Unboxing $57,000 Box of Magic the Gathering Cards + Basics of Card Grading 

I have no idea what is happening as this isn't my jam, but I'd watch you open trash bags. Keep em coming!

I got in to Spellfire in the early 90's instead of Magic. I remember seeing Magic cards at the comic store in their hay day and being intrigued but I was already playing another card game that my friends dad got us in to. Bastard. I have a ton of Spellfire cards are are worth next to nothing. It's kind of painful.

Hey you should try to collab with PayMoneyWubby on twitch for some Magic content, he does a weekly stream called Magic Monday

There's nothing better than seeing someone live out their passion. We care as much as you do. Cheers!

I hope the algorithm sends this to the mtg side of RU-vid so u get tons of views!

Never played or watched a video on Magic the Gathering but this was fascinating. The editing and the way you explained everything made it very easy to understand

Clear thoughtful explanation of something I have no experience with. It was interesting. All it was missing was a carpet advertisement.

This video has made me spiral into the abyss of purchasing Magic cards again. Thank you.

Rick, you were already becoming my favorite podcast before you started diving into mtg. You have the best theme song, amazing guests, hilarious edits/animations and you yourself are always hysterical. But dude, now you’re constantly mixing in the best game ever/my favorite hobby? You clinched it bud, numero uno for life dawg. 🤙 Seriously thank you for putting in the work to make this the best pod on the net, you’re the best Ricky. Also if I could make a suggestion, have you ever thought about having any pro-level MTG players on the pod? LSV (Luis Scott-Vargas) would be the best choice in my opinion, as he is big into puns and joking around/playing. But honestly getting any pro player would be gold.

Ive been wanting to watch some sort of this shit ever since the bert kreischer interview!!

Do a comic book haul next you nerd. As a huge comics fan

I've only been playing and collecting Magic cards for the past 2 years. If you keep putting out MTG content I'll keep watching! Also those TYSO trading cards would probably be the merch I'd want most from your website :)

I'm a 34 y/o who has played the game on and off since my early elementary school years. I am certainly interested in your MTG-related videos. Are you solely collecting at this point, or do you still play?

Rick I love both your podcast and mtg. please post more content I will watch every video

I haven't touched a Magic card since 1995 but god damn this was interesting to watch. Thanks Rick.

Oh man you just gained a new fan...I love MTG and stumbled on your pod with bert...I honestly think you explain the tcg buy/sell process better than anyone else on youtube...do you watch Rudy's channel or Openboosters?

I didnt know you were into magic and I am REALLY into your comedy shit. When i saw this video and saw the overlap of interests, I got so freaking hype. you should play commander. Some celebs play like post malone plays edh

I really enjoy living vicariously through you for my magic card addiction. Thanks man.

what happened to the video with kaia and charlotte ??

Damn I thought he was gonna actually open a 57k box. I had my cards stolen along with a black lotus beta when I was a kid. Buy it would have never been graded high cause I played with mine.

You should try opening some Dragon Ball Super cards, I know you’re somewhat of a dbz fan and the card game has gotten pretty popular.

Imagine customs getting a hold of this during shipping, thinking there may be drugs inside and ripping it apart lol

Have you ever heard of Alpha Investments channel Rick? If you haven't yet I'm sure you will after posting this video..

Dude you’re funny. You should try comedy.

This is not an unboxing, this is just a revealing you that have a sealed box of old ass mtg cards.

I think Ariana Grande is pretty and in some of her interviews she seems cool and fun.

Saw this video get posted around on some MTG subreddits, I always love to see people this invested and knowledgeable about the game. You have a new follower!

The TYSO trading card is so fucking sick, was rushing to buy one as soon as i saw it lol

RICK! Can you offer Graded sealed CARDS!? I would honestly pay a custom price for a signed card, sealed and graded. You're going to be a Legend One Day Man

Get Rudy from Alpha investments on your show!

I WILL BuY AN ESTHER TRADING CARD NO HESITATION

You should do a crypto guide. A lot of people are getting into it at the minute and it would be cool if you could break down your portfolio or strategy

love me some mtg

Can you do more videos or clips on mtg? Thanks

I dont collect cards but I love unboxing videos. You should actually make a card collecting thing. Add common Tyso cards and like super rare ones

Why don't you play some mtg Arena on a stream or so

Wow 🤩 I’d buy that card amazing artwork

Damn this video had layers man, I like this kinda content. Espically when you were so passionate about the artwork you comissioned, that was awesome. Cool to see a different side of you man.

