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30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
@@phyzzxI thought the same thing... then I realized that this was an ALPHA pack, like before anybody even knew about Magic at all. These same cards appeared for a long time... but not from Alpha print.
I know I’m 40 and had multiples of all these I once had 3 black lotus in a shoe box it was with all my trash cards I didn’t even play with😂not like it was a cool creature
@@shinobi4317 Im sure it wasn't, A man to enjoy a game so much that people would get sheer panic at people pulling an expensive card and the horror of not wanting to ruin someone else's enjoyment by pulling themselves like im sure a lot of selfish people would want to do. not to mention him watching them casually damaging or devaluing an $100,000 card Box by how they are sleeving, bending or scratching a card. those who actually enjoy the game as a hobby like most people who buy cards would also probably find it nerve racking unboxing a $100k card box, less than 100 left and one of the possible cards being worth last known at $3mill.
he got "scammed" packs for like 50% of the videos rn as well, even with his business partner making sure that the packs are good and paying back whenever they're not, he's had lots of bad older pack openings on his channel, I'm pretty sure he didn't want this pack to be bad with Charlie as well.
@@cceynar94 As they said in the video, there was a chance for a card well into the millions, as well as several other cards in the. 5-digit range. It wasn't an investment, it was a gamble.
@@cceynar94 Also ironically enough "usefullness =\= price", we're talking about collectors items, nobody pays millions of dollars for a card to play it. Rarity and "fame" plays a way bigger role, even if by itself the card is busted
That's what I was thinking, at first I was like dam who's this guy he looks familiar then Charlie's like yeah this is wubby i thought no way he looks so much better
Wubby Magic Monday has been my weekly delight lately, so seeing him do opening videos like this with other creators has been SO fun. Its been great watching him carve out a niche in something he loves so much, and having fun sharing it with friends
@@A_Brainless_Goblin Yeah, it's like Deal or No Deal. We keep opening boxes and the potential value of each box goes up. This was a "bad box." So that's one less box without a Black Lotus.
@@LuminousSteelhow would they know that? 0% chance that all cards are known. Because there would have been hundreds or thousands of Lotus played and lost or destroyed pre-internet era.
I love how simply opening the pack is a real tense moment, because what if there IS a lotus in there, and slightly scratching it could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. I feel pressure and haven't spent a dime!
I’m obv not Tavis, but I’ve conversed with him a number of times over the years when it comes to sheet tracking. Can 100% confirm this is a real box. The common, uncommon and rares tracked the print sheets exactly. One interesting thing to note is that the final rare had a 1 in 13 chance of being a Mox Jet, but you were in a pretty crappy section of the rare sheet, so not surprised you rolled snake eyes.
Wow a Mox pull would have been insane. Funny how much is known about the printing and yet have no idea what's going to be in the box before the plastic is pulled.
I love how they treat it like a demon core or something, like if they do a single thing wrong everything in a 50 mile radius will be completely obliterated.
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
Ta for sharing this Carlie, not many people get to experiance this these days ... and it was cool to watch. I always love watching the excitement of people opening the old magic packs!
I told my mom Sandra Everingham about this video and she is ecstatic that you got 5 of her cards in one deck. She also said if you sent her that dark ritual she’d be happy to sign it and do a little doodle on it! The video was so cool to watch those alpha cards get opened.
Yeah the $3 million sale was for an un-played Black Lotus basically in perfect condition. If it's ever touched a table I don't think it would be worth nearly that much. The market listings for near-mint Beta are around $25k, so an Alpha would be maybe $90-$100k?
If it was alpha/beta and in good condition, you'd be a good way to that if you took like half or more and invested it. definitely way into the five figures.
Please when you open all these sets through the years do it in this format or as a livestream. I only recently started playing magic and it is very cool to be able to live vicariously through you all.
That was easily the gayest thing I've ever seen. I say that from the perspective of having had a successful career on the pro magic circuit and having owned a game shop. I started playing at beta. *That was so pathetic.* The betaest thing of all time.
DrugFreeTexas shill. Y'all call nitrous oxide "hippie crack!?" I inhale this compound on a daily basis and have NEVER:; NEVER, been a hippy. They call it a noble gas" because I AM F* NOBLE. I am humble. GUESS WHAT I lived in Texas once. YEAH I'm part of the Texans. Your logic doesn't play out and everyone from Texas knows that you're dissing them. Holy moly the way people embarrass themselves sometimes...
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
@Kittarawr Yep, around 120k. There are a handful of cards that can multiply that, but you're likely to lose. Trading cards are basically gambling, this is just an extreme.
I was in middle school when this series came out. Never had a Black Lotus, but I also didn’t ever actually play with them - I just collected them because I liked the artwork (so I kept them in great condition). Later when I was in college, I just gave all of my cards away to my dorm mate who was an avid player, but if I knew they’d be worth anything someday I probably would have hung onto them!
