11:28 pointing at the screen, that's me, Gary! I said that! I made his videos just a little bit better! it is endlessly funny to me how Digimon prices and your awareness of the market work, such that your biggest pull is the promo you discarded almost immediately and instead you're getting hype over 5 dollar alt arts. Raremon is such an odd case because it's only distributed via these promo packs in this one set, so it's hard as hell to get, and it does the thing purple decks absolutely love to do, which is draw deep and discard fast, while also giving black access to it. Any black level 3 can pay 3 to evolve into this gloppy bastard and escalate your plans. So a ton of purple and black decks want it just to smooth out their hand but so few people have ready access to it, so high demand low supply, bingo bango 40 dollar card. Also I believe that when you're pronouncing a Chinese name like Zhuqiaomon, the "qi" is pronounced like "chi", so it's closer to "zhoo chi-ow mon" or "zhoo chow mon". And finally, Dianamon's red/fire/sun counterpart is Apollomon, who I think you even pulled in this box and have certainly pulled in the past. Seems like a really good box you got! I always love seeing you crack Digimon packs.
Hah, yes that bit of trivia was indeed from you! I guess that's the beauty of not recording these super far ahead of time like I do with my Let's Plays. Yeah, it does surprise me sometimes how valuable the promos can be. I just never expect them to be half the price of the box! To me though, it's not always about how much the cards are worth, but rather how much of a pain it will be to track them down if I don't open them myself. I know full well that MetalEtemon isn't worth much, but that doesn't matter if stores simply don't have it! Having said that, even without my $5 chase card, this was pretty much the best box of this set I could have asked for. I've been on a bit of a roll lately with Digimon!
@@CommodoreCards I hope you see you build an Etemon deck and post a deck profile for it with how much you've been talking up Etemon every time you pull him! I mean hell there are some pretty solid Sukamon/Etemon lists you could look out there for inspiration. While that deck isn't quite the terror Numemon is (and it is fucking WILD and annoying that I am comparing the power of Sukamon and Numamon over any other Digimon), I think you could have a lot of fun with it!
That proto, this box was extremely luck! i may need to buy a box for old times sake, great video
Thanks! Yeah, this was a sweet box. It really doesn't get much better with this set. Unless I got that alt-art MetalEtemon, of course!
Very nice!
Thank you very much!
11:28 pointing at the screen, that's me, Gary! I said that! I made his videos just a little bit better!
it is endlessly funny to me how Digimon prices and your awareness of the market work, such that your biggest pull is the promo you discarded almost immediately and instead you're getting hype over 5 dollar alt arts. Raremon is such an odd case because it's only distributed via these promo packs in this one set, so it's hard as hell to get, and it does the thing purple decks absolutely love to do, which is draw deep and discard fast, while also giving black access to it. Any black level 3 can pay 3 to evolve into this gloppy bastard and escalate your plans. So a ton of purple and black decks want it just to smooth out their hand but so few people have ready access to it, so high demand low supply, bingo bango 40 dollar card.
Also I believe that when you're pronouncing a Chinese name like Zhuqiaomon, the "qi" is pronounced like "chi", so it's closer to "zhoo chi-ow mon" or "zhoo chow mon". And finally, Dianamon's red/fire/sun counterpart is Apollomon, who I think you even pulled in this box and have certainly pulled in the past. Seems like a really good box you got! I always love seeing you crack Digimon packs.
Hah, yes that bit of trivia was indeed from you! I guess that's the beauty of not recording these super far ahead of time like I do with my Let's Plays.
Yeah, it does surprise me sometimes how valuable the promos can be. I just never expect them to be half the price of the box! To me though, it's not always about how much the cards are worth, but rather how much of a pain it will be to track them down if I don't open them myself. I know full well that MetalEtemon isn't worth much, but that doesn't matter if stores simply don't have it!
Having said that, even without my $5 chase card, this was pretty much the best box of this set I could have asked for. I've been on a bit of a roll lately with Digimon!
@@CommodoreCards I hope you see you build an Etemon deck and post a deck profile for it with how much you've been talking up Etemon every time you pull him! I mean hell there are some pretty solid Sukamon/Etemon lists you could look out there for inspiration. While that deck isn't quite the terror Numemon is (and it is fucking WILD and annoying that I am comparing the power of Sukamon and Numamon over any other Digimon), I think you could have a lot of fun with it!
@@StarkMaximum Oh for sure, some day I'd like to do that. Etemon and Machinedramon are the two decks I'd build if I ever got around to it.