Don't open it, crack new packs instead!

In one video i found a great channel to sub to, cases for my boxes that i have been looking for that look perfect and cases like tht black one to put some of my other things that also looks perfect for wht i need and badass lol. Thank you youtube algorithm/universe for smiling down upon me this day. Lol.

For mic checks I always say. Testies, one and two. Testies,one and two. So I feel ya Rick.

My mind has been completely blown

What I'm here for MTG 4life

I'm not into card collecting at all but I do find this stuff fascinating. Really appreciate you explaining everything Rick! Especially for someone not involved enough to look it up myself! Could you post more vids like this?

I got into magic a little bit in highschool, mostly because my friends were all nerdy pot heads. My boyfriend plays regularly with his friends, I'll pass this video on. I love when you dorks get so excited over this shit. It's adorable.

They're not a prestigious auction house anymore pwcc was caught selling alpha cards that someone bidded on and it was a graded alpha but it wasn't it was an avocado a fake card it was fake so they're not really a prestigious anymore

Yea I love those Graded Power acrylic cases too :) I have my empty ABUR starters in them and they look great. Very cool video Please don’t open the box! :)

I first saw you on bad friends and now I've been watching tyso too. Crazy to see this video and your episode with the professor; I love MTG and would like to see more from you!

I love & hate watching videos like this. I love the thrill of the chase if you will & I hate that I know collecting. I collect video game stuff. I know magic & Pokémon & a few other great investments that I should have jumped on & just never did. So dumb on my part. 😢

2:23 absolutely, there wasn't ever a literal crash. Even when items would retrace, they never went beneath the previous low. Like something at 850 spikes to 1100, then retraces to 950, settling in the 950-1,000 range. Insane that a beta lotus was under a grand after '05. I remember they were hundreds of dollars in the comic shop binder around 95/96, in that yucky homelands time frame. This video is the shit, I'm gonna hunt for more. (Saw you with Bert, nerding on that beta bolt. The comments are relentlessly positive, and heavy on the "My Two worlds combined!!" tone.

This is the funniest Rick Glassman has ever been...

Dude, how unexpected! What a cool video that came out of nowhere! What can we do to get you to launch a MtG channel? I started playing in 1994 at age 11, sold my collection (including my goblin deck) in 2000, forgot about MtG for 20 years and then last November I picked up a FWB Badlands because I remembered that some mofo had scammed me out of it the day after I found it in the first starter deck I ever bought. Qk,I've spent a little over 10K assembling a collection of dual lands and building a nice red/blue/black deck with washed-up celebrities like Ali from Cairo and Mirror Universe. I hope I'll get to play my first game in 21 years soon... That booster box you bought looks fresh as a daisy, it's beautiful! Please do more MtG videos!

Rick Glassman is awesome

I started playing 4th edition in 1994, but my parents thought it was a ridiculously expensive, stupid hobby, and collecting them would amount to nothing -- "just like baseball cards". I remember reading InQuest and SCRYE when mint alpha Black Lotus hitting $400 was a major milestone. When Stronghold was new I won a Mox Diamond off my cousin when we decided to play for ante, the unlucky fuck, and I was forced to return it lmao. I have come and gone from MtG collecting and playing many times over my life, and frankly I am disappointed in the degrading print quality and consistency in new sets, and all the previously unthinkable reprints going on. You should see my Memnite collection. More MtG content!

im not a magic fan but damn i love seeing rick and his hobbies! great video!

