POKEMON BUYOUTS ARE OUTTA CONTROL
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
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I have no money, no realistic way to invest, no skin in the game whatsoever.
Yet I’m addicted to watching Rudy tell me how the landscape is going. It’s strangely engaging and cathartic.
pro salesmanship
Go back and watch the wolf of magic videos and a lot of the rando financial videos. He's put out enough content to help anyone learn how to better their situation. I have no empire ambitions, but he's definitely taught me how to be comfortable with regular stuff.
Go get yourself some credit and get aboard on a position on promo kits!!
Literally same
@@fsmoura Yes, get yourself underwater on shaky financial advice. Fucking briliant.
Need more Pokemon content Rudy.
Rudy needs to let's play Red or Blue!
☝️☝️what this guy said!!!
Our metapod used harden after hearing you talk about Pokemon.
Mine used string shot
Thumbs up for Pokemon content!
@@alphonse2234 thumbs up to counter your thumbs down.
Thumbs up! 👍
Thumbs up
Hell yeah
I built the biggest position I could afford. 2 of each booster box. I convinced myself that if it crashes to zero, I can just open them. If it goes up I can sell one to cover my ass on the second. Time will tell.
For clarity I only mean SWSH era booster boxes.
same!!!! buy a case. hold 2, open 2, flip 2. has been going great!
Why would it go to zero? Like why, history shows that every set has gone up when it goes out of print. Makes no sense to even think like that
do you plan to build positions like that in the upcoming Scarlet & Violet sets as well?
@@23evulp8 i do for etb's. not for boosters anymore. i went all in for swsh and its expensive. ETBs are much more cost friendly. and ill just buy 2. rip one, hold one.
to get magic to spike again we need you and post malone to get in a hot tub and eat a party pack of taco bell
There’s definitely reprints coming lol. The change in borders doesn’t matter. Pokemon is printing sets from both eras/styles as we speak. Crown Zenith (yellow borders) will be releasing in waves from January to May. Scarlet and Violet Base (silver borders) comes out in March.
Crown Zenith doesn’t have booster boxes and it isn’t a main set. The idea that Pokémon is just going to leave their main sets out of stock for 2-3 straight months is insane.
If you want to buy boxes now because they’re going up, cool. Just make sure it’s stuff you actually like because there’s no guarantee it isn’t getting reprinted.
They got 4 years to reprint
2 years*
Excellent point.
Pokemon already "changed the system" when they added an energy card in Sun & Moon. All it did was that some boxes of SM Base ended up with Evolutions uncommons :D
That said they are focusing on Scarlet and Violet right now for sure, so I don't expect any big reprints for few months. Evolving Skies would benefit from one as the last big reprint did not even leave USA, the single packs are in reprint boxes and new tins, while Europe didn't get anything for a year. It needs to happen, even if it won't change the prices per box that much.
I cannot emphasize how appreciative I am of your objectivity and constructive analysis. Thank you; its very refreshing to see someone who has this type of outlook and overall I couldnt agree more with what you said. Well done sir.
Timmy: "Number goes up, make me feel good"
Giga Chad long Investor:"Price is still too low"
Rudy has single-handedly saved all of my poor decisions in this hobby
Damn I love these informative videos, you're right about the curve, everybody gets off too early.
POKEMON VIDEO!!! I have 108 english bbs now in my collection!!!! THX RUDY!!!!
Nice! Which sets?
@@monkey39128 I have,St,fs, sun and moon base, ub,ar,cr,
Sealed pokemon, i have no complains about. but opening a box you are basically left with 95% firewood and if you are lucky 5% good cards. and 9 times out of 10 you lose money opening boxes.
I mean MtG boxes are basically the same now.
Every week I play FAB at my LGS I never fail to see people opening pokemon packs there.
“That one I don’t have a lot of, maybe like 20 cases of ancient origins” - Rudy
🤣🤣🤣
how can brilliant be pushing 200 if you can get them on the pokemon center for msrp
That’s what I don’t get I bought a case yesterday after tax it’s still over 30$ cheaper a box. I always shop around for best prices I guess alot of people don’t. Still I would think the center is running low.
hate to say this, but because the majority of the community is dumb. and have no idea what they're doing. pick ur cases up on pokemon center before it goes OOS. once it does go OOS, then more panic buying will begin.
such is life in the cardboard markets
There is no Pokemon Center in Europe and most of Europe is out of Brilliant Stars meaning ordering from Ebay or whatever, is the go to option.
@@zhongli7232 hadn’t thought of that decided to do some digging on the subject. Seems like sourcing English packs at a decent price can be a huge pain for most of Europe.
