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I suspected when Seth saw those 8 rares early and they were the bulkist 8 rares possible. When you see a pile of Return to Ravnica era cards, but none of the uncommons that are worth something from those sets (like he said, Boros Charm,.. Rapid, Vandal) , when you see a few masters sets commons, but again, lots of commons and uncommons in those sets worth $1-$4, but none hanging out still. Picked over tighter than those repacks you get from the dollar store.
Thanks for serving as a reminder why the average person shouldn't buy random collections. Aside from the occasional extremely lucky story you hear about, most people aren't going to to hit anything valuable, much less original duals or random reserved list cards. And even if you strike out, these videos are still entertaining because it's fun to hear you talk about the cards and share stories. 👍
If ur an average player and buying collections. It's gotta be for the fun of it, and u gotta assume ur wasting all that money on bulk. That's the only way I could justify reg people's buying them (outside of like getting to see it before u buy it and kinda look through some stuff)
That's a good idea I should buy some bulk stuff to make a deck since I only have a dragon precon and dogmeat fallout deck, and I mixed them for a decent draw/enchant deck. But yeah I need more cards just overall!
> Aside from the occasional extremely lucky story you hear about, 99% of the time that "extremely lucky stories" are people hitting chinese counterfeits without realizing they are counterfeits, thinking they struck gold. and if they resell them, they become scammers themselves lol
@@pizzafire6666don't buy the collections. Buy bundles when you can get them for under $40. Over time you get a lot of cards and you and up with a decent collection rather than buying a picked through one. If you want older cards, buy them as singles. I bought a lotr bundle and got an orcish bowmasters, last March of the ents, and 3 nazgul. I bought a phyrexia all will be one bundle and only got 4 cards over $5. It's got that boom potential, but at least you get a box, a die, and the foundation of a collection.
@@josephpayton7522 I don't care about the cost of the cards I just need some random cards that I might wanna add, I play casual commander I'm not over here sweating to win a tournament if I wanted to sweat I'd go play call of duty ranked
@@theelectricant98ebay highly favors the customer, if the listing did in fact have a dynamo and he did not receive it most definitely is grounds for taking action!
@@NoTengoIdeaGuey Just like, bait and switch, a lie, a trick. The term's a meme bc of Alex Jebailey, but it just means some kind of bait that in this case Seth fell for
When i used to buy and sell collections and bulk, one trick is to separate out all old border (Pre Mirrodin) and sell that in lots on ebay, it does tend to go for more than bulk modern border. Also, creature tokens in bulk are worth a lot more than bulk commons and uncommons, but the filler cards aren't.
I work at Fedex Ground and I have to say seeing a box in the kind of condition happens more than I'd like to see. Some co-workers don't treat packages as if it was their own package.
At least saffron is a content creator. It's actually impossible for him to lose money buying a collection. If I were him I'd turn all that bulk into decks, sign a bunch of lands and sell them as Saffron Olive jank against the odds decks. Cool way to give back to the community and I would definitely buy one. Or if he doesn't care just use them as giveaways for the channel. Idk just an idea.
Technically Jeweled Amulet could be used in any deck that proliferates, you still can only make the color of Mana used to initially add the charge counter, but you can get multiple charges on it.
I've found cards with letters/initials on them like that too. I've been told they were parts of draft league decks, where players had to give up cards in their decks if they lost (sort of like ante I guess) and replace them with cards drafted (or acquired otherwise) from packs. So the letters/intitals were there to mark whose deck the cards were in throughout the league. Might be the case here too?
I remember an Arena format where you just opened some packs and then drafted against your opponent each match. This was the original Arena in the late 90s, which was a continuous competitive format where each season was different and you played other ranked people at your LGS and had a judge record the results which you could follow online (so novel!). In this format you combined and shuffled your cards, flipped 4, and then drafted alternating 1-2-1 until the end before building for the match. We never wrote on the cards but you did have to register your deck on these copied sheets (which was normal for competitive limited events) and everybody had to leave their decks at the shop.
The only thing I think you missed that was kind of interesting was a White Bordered (4th or 5th ed) Nevinyrral's Disk. It's a card that see's play in commander somewhere.
Whoever put M&M Chips Ahoy cookies (or non-brand alternative) as the cookie of choice for the thumbnail on this video ... I see you. Excellent choice imo.
In the old days, we used random bulk as proxies and wrote on the card using sharpies to mark it as a proxy. Sometimes, we'd use shorthand or what could seem cryptic without context. Idk how common that is these days, but back in the early 2000s, my friend and I did it all the time. I love looking through collections and seeing cool cards from the past! Thanks for letting us look along 😊
i've got an old border Snow-Covered Forest with the word "island" scrawled on it in blue ballpoint pen, and i love showing it to people when i play the commander deck it's in
Reminds me of the lot I got at a yard sale around 2014 or so that had the same fat pack with Liliana on it and a bunch of random boxes. Spend 20 for it and did get my money back several times over because while it was almost entirely common/uncommon like this set, it had some uncommon and commons that have got valuable over the years including Mindcrank. Also it still had a few random rares including a few planewalkers.
You're talking about DJ's Gonti lord of luxury deck. He was either on brainstorm brewery or quiet speculation, i met him a couple times that deck was incredible. He used to keep a tally on his mana crypt in sharpie of wins vs losses
the markings on the cards might be from an event like a PT draft in which players get opened boosters and the cards are marked to avoid cheating. Usually it's just a stamp but maybe in that event they also marked to which side to pass the cards Right or Left (R & L)
Cards are marked manually like that during draft events containing prizes at my LGS, but we're quite a smaller location. Considering a major event only pulls in 8-12 people here.
