"reports indicate he may have been trying to recreate trees as the cardboard boxes were filled with cardboard boxes containing what can only be described as paper playing cards."
Hahahaha yes Rudy was just the Timmy all along lol as he slung you boxes of cards, sat on a position you idiots paid for via patreon, and bought up collections at 60-70% therefore negating any gains in value of the product. Dude unlocked a cheat code on basement dwelling losers and went full medieval
@@chad0x inventoried yes, insured maybe? Insurance is just basically a loss unless you need it. Either way Florida seems like an expensive place to set up a card storage facility.
0:43 - Iconic Masters was only the 7th time Magic had failed and fell apart? Let's see, Magic failed when 1) They released Chronicles, 2) They created Type II, 3) They decided that sets would rotate out of Type II when they released Mirage, 4) The 6th Edition Rules changes, 5) The 8th Edition card frame changes, 6) The emergency errata for Waylay, 7) Necro Summer, 8) When WotC was bought by Hasbro, 9) Affinity for Artifacts, 10) Creation of Mythic Rarity, 11) Stickers, 12) EDH turning into Commander, 13) Modern Horizons (all of them), 14) Magic 30th Anniversary Set, and I'm sure I'm missing a few others.
I found this channel because I love magic and saw you opening some dope vintage magic packs. I didn't realize then that the real value of your channel was you sharing your experiences and the lessons you've learned along your journey.
The real value of this channel is as an advertising platform for his trading card business. Getting paid for your own advertising content, that you even have fun making... Some people are just made for the times they are living in.
@@Volkbrecht That's certainly a part of the real value for Rudy and Alpha Investments. For me, it lies with the knowledge he shares; he doesn't have to. The greed monster isn't all that greedy after all.
Dilution brother. I quit playing MTG when they kept making new rules, new names. I couldnt keep up with it. For a while as the game was growing rapidly people were willing to keep spending. Now the recession is here who can afford another new set every year?
I just realised, I would LOVE a video tour through your whole collection, everything you have there. Could be 4 hours long, I would watch it. You could just go through all of this stuff and talk about magic 😅
After watching this video I’m convinced that Rudy got married , had reception, and spent his honeymoon at this warehouse. The Alliance box was there for it all.
This video is the exact opposite of the 52 minute lesson on life video. Rudy for the first few minutes questions why he's here and starts throwing sealed product.
Not even bothering with new Magic anymore and all these reprint sets. Rather just stick to collecting older sets that don't have over 600 cards in them.
The 3 current best performers in my sealed collection I’ll be selling off: Reap the tides precon: bought at 28$ in 2021, tcg low 132 Elven ambush precon: bought at 35$ in 2021, tcg low 93 Phyrexia ONE compleat bundle: bought at 115 in 2023, tcg low 184 No you won’t get every pick right, yes I have a bunch of other sealed in the toilet, but there is a skill set in recognizing products that will outperform. My next pick is the OTJ quick draw precon and the OTJ commander deck cases as a whole because of the bounty mini game. Things with quirky little add ins like that have a novelty factor that helps reduce devaluation.
Sealed product isn't dead, it's just mortally wounded by WoTC's greed and the economy. After the covid boom they expected the money to still keep coming in. It didn't so they raised prices and pushed out even more product to try to meet their promises to the shareholders.
@@cheezar5121 Why keep a CT scanner in your basement when you can just slip the rad tech a couple hundred bucks to use the one at the independent radiology centers that have popped up in every city? If you don't think people are doing this then you're a fool. A soon to be broke fool. ;)
Tough economic times is when you go bargain hunting for collectibles. People sell their collectibles during times like these. You sell during economic booms, when people have cash to burn
I'm trying with every fiber of my being not to make a clip of the "inflation destroyed you" bit. Had me rolling while being informative and casual about it. It's everything that keeps me coming back as a newer fan. Thanks Rudy
Hope you do well with all this stuff Rudy. That’d be cool to see. Somehow, anything post collectors edition boxes and the booster fun era seems like if you zoom out in time frame, in 15-20 years, this era’s magic will eventually collapse like 90’s era comics and sports cards. Although some had an increase in value during that time, today, it’s all basically worthless. None of it is rare. Anything during today’s era feels like it can’t succeed in the long term. Maybe I’m wrong; no one knows for sure. Hope you do well with it if you hold, it just seems unlikely.