The border change announcement is what really pushed this random recent spike. Look at the graphs and when that announcement was made. Coincidence? I think not.
Ah Pokemon, it's what happens when you're the most successful media franchise of all time.
I’ve never played magic and haven’t collected Pokémon cards since 2001…yet here I am watching yet another Rudy video. Lol.
Rudy is the best thing for the market!!! HE ONLY BUYS!! NEVER SELLS!!!
You selling evolving booster case?
I keep repeating 1:20 over and over again, priceless. Hope you are well rudy!
One things for sure Evolving Skies will hit 500 a box quicker than you can blink 10 eyes 🤪
Stupid people pumpin stupid sets leaves idiots broke , if it goes to $500 it wont stay long
Whats the rationale for predicting no evolving sky reprint? Just want to understand how serious that statement is.
Rudy can you do an investment video on Investing in Special Sets VS main block sets?
You wanna know whats funny, I always hated oversized cards and gimmicks in magic, but I really love the big collection boxes and all the gimmicks in pokemon. Those oversized cards and random stuff even holds secondary market value. They really know how to do it right.
Wild that Magic went with expensive product variants, i.e. collector boxes, set boxes and not the easy route of gift boxes like Pokémon. It seem much easier to move a $20-50 fancy gift box vs $100-200 booster box.
That ending " be angry or thumbs down.. Do something that makes you happy" facts XD lolol
Great analysis! They’re reprinting most of the 2022 sets. I’m not sure about 21’ sets like chilling and evo skies, so those will def go up. But 22’ brill stars boxes are gonna drop back down. Beware.
Had a PokeTuber recommendation to this channel && after watching say bout 20-30 vids finally this is what been waiting for Great breakdown 💰
QUESTION FOR PATRONS. When a pokemon set releases, is there cases for sale? Furthermore, is there cases available even after release? I watched the video but I spaced out lol.
Rewatch it then lazy bones
@@Badbr1gggsy Too much work and my baby are making it tough 😭😭😭
If you “space out” you probably should not try to invest in this sort of thing in any capacity
@@AJ42069 Shut up man Im more of a collector stop assuming noob
I wish we could glimpse into Evil Rudy alternate world where he sells all his stock at once. Just to see the absolute chaos from it.
XY was and interesting period. The economy was at the peak and suddenly large content creators started to post videos of opening old school pokemon boxes, quickly other content creators followed. This drove up demand massively around the time of XY Evolutions. I don't think we'll see similar growth in a very long time for modern products unless they are low print quantities like the japanese precious collection boxes. Things will go up but not as quick as it once did.
I think the numbers are the proof. Demand for Pokémon is higher than its ever been, the diversified products actually sell, Pokémon is a good place to be for the foreseeable future.
Had my like at "to prove to you how serious I am." I don't always agree with your takes, but in contrast to all the other channels riding the mtg-finance train on your coattails, you actually put your money where your mouth is (right next to a taco, presumably)
Been eyeing it for a while now...Love the bullion bro. Diversified.✅
God I kove everytime Rudy give a free class like this,alwais learn so much,thank you Taco King
Only bought 4 evolving skies booster boxes. While it’s more than the 1 or 2 I get for all the other sets I knew it was gonna be good. Didn’t pull the trigger on a few of those $550 cases. They are 2k now lol.
So if booster packs are sleeved the end is coming? Crazy didn't he just say they are going to print more silver tempest and lost origins in a couple of months? How many reprints has there been on these?
9:50 - 12:00 This is exactly right. The distributors sold and made money. The evil investor doubled their money and left. The diamond hands finally sold and left. There's no one left. This is for any product, not just the example Rudy gives with Evolutions. I have been holding onto a sealed box of Yugioh Legendary Decks 1 and Legendary Decks 2 for like 3+ years now. Its finally starting to go up because you just can't find it anymore. Anyone who has it still laying around is now dumping and locking in their 2 or 3x profits.
My boxes are still sitting in my drawer sealed and I won't sell them because A: I loved the product and enjoy Yugioh, it was never an investment to me and B: it'll only keep going up because all the market players are gone.
If you buy anything TCG with the mindset of "im going to make money asap and as much as possible", you're already doing it wrong.
That’s the difference between you and a scalper: you like the product you have on your shelves! Same here, if i dont make a profit soon, i don’t care because i love pokemon/FaB-yu-gi-oh, especially seeing it on my shelves.
