Honestly the ‘scammiest’ part is that the packs are in a foreign language. Feels like it should be reasonable to assume you’re getting English packs unless explicitly stated otherwise on the packaging.
They are always a scam, because if they were not, they would have no reason to make them. It's a bunch of unwanted scrap potentially tacked on other sets you might want, but you pay for everything.
It's all unsold stuff that is generally as equally scammy as real product because it IS real product broken down. They get their product from Konami because they are the official distributors for North America and these are how they get rid of unsold stuff.
@@LocrianDorian not totally true. You could give $20 of value and sell it for $20 if you are able to obtain the items for less than market value/did obtain the items when they were cheaper. The margin would just be smaller.
To clean that wall off all you need is a Damp Microfiber Cloth and if you find some stubborn residue use vinegar. Or dish soap w/warm water, but I would recommend an artist to draw you a Yu-gi-oh scene.
They should have made Cyber Harpie Lady's effect in the hand, field, graveyard and banished. Everywhere but the deck. Star Packs always had 3 cards in them. Battle Packs had shatter/starfoil rares and most sets had 5 cards, except one that had 16 per pack.
Power Cubes are definitely not great value, but they can be fun for the "mystery" expect of it. Really nice Cyber Harpie Lady there, that brought back some great memories from back in the day!!
Congrats on the new place dude stoked for you!! I just got a new sectional couch lol adulting. I've always deemed the cubes a scam but I think they're great gifts
I know I have mentioned this before, the only redeeming quality the the power cubes is it lets you store your cards in, if I had a choice to pick this or retro pack, I’d rather choose retro pack. (I still can’t find these anywhere)
Congrats on the new place, i say use the chalk wall to your advantage. Use it for pack counts or drawings. We have a chalk wall for the kids and i think the best way (if it's not a solid piece/removable) is to just paint over it. As for the power cubes. What i say is that at least you get some sleeves and a case to hold some cards.
isopropyl alcohol (90% or higher) should work to clean the chalk board. fumes might bother you while cleaning it though. can always wear a respirator if thats the case.
I generally like the Mystery Power Cubes, since I collect for set completion and not value. It's nice to have some kind of randomness so I can add to my collection. I moved to Europe, though, and there aren't any Walmarts out here, so I'm Power Cube-less. Also, love the Frog archetype, so I super appreciate the Ulti Swap Frog. Played Frogs GX-era til Vrains.
There was a similar type of cube around 7-8 years ago at Target that came with a structure deck and 2-3 actual core set packs for like $15. They were a great deal and they were packed in a way where you could see what deck you were getting so you could guarantee getting good decks
I feel like the Mystery Power Cubes from a few years back were quite a bit better. I got a Kaiba Reloaded deck and a 2017 LOB pack from one, ended up being worth more than the $20 I paid, which is rare for MJ Holdings.
Im not sure if the cubes are worth it but they definitely are a decent bit of fun to open, also hope to see if you can make the chalk wall super cool with some art or something
I got one of those chaos boxes recently and it was actually full of good packs. I got POTE, Photon Hypernova, and Invasion of Chaos and no 3 card packs. Also surprised you passed on the Light of Destruction boxes. Those are thin on the ground and the Ultis are money
I miss being able to grab what I want off the shelves. My Walmart has everything behind glass now, and it can sometimes be 20 minutes before they come to let you get 1 pack, it sucks.
The power cubes are definitely bad for valve so that just means retro pack wins instantly, however they could be good for parents to buy their kids as they don’t value cards so much. The ultimate swap frog would finish my max rarity Edison deck good luck everyone.
Tbh, i really like these blocks, mostly because the Netherlands doesn’t have these cubes And i find it epic that you get a structure deck and sleeves (i really love structure decks 😅)
In my country there aren't really those Mystery cube...but also is very hard to see anything related card games on general in place like Walmart or Target. But I wouldn't really risk to buy, I usually have awful luck opening regular official packs and boxes.. The surprise Cyber harpie lady was really nice ;)
the cube sound more like a good option if you want a random deck + some cards(besides the fact that some are not in english).20 bucks for a deck + extra card sounds not so bad.
