NO ONE is collecting NEW Complete Sets of Magic The Gathering in 2018 

I dont care what all the new magic players think. Complete sets still make my heart feel full

I would love to collect the full sets even now…but when they release a new set every 2 months its wayyyy to much to keep going that way.

I recently started collecting magic with Kaldheim and completed that set then afr now I’m working on finishing up midnight hunt and vow! I’m all about completing sets it’s so much fun!

Rudy, we are from a time of RPG completionists. I would spend hours and hours trying to finish and collect everything in a Final Fantasy game. It's the same way with MTG. It's like you said, the thrill of the hunt for those last few cards you need. I have opened a stupid amount of Kaladesh just trying to physically pull an Aether Vial Invention because of the nostalgia I get from thinking about that card and how much I played it back in Mirrodin standard. When I finally pulled one last week, I finally felt like the effort, time and money was all worth it. Sometimes it's about the ending, but a lot of times it's about the journey we took to get there. Thanks for sharing that collection!

I would say most hobby collections aren't done for financial gains. Do you collect stamps, video games, cards, old toys; I can't imagine you making a fortune of any of those passions. But we do it anyway, more so because it provides us a sense of permanence in the world, that romance work and family can not. I don't think the transient nature of card finance should really be taken as any indication that said passion is somehow less intrinsically valuable.

I thought I was alone, I still complete sets only from opening boxes.

My guy, everything you said was my childhood MTG experiences. Buying a booster pack, collecting cards and slowly filling up those 9 pocket sheets was the most satisfying, money spent as a kid. Unfortunately, I came from a very poor family so I gave up the collection right about time of Urza's Legacy. I remember my first booster pack ever, my friend and I rode our bikes 2 hours to BUYBACK games, and my first rare card from 1st booster ever was Shiva's Dragon of the 5th edition. I went on to collect Ice Age, Mirage. Man, those were the days. In my 30s, and I would love to buy complete sets for nostalgia's sake. Thanks for sharing. And if you are selling or know where to grab up complete sets, lemme know.

WAAAY TOO ROUGH WITH THOSE BINDERS BROTHA!!!!!

i've spent like 4 hours watching your videos yesterday and have never played magic or owned any cards.

I'm one of those guys that still collect complete sets lol. I'm old school still.

I came back into magic on the release of Kaladesh after a near 20 year absence. Since then I have decided to collect every decent sized set. So Kaladesh (with a near full foil set in addition), Aether Revolt, Amonkhet, HoD, Ixalan, Rivals of Ixalan, Dominaria, Unstable and Battlebond full sets in binders now grace y bookshelf. For the first time in years I am enjoying collecting and I care not about the value. It’s a pure hobby.

I was just at my LGS last night to pick up two of the last cards I need to complete my Dominaria 2018 set. I had no idea no one else was completing sets. For me, I started playing about six years ago when a friend of mine got me into it. We couldn’t play very often and when we did it was always so exciting for me because he had so many cards and decks and the themes were so outrageous that the fun was not in the necessarily winning or losing, but getting to pull off some ridiculous condition. Due to jobs we both moved away from each other a couple of years ago and sadly, he passed away right before Christmas last year. I haven’t played a game since, but the collecting aspect of the game is what brings me joy now. I can look at cards and think about what my friend would do with them or think about past games in which this new card would have made something better. I don’t know, is there really nobody else out there collecting them? Is this another sign that I am getting old? That sucks if so, but I think I’ll continue to collect for my own enjoyment. Once I’m dead, what does it matter that I spent money foolishly?

Rudy is feeling guilty about what he about to do, which is pull out the 12 money cards from each set, and tossing the rest into the back room.

I just started playing/collecting Magic the Gathering about two months ago. I’ve been having a great time buying booster packs, a fat pack and singles from my LGS to try to get a complete set finished. For me, it’s just a lot of fun cracking packs and seeing what i get! I almost have the complete Amonkhet set done, minus the invocations of course. Love ya Rudy! Keep up the great videos.

It's not only the printing of cards without new art, or overprinting. The way people play magic has changed in the last 20 years. We used to sit at a table and play with our friends, using whatever we had in our collection to play, which would make a complete set more worthwhile.

