 Today, we're going through my top five pickups of 2022, and one of them just arrived. What's up, guys? We're back with another epic video. In this video, we have my biggest pickup 2022. I technically traded for this in 2022, even though it's 2023 now. This, you'll see later, but we're gonna open it up, unbox it, if you will, later on in the video. And I have a few other awesome cards that I picked up this year and wanted to share with you guys. Before we hop into it, I have a giveaway. I'll be giving away a PSA slab of a Red Eyes, Black Dragon, Korean Reprint. That's a Jim Minton. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications. Let me know your favorite of my five pickups this year, and let me know your favorite pickup that you got this year. All right, so the reason that I wanted to do this video is there is a card that I have not shown anyone, I don't think, for the most part, on YouTube that I've picked up. Then we have the new one that I've picked up, so there's a couple cards you guys have not seen on my channel at all, so I wanted to share those. And then a few other ones you have seen, but they're some of my favorites so I wanted to mention them. I do have an honorable mention because I found a couple of cards while I was looking around, so I wanted to share them with you guys. And then the other day, go follow me on Twitch if you guys want to see my streams. I'm doing three streams a week for the entire year of 2023, so it's gonna be a lot of streams. Go check it out, we're doing a lot of fun stuff like TCG openings, you know, gameplay, and stuff like that. So go check it out if you want to see that. The other day, we were going through SEMO's top 30 cards, he may have posted a video the other day, and he reminded me of this card. So this is an honorable mention card. SEMO himself gifted me this Ultimate Rare Genzo, which I don't remember, I think we might have opened it up on the channel when I first got it, but since then I haven't really talked about it. My favorite cards that I own, really cool. It's one of my favorite pickups of the year for sure. This is the only raw card. Some of them I graded and some of them I actually bought or traded for. This is one that I was gifted. So this is the only card that I was actually given. So it's a very, very cool Genzo Ultimate Rare. OCG Ulties are just awesome. So I wanted to throw this in here since I was reminded of it the other day. Then another honorable mention. This one I just saw as I was going through my cards. We graded this card this year the last way from another planet. One of the main cards I went from Lab at the Nightmare and I tried to collect like all the main cards I went from certain sets. And this was one of the last ones I needed for Lab at the Nightmare because I already have Mass Beast. I already had a Dark Necro Fear and stuff like that. So getting this one was huge. I don't actually have the Gemini Elf. So I'd like to pull or pick that one up at some point. Okay, now we can get into our top five. There's been some pretty good ones but this one has a pretty nice story because we actually pulled this one. This is the Starlight Blue Eyes White Dragon. We got this in a live stream. Let's just flash back to the moment right now. Know that you need to order. Well done. You gotta have cheese. All you have to do is slander in and out and look what happens, guys. The Blue Eyes White Dragon. Super rare card. The highest attack and defense card. Too difficult to get. One of the most epic flavor texts of all time. Blue Eyes White Dragon. If we get a 10 here, this is an awesome submission. Come on, please. Animation Chronicles. Blue Eyes. Do it. PSA 10. Here we go. Yes! What a way to end this submission. Blue Eyes White Dragon. PSA 10 to go along with the Genzo. So we searched for this card out of a bunch of OCG boxes. We actually pulled it and then we graded a PSA 10. So this was really awesome. And the first Starlight Blue Eyes White Dragon that they've made so far. And I'm hoping they do that in English coming up soon. I could see this happening this year. Maybe it's gonna be next year. I don't know. Eventually, this is gonna happen in English. You're like, hey, this is in English. Yeah, but this came in an OCG set and had English texts, but just read it. Some of the best texts ever. Super rare card. The highest attack and defense card. Too difficult to get. It is too difficult, but yet we were able to get it and graded a 10. So this is my number five favorite pickup of the year, the Prismatic Blue Eyes White Dragon. And while we're on number five, I wanna mention all the other cards we struggled to pull, like we did a bunch of live streams, like the DPE Starlight. That was very difficult. We opened like seven cases. Then the scapegoat took like, what seven more cases of that? And that was supposed to be easier to pull. Then of course the Ghost Rare Red Eyes and all that crazy stuff that we opened. A ton, we never pulled the left arm, but I think by the time