 Spent a thousand dollars on a meta deck. Oh, what have I done? What's up guys? We're back with another epic video Yeah, I did it. I spent a thousand dollars on a meta blue eyes white dragon deck And as you guys know if you play meta blue eyes isn't the best deck ever But naturally since I'm an old-school person. I like the old stuff You got to go blue eyes right dark magician blue eyes something like that And I figured that would be my interest in a meta So I saw a team Samurais video a few weeks ago. He made a blue eyes deck and I said I kind of like this deck I play blue eyes on dual links. I know what most of these cards do so I don't have to figure out too much So it should be a good starting place. So I kind of dug myself a hole. I'll buy the cheap stuff I'll just buy the commons the rares. I don't need anything expensive It was a deep dark hole guys So I'm gonna show you guys some stuff that I have that came in I kept we're gonna kind of review the conditions I bought everything on TCG player actually, so I don't buy a lot on TCG player I sell on TCG player, but I don't buy much so we're gonna see what are the conditions look like You know is near mint near mint the same as I would sell near mint is it better or is it worse? I'm sure there's gonna be a variance because I bought from tons of different sellers So I think it should be pretty fun to check out in this video We're mostly just gonna be rating TCG player to be honest. It's gonna be interesting. We do have a giveaway for this video It's actually a pretty nice one. This is a pretty nice obnoxious Celtic guardian secret rare from the 2004 10 All you got to do like this video be subscribed. Let me know your experiences with TCG player Do you buy on TCG player? Do you not do you hate them? Do you think they're really awesome? Do you have certain sellers you like certain you don't whatever let me know in the comments And let's get into the conditions and all the the cards that we bought This is gonna be in a weird order because I've recorded this sometimes I recorded with a face cam Sometimes I didn't sometimes I just recorded just for a second all the ones in this recording I have like seven packages. We have several others, so it's gonna be going back and forth I don't know when I'm gonna put everything in I'll probably do this part After the ones I've already recorded and so yeah, just just bear with me. It should be should still be cool This video is brought to you by Otis. You might be asking, what is Otis? 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All right, we don't have the whole set up set up I want to open this so I'm gonna open this up for some of the cards we bought for the blue eyes deck Let's see if everything is good in here Let's open it up. Let's check it out. All right, so they're all in one toppler. That's a little scary. Okay, as You can see we've got some strikes some solemn strikes very cool. I like that. That's really cool. Okay three strikes Secret rare first edition from Bosch. That's from a breakers of shadow. Let's see how what what near-mint means see if they're pretty nice Okay, that looks pretty good. That's definitely got some play on it, but you know, I Would probably not call this near-mint. I mean honestly Let's see. Yeah, it's got some play on it. Let's check the others Okay, let's see this for me like personally on TCG player This would be a light play at least I mean look at that. That's got a ding on it. I mean so, yeah Probably not gonna like return over anything but Definitely like for me. I would I would not go near-mint on these. I mean just Yeah, I mean it's definitely more More on that. Yeah, I mean these are definitely like play for sure. Oh wait. What does that have a crease in it? Okay, maybe we do need to return these Yeah, I mean you can't have a crease in it. It okay, oh Okay, I Mean that's not near-mint. That one's that one's definitely not Oh, we're gonna have to I mean we might have to return these honestly that that last one I wasn't going to the last one really It kind of changed my mind there. That is pretty rough This one's actually not bad. I mean it's not terrible. I would definitely still call it like play But this one's not that bad got definitely some scuffs on it. The top has a ding on I mean It's not near-mint, but it's the best one that last one is the worst though. So, okay kind of disappointing All right, let's see what's in these things. I'm not really sure to be honest. So let's open it up See what is inside of here? That's what this is. Oh, he sent me in a DRO for elemental heroes shining for their wingman mad men All right, we got the nebula dragon cool. That's for the deck. Very nice. It's from Trevor All right, we have a bubble mailer. I really don't know what this is. Oh That's what this is This is the hard earth dragon way. Let's take this thing out of here We got the hard earth dragon We got this for the blue eyes deck the extra deck, but not only that we got one for the ghost binder as well so Double whammy. Let's get this thing out of here good old tape team bags for team bags. Oh, yeah, this is exciting Bought a ghost in a while. This thing was not cheap to first edition Ghostry All right Let's see what it looks like. It's supposed to be near-mint guys. It's supposed to be near-mint. Please be near-mint All right from what I can tell so far. I'm gonna scratch on it, but I mean that's just that's ghost rest for you Let's check out the rest of it. Hopefully the back looks pretty good So the foil has some crap on it, but I mean it's a ghost sure I'm not expecting the foil to be perfect and honestly is not bad It does wait maybe that scratch was only something else because I didn't see it It's got a few like little you know little scratches and dings on it