When he pulled the channel, it brought back memories of the 1st round kill. Channel fireball with the right starting hand could kill the opponent before they even played.
Thanks for bringing us along this journey. The energy and excitement definitely made me feel like back in the day opening packs. I started a bit after alpha this was truly amazing to be apart of! Thanks again and GG pulls!
Hearing these numbers makes me furious. I played magic when it first came out and I collected the entire base set in duplicate. I had an album of cards that got used for decks and an album that stayed mint. I sold all of them in 99 for $300 and I hate myself for it.
Seeing someone who got into Magic like, less than a year ago, and seemingly only got into the physical game a few months ago, just casually dropping $100k on one of the last sealed Alpha starter decks is what blows my mind about this video. Absolutely bonkers how lucrative just reacting to random shit on the internet and posting it on youtube can be.
@@Alino- he can declare it as a business expense, which will offset his taxes. It could end up not only costing him nothing, but actually bringing him profit (through the added revenue of the videos + the sale of the cards)
I could've sworn distinctly remembering Black Lotus being $400 in '99 because that's when I played. If you really sold all that in '99 for $300, you weren't looking at magazine prices. lol
Prices on these are insane because of history and scarcity. Only about 1100 of each alpha rare was printed and it’s estimated that about 50% are lost from damage or being thrown away since no one knew how much they would be worth. The game debuted at GenCon in 1993 and a lot of people who opened cards there just threw them in the trash, thinking they were similar to a deck of playing cards.
@@wykydytronif you're buying singles to actually play with they cost literal cents on the dollar lol. Like you can easily get 20+ cards for less than 3 bucks. This right here is a collector's item
i was so invested into this vid as a card collector (pokemon, yu gi oh, xmen, marvel, DC, naruto bandai) even though ive never played magic but i had homies that did, i found it interesting, and the way i GASPED when danny didnt pull the black lotus was insane
This is one of the most wholesome alpha starter deck openings I've seen. The fact that Charlie is sharing it with everyone is heartwarming. Regardless of the value, 10/10 person. If I ever get the chance, I hope to play against you some day, just for the joy of the game.
This was neat to watch. I gave my entire collection to my friend for his son who has severe autism. Total value was conservatively 60k. It will pay for nursing care for him for the next 2 years. I regret nothing.
Sold all my magic cards a long long time ago....I had about 3 or 4 of those Lightning Bolts and a bunch of those old lands. I had about 10 of those Dark Rituals. Hurts my soul. I had about 10 of those Samite Healers....had about 15 of those old Twiddle's....had several Plagued Rats. Had a million of those Giant Growths. I'm in pain right now watching this.
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
the art is so beautiful so much oil painting and the theming , glad they are going to era locked progression so they can appreciate the relative power of the cards of the time . please dont focus on the price of the cards , we can appreciate them purely as the rare artifacts they are . i would have loved to see more at the end looking at the complete set and brainstorm what deck could be created from it , as a nice closer to appreciate and showcase the big cards and how they fit together .
The older sets were a mess in terms of design, so it's really hard to build something out of it. Though "cycle" cards were present and we did start seeing more variety with each expansion, it wasn't until Portal (1997) that we started seeing sets designed around specific mechanics and strategies for each color.
Love how he said "get in there with your teeth" and then immediately had to correct himself because there was a strong chance Charlie would just do that
Hold on, this is paymoneywubby? Or whatever his channel is called? I know I’ve seen him a few times and I thought that’s who this was but he looks and sounds completely different from the past I saw of him a few years back.
its the simple stuff like this that makes your videos super awesome to watch. youre one of a rare few. honestly super glad i started watching your videos! please keep up the good work.
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
For those who didn't catch it, they didn't directly state how much they paid for it. However, they did say it was a "six figure destruction" (2:25) when they took off the wrapping implying they paid at least $100,000 for the deck. I'm guessing with everybody taking part in opening the deck they took "investments" from everybody to purchase this with the assumption they would proportionally split the earnings if a lotus was pulled.
Here I am. 🙂 It's nice to see Wubby outside of his studio. I thoroughly enjoyed watched you struggle to cut the plastic. I opened all of my mail with a sword on one of my videos. Stone Rain followed by Fog IS possible to be a legit deck, but there could still be a problem elsewhere. Looks good so far. Stone Rain, Fog, Swamp, Sinkhole, Plains, Forest - This is where I'm currently at in the video, 6 cards into the deck. It looks good, and I know what all the commons are going to be. You'll get a Lightning Bolt as the 15th card, and Dark Ritual as the last common (assuming you don't mix up the card order somehow between now and then).
Update: The deck looks fine, but there's one card that was unusual. The first Uncommon revealed, should have been an Uthden Troll instead of a Mountain. That Mountain is the card next to Uthden Troll. It looks like the Uthden Troll fell out of the assembly line at the factory. Uthden Troll missing in action, but everything else looks great.