Two Theories: 1. The writing on the cards are cards that were marked for a tournament. 2. The Free Chips and Cookies probably came from one of those bubble gum machine mystery packs that a lot of game stores do to get rid of bulk rares, and one of the cards was probably marked by the LGS and if you got it you could turn it in for Free Chips and Cookies.
Embercleave, Lizard Blades, Two Handed Axe and Eater of Virtue all seem to have power crept Fireshrieker. However apart from Embercleave, most equipments have been power crept unless in niche gameplans.
Recently was visiting Israel, and in Tel Aviv they have a store called Freak-legendary place. In the corner, they have a giant box of bulk cards, and store's policy is 1 shekel (~2 cents) per card. At the same time, I ordered online a card called Tablet of the guilds. Nothing special, just decent life gain for any 2 color deck. 23 cents. While order was processed, I've found the card in the bulk pile, and just left it there, as I already ordered one. A week past, and that ordered got canceled, as the card wasn't found. I then spend multiple weekends searching for that uncommon, yet I found 20$ natural ordered and some more 5-8 dollar cards.
'Free Chips Or Cookies' was almost certainly used by an LGS as a prize or gift for a player to redeem later. I'd bet that most of the collection came from an LGS, based on the type of bulk. That 'N L' text on a bunch of cards in different sharpies reeks of LGS draft league markings too.
NLM nobody loves me the tragedy of the new maker home and their broken family. I doubt that’s what NLM stands for here but I’ve spent so much time thinking about petscop I couldn’t not have it ring in my ears here
Im guessing the free chips or cookies was from a store event. I have a foil dramatic reversal with Atarka shaptied on it because i went to a prerelease and they had drawings for prizes that they sharpied onto cards what your prize was.
My heart bleeds for you. Have you noticed that the Modern Event deck lacked it's cities of Brass and sword of Feast and Famine ? That seller really took care to suck all the marrow from these bones.
I'm only halfway into the video at this point, but the Batwing Brune is worth a few $$. There's actually quite a lot of pricey commons and uncommons from Lorwyn/Shadowmoor block that a lot of people overlook. The letters on the cards could be stamped cards from GP/Pro Tour drafts?
Wonder if the writing was defining decks the cards were used in. I mean I'd recommend a spreadsheet instead but I could see someone early on and not caring about value doing that.
I actually played that Lost in Woods in standard. It wasn't a great deck, but certainly fun when it worked out. Maybe it's something for Against the Odds?
I'm pretty sure I saw one P3K card, and I think it was Kingming, "Sleeping Dragon". If so it's around 15$. In a way this collection reminds me of my collection. I also keep loads of draft-chaff just for nostalgic value. Sure I actually have quite a lot of high value cards, but if I'd take those out and just sell the chaff, it would look very similar to this.
I bought a box of cards off eBay years ago. Around 200 ish had some decent stuff inside. The kicker was on top randomly was a beta shivan dragon and a legends juzam djinn making it well worth it.
So use to own a LGS and the cards with writing I have a theory. I use to for Christmas put cards on a tree and write prizes on them. Then randomly at event you would get a random card and the prize on it
23:14 I'm currently building a commander deck that will use Jabari's Influence. It's helmed by Winota, Joiner of Forces but has non-humans in it. Instead, it has theft effects like Act of Treason and Jabari's influence to get non-humans from other players. I call it the Humans Only Club (guest passes allowed)
I'm actually going to keep that Jabari's Influence and jam it in some decks. I'm not sure if it will stick but it seems interesting enough (and unique enough) to test out at least.
So glad I sold my collection as is. Bulk plus Rare binder. It was an all or nothing sale. Friend bought it. It eas definitely worth more than what they paid, but I just wanted them gone. I moved on from the hobby. This was back in 2010 before fetch lands were reprinted
Win some lose some, really unfortunate the collection image looked good, but that's just.... some people do that on purpose. Oh you get your free chips and cookies!
@@ethanglaeser9239 ha def some creative outlets you could pursue. The other night on whatnot I watched a bunch of dr.who packs get cut in half before the packs were even opened lol.
@@brackish2386 You could collect a bunch of a specific common you enjoy, lay them out next to each other, and make an epoxy resin tabletop out of them.
I have a colection probably 3 times the size of this. Definitly a lot of bulk stuff but a lot of god hits aswell. Aproximatly 2 fat packs of just rares and mythics. I could go through it and sell idividualy but i would love to send it to you for a resanoable price and watch you unpack it. Cards go all the way back to 8th edition.
that free chips and cookies is an ULTRA MYTHIC,(OMG and its signed) you have to play the card for this game stopping effect to happen. (INSTANT DRAW - able to raid the hosts pantry for unlimited chips and or cookies!) how can you put a monetary price on this card, its priceless!
Hey! There are some cards I would be very interested in buying off of you from that collection, the Lost in the Woods at 7:54, the Headless Skaab at 12:53, all the written on cards at 15:57 also at 19:11, of course the Asha's Favorable Chips and Cookies at 26:08. I know you mentioned there about the well known player with the super damaged deck, I am one of those players. I collect super beat up or strange witten on or oddly damaged cards to use in decks and cubes. All of them tell a good story, or you can make your own. Either way, I will glady pay quadruple market price for each card I mentioned, as well as 8 times market value for the Asha's Favor. I really hope this does not go unseen as I am really interested in getting those cards! If my offer needs to increase I'll totally do that as well!