I left mtg in year 2000 and went back in year 2016. What was most shocking was the mtg players mind, the much they cared about card prices and winning instead of card value (art, other format, future potential). Since kaladesh I have been collecting all Standard sets wich makes a lot of fun, logic and excitement for me. The community here is happy to hace someone like me because I am allways looking for weird cards or without superficial value. And like you say it broke my hearth to see how the players mind have changed in 15 years. Pd: I looked at some videos of you before and allways thought you where less than you actually are, thanks for this videos.

The 4th edition rulebook literally had a card checklist inside it to help you organize your completion

Might consider going back to collecting sets if the card stock was fixed.

This video comes up as I am completing a foil set of urza’s legacy! Great timing

Rudy, I love collecting complete sets. It's always nice to see the old cards that bring back memories of playing them in draft and sealed.

Visions set is underrated. Numerous reserved list cards, killer art work. I think i just talked myself into buying a set...

I hate myself to this day for selling all my cards back in the day. I started back before ice age (dont remember exactly when) and played up until around mirrodin. I had binders with a full playset of complete sets of both mirrodin and legions. Sold almost every card I owned minus a stack I had forgotten at home when I needed some cash and didnt think I'd play anymore after high school. Got $350 for the shoe boxes upon shoe boxes. The binders alone would have crushed that value if i had kept them :( I literally used to work to get money to buy boxes and when I got something I still needed for the playset of either of those sets I put it straight into the binder. Lesson learned in just getting rid of stuff for a quick buck :-/

Rudy! The video's you produce are the first I click on! As a 20-30+ish year old (with reasonable income + savings + a few unique investing accounts ((hint.. i'm Canadian))...I just want to give a hearty THANKS!!! For all the great stuff you've put out over the past couple years. Luckily I knew the benefits of having a stable cash account long ago and with your indirect tips, I've been adventurous in investing. You have encouraged me to do my own research and find my own angle.. which is something mtg has clearly primed me for. You do top tier work. Keep on it!!!

I think for me what trivialized collecting sets is the fact of how readily available all the cards are now (at your fingertips even). Not just the sheer quantity but the fact that you can just buy the singles online everywhere instead of having to rip packs or trade your friends for that last rare/uncommon you need to complete the set.

I'm really into Yu-Gi-Oh but I'm moving now to MTG looks so cool too

While the monetary value is DEFINITELY a factor, I feel like the art is also huge. In old sets you got a variety of interesting, hand drawn stuff in different artists' different styles. Now you get the same meh artstyle that's all computerized and regulated by WotC

Thank you for having a video up Rudy. Having a crap day and just needed to veg out for a few and was relieved to see one of your vids up. Love your work. Pls keep it up

Nice video Rudy. I started collecting Magic in 1995 when you could buy Antiquities for $15 a pack. And I did. I had collected a full set of that, Arabian, Ice Age etc. It was just a fun thing to do. My greatest battle was the Unlimited set. Only need two cards at this point. Glad I bought my Black Lotus when it was only $250. My friends thought I was crazy. They don't think so anymore.

I collect sets. I have two kids under three, so it’s all I have time for.

hi my name is les woods i am 64 years old just had a triple bypass i have been collecting sets of MTG sins 94/95 i have sets from Revised right up to present i have well over 20,000 cards and am in the process off putting 2019 core set together i am a collector mor than a player and i do watch some of your vids i do like them and are very informative i thank you for this .

It's now been 6 months of watching Rudy's videos and I have not even touched a magic card in my life

Thanks in part to you ( Your race to 100 AN sets was an inspiration ) I'm 1 Juzam away from AN, 60% done with ATQ including Workshop and Candelabra, and working on Legends, have a NM Tabby so its all downhill. We definitely come from that COMPLETE it era, 110% or not at all. That's why I'm going for print spot variants like Ali and Gaea's Avenger and light/dark variants. Even have some light/VERY dark Citanul Druids. Yes I'm the Citanul Druid guy... Anyhow just wanted to say that set builders are alive and well, although we're getting old!