21:46 "Who knows this card?" Oh man... Benalish Hero is heavy nostalgia for me, as I started playing MtG when Microprose released their ancient but amazing MtG video game. Cards back then were pure jank, but had an amazing retro-fantasy vibe. It's hard to describe. I also love the fact it's a simple 1/1 creautre for one mana, and it doesn't explain what "Bands" means - one of the most convoluted mechanics in MtG probably.
These early sets had the best art. The ones today... 1/4 are good, 1/4 are cropped funny, 1/4 have bad pixelation, 1/4 have strange picture or odd coloring.
@@selli9917 I played a lot of the Microprose game as a kid, but my actual first cards were from the Ninth Edition, that included two comic books explaining how to play MtG. The comic books were a 10/10 idea. Each player had a diffenet copy, and the players had to read it out loud whenever they had their turn.
You pulled a lighting strike and a demonic near mint straight from a deck, i dont think people realise how good that is in general, i have seen and heard of much much worse boxes.
To all the die hard fans of MTG, there is a spoiler at 6:00 to 6:10 where the bottom card accidentally gets shown. I'm not a die hard myself, but know that could really ruin it for some people lol
Craw wurm at 20:00 brought back memories. I started in revised, wish i had started a year before and gotten some Beta packs. Still have all my cards and theyre worth some money but nothing like the exact same cards in Beta
i had a black lotus i bought for $30 in 1996 at a card shop on 72nd avenue in portland, next to jiffy mart. Lost it when i moved, lost all my cards dude.......I like to imagine when my mom passes that i'll find it in her belongings
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
Bro I’ve been sporadically watching your content without a sub like a creep for years now- this video finally pushed me over the fence! It was great to see you chillin with the boys and nerding out with the boys like the rest of us plebs. So many good memories wrapped up in MTG cellophane! I think I can say we all “came” together on that last card! 😂 I appreciate you, brother! Looking forward to more MTG content in the future!
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
@@Bfkcjscbsnjcbro go find happiness somewhere wtf r u on. When has has genuinely attacked someone for their spending habits? He goes after people who hurt an harass people not people who buy stuff. Literally pulling shit out of thin air.
Just report him for spam. He's posting the same response in multiple comment treads. Same with the guy using hate speech but I've been reporting him under hate speech and violence
That Demonic Tutor flip! That has to be one of the best things I've ever seen on the internet. Also, I was happy to see the Goblin Balloon Brigade! I have a couple of those floating around somewhere in my collection. I love goblin cards, especially the old school silly goblin cards.
There’s something slightly unnerving about seeing wubby without the green screen suit with most of his upper body on show. He is looking real sleak though so nice to see him making progress.
I feel old when we talk about Tempest as a vintage set. Tempest was when I got "back into Magic" because I had gotten a discount voucher at a local store...
3 minutes to find a useable knife, truly a production studio
My farts are better than Charlie’s farts 💨
took 12 to finally unpack lol
12 lol
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
@@Bfkcjscbsnjc Hope you are well, mentally.
We’re watching Charlie slowly be consumed by his addiction in real time.
You a Npc
@@Zeldawrld are you fucking real, stop commenting no one gives a shit about you. Get a fuking reality check lil bro
@UTTPArrestAllFandoms Edgelord alert
@UTTPArrestAllFandomsnobody wants you here bum
@@promethiac2641 Don’t respond to them they’re bots they want interaction
If I'm ever a millionaire, I'm gonna buy a black lotus and livestream myself eating it
then later on you make a vid called "most expensive shit ever"
digital footprint
LMFAO, I hope you make it.
@@felipecampos3045 LMAO
dude I think I know you! Pretty sure we talked in Wilburgur's discord server
As a 41 year old man who hasn't played Magic in ... 26 or so years, this video is absolutely insane for me to watch.
42, same I went to look at how much some of the cards I got in that same deck in '94 were worth now! I just had to stop and laugh.
@@phyzzx if i didn't open anything.. .kept things nice.. would of been a millionair lol
@@phyzzxI thought the same thing... then I realized that this was an ALPHA pack, like before anybody even knew about Magic at all. These same cards appeared for a long time... but not from Alpha print.
I know I’m 40 and had multiples of all these I once had 3 black lotus in a shoe box it was with all my trash cards I didn’t even play with😂not like it was a cool creature
Yeah 36 and I had so many of these back in the day. Mostly 5th edition and Ice age, but man...
Fun fact, there is one man who buys up all the Stone Rains. He will buy it from you. He owns 300,000+ stone rains
Why? Wtf
Dude is gonna blow up the planet
@@fayne1man's just lovin' them stone rains
hes singlehandedly made the price go abouit 5-10x in price too lmao
I'm the same with Devil May Cry 4. They must all be given a home
Wubby's sheer panic the entire time is what gets me. Man was holding back demons.
