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30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
@@phyzzxI thought the same thing... then I realized that this was an ALPHA pack, like before anybody even knew about Magic at all. These same cards appeared for a long time... but not from Alpha print.
I know I’m 40 and had multiples of all these I once had 3 black lotus in a shoe box it was with all my trash cards I didn’t even play with😂not like it was a cool creature
@@shinobi4317 Im sure it wasn't, A man to enjoy a game so much that people would get sheer panic at people pulling an expensive card and the horror of not wanting to ruin someone else's enjoyment by pulling themselves like im sure a lot of selfish people would want to do. not to mention him watching them casually damaging or devaluing an $100,000 card Box by how they are sleeving, bending or scratching a card. those who actually enjoy the game as a hobby like most people who buy cards would also probably find it nerve racking unboxing a $100k card box, less than 100 left and one of the possible cards being worth last known at $3mill.
he got "scammed" packs for like 50% of the videos rn as well, even with his business partner making sure that the packs are good and paying back whenever they're not, he's had lots of bad older pack openings on his channel, I'm pretty sure he didn't want this pack to be bad with Charlie as well.
@@cceynar94 As they said in the video, there was a chance for a card well into the millions, as well as several other cards in the. 5-digit range. It wasn't an investment, it was a gamble.
@@cceynar94 Also ironically enough "usefullness =\= price", we're talking about collectors items, nobody pays millions of dollars for a card to play it. Rarity and "fame" plays a way bigger role, even if by itself the card is busted
That's what I was thinking, at first I was like dam who's this guy he looks familiar then Charlie's like yeah this is wubby i thought no way he looks so much better
Wubby Magic Monday has been my weekly delight lately, so seeing him do opening videos like this with other creators has been SO fun. Its been great watching him carve out a niche in something he loves so much, and having fun sharing it with friends
@@A_Brainless_Goblin Yeah, it's like Deal or No Deal. We keep opening boxes and the potential value of each box goes up. This was a "bad box." So that's one less box without a Black Lotus.
@@LuminousSteelhow would they know that? 0% chance that all cards are known. Because there would have been hundreds or thousands of Lotus played and lost or destroyed pre-internet era.
I love how simply opening the pack is a real tense moment, because what if there IS a lotus in there, and slightly scratching it could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. I feel pressure and haven't spent a dime!
I’m obv not Tavis, but I’ve conversed with him a number of times over the years when it comes to sheet tracking. Can 100% confirm this is a real box. The common, uncommon and rares tracked the print sheets exactly. One interesting thing to note is that the final rare had a 1 in 13 chance of being a Mox Jet, but you were in a pretty crappy section of the rare sheet, so not surprised you rolled snake eyes.
Wow a Mox pull would have been insane. Funny how much is known about the printing and yet have no idea what's going to be in the box before the plastic is pulled.
I love how they treat it like a demon core or something, like if they do a single thing wrong everything in a 50 mile radius will be completely obliterated.
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
Ta for sharing this Carlie, not many people get to experiance this these days ... and it was cool to watch. I always love watching the excitement of people opening the old magic packs!
I told my mom Sandra Everingham about this video and she is ecstatic that you got 5 of her cards in one deck. She also said if you sent her that dark ritual she’d be happy to sign it and do a little doodle on it! The video was so cool to watch those alpha cards get opened.
Yeah the $3 million sale was for an un-played Black Lotus basically in perfect condition. If it's ever touched a table I don't think it would be worth nearly that much. The market listings for near-mint Beta are around $25k, so an Alpha would be maybe $90-$100k?
If it was alpha/beta and in good condition, you'd be a good way to that if you took like half or more and invested it. definitely way into the five figures.
Please when you open all these sets through the years do it in this format or as a livestream. I only recently started playing magic and it is very cool to be able to live vicariously through you all.
That was easily the gayest thing I've ever seen. I say that from the perspective of having had a successful career on the pro magic circuit and having owned a game shop. I started playing at beta. *That was so pathetic.* The betaest thing of all time.
