Black Lotus might grab you over $100k. It's what the card is + the grade = market value
lol, Rudy has huge influence on price, and if you watch enough of his videos you can see it. He literally says the opposite of what you should do. "Arabian Nights plummeting in price" Oh shit, I better sell my Arabian nights to Rudy right now......................
I mean....if he paid 10k like they said they did, he lost money even with opening a pack. Those packs are almost guaranteed lost money unless the stars align and you get a Black Lotus.
A testament to the phrase >>>>> "PACKS ARE MEANT TO BE OPENED >>>> THEIR VALUE IS ZERO UNTIL THEY ARE OPENED WITH CARDS IN HAND" The idea that there are still UNOPENED beta, revised, arabian nights, etc., boosters and boxes out there, in 2024, is literally insane. These items are like going to a mine, getting a bucket of dirt, and having the miner tell you "well, there COULD be something valuable in there, so I'm gonna charge you 10k a bucket" He could have easily flipped another common. >>>>>>>>> You got a great pull. Happy Birthday!
Someday people will notice that Tavis is ALL OVER THE PLACE at big events, giving advice, telling history, supporting efforts online, being involved. I swear that WoTC should be paying the guy.
I felt the energy of ancient wizards flowing through my veins as chills took over my body. You could feel the spirits transfer from the the room of the video into my room to relive this historic moment they once witnessed in spirit. In other words, this video is a certified cult classic.
lol. I watched this video with 0 expectations, because I thought 5 days ago, if they pulled something I wouldve seen it already on instagram or somewhere else 100%. What a nice surprise that was not the case. GREAT PACK. Looking forward to the grades