Surely it wasn't annoying being next to him 🥴
@@shinobi4317 Im sure it wasn't, A man to enjoy a game so much that people would get sheer panic at people pulling an expensive card and the horror of not wanting to ruin someone else's enjoyment by pulling themselves like im sure a lot of selfish people would want to do.
not to mention him watching them casually damaging or devaluing an $100,000 card Box by how they are sleeving, bending or scratching a card.
those who actually enjoy the game as a hobby like most people who buy cards would also probably find it nerve racking unboxing a $100k card box, less than 100 left and one of the possible cards being worth last known at $3mill.
it took me a while to get this was wubby he looks a lot thinner, really looking good
His mortified face is priceless 😂
he got "scammed" packs for like 50% of the videos rn as well, even with his business partner making sure that the packs are good and paying back whenever they're not, he's had lots of bad older pack openings on his channel, I'm pretty sure he didn't want this pack to be bad with Charlie as well.
You know penguin has made it when he tries to open a six figure magic deck with a butcher knife and there are only a few hundred left in existence
he paid 100k+ for this card pack and its valued cards are less than 10k? Thats a terrible investment.
@@cceynar94 As they said in the video, there was a chance for a card well into the millions, as well as several other cards in the. 5-digit range. It wasn't an investment, it was a gamble.
@@namelessdisasters they said they got the best card in the game here with dark ritual or whatever and it wasn't worth shit though
@@cceynar94 dark ritual was the best at common rarity, the last 2 they flipped were the potential big money cards, but he got 2 bad ones
@@cceynar94 Also ironically enough "usefullness =\= price", we're talking about collectors items, nobody pays millions of dollars for a card to play it. Rarity and "fame" plays a way bigger role, even if by itself the card is busted
Wubby is in great shape now
I honestly didn't realize that was him till this comment
That's what I was thinking, at first I was like dam who's this guy he looks familiar then Charlie's like yeah this is wubby i thought no way he looks so much better
@@jakebatty530 yeah he was always a stud personality wise but pretty cool he's got the look for it now too to match
yeah dude its very similar to Jesse Plemos' transformation over the last year. im not saying ozempic but idk its crazy
Didn't even realize it was him at first, he looks great...Ozempic, I am sure.
Watching my two favorite UA-camrs share their addictions for cardboard crack
We didnt laugh
@UTTPArrestAllFandomsyou are a sad sad creature
There’s only one human reply to this comment💀
@UTTPArrestAllFandoms no one cares
@UTTPArrestAllFandoms3RD WARNING. YOU’RE DONE BUD, GET BANISHED TO THE SHADOW REALM
12:10 - Plastic wrapping is removed
Thank you
thanks i was losing braincells
Yea baby
watching this from 6 minutes in is wild lmao
Thanks man im high as fuck and that was taking too damn long
The mantra Charlie has regarding playing old mtg cards is amazing. These were made to be played.
Wubby Magic Monday has been my weekly delight lately, so seeing him do opening videos like this with other creators has been SO fun. Its been great watching him carve out a niche in something he loves so much, and having fun sharing it with friends
For those who weren't paying attention:
The deck itself cost over $100k.
@@A_Brainless_Goblin Yeah, it's like Deal or No Deal. We keep opening boxes and the potential value of each box goes up. This was a "bad box." So that's one less box without a Black Lotus.
very dumb to open them now since all Alpha Lotus's have been confirmed discovered.
Thank you! What time did they say this?
@@LuminousSteel elaborate? They are mapped somehow?
@@LuminousSteelhow would they know that? 0% chance that all cards are known. Because there would have been hundreds or thousands of Lotus played and lost or destroyed pre-internet era.
Spent a Porsche on cardboard and isn’t even fazed. Doesn’t even want them graded. He’s different.
We should all aspire to be more like charlie.
@@daminox Very different, he's Rich.
@@ajjameson154still different
@@daminoxwould love to, but i am too poor for that🤷♂️
Oh yes let me grade my cards so that they can truly be functionally useless. Not like there’s any sort of game involved
I love how simply opening the pack is a real tense moment, because what if there IS a lotus in there, and slightly scratching it could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.
I feel pressure and haven't spent a dime!
I’m obv not Tavis, but I’ve conversed with him a number of times over the years when it comes to sheet tracking. Can 100% confirm this is a real box. The common, uncommon and rares tracked the print sheets exactly.
One interesting thing to note is that the final rare had a 1 in 13 chance of being a Mox Jet, but you were in a pretty crappy section of the rare sheet, so not surprised you rolled snake eyes.
Wow a Mox pull would have been insane. Funny how much is known about the printing and yet have no idea what's going to be in the box before the plastic is pulled.