So, in the video, you said that that custom Rick & goblin card was a "playing card"... But a playing card for what game? Magic? Either way, if I ever get off the road and settle down somewhere, I'd love to aquire all of your cards and display them. I've been wanting to collect comedy stuff for a long time, but especially so ever since a lot of my favorite comedians passed away, and then all this cancel culture bullshit flared up -_- when I'm watching a good solid comedy podcast, I feel like I'm in a modern day speakeasy... Listening to jazz in a smokey room, knocking back cocktails of racist and sexist humor while it's still available in the U.S. 🍸

Thank you for having the Prof on. I am loving your content and I certainly wouldn’t have found you without him. I left a more meaningful comment on that post, but I am nearly certain I know who in Chicago was your new friend. That upper echelon is very insular. You aren’t wrong. I am about to sell my collection (the entire thing) in a year for maybe 120k or so. I will buy my house with that. Then I will work my way up to another collection again. I would say, you should learn “new magic” as you say. It opens up your player base, your accessibility, and even profitability. I have some old cards of course. But I have made my small nest egg by doubling profits on new sets. Targeted buys. I know Rudy says to stay away from things but if the card fits the criteria of “staple”, multiple format playability, power curve (powerful enough that it borders on mistake to print level so you know a like card couldn’t be printed to do the same thing), and ubiquity (as in every deck in a format or nearly every deck needs it or has to answer for it) then you will hold value or actually increase value. If you can make that determination even if they are reprinted you will do just fine. Especially art targets of critically important cards. As an example modern staples of Fetch Lands will always hold or increase in value. They are needed in commander, modern, vintage, and legacy. There will never be enough especially if you get atypical art. Compare that with Tarmogoyf which I sold an original foil maybe four years ago for 1k in nearly perfect condition. Tarmogoyf has not withstood the test of time. It was just ok in commander, a staple in modern, and splash play elsewhere. It was obvious it was ripe for a fall. Multiple prints later it’s a 30.00 card. But if you instead of buy a Beta whatever you could take that same money and buy out Modern Horizons 2 singles in about 60 days. If you target the right cards (ahem Fetch Lands) and others in 1-3 years you can more than triple your money. I’ve been printing bills this way for years. It’s a full supplemental income. I am not celebrity famous. My “fame” or whatever comes from civil rights work and working with politicians to help folks. I am a LGBTQ+ and at risk youth trauma therapist. Something I do for free outside of work. My Magic flipping, and day job allow me to do that. I live in Indiana and if you are ever in Ohio and want to play, learn some smart moves, or put together a high roller table of some kind I am totally game.

AQ is $57,000 now ??? It used to be ATH in 2018, around $8,000 and back when I played it was $500 maybe, in 1996, but people just bought singles. I had a really nice looking Workshop I bought for $50. Damn!

Fucking A! Love MTG and I got to play and collect for a little bit growing up and I played it in the tourney's here in Ohio but I played up to Marcadian Masques and that's when I stopped and sold my collection for 15k, I was 15 then so it was a big day/month :D

More Magic videos! Loved this. Show us your whole collection?

I remember when magic came into the nerd store in the closest almost large town to my little town. I was into Warhammer and Miniatures back then and scoffed at that silly card game. Little did I know... Later I got hooked up on the cardboard crack called magic with I've Age and Homelands sets coming out, started buying lots of cards, old and new. Sold everything after a GF broke up with me and I was going to become "an adult" and stop playing magic and such. Sold them all for a silly low amount. Every time I see the prices for cards I've had, what they cost today, I get a little heart attack and a slap in my back head from myself haha. Fool! Ah well. Back in the wagon today, playing standard only but have a nice little collection by now. Thanks for sharing your story.

Huge MtG nerd here !! This was an awesome vid to see. Its crazy how the pandemic has made prices of cards explode ! I sold off my Vintage Powered Cube last year, just before the prices sky rocketed. Bit of a bummer, but cash was needed. Don't know if you are keeping that box of Antiquities sealed, but I would love to see an unboxing video.

Waiting patiently to buy my adam ray holo...

This is so rad! I knew you were a collector (I've seen/listened to EVERY TYSO to date) but I'm just now watching this for the first time, and I brought me a lot of joy watching you share a bit of your love of MTG. This really did brighten my day

You should absolutely do box openings. You sell the packs at about 90% market to encourage buyers and you monetize/sponsor the video to make back that 10% plus much more in profit. Could even see if you could get a magic pro or content creator for a crossover boost and to have someone with you who can fill the time talking about the cards and the importance of what is being opened. ‘Sell” a pack to Bert or Dax for that big name you can put in the title and you have yourself a show. You could see if you could do a Facebook or RU-vid live. Even a twitch live stream and turn it into a whole event.

God, I love watching you get this excited. I have never cared about MTG, but this kept me watching solely because it was cool seeing you so happy.