I will be that guy and say if you're just into or starting to get into booster pack collecting, the chaos boxes in particular can actually be pretty helpful since (and I am speak anecdotally here) you have a semi-decent chance of pulling a pack from an older set that your local card shop might have stopped selling a while back. I bought one the other day and I ended up getting Darkwing Blast which I haven't seen for almost 2 years out in the wild, and another one I got a few months back had the Legendary Duelists Yugi pack which is 5 years old at this point. Obvious it being a mystery box, you get what you pay for but for $18-20 when 6 packs of the latest set will run you $25+, there are far worse ways to burn the money in your pockets.
It's a scam specifically for the foreign packs. The random cards are 50/50 if it's a scam, but that depends on what they pack with them with it usually seems they're packed with whatever they can pull from other bargain bins. Worst part to me besides the foreign packs is they advertise on the back you can get something good like a Dark Magician which almost certainly is not the case. It's like those other Walmart blind boxes that advertise LOB on there or the 25th anniversary set, but it's never that (which I've seen at least 1 pack out of the 6 is also a foreign pack).
I'm passing on the cube. And you had MUCH better luck on the Retro Box than I had. I found one super, and then gave up after buying two more boxes. I did buy that two deck starter with the sixty page book. It had some good stuff in it.
I got the Traptrix structure deck out of it and I bought one for my friend(crimson king) and had a blast dueling with two decks we’d never used. I actually felt it was worth the $40 I paid for that reason.
When I first got back into collecting/playing the power cube was the first thing I bought and it had a cool secret blue eyes promo in it as well as some breakers of shadow packs and I pulled a cyber dragon infinity. Other than that one time I’ve never had any luck with them
Honestly, if let's say I'm doing a sealed challenge with an amount limit and had only these 2 to choose from then I'll definitely get the cube.😂 The cube would at least have a deck, the only cards I'll get on retro pack are reprints of 20 year old cards.😂
At $20 it's a bad buy. But if those cubes were like $10 or so, it really wouldn't be that bad. Especially for a kid, who just likes to collect and doesn't care about value.
I still don't understand why the sleeve packs are 50 count when you can run a 60 card Deck. Heck, you can't make a 40 card Deck with 15 Extra Deck if you use the same sleeves for each. Although I've heard that Konami sleeves are prone to not being good quality after a decent amount of shuffling so I just use them for Extra Decks. Also, Retro Pack always hits. One of my friends must've bought one recently because last week the guy who's always going through cards handed me some Retro Pack cards which was really cool. Got another Harpie Lady as well as the Mystic Tomato's and a Dekoichi for my GOAT Deck.
As You said, mystery/power cubes are pure scam!! ...BUT...the structure decks that some times came with used to be the Best part(only sometimes 😂) and that is to much to Say hahaha. On the other hand, man!! The retro pack mini box was amazing! 4/4 foils including that goooooorgeous cyber harpie lady, the good side of karma after the power cubes.
I think these aren't horrible only in the context of like children needing a mass of cards without having to go to a lgs that a parent may not be as open to as Walmart or such
Yeah these cubes could be better. I didn't hate the christmas edition where you get a binder and a playmat. Honestly I want the acrylic case more than the cards haha
The power cubes at my walmart had 6 random packs, no sleeves, no structure decks. Had good packs on the outside like LOB LON, etc, but the actual packs inside were random bs 😑
I'd argue the words "3 bonus packs" is better because it implies they're not a part of the price and you're getting them as an added bonus. If they said "3 packs" it would feel like that's what you're paying for, and nobody wants these Lite Edition Star Packs.
Honestly the ‘scammiest’ part is that the packs are in a foreign language. Feels like it should be reasonable to assume you’re getting English packs unless explicitly stated otherwise on the packaging.
The packs not even being the same language is actually insane.
Every MJ holdings product is always a scam lol
sometimes you gotta ignore the contents and just buy it for the acrylic box
They are always a scam, because if they were not, they would have no reason to make them. It's a bunch of unwanted scrap potentially tacked on other sets you might want, but you pay for everything.
It's all unsold stuff that is generally as equally scammy as real product because it IS real product broken down.
They get their product from Konami because they are the official distributors for North America and these are how they get rid of unsold stuff.
Thank you, came here to say this
@@LocrianDorian not totally true. You could give $20 of value and sell it for $20 if you are able to obtain the items for less than market value/did obtain the items when they were cheaper. The margin would just be smaller.