we see this, we might have done the live stream and tried to pull it again. We'll see. Maybe it'll be tomorrow from when you see this or the next day. So we're gonna be trying to open that left arm soon, live on YouTube, so go check it out. That's number five and some honorable mentions in there as well. Then at number four, we have the Ancient Gear Golem. Ultimate Rare PSA 10. We graded this in a recent video. This is a card that I've been trying to grade and get as a PSA 10 for several years. So I actually graded two in the same submission, which was crazy. I'm selling one of them, so available for sale, but I only need really one copy. But this card I've been looking for for a long time. I once had all the Ultra Ultis out of the Lost Millennium and I didn't have this one and I kept trying, kept getting nines. And I finally graded this. So this was just a really big pickup and nice addition to the collection. I'm really excited to have it. The Ultimate Rare Ancient Gear Golem from Yu-Gi-Oh GX, which is really awesome. So number four had to be that, but those are those pale in comparison to the top three. The top three are insane. At number three, we have one. You guys have already seen this. You saw when I picked it up, but I wanted to just share it again. The Minerva, the Exalted Lightsworn. This is the super rare prize card that we traded for at Nationals in Chicago. We gave up like $3,500 worth of cards for it. We're getting a super rare Minerva for. You want to show us what all you just took from me? Oh, I got a few things here. I got a Morphosis. Oh my goodness. Unplug. Turbo pack, super rare. Breaker first edition from Magicians Force. Ultimate Rare first edition. Soup, one of those things. All deck devastation virus. A couple of Spirit Reapers from Champion Pack. Snapshot, all of that for one card. Pretty sick, pretty sick. Been a pleasure. We just got the super rare Minerva. We traded half of our binder to get it, but honestly, worth it. That was pretty sick. Pretty nice condition on this card for sure. And yeah, it's just so cool because being a prize card, even though there are a lot of these super rare's out there, compared to something from like a main set, like even these cards is, you know, there's just a lot more of those compared to this. It is still really hard to get these cards. If you get the ultra rare's, it's just on another level. It's like 10x the price of the super rare's. But I'm starting with the super rare's when it comes to my prize cards. I'm really excited I've picked this up. I just think this is a really cool card because one, it's iconic for like, people were actually playing this card when it came up. The lightsworns were really, really good at the time. So it was getting used. People were playing like crease copies and stuff like that. So some of them are actually like game worn and used. So that's actually a good thing when it comes to the collectibility. Because if you have a nice copy, it's a lot harder to find. So pretty excited about this card. Pretty awesome. I don't know if I'm ever gonna get rid of this one. I'm just excited to have picked it up this year. All right, number two is one that I have never shown. So we're actually gonna do it like this. So it's a BGS graded card. I did not grade this card myself. I just bought it straight up. This is the only one of these that I actually bought straight up. And you can see it as a gold label. If you don't know a lot about BGS, we don't do a ton of BGS on this channel. I do have a BGS return coming soon though, which is gonna be pretty fun. This means that it's gonna be like a 9.5 or a 10, I believe I think a nine or below is silver. No, nine is silver and then like 8.5 maybe silver. And then it's like white label. And then there's a black label of course, the iconic black label that has all the 10 sub grades. So this I can tell you right now is a quad 9.5. They're five 9.5 sub grades. It's a strong 9.5. This is a pretty cool card. Here are you guys ready to see this? Here we go. It is a dark in dragon 9.5 Jimmint. Not 10, Jimmint 9.5. All the sub grades are 9.5. Shonen Jump prize card. The last one made by Shonen Jump. This is by far the most common of all the Shonen Jump prize cards. But even then it is an insane awesome card to have picked up. And then it being a 9.5 condition even though I'm not a huge Beckett guy but not gonna lie this card actually looks pretty nice in this slab. I think it actually fits pretty well. And it's just an iconic card. This one I think I spent $2,500. So it was actually cheaper than I traded like value of 3,500 for that. So trade value is usually a little bit more or whatever but this actually costs less being graded. And I thought it was a great deal because there was a raw one for like 2,400. And I was like, yeah, I'll take the graded one for sure. That's pretty awesome. Sometimes the graded doesn't matter as much with the prize cards because there's so few of them. The thing about graded for populated cards is