Check the back. I mean this card looks pretty good. I'm actually really happy with this. Let's check the oh It does have a little bit of a you see that Has a little bit of a slight indenture, but honestly for near for TCG player near-mint This is pretty good. I mean that's that's about what you can hope for Okay, a ghost rare. That is pretty exciting guys. I'll probably put this in a video I'm talking about you know opening some stuff up. This is definitely better than the solemn strikes That's for sure. That's a pretty card guys. I Like that that is awesome. All right. We got a couple more packages Let's go ahead and open these up and let's see what we got. This is from the one and only Simplenium simply lucky. So let's see. Let's see what let's see what the conditions are like over on the SU store So far we've been pretty hit or miss for this TCG stuff. So we'll see how it lives up to okay We've got the we've got the cards. I don't even remember which cards it was I'm pretty sure it's like an exceeds or something like that. I can't remember, but let's see Okay, we've got all the hope for been your dragon Number 38 part is pretty good if I can get this team backs. I'm a big fan of team backs. So Good. All right, they are two into one top loader. Okay, only one sleeve. This is what I prefer to do I like to do two penny sleeves and But in one top loader, I like to do two in one top loader because it keeps them from moving around too much Which I do like I prefer to use two penny sleeves though, but let's check this out This is a Psyho promo. Wow, I didn't know that this card's actually worth like I think I paid like seven bucks for it or something for both of them Well each seven dollars each Okay, that one looks pretty good very good for your name it very nice and then we have Another one and the conditions look really really good I'm happy with this first one. Su shot su game shop. That's a plus right there first package looks good of this day Because you guys are gonna see this all at once, but this is a new day except we have one from ARG So let's see what see what ARG is looking like I bought several things from ARG over the months and years not really too many years, but months, you know Not usually singles though, so we're gonna see what this looks like. Okay. We have a return of the dragon lords for the blue eyes All right We got to get a little crazy here Whenever you do this with the tape if you want to use the knife You want to put it inside the top loader, but you want to pull it out away from the card like this like that You see that yeah I mean it's kind of obvious but also if you're not thinking you might be like yeah Let me get my car and just chop your car now if you don't want to do that you want to go out All right, let's check these two I think they pulled the same one penny sleep strategy, which I'm not a huge fan of But I understand why you do it sometimes I do it if I have too many cards, you know what I mean So the return of the dragon lords is looking pretty good. There's a little bit of dimples there Which is not great to see I Would say yeah the dimples on the back, but there's a little bit of play wear on it Actually, I can wipe that off. Yeah, so there's a little bit of stuff But honestly, it's not too bad and it's only like a $12 card. So we're not like really too concerned Still pretty expensive though for just a legendary collection Kaiba card But overall these look wait. Is that a corner issue? It's pretty good. I think it's pretty good It's I think these were cleaner, but those are also just promos and these are actually like see career So sometimes they're in different sets so it varies from the condition to condition but overall pretty happy with that one Okay, final package of this day you guys are gonna see like tons of packages But final package of this day. This is the big one. This is the one I'm worried about. So let's see imperms infinite impermanence This one's scary because I bought a play set of these I only needed I only needed to and I was like, you know what let's just buy the place that while we're at it so let's Let's be really careful here because this is a flame of destruction flames of destruction play set All right really slowly go through here three first edition secret rears the top rarity of infinite impermanence until they make that ultimate rare Which they probably will soon I hope these are in a sleep. Okay, they are It looks like they went with a single penny sleeve one top loader on Three imperms. That's a little scary. Please be in good condition first copy Okay, the front is looking very good the backs really what's gonna tell the tail though Whoa Guys Oh there. Oh, no, what is that? What is that? Oh, it was looking so good. The back was super clean. Let's see if we can do anything there Oh, there's a bunch of junk on there Man, it was looking good until that Okay, there's a lot of junk on the top, which is really weird You guys see this a lot of junk on the top. I don't really like that Hopefully this is the only one like that the rest looks so good though. If that was not there that would have been really good condition Okay, let's talk about the front. All right, the front's got stuff on too. Okay, wait It's the top edges. I don't know. Is that like a is that like a print thing? The top has that stuff too. Is that like a thing a thing if you guys have any imperms Do you have this on your imperms or is this just like Somehow they've done this to their cards. I don't know This one's definitely better like that you guys see those little speckles at the top You don't love to see that you don't love to see that um The front edge yet that top edge It's not not fantastic. Okay. Let's see what the last one, but that that second one was definitely