As far as magic I really only buy the cool crossover stuff that they release, I bought a bit of the LOTR cards, and some of the doctor who cards. I think the problem with any TCG is getting new players in. Its a huge problem in ygo and thats because of the price point to get into the game. I picked up the Gardevoir battle league deck for 30$ and had a near top tier deck. So if I had to suggest a card game for people to get into on the cheap its definitely pokemon. With magic, I guess if I bought the individual cards for the Sauron deck I built it would have been cheaper, but even buying the commander deck, which I think was like 75$, thats still a lot for someone to spend and then still have to buy about 20$ more in cards to make it playable.
I have my own "spells" with collecting Magic and watching Rudy. Usually I begin it during the high point and lose out on value. Right now though I'm jumping in at the perfect time to be a buyer of older product. I still haven't made the trip up to see Rudy and I've been lurking and paying monthly for years. Im going to start planning my visit now.
I know where he's at right now. He's in the lighthouse of his sister's boyfriend's cousins next door neighbor, owned by the third dynasty. Y'all see in the back, the goldfish getting the lavaclaw reach around while eating the taco bell party pack of soft taco's.
Your are all wrong ! thats all delusions, traps and tricks ! Rudy is realy down under, with all his fancy staff. Down right under Fort Knox ! Gold to Gold 😎
LOVED YOUR SPEECH/VIDEO ( you know your STUFF) - my grandson and my son-in-law have wasted THOUSANDS on various CARD GAMES (individual cards) and don't have much NOW but they LOVED what they have (the cards) ! WHAT is MORE IMPORTANT in Life (Be HAPPY FOR A WHILE) !!! :-)
Thanks for the insight Rudy! It def helps to understand the hardships when folks are also interested in doing any type of investing in the now and future.
Honestly I’ve always wanted to work in a magic shop or really be hands on with magic. I’ve got a couple decks but haven’t ever been able to really put into it. If you were ever able to fly me out I’d love to help you work back of house and do inventory. I’d basically be fine sleeping on a cot. 😂 26, I feel like that’d be a sweet ass time to look back on. 3:13
I know what you mean. Many years ago I owned Walmart stock and every couple years it would split. After it splitting 3 times I said “this can’t keep happening “ and I sold! I was wrong! 😆
03:01 I remember those, I still got a handful stashed away that i picked up for about $12 AUD, the booster packs inside were about $6 a pop by them selves at the time
I want to see the Alpha Investments X Loading Ready Run crossover where there do the classic "Pre-Pre Release" but instead everyone gets a random prerelease kit from Rudy's Warehouse of fun and magic. Call it the "Post-Post Release"
video that you made 7 to 8 years ago and you were talking about the reserve list and buying mtg products and stuff and you will like well you know if you like the card by the cards and then it doesn't matter if it goes up and down now i bought a wheel of fortune for like £100 and that's worth like triple the money nowadays but am i going to sell it no cos it's in my goblins deck
I really appreciate the "apple stock/bitcoin" bit at the end. It really puts things in perspective. People so concerned about how much they would have made if they cashed out today, already not putting a single thought towards where the stock/bitcoin might be ten years from now. We're such predictable animals 😀
Hey Rudy, do you feel like not paying attention to individual cards in a set is the reason why you have some failure? Sure the Mordern horizons stuff is good but how do you gauge sets?
I have no idea what is going on in this video but what I’m gathering (ha ha) is that he’s a scalper and stuck with a bunch of stock he hoped to flip? No sympathy here.
He's completely right about selling and rebalancing risk. What you would do is sell part of it and use that money to make other investments. The thing I kind of regret was never buying any Alpha or Beta MTG. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. I can remember seeing packs of it and being very interested in buying some of them. I remember for sure that I saw packs of Arabian Knights for sale when it came out, and I remember seeing Alpha and Beta packs at a card store but I was buying Pokemon cards at the time in 1996, I even remember asking the clerk about them because they were like $20 or $30 a pack. The problem was that my parents were religious and had bought into the entire MTG was evil thing, so I never got into MTG until closer to 2000. I have some unlimited and revised cards now that I've picked up, but I kind of doubt I'll ever buy any Beta or Alpha.