Bro is sinking deeper and deeper into this addiction 😭
No one laughed
@UTTPArrestAllFandomsNo one asked, you knob
true
Fr bro needs to go to card rehab 😭
big fan of your content
I love how they treat it like a demon core or something, like if they do a single thing wrong everything in a 50 mile radius will be completely obliterated.
I think your comment summoned an actual demon core
@UTTPArrestAllFandomsY'all really are stupid. Arresting all fandoms while r@ping your own with this shit
They did not pry it open with a screwdriver.
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
@@Bfkcjscbsnjc he has the money, he can do what he wants with it. Sorry he has a hobby and you don’t I guess?
Ta for sharing this Carlie, not many people get to experiance this these days ... and it was cool to watch. I always love watching the excitement of people opening the old magic packs!
Randomly found and watched this, the personalities at play are so much fun and entertaining . Thank you guys
I told my mom Sandra Everingham about this video and she is ecstatic that you got 5 of her cards in one deck. She also said if you sent her that dark ritual she’d be happy to sign it and do a little doodle on it! The video was so cool to watch those alpha cards get opened.
dude this is amazing
That is too cool.
I hope to god he sees this comment - Thats ace, what a legend.
Holy shit, IRL armor trimmer.
@@james3003exactly my thoughts lmao. RuneScape taught me to trust no one on the internet
That demonic tutor pull gave me chills. The misdirection at first, and then the bold "nah this is the tutor" bruh
just goes to show that you don't open these.. even a tutor is -1000% EV
watching a box unopened go from 100k+ to 9k made me want to puke.
@@Sean-gh3rnsame. Don’t think people really understood, this was 100k+ opening
@@Sean-gh3rn you'll live
Chills? Wtf
I sold my lotus 12 years ago for like a couple grand….. you’re telling me if I would’ve waited I could be retired rn?
only if it is in mint condition
Yeah the $3 million sale was for an un-played Black Lotus basically in perfect condition.
If it's ever touched a table I don't think it would be worth nearly that much.
The market listings for near-mint Beta are around $25k, so an Alpha would be maybe $90-$100k?
Was your lotus an alpha lotus and was it in mint graded condition? If not, it would not go for millions, no, maybe $20k or so.
If it was alpha/beta and in good condition, you'd be a good way to that if you took like half or more and invested it. definitely way into the five figures.
@@JohnSmith-vk9ds No closer to half a million.
Please when you open all these sets through the years do it in this format or as a livestream. I only recently started playing magic and it is very cool to be able to live vicariously through you all.
They don't call it cardboard crack for nothing.
cr4k is just like an overused term for people liking things same as the term pr0n like car pr0n etcetera..
@@FrawgfithAmblose Yeah. Why the fuck do you think it's called that?
That was easily the gayest thing I've ever seen.
I say that from the perspective of having had a successful career on the pro magic circuit and having owned a game shop. I started playing at beta. *That was so pathetic.* The betaest thing of all time.
@@theminister1154I'm a Yu-Gi-Oh player that can't quit, I've tried for years... Yu-Gi-Oh is my crack
DrugFreeTexas shill. Y'all call nitrous oxide "hippie crack!?" I inhale this compound on a daily basis and have NEVER:; NEVER, been a hippy. They call it a noble gas" because I AM F* NOBLE. I am humble. GUESS WHAT I lived in Texas once. YEAH I'm part of the Texans. Your logic doesn't play out and everyone from Texas knows that you're dissing them. Holy moly the way people embarrass themselves sometimes...
"Open it with a gun! We're in Florida!"
😂😂😂😂
No one is laughing
Which is shaped like a gun.
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
@UTTPArrestAllFandomsno u
36:11 Charlie: Do this one for Tampa!
Danny: Pulls out a gun
"Cards were meant to be played."
I can't remember the last time I respected someone this much.
This is the collab I needed in my life
"I'm not an expert, I just have money."
That's the way of things.
Yup. He spent 100k for this
@@DoingNothingKing 100k??
@@Kittarawr ya Charlie spent $100,000 for this box
@@Kittarawr at minimum. all he said was 6 figure and I found some for sale for more than 100k. so really it could be more lol.
@Kittarawr Yep, around 120k. There are a handful of cards that can multiply that, but you're likely to lose. Trading cards are basically gambling, this is just an extreme.
I was in middle school when this series came out. Never had a Black Lotus, but I also didn’t ever actually play with them - I just collected them because I liked the artwork (so I kept them in great condition).
Later when I was in college, I just gave all of my cards away to my dorm mate who was an avid player, but if I knew they’d be worth anything someday I probably would have hung onto them!
When he pulled the channel, it brought back memories of the 1st round kill. Channel fireball with the right starting hand could kill the opponent before they even played.