better than the first one Right on this one looks pretty good. I would say there's a little little spot right there We're getting really crazy here, but All right, there's some more of the speckles. Maybe it's a is that a flames of destruction kind of thing to have that on there I don't think it is like that would be weird, but this one is not Too bad, I would say okay. There's a little bit of stuff on it I feel like that could like come off but you guys see that I don't know. It's on all of them though. They're not bad. They're definitely better than the strikes The solemn strikes were a lot worse. I would say these um, this one was the worst I would say they're all pretty close to near mint. They're all really good other than the top part I don't know what to deal with that is but honestly for tcg player It's probably not too bad actually. So I'm not super upset I think we actually did pretty good on these three packages in terms of conditions I don't think I'm going to be like returning anything or anything like that I just try to avoid returns because it's just really frustrating as a seller But as a seller you also have to you know accurately describe your cards, you know what I mean So if it's close that I usually give them the benefit of the doubt like this I can see how they called these near mint. I understand how they did it Let me know what your opinions are on the conditions in the comments But overall, I think we've actually done really well buying a tcg player so far We've had the solid strikes for the worst I think so far but other than that everything else has been at least close So pretty good. Okay first package of today. I'm going to say that and there's multiple days involved here But uh, that makes it kind of cool actually I think So we're going to open this up. Let's see what we have here from an unknown seller I don't even know what we bought to be honest on some of these. Okay First of all, this top load is a little bit, which is a little scary if you guys can't see that Uh, hopefully didn't damage the card. This was a tracked card So it probably means it's a bigger card because on tcg player It should be somewhat useful to some of you guys You don't have to track anything unless it's $50 But you're recommended 20 or more to track but 20 at 20. It's kind of expensive So a lot of people only do it at 30 I usually track 20 and above just to be safe and you know say that I could keep people happy and You know, it's always nice to get a tracking number over not so let's see what this is I'm sure it was something that needed tracking because it was tracked So we're gonna get a little crazy with the knife here today because The tape is not my favorite strategy. It's better than no tape though. So I will say that I like the team bag better So you got to be really careful with the knife and use that We got it out nice and safely as long as you point it away from the card. You should be fine Okay, it looks like the card didn't get too bent or anything. It looks like a newer card Ooh the number 90 galaxy eyes photon lord. So this one came in battles of legend relentless Revenge which is only like two or three years old at this point. Maybe 2018 I think maybe I think lights revenge is 2017. Am I right about that? Armageddon was 2020 Okay, maybe I'm a year off. I can't remember. Uh, let me know if I'm forgetting one of those But this is really really nice This card's actually pretty good. It's a nice extra that card. So that's a good addition We're gonna put it in a penny sleeve real quick Then we'll throw it into the actual deck sleeves when we're done Let's go to the next thing a lot of these are not tracked. So these are going to be the cheaper cards, you know Under $20 cards or the order was under $20 at least and a lot of these people I bought like a single card So if it was like an $8 card, you're not going to track it because it would be four dollars That'd be half your cost. It'd be way too much, you know, okay, let's not put all the info on there Okay, so on right here. We have pot of desires I accidentally bought multiple pot of desires I meant to buy not by the rares and I did buy the rares by accident and then I bought these ultra rares So I bought three ultra rares from the collectors 10. I believe 2017 It's very confusing because they put CT 14 and that means 2017 very weird. I don't know why they did that. So the back of this one looks really good Pot of desires is a pretty good card But whenever I use it, I always banish the cards that I actually need So I'm sure you guys can relate with that if you've ever played with this card Because you go to your searcher deck and all of a sudden all your cards are banished under the 10 cards that you banished under pot of desires It's kind of funny. It's very risky, but it looks like these cards are very minty So I don't have any complaints about that one Definitely a great transaction there And by the way, if you guys are interested in more like sort of like Mail like this where I just kind of look at what I bought see what, you know, the conditions are what we got, right? This is the stuff I used to do back in like 2019 and I haven't done it a while But I thought it'd be interesting because we're entering into the meta deck like which I never thought would actually happen So it's kind of funny. We've got Trade-ins. Okay, so here's the issue here Here is why you want to use the tape card savers I always prefer toplers over card savers But I occasionally will run out of toplers because they're really hard to find and you have to use card savers So it's totally fun to do those But if you do use them, you got to be a little careful because they can slide out And I don't usually like using tape on them either They usually don't slide