I'm just starting to get into collecting physical cards. would love to get some of your bulk I've never collected before but have play Magic online and MTG arena for years!
Plot twist hypothetical… Imagine the background is pure green screen. Rudy’s already a WotC board member, and just loves getting his hands dirty and the Timmy’s are tricked by the commercial mastermind in the ivory tower.
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Florida man crushed in basement by fallen boxes of cardboard.
I really wish this to happen, but with survival chances.
Bet there's at least one rat under them boxes.
@@sattoriemei3210 Rudy's ex. 😂
Found clutching binder labeled “God Book 5/69”
"reports indicate he may have been trying to recreate trees as the cardboard boxes were filled with cardboard boxes containing what can only be described as paper playing cards."
Man sits surrounded by $3.50 of sealed Magic product.
🤣
rudy was just the timmy all along
Hahahaha yes Rudy was just the Timmy all along lol as he slung you boxes of cards, sat on a position you idiots paid for via patreon, and bought up collections at 60-70% therefore negating any gains in value of the product. Dude unlocked a cheat code on basement dwelling losers and went full medieval
Or the Poindexter
I am the Timmy now
@@wasteddigits1713 he was a bear in a bearscape all along.
"You can hear the Dice!"-Rudy
"shakes the box" PSA 5
"shakes the box again" PSA -4
Lol that was my first thought 💀
Rudy is one hurricane away from being a much sadder man.
He might be out $20 of sealed Magic cards. Devastating.
[[Devastation Tide]]
Plenty of category 5 coming.
you think he doesnt have it ll inventoried and insured?
@@chad0x inventoried yes, insured maybe? Insurance is just basically a loss unless you need it. Either way Florida seems like an expensive place to set up a card storage facility.
I love how you can hear the pitter-patter of his bare feet in the beginning like a true goblin
I don't play or collect MTG anymore but I'm still subbed for salty troll videos like this. Never change 😂
Love when resellers who push the price up get their karma
0:43 - Iconic Masters was only the 7th time Magic had failed and fell apart? Let's see, Magic failed when 1) They released Chronicles, 2) They created Type II, 3) They decided that sets would rotate out of Type II when they released Mirage, 4) The 6th Edition Rules changes, 5) The 8th Edition card frame changes, 6) The emergency errata for Waylay, 7) Necro Summer, 8) When WotC was bought by Hasbro, 9) Affinity for Artifacts, 10) Creation of Mythic Rarity, 11) Stickers, 12) EDH turning into Commander, 13) Modern Horizons (all of them), 14) Magic 30th Anniversary Set, and I'm sure I'm missing a few others.
Rudy breaking Gift Packs is true ancient Alpha Investments lore.
OGs remember
You remember the huge opening he did of them searching for the masterpiece cards
I found this channel because I love magic and saw you opening some dope vintage magic packs. I didn't realize then that the real value of your channel was you sharing your experiences and the lessons you've learned along your journey.
The real value of this channel is as an advertising platform for his trading card business. Getting paid for your own advertising content, that you even have fun making... Some people are just made for the times they are living in.
@@Volkbrecht That's certainly a part of the real value for Rudy and Alpha Investments. For me, it lies with the knowledge he shares; he doesn't have to. The greed monster isn't all that greedy after all.
We need a horror game of Rudy stalking you through his cardboard labyrinth
Dilution brother. I quit playing MTG when they kept making new rules, new names. I couldnt keep up with it.
For a while as the game was growing rapidly people were willing to keep spending. Now the recession is here who can afford another new set every year?
I just realised, I would LOVE a video tour through your whole collection, everything you have there. Could be 4 hours long, I would watch it. You could just go through all of this stuff and talk about magic 😅
I don't think he will ever do it incase he gives a way a clue where he's located and set himself up to get robbed.
He should create a Museum and make people pay to Watch 😂
Collection? Its his business and what you see here is his stock...
It really is crazy to think about the fact this warehouse is going to be underwater in 10 years.
