Your Old Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards Probably Aren't Valuable 

My shoe box has no worthless cards. But it does contain the UNSTOPPABLE EXODIA!

I work at a card shop, and I can't tell you how many people walk out feeling utterly destroyed when I look at their old collection they're trying to sell to us isn't worth anything. I have seriously had people walk in like "I'm only asking $300" which is met with me telling them the most expensive card they have would be $5 if it was in good condition. Great video, this hit home. Also, great talking to you at Atlanta.

No dzeeff. You are wrong. My grandfather's deck have no worthless card.

the shoebox itself is probably worth more than the cards inside

little did you know the yugioh cards I bought as a kid were cheap chinese knock offs they werent worth anything before and they still arent should have known something was fishy when a kuriboh had 3000 atk points

I pitty the fool who pays 5K for Pinch Hopper.

They're all valuable to me! Sentimental value that is.

FINALLY. I've been waiting for a video on someone knowledgeable to highlight how strange these asking prices and how misleading they can be.

One of mine is. It's the Red-Eyes card from the Joey Starter Deck I got as a kid. It's worth 10+ $ online.

Super-Ancient Dinobeast is literally $0.09 per copy...

What should i buy a 5,000 common or 250 super heavy samurai decks

I have Dark Duel Stories for my GBC. I feel like an idiot because I probably traded the promo cards away in high school. I even remember having the Exodia from that.

Found a card that's worth maybe $4, and since I got it soon before I stopped playing, it's in good shape. Making bank, thanks dzeeff!

This is not a shoe box channel

Lol my secret rare 1st edition dante used to be $60, now it's 10

I was cracking up that it wasn't even a First Edition Pinch Hopper, it was the Unlimited Edition

The only old yugioh thing I have that might even be worth something is my og duelist kingdom duel disks.

I was a teen when i played in 2003. Stopped in 2005. I looked through my cards not knowing anything. And I got $150 just trading in a few first ed torrential tributes and blue eyes.

I actually love the way you explain why some people who have lapsed in a game, or don't even know a game properly, don't understand what is valuable. And that's because they lack the context for WHY it's valuable. I actually had this conversation at work the other day, when one person asked the most I spent on an MTG card. I gave my answer, they were shocked, but then I provided context as to why, and , while still shocked it was so much, at least understood more why the card was valuable, and why it only applies to certain cards. Misleading articles tend to give either incorrect or no context.

i used to treat your vids like podcasts and do something else while listening to them, but now with this glorious face cam i cant look away from the screen

When I was a young man (waaaay back before archetypes were even a thing, and the extra deck was still called the "fusion deck") I didn't get to buy packs very often, but when I did, I recall having insane luck with pulls. I got the original print of Solemn Judgement, the original print of "Dark Magician of Chaos" and other such insane pulls I would kill to manage in the modern game. I put all of my best cards in a single deck (this was more or less how decks were built way back then... you could try for certain themes like "warrior deck" or "water deck", but at the end of the day most decks were just your best generic cards smashed together.) Unfortunately, one day my mom decided to raid my room for dirty laundry while I was in the shower... and I had forgotten to take my cards out of my pants... and she didn't think to check my pockets... ...so I agree... my old yugioh cards are not valuable. >.>

Again we have a type of video that nobody but dzeeff would upload. I love it

btw, the pinch hopper & dinobeast are the duelist league prize versions, multicolored rare, not common sometimes these are the highest rarities of cards, prices are usually at least a few bucks, iconic/meta cards can be up to $15

I'll never forget the two times in my life I've been an inch away from owning a DDS Blue-Eyes. It's the one card I want more than any other.

So used to the TCG artwork, that seeing the DMG with cleavage was surprising.

Like catapult turtle. One of my favorite monsters.

I might have told this story in your comments before, but once I saw some guys playing Magic and one dude uses Blue-Eyes/Charizard cards for his dragon tokens. Flipping through them and looking up their set #s I ended up finding one that, the app I used to check certain printing's prices, ended up not finding it immediately. I ended up starting over at the top a few times but eventually scrolled down far enough to find it, and it ended up being a Prismatic secret rare supposedly valued around $500

I have an original Venusaur, but it's split quite far down one corner so the back half is coming off of the front half.

i do have first edition exodia pieces. Don't know what the body left arm and left leg would be worth tho since i don't have first edition right arm and leg

my dad actually does have the whole black lotus set (not sure if it’s a set or whatever I don’t play magic) but it’s not like he just oh happened to have had it because when he used to play, he was an avid collector, most people don’t really have extra valuable cards just randomly.