DrugFreeTexas shill. Y'all call nitrous oxide "hippie crack!?" I inhale this compound on a daily basis and have NEVER:; NEVER, been a hippy. They call it a noble gas" because I AM F* NOBLE. I am humble. GUESS WHAT I lived in Texas once. YEAH I'm part of the Texans. Your logic doesn't play out and everyone from Texas knows that you're dissing them. Holy moly the way people embarrass themselves sometimes...
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
@Kittarawr Yep, around 120k. There are a handful of cards that can multiply that, but you're likely to lose. Trading cards are basically gambling, this is just an extreme.
I was in middle school when this series came out. Never had a Black Lotus, but I also didn’t ever actually play with them - I just collected them because I liked the artwork (so I kept them in great condition). Later when I was in college, I just gave all of my cards away to my dorm mate who was an avid player, but if I knew they’d be worth anything someday I probably would have hung onto them!
When he pulled the channel, it brought back memories of the 1st round kill. Channel fireball with the right starting hand could kill the opponent before they even played.
Hearing these numbers makes me furious. I played magic when it first came out and I collected the entire base set in duplicate. I had an album of cards that got used for decks and an album that stayed mint. I sold all of them in 99 for $300 and I hate myself for it.
Seeing someone who got into Magic like, less than a year ago, and seemingly only got into the physical game a few months ago, just casually dropping $100k on one of the last sealed Alpha starter decks is what blows my mind about this video. Absolutely bonkers how lucrative just reacting to random shit on the internet and posting it on youtube can be.
@@Alino- he can declare it as a business expense, which will offset his taxes. It could end up not only costing him nothing, but actually bringing him profit (through the added revenue of the videos + the sale of the cards)
I could've sworn distinctly remembering Black Lotus being $400 in '99 because that's when I played. If you really sold all that in '99 for $300, you weren't looking at magazine prices. lol
Prices on these are insane because of history and scarcity. Only about 1100 of each alpha rare was printed and it’s estimated that about 50% are lost from damage or being thrown away since no one knew how much they would be worth. The game debuted at GenCon in 1993 and a lot of people who opened cards there just threw them in the trash, thinking they were similar to a deck of playing cards.
@@wykydytronif you're buying singles to actually play with they cost literal cents on the dollar lol. Like you can easily get 20+ cards for less than 3 bucks. This right here is a collector's item
Thanks for bringing us along this journey. The energy and excitement definitely made me feel like back in the day opening packs. I started a bit after alpha this was truly amazing to be apart of! Thanks again and GG pulls!
i was so invested into this vid as a card collector (pokemon, yu gi oh, xmen, marvel, DC, naruto bandai) even though ive never played magic but i had homies that did, i found it interesting, and the way i GASPED when danny didnt pull the black lotus was insane
This is one of the most wholesome alpha starter deck openings I've seen. The fact that Charlie is sharing it with everyone is heartwarming. Regardless of the value, 10/10 person. If I ever get the chance, I hope to play against you some day, just for the joy of the game.
This was neat to watch. I gave my entire collection to my friend for his son who has severe autism. Total value was conservatively 60k. It will pay for nursing care for him for the next 2 years. I regret nothing.
Sold all my magic cards a long long time ago....I had about 3 or 4 of those Lightning Bolts and a bunch of those old lands. I had about 10 of those Dark Rituals. Hurts my soul. I had about 10 of those Samite Healers....had about 15 of those old Twiddle's....had several Plagued Rats. Had a million of those Giant Growths. I'm in pain right now watching this.
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
the art is so beautiful so much oil painting and the theming , glad they are going to era locked progression so they can appreciate the relative power of the cards of the time . please dont focus on the price of the cards , we can appreciate them purely as the rare artifacts they are . i would have loved to see more at the end looking at the complete set and brainstorm what deck could be created from it , as a nice closer to appreciate and showcase the big cards and how they fit together .
The older sets were a mess in terms of design, so it's really hard to build something out of it. Though "cycle" cards were present and we did start seeing more variety with each expansion, it wasn't until Portal (1997) that we started seeing sets designed around specific mechanics and strategies for each color.
Love how he said "get in there with your teeth" and then immediately had to correct himself because there was a strong chance Charlie would just do that
Hold on, this is paymoneywubby? Or whatever his channel is called? I know I’ve seen him a few times and I thought that’s who this was but he looks and sounds completely different from the past I saw of him a few years back.
its the simple stuff like this that makes your videos super awesome to watch. youre one of a rare few. honestly super glad i started watching your videos! please keep up the good work.