Store cards under the tropics is not the wisest plan indeed.
This is like the Simpsons meme where Homer is talking to Bart - "so far."
After watching this video I’m convinced that Rudy got married , had reception, and spent his honeymoon at this warehouse. The Alliance box was there for it all.
Pepperidge farm remembers, Rudy.
Those boxes....."I've been touching this wrapper, myself for nine years straight. I go like this *fingers wrapper* everyday". Hell yeah, brother.
Anyone else just tired of all the new flashy bs, i miss 2001-2008 mtg
*Sorcery has entered the chat*
100%
The first mtg product I ever bought and opened was Kaladesh and I still miss that era.
0% I like the chance at getting very expensive flashy cards. Opening packs in the past felt really bad
My first magic set was shadows over innistrad. Great fun
This video is the exact opposite of the 52 minute lesson on life video. Rudy for the first few minutes questions why he's here and starts throwing sealed product.
Nobody can tell me Rudy hasn't seen it all. I always enjoy your perspective man. Thanks for the many years of personality and retrospective analyses.
"The economy, stupid" James Carville in 1992 ( Warning , paper cards have zero real value )
Do you think these cards have real value?
My favorite Rudy content is when he spends 20-60 minutes boiling down that 99% of capitalism is just the rich getting richer
Create a useful and needed product that is efficient, and you'll make it. Don't think you'll get rich on someone else's product.
@@The_Serg8760 look around you brother. We don't need any more products.
@The_Serg8760 look around my guy, we don't need another product.
@lessthangio That mentality is why the rich get richer while you look around finding new complaints.
@The_Serg8760 we all have enough.
The way you just threw them shits on the floor XD
that was wild, did not expect it haha
The real friends was the cardboard we hoard along the way.
Magnificent green screen skills, my dood.
Not a greenscreen.
I never would have guessed my 400 commander decks from 2019-2022 have out performed almost everything sealed.
It's been the the fastest growing format for more than 5 years now. Commander is the most played format these days.
When Wizards made the TIMMY Card, they should have used Rudy's face...
Not even bothering with new Magic anymore and all these reprint sets. Rather just stick to collecting older sets that don't have over 600 cards in them.
Pokémon is the only long term value along with sports cards. Everything else is reprints
when he walks away i get scared he's not there
The last 3 minutes of this video is GOLD!
The 3 current best performers in my sealed collection I’ll be selling off:
Reap the tides precon: bought at 28$ in 2021, tcg low 132
Elven ambush precon: bought at 35$ in 2021, tcg low 93
Phyrexia ONE compleat bundle: bought at 115 in 2023, tcg low 184
No you won’t get every pick right, yes I have a bunch of other sealed in the toilet, but there is a skill set in recognizing products that will outperform. My next pick is the OTJ quick draw precon and the OTJ commander deck cases as a whole because of the bounty mini game. Things with quirky little add ins like that have a novelty factor that helps reduce devaluation.
I got my 6 compleats from the amazon dump for 55$ each, did you buy yours late?
@shatterpate1103 SCO at target got a ton of each of those for $5 by scanning packs and not the decks.
@@shatterpate1103 no I supported an LGS on release day
Thank you very much for your many videos. I listen to a lot of them and I think I am learning things. Many thanks.
Sealed product isn't dead, it's just mortally wounded by WoTC's greed and the economy. After the covid boom they expected the money to still keep coming in. It didn't so they raised prices and pushed out even more product to try to meet their promises to the shareholders.
there's also the whole thing where you can CT scan any sealed card product and see every card inside now
Rudy you can CT scan any sealed product and see every single card inside it now rendering any sealed card product worthless
Sure, who doesn't have a CT scanner in their basement for this...
@@cheezar5121 Why keep a CT scanner in your basement when you can just slip the rad tech a couple hundred bucks to use the one at the independent radiology centers that have popped up in every city? If you don't think people are doing this then you're a fool. A soon to be broke fool. ;)
Love how excited Rudy is about magic. Keeps me invested. Bash all you want but the guy loves magic
Rudy living my best life
great upload here Rudy, we appreciate your wisdom.