So is there any value in buying new mtg packs to collect? Coming from only buying Pokémon cards, which are always sold out everywhere, they are ALWAYS stocked with magic cards

i like you even more

Hey Ricky, get Magic: The Gathering Arena on PC and/or mobile and let’s play some hands

I don't play Magic or know much about it(I'm a comic kid) but this was a fascinating video. You really keep it interesting and engaging. I thought you were going to open it though maaaaaan haha KILLIN me

Ever think about giving us a full collection video? I work buying and selling MTG singles and sealed product for a living and haven't dealt with graded cards much so I am super interested in seeing more!

I never was into magic but I appreciated it because my best friend was into it for a long time and I was into to pokemon. Now me and my kids are into pulling pokemon cards and its been amazing how much fun we have together! Glad you are enjoying your passion and hope it brings you enough value in nastalgia as it doesnt monetarily especially with the vintage card prices unless you pull the best cards.

I’d love more videos like this!

i know youve said you watch alpha investments and were into collecting MtG, thanks for sharing ! it would be awesome if you could get rudy on TYSO !

watching you do this makes me wanna buy more boxes. I'll be sending you my future divorce bill. and YES I do wanna watch you open packs

That TYSO card is beautiful and appears to be designed to go along with the Impel Marvel Universe Series 2 cards. I have that complete collection, or I did before today. I'm purchasing the TYSO card to finally complete my collection from 1991 and boy are my arms tired!

Magic nerd here. Amazing! Dont do box breaks do Whale Drafts. Sell the packs but draft them with friends. Send me the invite I'm in!

I like to play snap with my brothers old Magic cards he's had since 1995. He has a few Lotus cards they I love to snap with.

I never got into Magic but was obviously into Pokemon as everyone was, and I still remember the sound of the little 10 card packs crinkling and the smell of the fresh crisp cards as you ripped that pack open. It was like heroin for my 8 year old brain. Good stuff Rick! Always cool to watch someone enjoy their own hobby, especially when they are knowledgeable and passionate about it.

MORE MAGIC!!

That reminds me I traded a topps 2011 gold border mike trout rookie card I had since I was 11 without knowing the value

Nerds of the world unite🤓🗺️🫂

I care! Mtg is a great idea. Played it when I was young and lost touch until recently when I started playing online game during lockdown . Need to find my old cards!

But you didn’t show any of the cards. You just bought the boxes ? To never open? 😢

If you want to do a booster box opening crack out a box of collection boosters. The packs include current cards but include alternative art versions, full art, foils etc.

If you get me back into Magic with this I'm gonna be mad at you. sold all my cards in vegas one time it was wild, smoked weed with Nick Diaz

Very cool! Always thought Magic was cool but navigated to Pokemon when a kid because of simplicity.

So the play is to just leave it sealed forever, never open it never know what cards are inside, because it's not worth the risk at this point? Since the boxes reach a tipping point where the rarity of sealed cases is higher than the chance of getting the comparably valuable cards?

Hahaha yesss it is Pokemon meets chess! Let me know if you're ever into getting any cards altered! I'm FancyF8.

Finally! Thank you so much for this video. coming from someone who is brand new to Magic this was super helpful and made me feel not so overwhelmed about jumping into this awesome world, you’re the man! #magicgoblins

shouldnt magic be pokemon for kids? since most people who grew up playing pokemon were adults when magic came out, and kids play it

This video got me to sub and to go back and watch other of your Podcasts. Shout out to you on BertCast as that is what brought me here!

It made it to the mtg side of YT, still at the beginning but excited to see this box opening. Well an unboxing of sealed, man ive never seen one ever. That's a gorgeous box.

I'm mega jealous. Pretty new to magic so the best cards i've got are a mana crypt and a jeweled lotus but old school mtg like this is next level.

I know a bit about this but it is really fun to learn more. What a great video!

@rickglassman i have incredibly rare cards if you are looking. I will give you a crazzzzyyyyy discount.

Holy crap no way!! I have been playing and collecting MTG cards since 96. This is epic and now I'm turning on my alerts. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

hey rick i have alot of cool vintage cards, shoot me a DM if your interested in buying anymore vintage mtg collectibles

I asked for a box of the ice age set when I was in my teens for my birthday and Christmas, still waiting to open one with jesters cap in it.

nice