I still have a Ghost Rare Rainbow Dragon from my childhood lying around that i wanted to sell at some point and i'm just too lazy to actually try and do that.

My boyfriend actually found not one, but two sets of the DDS promo cards in his collection, and in good condition. I didn't know that two people actually bought DDS, so I was really surprised. He hasn't been able to sell them yet though, as of yet.

im liking this dzeeff guy, i did learn that the god cards are just some powerful monsters that dosent have long protection well for slifer and ra i like obelisks target protection but wont save him from dark hole, mirror force, raigeki and other effects that dont target

My question is, does language affect the card value? My friend gave me pcj-de001 red eyes in really good condition but its german instead of english

Are the 1st Edition LOB cards worth anything? I have 4 of them from my brother's old collection.

I used to play yugioh until 2010, I'm still a huge fan and kind off still follow it, I usually buy old cards that I like. And trust me I have some valuable cards, yeah I might not have a Blue Eyes dds or a Necroface 1st edition but I'm still proud of my collection. I also agree with the fact that there is a diference between "sell price" with "paid price". Yeah some of your examples are absolutely ridiculously, it's crazy even casuals fall for this stuff

I find it really cool to see Ryukahr in the Recommanded RU-vid videos. Also I just want to show some support for Dzeeff's channel.

I knew this years ago when I checked the price of Ultimate Rare Volcanic Doomfire and it was like $0.95

I have a first edition Dark Magician only 1 problem something liquid and sticky got on it and now it's completely messed up.. -_-

I'm not sure on this one, so I'll just ask: I have a japanese SY2-001 Dark Paladin, UR, pretty damaged. According to cardmarket searches this goes from 40€ to 200€ depending on condition. Is this true?

So I have this Magic the Gathering card called Kudzu, and it's really old. So I looked it up, and the price change between its initial release, which was the first one, and its second printing, the second set, was about $300 difference. I actually don't know which one it is tho so it could be a gold mine or not worth much at all

I have some rare card .. Whats the best place to sell these card .. Whats a good website

I still have my shoebox in my parents house.....somewhere, everything of mine got shifted since I moved out. My most valuable cards are BLS envoy and COD envoy both from invasion of chaos and 1st edition (not the best condition). Im just proud of having them because back then I didnt have the money to buy cards online I had to get them by trading from other people and damn that took some bargaining

Learned this the hard way. I pulled a ghost rare rainbow dragon back when it was listed at $300, so I held on to it and all my other cards for nearly a decade and then sold them and they were worth essentially nothing and the guy who bought my whole lot offered a legitimately high offer of $100

I have a few old cards from when I used to play yugioh about a decade and a half ago. I always loved my Raigeki card because of how broken it was but then the ban lists came out and I could not use it anymore. My question is: I have a first edition legend of blue eyes white dragon Raigeki card. Is it valuable?

I think they don't understand that unless its a specific thing what only a handful of collectors own then most of the recent newer cards are the money makes, for instance my Borrelsword Dragon is worth more then most of the older cards i own. Also even if you do own some of those older more expensive cards they have got to be in fucking great condition with no flaws, if they are thrown together in some shoe box then chances are they aren't in good condition.

Blue Eyes White Dragon with PVC pellets and 11 errors - $1,000,000! But seriously, I've been watching some Beanie Baby versions of this video, and it really is important to clear up these misconceptions. When trying to buy/sell these old products, you really do need to pay attention to the fine details - what run is it from, how many re-releases it has, condition, etc, and always, ALWAYS check the sold listing prices instead of the asking prices. These are things a lot of poeple either don't know or don't think to check, and it's great to have another video like this out, because these principles apply for far more than just card games.

I have a DDS exodia. Gave it to a friend, then he gifted it back to me years later, after having Little Kuriboh sign it to me personally at a con. Definitely my prize card.