I can never tell, if rudy is selling, joshing around, or crying out for help.
Because he is always doing all of them. Or none of them…
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
This reminds me of the movie Dave Made a Maze. Rude should make a short "Rude Made a Maze" and use his heavy bags to build it. Would be fun.
This location wpuld be the new Pokemon bathroom! Let's goooo! Stay the course people!
Tough economic times is when you go bargain hunting for collectibles. People sell their collectibles during times like these. You sell during economic booms, when people have cash to burn
I'm trying with every fiber of my being not to make a clip of the "inflation destroyed you" bit. Had me rolling while being informative and casual about it. It's everything that keeps me coming back as a newer fan. Thanks Rudy
Hope you do well with all this stuff Rudy. That’d be cool to see. Somehow, anything post collectors edition boxes and the booster fun era seems like if you zoom out in time frame, in 15-20 years, this era’s magic will eventually collapse like 90’s era comics and sports cards. Although some had an increase in value during that time, today, it’s all basically worthless. None of it is rare. Anything during today’s era feels like it can’t succeed in the long term. Maybe I’m wrong; no one knows for sure. Hope you do well with it if you hold, it just seems unlikely.
As far as magic I really only buy the cool crossover stuff that they release, I bought a bit of the LOTR cards, and some of the doctor who cards. I think the problem with any TCG is getting new players in. Its a huge problem in ygo and thats because of the price point to get into the game. I picked up the Gardevoir battle league deck for 30$ and had a near top tier deck. So if I had to suggest a card game for people to get into on the cheap its definitely pokemon. With magic, I guess if I bought the individual cards for the Sauron deck I built it would have been cheaper, but even buying the commander deck, which I think was like 75$, thats still a lot for someone to spend and then still have to buy about 20$ more in cards to make it playable.
Thank you Rudy. You always give it to us straight. No BS
Thank you for making this video. It explains a lot about the snapshot of the markets over the past 5 years.
Rudy i missed this location so mich! Thank you for never leaving us!🎉
I have my own "spells" with collecting Magic and watching Rudy. Usually I begin it during the high point and lose out on value. Right now though I'm jumping in at the perfect time to be a buyer of older product. I still haven't made the trip up to see Rudy and I've been lurking and paying monthly for years. Im going to start planning my visit now.
Unhinged Rudy is my favorite gender.
I know where he's at right now. He's in the lighthouse of his sister's boyfriend's cousins next door neighbor, owned by the third dynasty. Y'all see in the back, the goldfish getting the lavaclaw reach around while eating the taco bell party pack of soft taco's.
Terracotta warriors have nothing on the cavern if cardboard in 1k years
Your are all wrong ! thats all delusions, traps and tricks ! Rudy is realy down under, with all his fancy staff. Down right under Fort Knox ! Gold to Gold 😎
I couldn't tell you how much fun I had watching you open Iconic masters, while I was opening iconic masters, trying to get a mana drain!
3:49 We're just hanging out. These kind of videos make it really feel like we are all just hanging out and talking about Magic and collectibles
LOVED YOUR SPEECH/VIDEO ( you know your STUFF) - my grandson and my son-in-law have wasted THOUSANDS on various CARD GAMES (individual cards) and don't have much NOW but they LOVED what they have (the cards) ! WHAT is MORE IMPORTANT in Life (Be HAPPY FOR A WHILE) !!! :-)
Those gift boxes are my kind of random. Why didn't I like magic in highschool again?
Thanks for the insight Rudy! It def helps to understand the hardships when folks are also interested in doing any type of investing in the now and future.
I host budget drafts in Cape Town South Africa and Iconic Masters was very fun!
Got any more heavy bags in Karlov Manor? Let's see where they go in 5 to 10 years.
Thank you you turnt around and touch the boxes behind you, I was wondering if it is just green screen
Honestly I’ve always wanted to work in a magic shop or really be hands on with magic.
I’ve got a couple decks but haven’t ever been able to really put into it.
If you were ever able to fly me out I’d love to help you work back of house and do inventory. I’d basically be fine sleeping on a cot. 😂
26, I feel like that’d be a sweet ass time to look back on. 3:13
I remember when rudy bought all the gift packs. Good times.