Lite Star pack foreign in any product, automatically makes that product a scam
The mystery boxes with a guaranteed graded card hit kinda hard
To clean that wall off all you need is a Damp Microfiber Cloth and if you find some stubborn residue use vinegar. Or dish soap w/warm water, but I would recommend an artist to draw you a Yu-gi-oh scene.
I am scared to stink the room up with vinegar😆😂
@@Ruxin34 I want yugioh retro pack one
The smell will only last a couple hours. Use white vinegar and not apple cider vinegar @@Ruxin34
They should have made Cyber Harpie Lady's effect in the hand, field, graveyard and banished. Everywhere but the deck.
Star Packs always had 3 cards in them. Battle Packs had shatter/starfoil rares and most sets had 5 cards, except one that had 16 per pack.
RL Power Cube draft Duel maybe? Seems fitting
Power Cubes are definitely not great value, but they can be fun for the "mystery" expect of it. Really nice Cyber Harpie Lady there, that brought back some great memories from back in the day!!
the whole Harpie lady thing drives me nuts...you can only have 3 total in your deck but you spread them across like 5 different cards
It is SO ANNOYING😂
Congrats on the new place dude stoked for you!! I just got a new sectional couch lol adulting. I've always deemed the cubes a scam but I think they're great gifts
I know I have mentioned this before, the only redeeming quality the the power cubes is it lets you store your cards in, if I had a choice to pick this or retro pack, I’d rather choose retro pack. (I still can’t find these anywhere)
Congrats on the new place, i say use the chalk wall to your advantage. Use it for pack counts or drawings. We have a chalk wall for the kids and i think the best way (if it's not a solid piece/removable) is to just paint over it.
As for the power cubes. What i say is that at least you get some sleeves and a case to hold some cards.
isopropyl alcohol (90% or higher) should work to clean the chalk board. fumes might bother you while cleaning it though. can always wear a respirator if thats the case.
The sleeves alone are always nice. Thays about all I have to say. Hahahah
I generally like the Mystery Power Cubes, since I collect for set completion and not value. It's nice to have some kind of randomness so I can add to my collection. I moved to Europe, though, and there aren't any Walmarts out here, so I'm Power Cube-less.
Also, love the Frog archetype, so I super appreciate the Ulti Swap Frog. Played Frogs GX-era til Vrains.
I buy about 3 Retro boxes per paycheck, I can’t help it the nostalgia has been too much fun!
Try a magic eraser and dampen it with a little bit of warm water on the chalkboard. I've done this to remove stains and scuff marks from walls.
I saw some new mystery boxes at Target today that I had never seen before
I like how you said you can almost make a Dino deck with just ovi, uct and fossil dig 😂
There was a similar type of cube around 7-8 years ago at Target that came with a structure deck and 2-3 actual core set packs for like $15. They were a great deal and they were packed in a way where you could see what deck you were getting so you could guarantee getting good decks
You should hire a artist to draw in the wall imo, would be nice! And those cubes should be ilegal lol 😂
Not that same single pack of black dragon shield sleeves that are on every near empty Walmart shelf 😂😂😂
I feel like the Mystery Power Cubes from a few years back were quite a bit better. I got a Kaiba Reloaded deck and a 2017 LOB pack from one, ended up being worth more than the $20 I paid, which is rare for MJ Holdings.
I feel like I'm about to get schooled by professor Ruxin with that chalk wall
Im not sure if the cubes are worth it but they definitely are a decent bit of fun to open, also hope to see if you can make the chalk wall super cool with some art or something
The best way to get chalk off of a chalk board would be dish soap and warm water. Also good luck in the giveaway everyone!
Remind me every year Team APS duel using mistery box and power cube 😂😂😂
Every time I go to that Walmart and there are barely any Yugioh cards, I think to myself “Ruxin has raided the good stuff” haha
Thank you Ruxin for not letting me waste my money on these cubes 😂😂😂
I got one of those chaos boxes recently and it was actually full of good packs. I got POTE, Photon Hypernova, and Invasion of Chaos and no 3 card packs. Also surprised you passed on the Light of Destruction boxes. Those are thin on the ground and the Ultis are money
Keep up the great content Rux!