My grandfather owns a bunch of rental houses, and as such, has several friends that also own rental houses. One of said friends found a bunch of old baseball cards in one of his houses, and this kid that my grandfather was renting a house to was obsessed with baseball cards, so he was like "hey could I have those to give to this kid?" And the dude was like "sure whatever." The kid looks through the cards and finds this one card that he's apparently been after for years. It was evidently worth something like $1800. And that was back in the 90s. So I guess that kind of crazy stuff can happen, but insanely rare.

Years ago when my brother and I started collecting yugioh cards we sometimes bought a single card for 10-20€ (!). Some of them are now worth a few cents, euros if lucky. Feels bad man

So glad i got my dds set from the og Gameboy game back in the day. Dark duel stories was hella great, i still play it occasionally. Kids these days will never get to experience that

I don't have a DDS Blue Eyes, but I still have a DDS Dark Magician.

As a serious player for years, I saw this overvaluation a lot (still do, saw the obligatory $800 common Shrink on EBay recently) and expected my collection to be pretty worthless. I looked and found a couple 1E ghost rares (no stardust or anything but Ancient Fairy and Black-Winged Dragon) Champion pack foils, high rarity staples and some cool misprints. A lot of this stuff was obtained for trade bait to convert into high dollar staples, and ironically these cards are worth more than said staples these days. It can happen but it helps when you are/were more of a collector and tournament grinder than a guy who kinda dabbled and played a little in middle school casually.

fuck,i sold my near mint dds blue eyes for 45$ five years ago.

I bet the guy who bought that Pinch Hopper was Thanos himself

Friend recently sold a misprint chaos neos/rainbow dragon for like $300

I have a Blue Eyes Shining Dragon Secret Rare from the Retro Pack 2, worth up to $400

After doing a bit of research it seems that the only kind of valuable card in my drawer is a Retro Pack 1 Secret Rare “Copycat”, and it’s only about $50. Can’t figure out why though

At least M:tG cards do rise in value with time, my first print Damnations are worth like 4 times the original value they had when printed. I guess it's because there isn't much of a powercurve in that game

The most valuable cards I have are the ultra rare magnet warriors. I was given them by my friend last year, I only have two and Gamma has a crease down the middle. I think I'll just keep them honestly.

Yep I just sold my old (2008ish) cards - 900 cards and I got 65 dollars, which was about right. I had 5 cards that were worth ~10 bucks each and many cards weren't in great condition.

I had like 50 common copies of stratos because I always insisted he would come back and got every copy I could. Then I quit for years, remember I had them, and found them water damaged, every single copy bent into a perfect D curve. So it turns our you're right anyways.

Only card of note I've got is my ghost rare Rainbow Dragon misprint with the Elemental Hero picture and text. I think that one's meant to be worth a small fortune.

Those dds cards existed on the playground back in the day, wish we would've known

I gotten a random mystery box of 1000 cards a few months back with Pokemon, Yugioh, & Harry Potter cards for my cardshop. The pokemon cards were disappointing because they were different language. But the yugioh cards there was a Japanese Unlimited Rare "Emporer Chaos Dragon - Envoy of the End" Worth about $40 i believe. Thought that was the expensive card in the box but then found a damaged "B. Skull Dragon" (TP8) Tournament Pack 8 Super Rare. Worth $120 in good condition. I started crying LOL.

I'm upset because when I was a kid I had gotten the DDS game, and had all the cards. Blue Eyes was stolen from me, and Dark Magician I traded because I didn't know better. I can't for the life of me find Exodia anywhere.

I was so bummed when I didn't get BEWD, DM, and Exodia in my DDS game.

So I guess I should throw all my Volcanic cards out the window because no new support is going to come? NEVER! Day 45 of waiting for new Volcanic support (btw. good video dzeeff)

The only somewhat valuable card I have from my childhood is a mint ultimate rare Cybertwin which is worth ~50€. And that's one of the few cases of a rare version of a card that is both nostalgic and still played, at least on a casual/rogue level. Next best value is 1st edition PTDN Rainbow Dark Dragon which is less than 20€. That's already way more than I expected tbh.

