 In today's video we find out if my $1,000 TCG investment was not completely terrible? Maybe? Hopefully? One year and about nine months ago I invested $1,000 into TCG player Yu-Gi-Oh cards. I had dreams of grandeur. I thought one day this $1,000 will turn into $10,000, $100,000, a million. But that has not been the case. The first year not only did we not make money, we didn't even break even. We lost money. And so in year two I decided I'm putting another $1,000 into Yu-Gi-Oh cards because that's what you do with investment. You just keep putting money in, right? Well it's been better this year. It has been better. Well at least it was on the last check-in and we're about to find out if that continued because the first year we lost a couple hundred bucks. It was not good and it's been getting worse and worse every time I've checked. Now we're going to see if it's gotten better. Before we get into it we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away a $50 TCG player gift card. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications. Let me know down below what you want to see me invest in in 2024 and what our best and worst investments are from this year. So as you can see we have our year one spreadsheet and we had lost $164 at the end of last year. Last time we checked in we had lost about 339. So I should have sold these a long time ago. It's just gotten worse and worse and worse the first check-in. We had made money then we had lost a little bit then we lost even more then we had lost way more. So keep this in mind and when you're thinking about investing in cards whether or not I mean you might choose better ones than I did but it's been pretty rough. So let's get on with the check-in. We've got Ultimate River Blue Eyes by Dragon. You guys have seen these cards before let's get to them. All right so we have a first ed lightly played. We've explained a million times but it was not supposed to be lightly played. We invested in it. It's $5.67. It's been about the same for a long time so it's actually a little bit lower. We lost $20 total since it first started. So that's pretty rough and 78% of our value. So it's been pretty bad. We even went down since last time. Let's check on the unlimited. The unlimited I don't expect too much. Let's just click that off. It is near mint but I'm not yeah 354. So hey look look at that. Since last time we've gained 19 cents. Not bad. Not bad. Overall we've lost about 55% of our money. Not great. Let's go to Silent Swordsman level 5. This is one another one that should have been near mint but I should have known buying Flaming Eternity. There was no way I was getting a near mint card buying on TCG but it doesn't matter where you buy these from. They're almost impossible to get near mint. So 35.94. I mean there's only one listed at that so it might be go up to 40 soon but 35.94 it's gone damn and it was 40 last time so not looking too good there. For a number 17 Leviathan Dragon all this thing has been an absolute home run. Every time we check on it we have made massive money and I'm sure when they reprint this thing just like they did with the Astral it's going to do great. Oh my gosh it's even worse. How is it even worse? It's 33.85. Oh this was the absolute worst investment. Oh my goodness I paid 110 dollars for this car. Literally I've lost 70% of my money. Oh guys please please don't invest in new Yu-Gi-Oh cards. When I first started this they were not reprinting everything all the time but at this point with the 25th anniversary star lights and everything there is no chance anything is holding up from the new stuff so I would not buy those expecting those to go up in a very very very very very long time because we've almost hit two years and guess what happens after two years you lose 70%, 59%, 55%, 78%. Good investment? No. All right lightning storm uh which does this doesn't have a 25th anniversary yet does it somehow so when this gets a 25th anniversary I'm going to be even more angry. All right yeah oh my gosh this is disgusting. Did it not get a 25th anniversary because that's what it feels like right there maybe this card just not usable anymore. $123 my goodness we are getting annihilated on this $298.41 it's $123 we've lost $175 in this card so if you're buying new cards you're not playing with them you just need to sell them that's just how it goes if you start collecting these things what's gonna happen this this is what's gonna happen so be ready for it if you pay 300 for a lightning storm just sell it right away do not hold on to it you'll lose 59% of your money this is going to be the worst episode yet solid warning unlimited okay this this one's probably fine I mean it probably hasn't gotten down that much I would say I think I paid like 70 for this near-mid unlimited $4173 it's still down somehow I mean to be fair all cards are down so that there's that to consider but we're still down $28 on that card it's an unlimited one so it's not crazy Evil Hero Dusty Gold yeah this this one is a crap shoot it was a really this was a bad choice did they have the legendary duelist seasons yet or whatever because if I had known about those those absolutely destroy value out of legendary duelists so I don't recommend investing in anything legendary duelist it's pretty rough I mean I've lost 90% of my money on a $12.99 purchase is $1.46 now and that's gonna happen every time you do legendary duelist because if you buy the original they're just gonna reprint it and they reprint it in secret rare like the same rarity so it's the exact same card actually I say that I don't think it was a secret but they do reprint it immediately so like a year later so it's gonna get crushed Stratos Ulti has been one of our best like of all time and it's probably gonna be one of our best investments just because elemental heroes and stuff it is down but look at this look at that recovery we've come back a little bit recently you love to see it $1.23.68 so it's down but it is not ridiculously down okay so we're down about 26 bucks 18% I mean that's like that just looks like a normal investment like okay 18% is a lot still for but compared to everything else is not too bad we got a flare metal dragon come on flare metal I mean you're at least a ghost rare I mean maybe I don't think it's had a reprint or anything okay near mint first edition we have $90 that's definitely lower I think yeah I paid 140 oh my gosh even that's down all right now the deck this is actually the deck has been the most consistent because nobody sells these so that helps that there's just no sales data oh so what oh limitless I think they did I think this was on here last time why limitless 92 94 no they've lowered it oh this is so sad look at this 45% of our money gone $551 we're down another 110 in the last three months this is only the first thing we haven't even gotten a year well I mean actually it's probably worse this is your one we haven't gotten a year or two yet oh it's so sad okay time to run through year two last time we had lost and we had actually made money last time so let's see if that keeps up uh I'm not feeling too good after the last one sky striker we have a 45 cent card we bought three of these so it is $1.35 for all three wow we are getting destroyed on these okay dark arm dragon