That's... Kinda sad( I almost finished complete set of Dominaria with all cards icl. promo and cards from planes-decks. And I have fun) Pretty sad that no one collect new stuff... No hounor in pixel collection of Hearthstone, I think

Awesome video. I did the same thing with set collecting. I collected baseball card sets, mtg, and Star Wars ccg. The thrill died off the older I got. I started back a few years ago with zendikar. Great time to get back into the game.

I still collect sets. Nothing like finding the last few card to complete a set

I collected a complete set of Dragons Maze 😏 I collected all of sets 1 and 2 of the Dragon Ball Super TCG.

Complete set of Chronicles? The mind boggles

I helped my young daughter finish a set of Kaladesh, including the fancy set binder. It was her very first set she started opening booster packs from and built a deck with that she played in her Magic club.

I’m young but into the whole collection thing, you’ve inspired me to collect complete sets

It is the art. For me at least. I dont like the repetitive art style of the new cards

Basically once the set rotates out of Standard Format, no one plays it anymore. The Modern Format isn't very popular, at least events near me never ever have a Modern showdown or something. So, why collect the cards you really aren't ever going to play with after some point, right? I used to collect complete sets but now, by the time the hype of a new set is dead and a complete set is more affordable, it just isn't in my interest to buy the cards because there is no place to play them in a Modern Format anymore and frankly, Frank, I don't want to invest in something just to have it sit around and probably never really appreciate into much.

Man, this hits me hard, because I recently got back into Magic (damn you Dominaria and hitting me in my oldman nostalgia feels) and yeah, everything you said in this video is spot on. I, too, was a collector, and I've got complete sets of blocks that I really enjoyed, like the entire Time Spiral block and Zendikar block. I remember searching ebay for complete sets and they were all over the place. Any set you want, in any quantity (4x uncommon/common sets!!! Buy It Now! Free Shipping!), but now, it's one or two auctions of every other set. Looking back on it, even within the past 5-10 years, I see that I made a huge blunder investing into building complete sets instead of just buying boxes and sitting on them. The time, effort, and money I put into complete sets, I could have put into boxes, and then flipped them for 2x-3x the profit. Oh well.

Hey Rudy keep up the good work and thanks for the memories you help bring back when I first started playing Magic. I usually don't leave comments on RU-vid but I want to ask if I should compete in this day of age in Magic tournaments and will still have a good experience?

Funny how a game that now rotates out all the cards ever 2 years doesn't hold value in its cards anymore.

Personally I could never afford to collect a complete set and even if I could I'd rather just by cards I'm going to use in decks.

This video reminded me how much I always wanted to make complete sets when I was younger but just didn't have the money for it. Maybe I should start doing that now...

I find this interesting. I had never even thought about getting complete sets before. Maybe I will try and assemble a set one day.

A full set of ixalan will get you laughed at.

I feel like set collecting died off right when magic online came around and they made factory sealed sets available. The set collectors can literally buy a complete set in a tiny brick.

Still working on my collection of a complete set of the first Ravnica block =) bought some of them when it came out, and bought a box of used cards some years later. But most of the collections has been trades and donations. Never about the monetary value of the collection, but the feeling of the set, just because I loved the setting and story. I think I am down to 19 cards that I need to complete the set.

I started playing back in RTR block. I've always wanted to have a complete set of any set. I've come close with M14 and Khans. This is so pleasing to watch

Hey Rudy, you are gaining weight !!!!!!!!!! stop eating those magic cards.

Do a video about how you feel about the Transformers TCG that was revealed by wizards and hasbro plzzz :)

Notification squad reporting, i love the smell of the old packs and my personal favorite alliances and homelands

I still collect complete sets. It's actually one of my favorite parts of magic. I'm kinda just starting my sets but I have everything from bfz to dominaria complete and I have maybe two older sets complete and maybe 5 or 6 other sets where I'm only missing a handful of cards. I spend alot of time on tcg and card kingdom trying to get the cheapest price I can for cards

I have some completed sets . i like to collect them for my viewing sake not the money value though.