THE AMOUNT OF BAGS RUDY IS HOLDING IS WILD
Eh brother thank you so much love the advice I'll be following along
Great video man I strongly agree with you on the Sword and Shield Era doing the same as the Ex
Crazy all these Sword and Shield boxes are climbing, meanwhile you can get a collector booster of Streets of Copa Cabana for $108 on eBay…
thats because pokemon has more of a collector market where as magic is more of a player market. the value of magic cards is predicated on their usefulness in the game. The value of pokemon is predicated on the particular pokemon featured on the card and wether or not it looks cool. This is why Rudy was saying that he doesnt follow the pokemon meta because it doesnt matter because most people dont actually play pokemon, they collect it.
@@Millylerks yep, you’re exactly right! Magic has collectors but the “big hits” are almost always the most powerful/useful cards. Meanwhile almost any set that includes a Charizard or other fan favorites goes to the moon! (Or at least the upper atmosphere)
Rudy, link of inventory your selling?
Not a lot of new opportunities in Pokémon SWSH so it's better to pivot to something else until things change. Pivot to something that is undervalues like Weiss or Key Comics. The discounts will come soon enough (probably when Crown Zenith comes along and people realize how much better it is than other SWSH sets).
Poke-center promos are the real tits, psa 10 "stand up comedian pikachu" is my favorite card....if you haven't seen the center promos you're missing out.
How many do you have?
@@uchilaandre I buy a different psa 10 for my son (the real poke-nut) on his bday and xmas and then another 2-3 throughout the year when I can find a deal. They really cement the almost Disney/Mickey Mouse level of fan indulgence....mtg is a great game, but people grew up with pokemon, people buy the cards who don't even play. Two pikachus having a fancy Japanese tea ceremony....? Those promos are awesome.
Pokemon is fantastic, even I started making videos on it after being a hardcore mtg reserved list fan. Sword and shield era “to the moon”
I actually tried playing it with the app and it's really fun. I thought it made no sense and seemed bad from watching and reading the rules, but playing it is a lot funner than playing MTG Arena. You and your opponents don't all almost time out every turn from reading 3 paragraphs on each card like MTG either. MTG has waaaay too much text on cards these days looking in after not playing for 20 years
@@drowningin saaame dude, i got so into the tcgo lately i started recording my games and got like 10 scheduled in my channel xD it’s mega easy to get the theme decks and booster packs too, it’s like hey pokemon company actually wants you to enjoy their games
Pokemon Go set super slept on rn
Its been printed more then blank paper bro stores cant even get rid of it all
It's just ink on a printing press. Pokemon can print older yellow cards just as easily as they can print new silver cards. "Switching the template" isn't even a thing as far as the printing presses care.
We love Rudy talking about pokemon
The REAL reason Rudy shows off the Pokemon boxes is to show off his greenscreen from the 2050s.
Thank you Rudy, very cool! ❤
The moment tcgs became investments” is when i got really selective about what to buy. This time feels very different because alot of the genuine interest isnt there for many people
Oh boy, I'm starting to take the hint from Rudy; making a jump from Magic to POKEMON!
Gotta Buy 'em ALL! POKEMON!
Still can't believe Cosmic Eclipse never got reprinted
Unbroken Bonds, Unified Minds, Cosmic Eclipse, Sword & Shield Base & Rebel Clash have always been really hard to get ahold of it imo. I think the main reason for Sword and Shield high pricing is simply covid. Not many people were playing, even online. And then people came back and demand went up, but supply was still too low.
We need more Pokémon videos!!!
we still would like to see the floppy taco warehouse AND, AND the greed monster feeding pen.
sealed pokemon ( on average ) doubles in value like this. the best type of booster box ( on average ) doubles every 2 years, a medium type BB every 3 years, and the worse type of booster box doubles every 4 years. pokemon has a 20 year history of these facts
I love Pokémon content!!!!!!
Subscribed, love the serious content and analysis.
Rudy, you mean to say all those warehouse boxes actually have more than air in them? :)
I'm always intrigued by the scale of things. If you take a MTG set and assume like 50,000 boxes x $120 each = market cap of $6,000,000. There are many many companies that are magnitudes larger than that. With equities, you can have additional shares issued and buybacks, but if you did that with sealed product, it would basically destroy the confidence of the product overnight (once it's out of print).
Then you step back and see coins had a market cap of like $2tn at peak, entire countries have a larger GDP. Then you have markets like forex that have a $4 tn volume PER DAY, or derivatives markets that have quadrillions annually. It's crazy
What
Love that copy of 1984 ❤️
Mate I agree with precurs, you're entertaining to watch . I'm only into pokemon but I'll watch most of your vids just for your natural way to be yourself and fuck UA-cam, you cuss whenever ya want brother. Cheers for you're hard work
So you have some roaring sky's to unload?