These walmart videos are kinda fun 😄
I got Italian singles in mine!! 🤣🤣
We love you Ruxin!
I like to use the plastic box to store rares ! 😅 it’s nice to have a see thru box
Hoping that everything is going fine with your move 😊 is this your final new setup?
I miss being able to grab what I want off the shelves. My Walmart has everything behind glass now, and it can sometimes be 20 minutes before they come to let you get 1 pack, it sucks.
Ruxin in light mode with the lighting in this video
I always cleaned chalkboards the same as I did windows: using a squeegee
I’ve never wanted to win a giveaway more than this one !!!
I never find any of this stuff at my Walmart
same
? but he is giving away a swap frog
@@EduardoDiaz-zy8mo an ULTI swap frog
I’m a big fan of spright and frog spright
The power cubes are definitely bad for valve so that just means retro pack wins instantly, however they could be good for parents to buy their kids as they don’t value cards so much. The ultimate swap frog would finish my max rarity Edison deck good luck everyone.
instead of cleaning the chalk wall, I vote you draw Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards all over it
Heck of a Retro Pack mini box! the only thing the cubes are good for is storage. I use them sometimes when I'm sorting through cards.
Tbh, i really like these blocks, mostly because the Netherlands doesn’t have these cubes
And i find it epic that you get a structure deck and sleeves (i really love structure decks 😅)
Gotta love the business spending write-offs and tax write-offs for crappy cards
bro was sent to the shadow realm and was allowed to bring some of his things.
In my country there aren't really those Mystery cube...but also is very hard to see anything related card games on general in place like Walmart or Target. But I wouldn't really risk to buy, I usually have awful luck opening regular official packs and boxes.. The surprise Cyber harpie lady was really nice ;)
Definitely a scam as the last couple of years of power boxes. Here in Italy, you can find star packs at less than 1€ 😂
the cube sound more like a good option if you want a random deck + some cards(besides the fact that some are not in english).20 bucks for a deck + extra card sounds not so bad.
You know Allen?
THEY TOOK HIS DOG!
Cyber Harpie was my grail out of this set and I never pulled it 😭 atleast I finally got to see it get pulled
These power cubes are clearly a scam. However this would work as a random gift to a kid. It does have a bit of everything
Makes me regret not picking up the only retro box i saw today searching from Prismatic 😢😂
I would give these cube a 6 out of 10 because in a previous one I got had the machine revolt structure deck in it
Cyber Harpie Lady just destroy those curse cubes. Also I never see these in any of the Walmarts in a 50-mile radius.
Heart of the Pack probably bought them all.
I remember my grandma buying me stuff like this when I was a kid and didn’t know it was a scam..
I will be that guy and say if you're just into or starting to get into booster pack collecting, the chaos boxes in particular can actually be pretty helpful since (and I am speak anecdotally here) you have a semi-decent chance of pulling a pack from an older set that your local card shop might have stopped selling a while back.
I bought one the other day and I ended up getting Darkwing Blast which I haven't seen for almost 2 years out in the wild, and another one I got a few months back had the Legendary Duelists Yugi pack which is 5 years old at this point. Obvious it being a mystery box, you get what you pay for but for $18-20 when 6 packs of the latest set will run you $25+, there are far worse ways to burn the money in your pockets.
It's a scam specifically for the foreign packs. The random cards are 50/50 if it's a scam, but that depends on what they pack with them with it usually seems they're packed with whatever they can pull from other bargain bins.
Worst part to me besides the foreign packs is they advertise on the back you can get something good like a Dark Magician which almost certainly is not the case. It's like those other Walmart blind boxes that advertise LOB on there or the 25th anniversary set, but it's never that (which I've seen at least 1 pack out of the 6 is also a foreign pack).
I'm passing on the cube. And you had MUCH better luck on the Retro Box than I had. I found one super, and then gave up after buying two more boxes. I did buy that two deck starter with the sixty page book. It had some good stuff in it.
A foreign language booster pack in a mystery box is such a middle finger 😂 although usable who would actually use them?