I put this video on a creature I controlled, and it damaged me #WanderlustConfirmed

Hey I got back into magic recently to collect full sets. I'm one of those type of guys who sold my collection back in the day and regretted it ever since. I play alot of online magic (arena) now but I still like to have the set to put away. I'm the type that will collect it put it on the shelf for years and come back and look through them all for nostalgia.

This has inspired me to go back and try to finish the sets I really like/started with. Khans (save for the fetches, ain't nobody got money for that), M15, Shadows and Eldritch.

Making the complete set buying boxes/packs is dumb. However, it's actually pretty cheap to get complete sets, as like already pointed out, not many cards are really valuable. You may just pay less than the total of the valuable cards and get the rest basically for free. Not saying it's a good investment (it's not unlike older sets) and I think this video may give the wrong impression to those who like to complete sets on they own terms. There is more about collecting than just value or a pet card.

Why would you collect new complete sets? Unlike old magic complete sets, they'll never be worth anything, the art is trendy, rather than timeless, and the overwhelming majority of the cards are either very vanilla or functional reprints of older cards.

Hi ruddy. You're completely right. Big hug from a fan from Portugal

You had me at wanderlust. I have a complete set of avacyn. There hasn’t been a set I’ve wanted to collect since. I talked to one new player that is collecting sets. It’s a rare breed.

2020 is making Rudy look haggard. You down 20 lbs from this vid?

Who remembers buying Ice Age from behind the counter at Electronic Boutique....

I do it. just finished a complete set of Draino. working on finishing my scars, beseiged, new p block. only need like 15 cards total for the block.

I know several people who are specifically completing Dominaria sets (but not any other recent sets).

Honestly, it's been all downhill since the Innistrad block. Scars was the last true great block released.

If anything the artwork has degraded when you compare magic now to magic 95, the art was much bolder and looked more painterly the new art just looks so generic.

I still have a couple of complete sets that I keep around from the times when collecting complete sets was no longer so much of a thing but not as unthinkable as it seems to be today for most people. Sets that, though they have become fairly expensive, you rarely hear about these days... Sets like the Lorwyn block. I kind of wish we'd get to see and hear more of those kinds of sets.

Here's an awesome story - about a year ago, I was talking with a buddy at work about MtG. A newer guy was listening and mentioned he used to play in the late 90s. He then told me he also used to collect and someone he knew had wanted to buy his collection about 10 years ago. Price? 5k. He didn't want to because he had put in time into his collection. He then told me what he had - complete sets Alpha-Tempest. He didn't believe me when I told him their value, but when he did some research that day/night, he was pretty happy.

You mean supply vs demand. They have oversupplied. This is why I think they need a living reserved/throttle list. Cards should be elected into core, left there, and all others should have timers before reprinting.

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I’m an old school type player who has in the last year got back into magic. I’ve made over 55 binders of play sets. Not complete yet but as I buy up collections I’m filling in the blanks. Im also 3 binders away from having all of the vintage ultra pro set binders!

I’ve been trying to complete marvel/dc/image overpower cgg and Star Wars for about 20 years on and off and I love it(the hunt no eBay) I love this channel and I have never played magic

After a certain point in Magic, somewheer after U Legacy, all the magic cards began to look the same. There was no uniqueness. Every card has that new shit look. WHY DONT THEY CHANGE THIS?

Could you please do a video about Yugioh? I mean, you already did mentioned a lot dead Cardgames in your videos...

Right, or wrong, I got back into MTG for the first time in a loooooooong time just recently. I’m going old school and building complete set of AFR, and I’ll be damned if I won’t complete it the good old fashioned way 👍🏻. It has given me endless hours so far, all of it immersive and an experience. Sure, I said to myself on at least a dozen occasions- “next time I want a complete set, just buy a MOL redemption set” but not this time. This time is old school fun.

My life dream is to collect full sets of magic, since i dont have a time to play anymore. Accordint to me, the price will come up over time. Every body laughet at me, that i kept Portal card, from like 20 yrs ago. Now they are fighting for it. Even, from nostalgia reasons! Thumbs up!