I love the 100 grit Tech Deck griptape used as a marker to maximize the damage on the Alpha Lotus 💀
Right it’s hurts to watch
It's gaffer tape dude
Why.. are they acting kike this .. take the PANTS off.. wtf
Lower grit numbers are more coarse by the way. Maybe you meant to say 40 or 60 grit or smth.
1000 grit is about as fine as it gets
Going from thunder junction collector packs to alpha starter deck is like jumping from Juul to raw fent in a week flat
you make me chuckle.
i understand this reference. thanks
And then you get what these guys got in the rares, and it's like some cut it with Clorox
Thanks for bringing us along this journey. The energy and excitement definitely made me feel like back in the day opening packs. I started a bit after alpha this was truly amazing to be apart of! Thanks again and GG pulls!
Hearing these numbers makes me furious. I played magic when it first came out and I collected the entire base set in duplicate. I had an album of cards that got used for decks and an album that stayed mint. I sold all of them in 99 for $300 and I hate myself for it.
Seeing someone who got into Magic like, less than a year ago, and seemingly only got into the physical game a few months ago, just casually dropping $100k on one of the last sealed Alpha starter decks is what blows my mind about this video. Absolutely bonkers how lucrative just reacting to random shit on the internet and posting it on youtube can be.
@@Alino- he can declare it as a business expense, which will offset his taxes. It could end up not only costing him nothing, but actually bringing him profit (through the added revenue of the videos + the sale of the cards)
my dad did the exact same thing. feels very bad now 😔
Hey man, you can’t blame yourself for that. You couldn’t have predicted how high their price would go.
I could've sworn distinctly remembering Black Lotus being $400 in '99 because that's when I played. If you really sold all that in '99 for $300, you weren't looking at magazine prices. lol
I cant believe i watched this. I know nothing about magic
Same and the prices are absolute idiocy if people actually pay that money for it. Still entertaining video.
@@wykydytronthe average player doesn’t
Prices on these are insane because of history and scarcity. Only about 1100 of each alpha rare was printed and it’s estimated that about 50% are lost from damage or being thrown away since no one knew how much they would be worth. The game debuted at GenCon in 1993 and a lot of people who opened cards there just threw them in the trash, thinking they were similar to a deck of playing cards.
@@frosty980 thank you.
@@wykydytronif you're buying singles to actually play with they cost literal cents on the dollar lol. Like you can easily get 20+ cards for less than 3 bucks. This right here is a collector's item
He spun that Demonic Tutor like he was a DJ spinning tracks 😂
i was so invested into this vid as a card collector (pokemon, yu gi oh, xmen, marvel, DC, naruto bandai) even though ive never played magic but i had homies that did, i found it interesting, and the way i GASPED when danny didnt pull the black lotus was insane
46:40 is a perfect recreation of the last supper
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this video makes me so happy. the boys letting each other flip cards... love you guys
I love this dude on the right struggling between dying whenever Charlie starts to open it and saying it would be iconic to use bolt cutters
This is one of the most wholesome alpha starter deck openings I've seen. The fact that Charlie is sharing it with everyone is heartwarming. Regardless of the value, 10/10 person. If I ever get the chance, I hope to play against you some day, just for the joy of the game.
You don't want to be the only one smoking crack in a room full of people, it makes the high feel weird
@@vyvianalcott1681this is hilariously true.
This is some anime ahh plotline. “I own a $1 million deck but play it raw for the love of the game”
U mean 100k+ opening
bro, this is monetized content. he's not a saint. that 100k could go a long way for charity
No idea who Wubby is, but him freaking out the entire time made the video for me 😂😂
I came to this video as a wubby fan. Highly recommend the confession stream video
the week i start playing MTG again after years of not touching them cards I get an MTG vid from Charlie. The voices are thriving with this one.
3:55 I love how the guys behind the camera are feeling the pain just as intensely as the next collector.
This was neat to watch. I gave my entire collection to my friend for his son who has severe autism. Total value was conservatively 60k. It will pay for nursing care for him for the next 2 years. I regret nothing.
That's awesome! Very kind of you. I also have autism but the less severe kind- "low support needs" they call it.
You’re truly amazing
you are a great friend my dude.
❤
Jesus Christ man that is something truly genuine. Respect.
I just went through and manually reported all *UTTPArrestAllFandoms* spam comments. 267 of them!!!
It was a tedious task, but someone had to do it.
True savior here.
I've been reporting here and there not all.
what is that ?
i have respect for your determination
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Great stuff. 45:35 "flips it like a tech deck" 🤣
Sold all my magic cards a long long time ago....I had about 3 or 4 of those Lightning Bolts and a bunch of those old lands. I had about 10 of those Dark Rituals.
Hurts my soul. I had about 10 of those Samite Healers....had about 15 of those old Twiddle's....had several Plagued Rats. Had a million of those Giant Growths.