I’ve only had a few of these did get a sye 1st edition black luster soldier out one though
Gotta get the ones in target now. Its doesnt even tell you what sets they come in
5:50 native language
I did get myself one of this cubes the other day but I just you it as an extra storage for my cards
I got the Traptrix structure deck out of it and I bought one for my friend(crimson king) and had a blast dueling with two decks we’d never used. I actually felt it was worth the $40 I paid for that reason.
I love this type of content!
When do you not get foreign pack.
The old sets always win on the fun of the openings
When I first got back into collecting/playing the power cube was the first thing I bought and it had a cool secret blue eyes promo in it as well as some breakers of shadow packs and I pulled a cyber dragon infinity. Other than that one time I’ve never had any luck with them
Retro Pack for sure! Nostalgia > everything else
We don't have any of these boxes in Germany. Who makes them anyway? Are they like official Konami products?
Honestly, if let's say I'm doing a sealed challenge with an amount limit and had only these 2 to choose from then I'll definitely get the cube.😂
The cube would at least have a deck, the only cards I'll get on retro pack are reprints of 20 year old cards.😂
Thank you for your service
Shut out to Magia for getting this man a new house. Can't wait for the next "card search" so he can get another house.
At $20 it's a bad buy. But if those cubes were like $10 or so, it really wouldn't be that bad. Especially for a kid, who just likes to collect and doesn't care about value.
the Wal-Mart cubes are always a scam when it comes to packs
The cubes are awful, I’d rather have the chaos boxes. At my local Meijer store there’s always full shelves of the cubes, no one buys them lol
Starter Deck and the cards are not bad but 20dolars for 3 packs that are in Italian is just a robbery :o
Hope you draw on that board something like your logo or some sick yugioh monster, would make for nice decoration.
Put a humidifier next to your bed when you sleep it will help with your cough
Honestly shocked this is allowed after UDE got done in for printing 'fake' cards.
I'm probably going to pick up the cube because of the starter deck and the sleeves and i get a cool little cube put something in lol
These cubes suck even worse than the previous ones XD At least the older ones had reprints of the old school packs.
I still don't understand why the sleeve packs are 50 count when you can run a 60 card Deck. Heck, you can't make a 40 card Deck with 15 Extra Deck if you use the same sleeves for each.
Although I've heard that Konami sleeves are prone to not being good quality after a decent amount of shuffling so I just use them for Extra Decks.
Also, Retro Pack always hits. One of my friends must've bought one recently because last week the guy who's always going through cards handed me some Retro Pack cards which was really cool. Got another Harpie Lady as well as the Mystic Tomato's and a Dekoichi for my GOAT Deck.
I’ve had decent luck with these in the past but it’s because of luck lol
Ruxin the big is named jimminy cricket. The conductor big. Your welcome. Also lightning conger is my petit moth
They really keep making these cubes worst and worst lol
yeah they were $20 basically. They had 2022 Tins for $15 at my Walmart. Also wouldn't ever say no to a Charmers deck
As You said, mystery/power cubes are pure scam!! ...BUT...the structure decks that some times came with used to be the Best part(only sometimes 😂) and that is to much to Say hahaha. On the other hand, man!! The retro pack mini box was amazing! 4/4 foils including that goooooorgeous cyber harpie lady, the good side of karma after the power cubes.
I think these aren't horrible only in the context of like children needing a mass of cards without having to go to a lgs that a parent may not be as open to as Walmart or such
I was on board for a second, but seeing star packs is a killer. That plus the deck being out of the box kinda sucks as well.
Solid Albaz structure deck, but the star packs 😫
Star Pack Arc-V turns 10 this year. How do they still have packs???
Yeah these cubes could be better. I didn't hate the christmas edition where you get a binder and a playmat. Honestly I want the acrylic case more than the cards haha
i’m amazed your local walmart even carries yugioh, we have nothing in upstate ny
@6:37 you're talking about the circus ringleader from Bugs Life
Cyber Harpie lady pulled 🎉
The power cubes at my walmart had 6 random packs, no sleeves, no structure decks. Had good packs on the outside like LOB LON, etc, but the actual packs inside were random bs 😑
Yeah the cubes specifically are usually not a good product, here’s to hoping these are better though!
I'd argue the words "3 bonus packs" is better because it implies they're not a part of the price and you're getting them as an added bonus. If they said "3 packs" it would feel like that's what you're paying for, and nobody wants these Lite Edition Star Packs.