Rudy is the GOAT
Absolutely love Chilling Reign, but damn did that set have some QC issues.
Super glad your making the smart decisions with your money! Bravo!
Thoughts on Japanese Pokémon?
Rudy how do I buy all your stock ???
Probably the worst joke ive seen
As someone who has been aggressively doing small scale buyouts for pokemon singles for 2 weeks straight, this video is relevant to my interests
Guess people didn't believe you when you said there's no more free 'tendies anymore.
1:23 caught me off guard 😄
Yep, ever since you 'fomo'd' (you really did not have to state the fact about no more in the whse; market was moving at a steady) Chilling Reign....this shite has been non stop.
But Rudy, have you SEEN the prices!?
Man…you’re giving away free game. I appreciate this 🖤
MOM! Rudy doesnt wanna share his Pokemans cards :(((((((
I don’t buy the push up, I’m selling my single box of Battle Styles and locking in my $3 gain 😎 stonks baby
Pokémon ! Lets go! More of that Rudy!
Am I a Timmy or a carrot? Damn Rudy… now I’m confused.
You will all regret calling 1999-2008 original printing foils bulk for so long. The relativity is insane. You really should stop calling it bulk though, if less than 500 people around the world can have it in a game where the player base is above 10,000,000 it’s not bulk. You have to start thinking of old original foils as physical NFT’s relative to every other card made by wotc. It’s kinda like Logan Paul’s cryptozoo. When you open a magic pack You open a pack and you actually open “eggs” in each card slot. The eggs you open are then available or unavailable to the secondary market depending on how you operate. You gotta find the diamond eggs with age on them with low supply. When you pay $1000+ to open a box of anything printed 1999-2005 you are gonna at best “hatch” 8 foils probably one of which will be a rare. The price of old 1999-2005 boxes is only going to continue going up. Eventually it will be relative to prime reserve list boxes. At that point how can any foil from that time period be worthless?
Ruby pumped and dumped my step sister :(
The first to comment haha! Rudy Rudy Rudy :)
RUDY!!!!! SELL ME THAT PRINCESS DIANA BEANIE BABY *REEEEEE*
Everything Pokemon is undervalued and will explode by atleast 1000% a year!
If you're right I'll be able to retire 😂
Rudy u look pale. We know u are a legend in the game and also stunting on us and the Timmy's.
Name one Pokémon TCG product that hasn't gone up in price.
most of the singles, especially PSA graded cards.
@@johnlocke3481 im pretty sure he meant sealed products
@@johnlocke3481 What? Moonbreon was $180 and cheaper on release. All the alternate arts have basically gone up.
@John Locke Yes, when I said product, I meant sealed as Pokemon doesn't sell individual cards or PSA graded cards.
Battle styles atm
Re-stock coming towards the end of March-Beginning of April. Cap my words!
Lmao i remember rudy saying that the pokemon hype was gonna die after the pokemon hype during covid and now here we are 2-3 years later and the prices are and hype is going crazy
This is stupid. The Pokemon hype didn't even truly start until at least August of 2020 and we aren't "2-3 years later" as we're still in the covid hype era.
I have 3 cases or evo and 2 cases of chilling
I think more people collect sealed products, especially booster boxes, in Pokemon compared to any other TCG. The english pokemon sealed booster box market is hot, but the japanese boxes are going up as well, and some of those japanese products might be an even better long term hold than their english counterparts.
Will never be “better”
The japanese products are always better to hold long term.
I bought $90 of Pokemon from Meier. its the 1st time buying Pokemon but magic doesn't deserve my $
Rudy teasing the Poke nerds. Good times.
Im happy in my life I finally own a Gaea’s cradle. As of 1/7/23
So Silver Tempest will be the last EN set with the yellow borders?
Crown Zenith
can you explain more about the yellow boarders? is their another video about this?? i swear i heard about this last year.
@@tvillaa what is there to even explain? The border is changing from yellow to silver after crown zenith thats it lol
Appreciate the explanation.
give me a new dragon ball super video. Last one was years ago haha.
I would love to hear what Rudy has to say about One Piece right now, the market is INSANE. I invested about $250 into the game and made back over $600 this weekend.
He mentioned One Piece in a previous video. I can't remember which one I'm sorry! His stance was more or less: high on One Piece as an IP but very low on Bandai, and because he doesn't trust Bandai to continuously put out a good product he does not hold any One Piece stock. He does have some old One Piece video games or something like that though.
Just look at Fallen Empires. Worst set in MtG history. No rares, printed to the moon, no power whatsoever. Worthless for YEARS. Now it's $700 a box. If your value is down just shove it back under the bed for another 5-20 years until you clean again.