ghost rare up next 3698 okay we're down another 15% on that one colossal fighter ulti this is what I saw house of champ shared this on his twitter the other day or x or whatever you want to call it these days and it has gone way up I think we paid okay we paid 88 so I think that we're actually gonna be okay on this one let's see yeah look at this oh thank you Edison format shout out to e3 and all the Edison people out there you guys are really saving my investment year 1668 also best format out there let's not let's not lie to ourselves go format guys I'm sorry okay that that was a game changer I'll have justice catastrophe that's another one that's Edison stuff I don't know if it's gonna be that good all right near minute we're looking at 94.99 that's not bad 94.99 I should have I should have just done an Edison investment and I would have been fine I would have been killing it right now ash blossom we have six of these I think these are down lost I saw okay 10 of the pharaoh gods we have 735 times 6 okay 44.1 so we lost 26% not great I mean it's not the worst ever but it's actually up a little bit from last time so that could be the trend if ash doesn't get another reprint soon this is a really pretty card so maybe it could make its way back to that 60 we paid for him pot of desires ulti okay I don't think this one's done anything recently but could have missed it yeah it hasn't looked at that downgrade on the way by 41.49 ouch that's not good at all guys losing 25% on that one trap check trap hole we did sell these yeah 292.26 so that's locked in glad I sold those because that was a 68 increase when I sold them all together so very solid all right tune black cluster soldier I don't I haven't really checked on this one but I'm not feeling that crazy it's just these new cards just are really destroying me next year we are not touching new cards okay remind me that next year okay 649 even though this year it was not my choice and you guys actually did better than me in this uh the twitch chat did it on when we were live and it's been much better than when I did it instant fusion this is what this was a meme man I didn't want to I didn't want to invest in this one they made me and it's bad it's bad it's bad we're losing so much on this one okay Spanish 7175 that's way less than what we paid $121 we're getting destroyed on that one night beam our favorite card night beam I think we bought 10 of these this one was doing good until the reprint recently 1267 I think it's still up but 13 of these 1267 yeah it's just time 10 is easy but I like to have it in there okay up 19% they get a speed dual reprint so that could have I think I did lower the price a little bit because last time it was at 130 not too much just a little bit back to the ultimate rare all right 2995 wait okay we only lost a little bit on this one it's basically the same price essentially there's like I mean 55 cent difference is not really a difference uh yazi now okay that's pretty good can we go back to back with decent ones not destroying us $20 and 95 cents feels low it's not that much lower though it's only $2 and 94 cents okay rescue rabbit secret rare the original print of rescue rabbit did have a cr since then I think so well maybe not since then but we went for the foe this is not looking good on that preview 1799 okay it's not it's not bad bad but it's not good it's kind of how all these are rising energy so last time we were making a little bit this time we're kind of just giving it all back we're not making a ton rising energy we had a few I remember we had one like returned and stuff 732 still up there two of these okay we're definitely down definitely down a decent a bit on those fiber jar well we have to put zero on that one because uh you know you guys know what happened with the fiber jar obviously we uh returned that one anything on the surface actually looks pretty good surprisingly droll and lock bird rare last time this one was actually balling out let's see if it is just the regular rare from the tactical map oh look at this oh this is our big hit 475 that's our big hit for this one we bought we should have about 23 these are the stupid gate guardian 475 times 3 we made back 12 we're making 900 percent we paid we paid nothing for these wow we paid $1.40 for three of them yeah they were like 40 cents at the time because they were basically commons in that set so they were everywhere for a time now they're up to how much per card 475 almost a 1000 percent increase that's the one to get excited about I mean we only made $13 off of it so we really needed to buy like hundreds of those for it to be worth it but still that's pretty amazing penny stones right there all right time for our anti penny stones we have the gate guardian this was this was the chat's fault I definitely would not have bought this not that I'm like a genius at this obviously I kind of suck but I definitely would not have bought this it we paid like $5 a piece on these the 80 cents minimum we lost 82% of our money that's so bad okay the battle fader I've actually this one was way up last time because it got bought out or something and I posted I couldn't sell it so and it's also lightly played I realized so I tried to sell it for the gain we didn't actually get to sell it so let's see if I lost all that potential right there I mean I posted it for the lowest price and it just wasn't selling it was based on a buyout so okay $69 is still higher than what we paid so $69 unlimited I mean if I sell it it's going to be a lightly played so it's going to be like 46 but that's still up if somebody wants to buy my battle fader and beat you know help me out in the video hit me up I got an ultimate rare and finally we have 14 unlimited petite moss let's see what they're doing petite moth if these look I honestly just want to do a buyout of these just for like a meme but then also it would help our help our spreadsheet a little bit you know look a little better okay metal raiders 25 cents that's way lower come on how is the moth getting disrespected like this okay we lost another 60% of our money there ouch all right so overall we made 5% that's not bad I mean honestly we locked in some of it with the trap tricks trap hole nightmare but thanks to stuff like the battle fader still being up we did really well in the drill and lock birds I mean they're not making a huge difference we did pretty well with the what is this night beam night beam still balling out yeah then we got a couple here with the uh the two Edison cards are really carrying us so honestly there's a few cards that I'm really happy we invested in there's a bunch that I'm I'm not happy I didn't have a choice on any of them so good job chat and also terrible job on some of them but I'm honestly surprised we have not actually lost money and if we sold them we'd have all the costs and stuff so we didn't have losing a little bit but this is honestly surprising that it's holding up this well compared to 2022 which was an absolute nightmare you guys just saw shout out to tome foe show dax or tomato juice puffs of doom or nesto dn america doister supreme stage 21 cj and then a tie show in moose jr barney robert f and thomas mclean thank you guys for supporting the channel i'll see you guys in the next video peace