I'm in pain right now watching this.
“ he’s going to grow up well adjusted because you touched him “ is WILLLLLD out of context
IT FUCKING IS LOL
“I just have money” god I feel fucking broke 😂
No one is laughing
@UTTPArrestAllFandoms Go away you crettin.
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
@@Bfkcjscbsnjcokay brokie
@@Bfkcjscbsnjc
He never talks bad about people for spending habits he calls out crappy people.
Please spend all of your money opening more and more of these. This is the most entertaining thing I have ever seen
the art is so beautiful so much oil painting and the theming , glad they are going to era locked progression so they can appreciate the relative power of the cards of the time . please dont focus on the price of the cards , we can appreciate them purely as the rare artifacts they are . i would have loved to see more at the end looking at the complete set and brainstorm what deck could be created from it , as a nice closer to appreciate and showcase the big cards and how they fit together .
The older sets were a mess in terms of design, so it's really hard to build something out of it. Though "cycle" cards were present and we did start seeing more variety with each expansion, it wasn't until Portal (1997) that we started seeing sets designed around specific mechanics and strategies for each color.
Love how he said "get in there with your teeth" and then immediately had to correct himself because there was a strong chance Charlie would just do that
Bro I love wubby but haven't watched him and over a year , and he looks WAY different.. cooler, skinner but different. I'm so stoked for this
Cooler is crazy but he is skinnier
@@lowdopamine1619 What's wrong with wubby? I also haven't watched him since he was fat.
@@toadfan64He's got money to be healthy and do what he wants now. That's always pretty cool.
Hold on, this is paymoneywubby? Or whatever his channel is called?
I know I’ve seen him a few times and I thought that’s who this was but he looks and sounds completely different from the past I saw of him a few years back.
A lot of rare book people don't use gloves either, for the same reason(s). You risk damaging the book when you don't have the finesse of fingertips.
its the simple stuff like this that makes your videos super awesome to watch. youre one of a rare few. honestly super glad i started watching your videos! please keep up the good work.
Holy chad wubby looking good i didnt even know he lost weight
So corny
My first thought as well! Good for him. He is a good dude
@UTTPArrestAllFandoms ffs, stop. Reported.
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
these bots are getting out of hand
Wubby’s panic everytime someone tries to go at the plastic is hilarious
this is a glimpse into the future of antiques roadshow
For those who didn't catch it, they didn't directly state how much they paid for it. However, they did say it was a "six figure destruction" (2:25) when they took off the wrapping implying they paid at least $100,000 for the deck. I'm guessing with everybody taking part in opening the deck they took "investments" from everybody to purchase this with the assumption they would proportionally split the earnings if a lotus was pulled.
Here I am. 🙂
It's nice to see Wubby outside of his studio.
I thoroughly enjoyed watched you struggle to cut the plastic. I opened all of my mail with a sword on one of my videos.
Stone Rain followed by Fog IS possible to be a legit deck, but there could still be a problem elsewhere. Looks good so far.
Stone Rain, Fog, Swamp, Sinkhole, Plains, Forest - This is where I'm currently at in the video, 6 cards into the deck. It looks good, and I know what all the commons are going to be.
You'll get a Lightning Bolt as the 15th card, and Dark Ritual as the last common (assuming you don't mix up the card order somehow between now and then).
So much hype to know someone knows this much about vintage magic
Tavis, you're a legend.
Update: The deck looks fine, but there's one card that was unusual. The first Uncommon revealed, should have been an Uthden Troll instead of a Mountain.
That Mountain is the card next to Uthden Troll. It looks like the Uthden Troll fell out of the assembly line at the factory.
Uthden Troll missing in action, but everything else looks great.
Yoooooo hell yeah it’s the man, Tavis, himself! Much love to ya! Thank you so much for all the work that you do.
could you please dm @luminoussteel, thx
I’ve been less stressed watching actual open heart surgery
Bro gets to write-off his work expense of 100k of cardboard on his taxes
I just want to open one of these like this for the sheer experience... I remember opening these as a kid...
"were going to play them"
**Actively passes**
That is also how I felt, as an avid MTG player watching Charlie only treat these cards with half the respect they deserve
21:46
"Who knows this card?"
Oh man... Benalish Hero is heavy nostalgia for me, as I started playing MtG when Microprose released their ancient but amazing MtG video game. Cards back then were pure jank, but had an amazing retro-fantasy vibe. It's hard to describe.
I also love the fact it's a simple 1/1 creautre for one mana, and it doesn't explain what "Bands" means - one of the most convoluted mechanics in MtG probably.
@@selli9917 I had Portal cards back in the day. I started MtG with Ice Age.
god I love Below: the Contracting. great game
@@gitrekt-gudson, I started a few months before Ice Age. Bad set, horrible art direction, but so many great memories 😊
These early sets had the best art. The ones today... 1/4 are good, 1/4 are cropped funny, 1/4 have bad pixelation, 1/4 have strange picture or odd coloring.
