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.

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 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!

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.

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 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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 .

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

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.

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

I still collect sets. Nothing like finding the last few card to complete 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 :-/

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.

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

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

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.

Meanwhile in Pokemon every kid and their mom has a complete set of everything

Full sets never tickled my pickle as something that I’d want to do. Now if it was all foil that’d be different

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A full set of ixalan will get you laughed at.

I might actually have to start collecting complete sets a mtg. I love collecting complete sets. It’s fun.

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.

I collect complete sets starting from revised, not saying their complete but I have 87 binders each with at least 80% complete in each! Love building the whole set.

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

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.

Complete set of Chronicles? The mind boggles

I am a new magic player who has been collecting complete sets from SOI ;)

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

I try to get my sets complete, just from trading and cracking packs. Often friends give me their old collections or stuff they don't need anymore and i sort them into my collection if i don't have them and donate the rest to the next person or a child care institution. collecting and completing a collection is an internally rewarding thing. it scratches my mild ocd to fill a previously empty spot in my binders. A friend of mine just gave me a few thousand cards of his draft jank (from 4th edition until battlebond) and i was happy to include it into my collection and give the rest to a friend who hasn't played in almost 20 years and wants to play again.

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.

This is what happens when something becomes so mainstream. Use to be considered a geek or a nerd if you played it but now everyone plays it everyone knows what it is. I'm all about the nostalgia. I would love to get my hands on just one of those binders.

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.

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!

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.

I regard collecting and completing a full set of MTG cards or any Card collection as an art form, it seems to be lost but a limited amount of us still do it. The hunt to find each card, to trade for missing gems, to replace lesser versions of a card to a better condition one.

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.

As a member of the sports card community in addition to Magic, I can tell you that there are way more people collecting complete sports card sets still over Magic now. Sure, they print cards into oblivion and make it almost impossible to get complete sets of anything with all those parallels and autos and whatnot, but people still find a way to do it. I sadly don't know anyone that collects complete sets of Magic sets anymore. Might just be that players are completely focused on 2 or 3 things in a set and that's it. It doesn't help that newer sets are full of garbage for the most part because WoTC doesn't like to print cards that see play outside of Standard for whatever reason. I feel like WoTC is too scared to put powerful stuff in new sets and I'm not sure why. I'm not even sure Dominaria is the start of them getting away from that fear. We'll see. Either way, I appreciate you sharing this collection with us. Gives us some insight on a bygone era.

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?

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.

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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...

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

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?

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

What I enjoyed before with MTG: evenings with friends with beer, burgers and cards, collections, exchanges, hanging out at the corner store for hours, a little tournament from time to time, showing off with your latest nice card... There's too much money now, a lot to much. I mean, I had a lot of cards, Beta set, Alpha set, Guru, Legends set, summer magics, misprints... I sold everything, took a wife, got kids, bought a house, and you know what? I'm getting back to Mtg with them, but only for fun. A very simple cube to play with my kids. I really enjoy it. Before all, Mtg used to be just a game. Don't forget it.

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.

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

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

I am completely new to magic. Don't know if the video games are somehow frowned upon or not. But I found Magic Arena and it is really fun. However, I am also a collector and very interested in collecting the cards just for the fun of it. So this is definetely something I can get behind it. Not all hope is lost

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

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

I have not played Magic in many years, but now and then I pick up my folders, check what's missing, and order some singles to eventually complete the few sets that were around the time I played - Revised and Fourth, Ice Age, Homelands, Fallen Empires and Chronicles. Obviously not because they're massively valuable, desireable or good cards, it's pure nostalgia. I do also own more modern cards - but I have to say, just going by the artworks, I struggle to imagine what would someone entice to collect those. Half of them are hyper-detailed grimdark illustrations with pure black covering half the frame - I actually find it very hard to sort them because they look all the same to me. Again, maybe it's just not what I'm used to, but to me, the old art style is so much more easily recognizable - and iconic.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

“I can’t believe that 20 year old complete set is worth a lot of money and the 5 year old set isn’t - why would anyone collect the set that isn’t worth anything.”

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

There are a couple of guys at my store that collect whole sets and one of those collects all foil sets. Also they might not have any cash value but to the real collectors that doesn't matter. I started too late to collect any thing but I would love that collection.

I had complete sets of 4th edition, ice age, fallen empires, the Dark, 5th edition, mirage, visions, weatherlight, and the whole tempest block. Sold them all about 12 years ago for about $1000.

hey rudy, ive been watching your vids for about a year or so now, i dont comment often but this one made me open my mouth. i started playing a couple of weeks into SOI. i was so excited to play magic after moving on from yugioh ( the most toxic TCG ive ever played ) and went crazy buying boxes when i had a job at the time. after AER came out, id experienced three sets released and realised just how flexible the meta can be, and how many formats magic has. because of this, i decided to complete full playsets of each set from shadows over innistrad onwards. i have since then put together some of the older sets before it ( OGW, BFZ, KHANS BLOCK ETC ). i found that with doing this, amazing cards like tireless tracker, when it spikes, i can play these good cards in modern. it is expensive, but i love the idea of having a playset of every card printed. currently, only my shadows over innistrad is 100% complete, with just over 1100 cards in it, about 30% of it foiled out. i love the set and am doing somthing similar to foil out EMN aswell. im 3 lili and 2 emrakul off a complete set of eldritch moon. the satisfaction of seeing those full binders and being able to grab out any card i want in standard is the best feeling when net decking or brewing up stupid shit like mono blue mill xD. i just wanted to share just how much collecting like this means to me, as it has been how i have been playing and building up my collection for the past 2 years :)

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.

Me and my brother used to collect original DBZ, magic and pokemon in full sets. We would have binders with a piece of paper in each slot that had name and rarity of card in numerical order. When we obtained the card we would put it in its slot. There are not many collectors anymore, every player is a value hunter

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.

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.

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.

I collect the sets I like. I just finished Dominaria. Got full Aether Revolt, Ravnica: City of Guilds, Darksteel, Legions, and Coldsnap. Working on a few others. My life goal is to complete the Urza's block because I was 3 cards shy of doing so back in it's day before I quit and sold all my cards.

I miss the casual outlook I had on Magic when I started...

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 still collect complete sets. I even created my own server to keep track of each set and to find missing cards from other collections :-).

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.