Dark Duel Stories is one hell of a game. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's an absolute gem to me

I once bought an "O Grande Branco" or Great White from bulk at a card shop. When I took it up to the counter the person at the desk was like "oh I haven't seen this card, it looks like an older 1st edition, so it's probably worth a lot right?" *looks up card* "Oh..." Me: yea...it's more of a novelty thing lol

Old cards are only worth a ton if they are near mint or are sealed product. And we all know we didn't keep product sealed or cards sleeved when we were kids lol

The biggest problem I have is that the old cards I have that would under the right conditions would sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars aren't in a condition that would be worth the effort of selling them.

I see you chose the walrus beanie baby for the first example haha

My most expensive old card was LOD Ultra Fiber Jar. It was $5

I learned this myself recently. I think only a few of my cards were worth over a dollar, and that's being generous. They're probably worth less than the paper they're printed on.

I love and hate yugioh for this. I wish common cards had no limit but ghost rares and starlights and ultimates and secrets really should be a one time thing.

This aged in an interesting way for the pokemon tcg. My condolences to that community. 😔

Well yeah. Non collectors wouldnt know. But the problem with searching for old cards that you have is that they are not in atleast Near Mint shape.

My friends and I used to call fake cards like that BEWD as "Semi-Legit" because they at least looked the part and had the info and effects right, so we would allow people to use them back in elementary school duels.

This Dzeeff guy just rains on everyone's parade. I have like 20 pinch hoppers and I thought I was a millionaire.

It's really frustrating when I see videos about this. Tech Insider once tried to "explain" the high value of some card.

I got a version 1 . Baby Dragon, Gem Mint , Asking Price , 50,000

What should I buy? A silent magician deck, or my moral integrity?

I had a cousin super hyped cos he pulled a charizard outta a pack and said its worth thousands of dollars.. I dashed his hopes as it was from evolutions and at the time i could get a mint copy for around 20$

I have 2 of those 80€ Blue-Eyes (yes, i checked the Edition), sadly enough they're both well-played, so basically worth nothing

I had the opposite happen: basically someone was giving away ygo cards for free and i looked through them since they heard i like the game. I shit you not, turns out they had the Blue eyes, Dark magician, and head of Exodia from DDS. I ended up telling them, sold them, and split the profits with em. But that moment i realize how much those three cards were worth was unreal.

plot twist: dzeeff just wants to keep prices low so he can buy the rare cards for himself

I have 2 copies of DDS, but none of the cards...

Imma quote u on 10:57 "oh i better stock up on those because they're limited edition"

I /KNOW/ the magic cards in my box are valuable haha.. I dont know if I could ever sell them though. If I ever get back with the guys I will want to play. Once you have lands too its like.... ehhh can I even?

I had that game and played the HELL out of it... Unfortunately, it didn't come with those cards. Maybe because it was in German?

Get dzeeff to 100k!!!

Rule of thumb: if it says it’s over $200, it’s already ridiculous

Take a shot every time he says “shoe box” “shoe boxes”

One of the worst things with teaching new players MTG is when the card cost question comes up which naturally leads to the Black Lotus. And every single one of these new players seems to own one, when they weren't even born when it was printed. Now, I get that people may believe they own one when there are so many cards with flowers on them that someone not as experienced can get it mixed up, but everyone seems to need the attention.

I still have a mint copy of an Asian edition MST. Pretty sure those are still worth a pretty penny.

Afaik Magic really is the outlier in this regard. Every playable card (even commons) from either of the first two sets goes for at least a hundred bucks, and a sizable chunk of cards from the third set aren't exactly cheap either.

i know my old ex cards from 2007 could be worth like 300 dollars... if i had put them in a massive plastic case the nanosecond they existed the pack using careful implements to ensure 100% gem mint quality... which i didnt do so they are worth like 20-30 at most

I'm 26 I've got all my cards from about 9/10 years old. Tonnes of shiny 1st editions. I'd love to send you a pic of what I'm working with. I 10000% have a 1st edition shiny blue eyes I bought when yugioh was first out in the UK. I stopped collecting when I got to highschool in 2005. Edit: I'm looking through my old cards. Why did 10 year old me cut the boarder of this shiny 1st edition Kaiser Sea Horse. It's a dead card but what was I thinking lmao