Top 6 pickups in 2023: From the best card to the worst set 

That Dragon on the Lotus is beautiful! Such a cool piece.

another solid vid, thanks, mike! you do you! wild lotus! love it!

Thanks for sharing 😊 Happy to see you focused on what gives you joy. Eagerly awaiting your next video. Have a good one!

Great pickups! I also love Raging River. The art on the back of the Word of Command the Phyrexian Dreadnaught are freaking incredible! Awesome video as usual.

Congrats on crossing 2k subs! I think I was #94 😅 Excellent pick ups! Those artist proofs are amazing 🤩 Some of mine would be the Alpha Mox Pearl and Plateau, attending MagicCon Vegas, and of course the fact that you and Jürgen watched so many of my videos is certainly a highlight. Happy New Year! Let’s hope for more great memories and notable cardboard rectangles in 2024 👍

Congratulations Your collections are truly remarkable. Alpha is the pure king. Although, it takes courage to put some poisonous edition among the iconic vintage...

Those artist proofs are really just works of art. The lotus is a beautiful piece too. Congratulations on the loot. Beautiful cards. I play the Phyrexian dreadnought in a mono-green cEDH build. Not a beaut like your artist proof, unfortunately.

A great 8 minute video 👌🏻

Hey man. Amazing Jespers pieces! Love the guy, along with Tucker, probably one of my favorites. 30th might be toxic material but I enjoyed seeing the OG artworks sorted by color (im sorry im not old school enough to truly appreciate the alphabetical order haha). Congrats on the pick ups, see ya next video

Those AP's are incredible!!!

That deadnaught is friggin AWESOME. Faq M30. Faq WotC. Long live the LGS. Long live the eternal formats.

nice stuff, awesome alters

Very nice cards!!!! Absolutely gorgeous!

That word of command proof is sick! Wow. Ironically grabbed a mox sapphire for my unlimited collection this year and need to still grab a time walk to wrap it up. Cheers to everyone and adding to the collection in 2024! Jump, people, gram them while you can!!

Love all the artwork on the Artist proof cards! Amazing! Thanks for sharing! 2023 was a very rough year for me. Lost my job and been just getting by for the most part but was able to get a full completed set of Revised (3rd ed.) as it was my very first set playing the game so has a soft spot for me. Also completed my set of one of my favorite artists Melissa Benson and all her cards artworks. Will eventually work towards collecting my other favorite artists' cards, which currently are Anson Maddocks and Richard Kane-Ferguson (among others).

Sic stuff bro, that Lorus is pimpin but the Jespor's are my favorites, hopefully ill get something from his next Halloween batch

As crazy as it sounds, I only collect "game pieces" -- that is, cards that can actually be played with. So I spent 2023 filling in gaps of my WotC (no Hasbro) MtG collection, which is now complete.

30th anniversary is gross. But the artist proofs are AMAZING! Especially the Phyrexian dreadnaught. I also love "textured" lotus alter, super cool! The fact that magic 30th is even considered worthy amongst a collection of cards like this... yikes.

Not totally sure how I feel about the full 30th set but it would feel crazy for any of us to try and make you feel guilty about owning it. I guess it's similar to any "taboo" collection in each respective community. War relics are full of taboo pieces and I think it's just easier to compartmentalize that for the sake of preserving the history and going for what your heart wants. I shared my opinion on it in your first 30th video but on the other hand, if it were something I wanted, I would say "I like what I like" and get it just the same (which I do often) 😅

good on you for getting an M30 Retro set. Not the biggest m30 fan but it was fun to open as someone that never had a chance to try and open Power. I'll stick to the Alpha and Arabian though, i think :)

Generally speaking don't like altered cards but that Lotus is well made

Always enjoy visiting your museum 😁 and the last one 🤯. Not happy about that set either but definitely gotta acknowledge the accomplishment 👍

Wow! Great pickups, and congrats on the 30th set. I don't know about you, but I was always ridiculed, bullied and belittled for playing Magic when I started in junior high, and all the way through high-school. I was called every name in the book, but Magic was my escape, my refuge while growing up as a recluse. I didnt purchase any 30th edition myself, but I can sense the same level of riducle from back in the day for this set....and whomever wants to collect it, I say go for it, and let all the haters hate. Nothing will stop that, but you dont need to listen to it.

No hate for the magic 30 set.... I would have put that money elsewhere buuuuuut it looks like you've put plenty of money elsewhere so, like you said in the beginning, you do you and we'll do us. Looks like you had a great 2023 though. The only thing I really picked up this year was starting my Peacekeeper hoard... I only have 30 but I'm going to 100

Always enjoy these videos. Do you collect any cards outside of Magic? It's interesting to see that only 1/6 of your favorite pickups was an unaltered Alpha card. And the fact that so many people dislike MTG 30th anniversary makes me like it more. // My favorite pickups last year was a deviation from the norm with Topps Formula 1 cards. A Max Verstappen rainbow with three serialized /5's of the same card.

Are you friends with Kip? He has a ton of great artist proofs that he might like to sell.

Very cool DragonLotus !

That 30th edition ngl is actually kinda cool. Hate the product and what it stands for but the cards themselves all togetger like that is kinda neat. Thanks for sharing!

Those are all great pick ups. I won’t spam you for m30; I’ll hold that against hasbro. Those are the older looking frames and not the new frames, right (more rare)? Nice to hear your dad also collected.

Phyrexian Dreadnought was my jam back when I first started playing. Still one of my favorite cards. Also, I'm totally with you on M30. I think it's ridiculous, but I still picked up my pet cards.

Drooling as ever. Even M30 complete set is kinda neat! My best purchase was more modest, AN NM Island of Wak-Wak

AP sketch is the better way to collection Magic... Beautiful myrfors

I will have to hide well my Raging River before you will find it 😂

was there 2 versions of Sol Ring in Magic 30 ???

Just noticed- are there 2 diff sol rings in M30?

I think most of the long term negativity for M30 stems from the idea of what could have been. A severe missed opportunity in most people’s eyes that was solely designed to extract as much value from the consumer as they could possibly get. Now whether or not that’s entirely true is up for debate, but I think some of the negativity of this set will slowly fade in coming years. Not because people will have forgotten the disaster of M30, but because people will remember it as an inflection point within the history of magic. These cards will continue to go up in value (in my opinion), but I would imagine that getting a good price for them would require holding for another 3-5 years. As far as my pickups for the year - nothing compared to your sets value wise haha. I just completed an old school jumpstart cube; wanted to recreate the feel of 94-95 tabletop magic with my family and friends. Always loved the simplicity of design & beauty of the art with these sets. Slowly swapping out cards from chronicles with real antiquities and legends throughout this year.

Ruined a lotus tbh, cool dragon but the authentic card is far more beautiful

The audio feedback is KILLING ME please fix it moving forward 😭

The AP sketches are incredible! The lotus is fantastic too! Would love to see a video on your UNL set. Now you need more illusionary masks to sneak in the dreadnought. I don't think there should be any shame in liking the M30 cards, i think the cards are gorgeous. The M30 cards have much more old-school feel than any other retro-border cards they've produced recently.

i hope you didnt pay that much for thoses proxies at the end :P