I know what you mean. Many years ago I owned Walmart stock and every couple years it would split. After it splitting 3 times I said “this can’t keep happening “ and I sold! I was wrong! 😆
03:01 I remember those, I still got a handful stashed away that i picked up for about $12 AUD, the booster packs inside were about $6 a pop by them selves at the time
I want to see the Alpha Investments X Loading Ready Run crossover where there do the classic "Pre-Pre Release" but instead everyone gets a random prerelease kit from Rudy's Warehouse of fun and magic. Call it the "Post-Post Release"
Video title = Chronicles in the Homeland of a Fallen Empire
Love the perspective
video that you made 7 to 8 years ago and you were talking about the reserve list and buying mtg products and stuff and you will like well you know if you like the card by the cards and then it doesn't matter if it goes up and down now i bought a wheel of fortune for like £100 and that's worth like triple the money nowadays but am i going to sell it no cos it's in my goblins deck
I really appreciate the "apple stock/bitcoin" bit at the end. It really puts things in perspective. People so concerned about how much they would have made if they cashed out today, already not putting a single thought towards where the stock/bitcoin might be ten years from now.
We're such predictable animals 😀
Would love to see all your sealed silver age cards. I bet it's less than 25% of what we see in this room.
I have two of those alliance booster boxes and they look just like that!
Timmy Investments
Honestly I really was hoping Rudy would of crashed through the stack of boxes kool-aid man style but the tossing of the gift boxes was better😆
Hey Rudy, do you feel like not paying attention to individual cards in a set is the reason why you have some failure? Sure the Mordern horizons stuff is good but how do you gauge sets?
It’s really amazing how he says the same thing over and over. Yet we still watch.
I have no idea what is going on in this video but what I’m gathering (ha ha) is that he’s a scalper and stuck with a bunch of stock he hoped to flip?
No sympathy here.
He's completely right about selling and rebalancing risk. What you would do is sell part of it and use that money to make other investments.
The thing I kind of regret was never buying any Alpha or Beta MTG. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. I can remember seeing packs of it and being very interested in buying some of them. I remember for sure that I saw packs of Arabian Knights for sale when it came out, and I remember seeing Alpha and Beta packs at a card store but I was buying Pokemon cards at the time in 1996, I even remember asking the clerk about them because they were like $20 or $30 a pack. The problem was that my parents were religious and had bought into the entire MTG was evil thing, so I never got into MTG until closer to 2000. I have some unlimited and revised cards now that I've picked up, but I kind of doubt I'll ever buy any Beta or Alpha.
just installed MTG Arena yesterday and I have no clue what are u talking about, but I love the contetn
My wife's boyfriend tells me Inflation is imaginary.
I dont even play magic and ive enjoyed rudy rants for years now. 😂 good job mate
My whole channel is finding cool stuff I forgot I had! 🎉😂
Stonks and Bongs diversity ftw.
Watching this and looking at all those boxes makes me wish I had ANY kind of pack around me right now so I could open it lol. Got the itch
I remember the gift packs and you trying to find masterpiece cards in the gift packs.
I'm just starting to get into collecting physical cards. would love to get some of your bulk I've never collected before but have play Magic online and MTG arena for years!
The only Magic set I remember was Nemesis
The 4k is out of control on this video💎🤣
real estate doesnt go down its finite
Rudy you could start hosting GP's for time travelers
Only the ogs remember farmer Rudy….
LMAO the sliding box like 15 seconds in
3 Years Later Today ON Hoarders
Fallen Empires. Anything that can be reprinted will, given enough time, have the same value as sealed Fallen Empires.
Plot twist hypothetical…
Imagine the background is pure green screen. Rudy’s already a WotC board member, and just loves getting his hands dirty and the Timmy’s are tricked by the commercial mastermind in the ivory tower.
"I could have put it into the S&P 500 and been set"
Doubt*
Are the boxes at 3:00 the ones you used to beat me to death with years ago in your store?
wow alot of boxes (sana all)
I still don’t no shit about magic or anything table top card games. But here I am
If in 5-10 years my sealed Pokemon is still at the same price i'm gonna have fun ripping it.