there's like thousands and thousands of them out there but there's only like maybe a hundred of them graded 10. So it kind of like makes them more rare. But for this is they're already rare to begin with. So then if they're graded high it can make it even more or it can not matter that much. So I just thought it was a cool grade to have a 9.5 quad because that's just a strong grade at BGS. It's really hard to get that. And then there's crazy cards. So I really wanted to share it. Excited at own at SJC prize card. I'd love to have more at some point but they're crazy expensive to pick up the other ones. So eventually I would like to have all of them but maybe one day, maybe when I'm like 50, we'll have done it. And the final card that we have, it is sealed up. I made a trade for this card. This kind of video is actually reminding me of like my 2019 style of where I used to like kind of just show off cards and maybe like unbox some mail and stuff like that. We don't do that as much anymore. If you guys want to see more of this, let me know. I could maybe do it in the future of the channel but I think this is a special episode because some of these cards are big time and this is a card that I've wanted for a long time. Like since I got back in New York and I've not gotten it. So we're gonna open this up for you guys. I think it's the right package because we did that TCG player video. Go check that out where Twitch stat spent $1,000 of TCG player. We ordered like 78 cards. So I'm getting so many packages. Like I was gonna say thousands, not that many but like a hundred packages are just showing up all the time. So I hope I didn't mix this one up but I'm pretty sure this is the right one. Let's see if we can pull it out. Okay, let's do that. We don't wanna spoil it. You might have seen it, I don't know. But it is a Grady card, of course. Let's pull this out. It is a PSA Graded card. This card I've looked for for a long time. I haven't actually seen it in person yet because we just opened it on the video, of course. Let's see how it looks. It's a pretty new grade, 65 million is not that long ago. I think they're like in 70 million right now. So it's definitely this year. Are you guys ready to see this? I'm ready to see it because I haven't seen it yet. Let's just show it. Exodia, the Forbidden One First Edition PSA 10. Yes, I have, I own this card because I actually pulled one of these with Rhyme Style but I have never had a PSA 10 version. So this is really, really exciting. It's a glossy print if you look at the surface. It is not a wavy print. There's both wavy and glossy, they're two different ones. But the sintering on this, I saw the picture is not fantastic but it's not too bad. It actually looks better in person than when I saw it on the picture. I'm not super nitpicky about my 10s having perfect sintering. I just wanted it to be a PSA 10 which this I traded that Genzo I graded the other day in a PSA return video. Traded it to my friend, Gezi. He had this for sale. We were asking the same price. He was asking like $5,000 for this. I had a Genzo up for sale for 5,000. I said, hey, you want this exo, or you will you trade me that exodia I'll give you my Genzo. And he's like, yes, just throwing a few comments because he's a big common guy. So throwing a bunch of comments I had and we made this trade. I'm super excited for this because not only do we have this now but we also have the right legs. So we are two for five. I know when that's not that close but the head is one of the big ones. The left side is also very difficult to find. So eventually I'm going to need the left leg, left arm and the right arm to complete this set. But just picking this guy up by himself. You don't even need the whole set with the exodia head. It is an amazing looking card. So that is my number one pickup of 2022. I think it's been a pretty good year. I've definitely, like I picked up a lot of cards but I usually move a lot of them. Like I sell them, I trade them and stuff like that. There's a few specific cards. I try to pick up a few high end cards a year. We did a great job this year by picking up all of these guys. We had two prize cards. We had a Legend of Blue Eyes first edition. We had an Ultimate Rare from GX. Then we had a new card, a Starlight Blue Eyes by Dragon. Pretty amazing variety. A pretty awesome year in 2022 for a multiple reasons but the pickups were great. Let me know in the comments your favorite pickup that I got and the one that you got this year. And if you enjoyed the video make sure to subscribe to the channel. Shout out to Toenfo Show, Dax or Tomato Juice, JT Show, TCG Shrestha Cards, Puffins of Doom, Ernesto D'Anda, Dizzy, Flexi Boy, Hoppus, Choice 3-3-3, Miss Cycle, James Jance, Frankie Martinez, An Unitai Show, Christopher Ward, Ian Musa, Junior Barting, Mike Nance, Mimegeko, Shadowfall and Thomas McLean. Thank you guys for supporting the channel. I'll see you guys in the next one. 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