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
For those who didn't catch it, they didn't directly state how much they paid for it. However, they did say it was a "six figure destruction" (2:25) when they took off the wrapping implying they paid at least $100,000 for the deck. I'm guessing with everybody taking part in opening the deck they took "investments" from everybody to purchase this with the assumption they would proportionally split the earnings if a lotus was pulled.
Here I am. 🙂 It's nice to see Wubby outside of his studio. I thoroughly enjoyed watched you struggle to cut the plastic. I opened all of my mail with a sword on one of my videos. Stone Rain followed by Fog IS possible to be a legit deck, but there could still be a problem elsewhere. Looks good so far. Stone Rain, Fog, Swamp, Sinkhole, Plains, Forest - This is where I'm currently at in the video, 6 cards into the deck. It looks good, and I know what all the commons are going to be. You'll get a Lightning Bolt as the 15th card, and Dark Ritual as the last common (assuming you don't mix up the card order somehow between now and then).
Update: The deck looks fine, but there's one card that was unusual. The first Uncommon revealed, should have been an Uthden Troll instead of a Mountain. That Mountain is the card next to Uthden Troll. It looks like the Uthden Troll fell out of the assembly line at the factory. Uthden Troll missing in action, but everything else looks great.
21:46 "Who knows this card?" Oh man... Benalish Hero is heavy nostalgia for me, as I started playing MtG when Microprose released their ancient but amazing MtG video game. Cards back then were pure jank, but had an amazing retro-fantasy vibe. It's hard to describe. I also love the fact it's a simple 1/1 creautre for one mana, and it doesn't explain what "Bands" means - one of the most convoluted mechanics in MtG probably.
These early sets had the best art. The ones today... 1/4 are good, 1/4 are cropped funny, 1/4 have bad pixelation, 1/4 have strange picture or odd coloring.
@@selli9917 I played a lot of the Microprose game as a kid, but my actual first cards were from the Ninth Edition, that included two comic books explaining how to play MtG. The comic books were a 10/10 idea. Each player had a diffenet copy, and the players had to read it out loud whenever they had their turn.
You pulled a lighting strike and a demonic near mint straight from a deck, i dont think people realise how good that is in general, i have seen and heard of much much worse boxes.
To all the die hard fans of MTG, there is a spoiler at 6:00 to 6:10 where the bottom card accidentally gets shown. I'm not a die hard myself, but know that could really ruin it for some people lol
Craw wurm at 20:00 brought back memories. I started in revised, wish i had started a year before and gotten some Beta packs. Still have all my cards and theyre worth some money but nothing like the exact same cards in Beta
i had a black lotus i bought for $30 in 1996 at a card shop on 72nd avenue in portland, next to jiffy mart. Lost it when i moved, lost all my cards dude.......I like to imagine when my mom passes that i'll find it in her belongings
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
Bro I’ve been sporadically watching your content without a sub like a creep for years now- this video finally pushed me over the fence! It was great to see you chillin with the boys and nerding out with the boys like the rest of us plebs. So many good memories wrapped up in MTG cellophane! I think I can say we all “came” together on that last card! 😂 I appreciate you, brother! Looking forward to more MTG content in the future!
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
@@Bfkcjscbsnjcbro go find happiness somewhere wtf r u on. When has has genuinely attacked someone for their spending habits? He goes after people who hurt an harass people not people who buy stuff. Literally pulling shit out of thin air.
Just report him for spam. He's posting the same response in multiple comment treads. Same with the guy using hate speech but I've been reporting him under hate speech and violence
That Demonic Tutor flip! That has to be one of the best things I've ever seen on the internet. Also, I was happy to see the Goblin Balloon Brigade! I have a couple of those floating around somewhere in my collection. I love goblin cards, especially the old school silly goblin cards.
There’s something slightly unnerving about seeing wubby without the green screen suit with most of his upper body on show. He is looking real sleak though so nice to see him making progress.
I feel old when we talk about Tempest as a vintage set. Tempest was when I got "back into Magic" because I had gotten a discount voucher at a local store...