@@selli9917 I played a lot of the Microprose game as a kid, but my actual first cards were from the Ninth Edition, that included two comic books explaining how to play MtG.
The comic books were a 10/10 idea. Each player had a diffenet copy, and the players had to read it out loud whenever they had their turn.
Bro, i shat a brick when you got Lightning Bolt....but fainted when you just flipped Demonic Tutor 😂
This is the most I've laughed at people opening a pack of cards, more of this please lol.
3:43 Charlie effortlessly creating so much tension and freak out from all the guys in the room 😂😂
I so appreciate charlie getting expensive vintage cards and playing with them as should be
You pulled a lighting strike and a demonic near mint straight from a deck, i dont think people realise how good that is in general, i have seen and heard of much much worse boxes.
That Demonic Tutor looks absolutely perfect. Crazy.
"Open it with a gun!" and that folks was when i felt my gut drop suddenly.
This is the greatest demonic tutor flip of all time
that demonic tutor looks clean and super well centered for an alpha card.
Yea, it looked nice and it is such a strong card.
To all the die hard fans of MTG, there is a spoiler at 6:00 to 6:10 where the bottom card accidentally gets shown. I'm not a die hard myself, but know that could really ruin it for some people lol
Craw wurm at 20:00 brought back memories. I started in revised, wish i had started a year before and gotten some Beta packs. Still have all my cards and theyre worth some money but nothing like the exact same cards in Beta
i had a black lotus i bought for $30 in 1996 at a card shop on 72nd avenue in portland, next to jiffy mart. Lost it when i moved, lost all my cards dude.......I like to imagine when my mom passes that i'll find it in her belongings
When you last it did you want to punch a wall?
My farts are better than Charlie’s farts 💨
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
I had a beta black lotus at one point as well, but it was stolen by someone I trusted too much, when I was young and naive.
I had a couple when magic first came out but stopped playing after like a year and no clue what happened to any of my cards.
I’m just waiting for Charlie to do an epic riffle shuffle the entire deck causing Wubby to have an aneurism.
Bro I’ve been sporadically watching your content without a sub like a creep for years now- this video finally pushed me over the fence! It was great to see you chillin with the boys and nerding out with the boys like the rest of us plebs.
So many good memories wrapped up in MTG cellophane! I think I can say we all “came” together on that last card! 😂
I appreciate you, brother! Looking forward to more MTG content in the future!
The centering is perfect on that Demonic Tutor
Oh no, his addiction is consuming him once again.
No one laugh
30 grand on some cardboard, can't wait for Charlie's next video shltting on someone else for their bad spending habbits and financial choices and everyone in the comments to reach and scramble around the excuses for their cope👍.
@@Bfkcjscbsnjcbro go find happiness somewhere wtf r u on. When has has genuinely attacked someone for their spending habits? He goes after people who hurt an harass people not people who buy stuff. Literally pulling shit out of thin air.
Just report him for spam. He's posting the same response in multiple comment treads. Same with the guy using hate speech but I've been reporting him under hate speech and violence
@@so0pak5v9n "quick! report him, I don't like the fact he's exposing our overlord, he's making to much sense report him"
*Where gonna play ‘em!* 💀 That sigh was the realest thing. 😂
Yall spoke that Demonic Tutor into existence lol
“Gotta act like u been here b4 and that’s how u pull the good stuff”
The look Charlie is going to get walking into his LGS for commander with his Alpha deck.
That Demonic Tutor flip! That has to be one of the best things I've ever seen on the internet. Also, I was happy to see the Goblin Balloon Brigade! I have a couple of those floating around somewhere in my collection. I love goblin cards, especially the old school silly goblin cards.
Now I'll have to go pull my old MTG decks from the late 90s and see if any are worth anything.
dude i saw wubby 2021 and 3 years hits diffrent you look like a new human ... respect wubs
Can we all please acknowledge how in shape wubby is now-a-days
This is like going from weed to heroine essentially to a collector from am addicts standpoint.
Its crazy how excited they get to see some of those cards knowing already whats in this pre made deck just really show the enjoyment of mtg
the disrespect towards this little box is outstanding.
There’s something slightly unnerving about seeing wubby without the green screen suit with most of his upper body on show. He is looking real sleak though so nice to see him making progress.
"oh yea my hands are washed" proceeds to comb through his hair with the hands 🤣
I feel old when we talk about Tempest as a vintage set.
Tempest was when I got "back into Magic" because I had gotten a discount voucher at a local store...
Man I haven't seen Wubby in a LONG time, he is looking GREAT, good for him!
I've never heard so many victory screeches for a card pull.
"so we can tell by the plastic that it is fake" got me
was it? I could not tell 😅