Meh. I’d rather collect the highlight reel than every mostly worthless card. All foils might be fun, but could get expensive. For anything else you can just see the entire gallery of cards online. Of course there’s always the nostalgia factor, collecting the first set you started playing from?

Dude, you are so sad, ahaha... Sounds like you got hurt along the way or something. All I hear is "value... value... value... value... value...", but guess what, some of us actually like the cards (not their values)! I feel for your client/customer. He should have sold his collection to someone that would appreciate it more than you do... MTG is clearly a business to you now. So much so that you can't even conceive someone collecting cards just for passion. THAT is kinda sad to me.

Hi Rudy. Thanks for your Insight Your humor is on point.

Fun fact, I just started building a Collection of my favorite block last week :) Hope I can finish it in a couple of years.

Nice video. I still collect sets. I'm collecting all of them, even the crappy ones :-)

From 2015 through 2017, I put together complete NM sets of every expansion from Arabian to Destiny, plus Revised, Beta common/uncommon, and got within 4 cards of a complete unlimited. I wanted at least one of every RL card. Obviously I could care less for anything more recent. I haven’t played a game of MTG in probably 15 years, just love collecting and finding high condition old school...and watching set values double every couple years.

i remember when i was younger. we all had our binder full of rares and would trade for what we wanted. same for fnm, people would trade before the games. now we shop up at the store with a single deck, play our games, take our wins and leave. it went (in me area) from game night, to gambling basically

Actually I own a complete set of nemesis and one day I'm looking forward to show it to my son and show him the impact that each card made thanks for the video

I still collect sets :) i have never loss that excitement since revised.

yep! still have sets of 4th ed, Ice age, weatherlight, and tempest. I was one of those who collected sets then played with whatever i had left.

When I was working on my arabian set, i needed a juzam to finish it. I traded my whole revised set for it. That sense of accomplishment for the completion of arabian was amazing. This was wayyyy back in the 90s when juzam and the duals weren't worth a lot, so the trade was pretty even.

Simply amazing. I would love to have all those complete sets. Nicely done to the person that collected them and put them in such nice order. I don't and probably won't collect cards but if I did I would collect complete sets too.

I started two years after coming to U.S.A. back in 97 with MTG: Portal. I loved collecting for pleasure and after 20 year break I'm planning to jump back in and collect the vintage sets like Portal, Odyssey, Legions, etc. Brother, everything you mentioned is EXACTLY how I feel! I would absolutely LOVE to purchase those binders with complete mint conditioni sets. Do you have a store I can check out?

I still collect full sets. Not for money but usually i buy a booster box of each new set and then buy additional copies of cards for decks and buy singles for all the cards i dont get from the box. I have atleast one copy of every card from each set since M10. I even have the entire Amonkhet/Hour of Devastation Invocations set as well as a good chunk of the Kaladesh Masterpiece and a few of the Zendikar expeditions. At this point im trying to collect all of those. I understand Im likely throwing most of my money away but its a hobby. And I enjoy it! Maybe someday the masterpiece cards will be worth something. Then again maybe not.

Amusingly, Dominaria is the first set I've ever completed. It wasn't a goal, though. I just opened a lot of Dominaria and realized that I was one card short so I went out and bought a single of it.

Super late to this but I actually just got back into collecting and just finished a full collection of Ikoria. It’s so fulfilling finishing a full collection.

I did it with KTK and RTR , totally worth it. You mention many reasons regarding the low value of recent sets once the leave standard, i wouldn't blame the land reprints but i would blame the overprinting

Oh man Mr Rudy I feel ya on that whole issue. I really wish ppl still appreciated collecting whole sets these days. I mean especially those who have opened packs to get the missing cards instead of just buying a shit ton of singles to make it happen, cuz it really is an art to accomplishing something of that magnitude, with little to no appreciation.

i just bought a SOI and EDM fullset + their binders. i really love Innistrad, so i went for it

More videos like this. I like seeing collections and old cards. I still like collecting complete sets.

Ive only been into Magic for about a year, but I’m seriously into collecting sets. Don’t have many so far, and they’re all newer, but I like it.