up So I wouldn't really blame the seller for this bit of a, you know issue here But you got to be careful in toplers You're it's much more likely for the card to slide out because it just kind of jiggles around unless you have multiple cards in there So it looks like the card is going to be fine. We'll see. It's a secret rare version because right now I have Either commons or rears. I can't remember the card looks to be pretty good. It's up It looks like maybe it's a little scuffing, but it's definitely nothing to complain about so that's pretty good So far so good on today's mail. Let's go to the next one This one feels a little thicker. Maybe we got multiple cards in this one. Okay. Also, um I want to mention a feck veiler is one that I have not Uh bought besides I have a couple commons And I want to know should I upgrade to ultimate rare or starlight? Let's say I go big time and I get the big boys. Okay. This is take on this Be careful here. Yeah, if I do go big should I go ultimate or starlight? I know most of you guys I think most you guys would pick ultimate rare. I do like starlight as well Though I think ultimate rare is actually cheaper though So might actually be a better idea to go for the ultimate rears because they're like the same in amount of coolness Maybe even better in some a lot of y'all's some a lot of y'all's opinion There's another trade-in. Oh, I don't like when they do this though But yeah, let me know about the effect veilers and stuff like that If you do have one, you know, if you have ultimate rare effect veiler or starlight effect veiler hit me up I don't like when people tape to the thing with only one It's not too bad But when it's on both sides, it's kind of difficult to get the card out like without damaging it So this is okay because it's just one and you can pull it off But yeah, it's always a little bit weird the more tape you use I feel like the more dangerous it gets for the card So you always got to be really careful using tape because It can really ruin a car like if it gets stuck to it Or if you accidentally bend the card trying to get the tape off, you know all this crazy stuff So this looks to be a pretty good condition. Maybe a little bit of scuffing right there But not anything i'm too worked up about it's like a six dollar card So as long as it's close to near mint that is cool with me All right, we've got two more tracked orders and I think that's gonna be it for everything I think I have a couple more things I did buy ghost bells because right now I have a ghost bell from It's either dude Or I think it's dude and then it's the opposite the alternate art and then I have one ocg one So I bought some max rarity one some first edition flood ones So those will be here eventually. All right, and maybe one other thing. Oh, yeah My black rose moonlight is foreign. So I bought an english copy. So Let's see. This should be everything besides that though. Let's see what it is I think this is the one where the tracking didn't update for some reason for like six days But they actually sent it. So oh, this isn't it. Never mind. This is that's the last one, I guess This is the halka five racks, which by the way I once owned about 20 copies of this and then I sold all of them because you know, I don't care about meta I'm not gonna play meta and now I find myself buying them back for even more I think I sold mine around 25 to 30 when dupoe is a dupoe. No, what is it? Dual overload when dual overload actually came out. We open like else and I open like five cases And I sold them all between 25 and 30. This one was like 35. I think after everything. So, uh, we did get this Um, but it you know, we lost a little bit of money over time, but that's okay And the card looks to be in very good condition. So this is a pretty good card in general Just on a lot of decks So it fits pretty well with this deck because there are a lot of tuners in it Can special summon and all that stuff, but happy with that one final package I think of the video So this has two pretty cool cards two cards that are really good in the deck. So Let's open it up And usually when the cards are really good, they're from the extra deck just a spoiler there I found that out. Um for meta. It's extra deck stuff. You know, your extra decks are really good Okay, I think it's too. I think it's two cards in here. Okay. We've got another piece of tape Let's see what it is. All right. If you guys want me to do an in-depth analysis of the deck one day Then we can but I know this is primarily not what we do on the channel But I figured this part would be interesting by the more of the buying part checking out the conditions A lot of you guys do that all the time So we have is this two cards in here in one sleeve. I don't know how I feel about that But the number 97 your googly on I think that's how you say that It's actually insane though. It can't be targeted the card effects Three thousand three thousand. I mean, he's a blue eyes. I'm both attack and defense insane But blue eyes attack at least and then the saline another one from pill overload that I sold on my copies for like five bucks And now she's $20 so Um, quite interesting, but a pretty good card and then this card is absolutely insane I mean, it just whips out some fire. This one's from battles of legend heroes revenge. There it is heroes revenge I was right heroes was after relentless. That was probably 2019 and then 2020 was Armageddon. So yeah, I think I nailed it there That's pretty cool. So both these cards will be going in the deck Maybe I'll run through the deck real quick so you guys can see, you know, what rarities I have right now Hopefully we can upgrade it to be even better soon. All right, so we're still missing a few cards after I checked I think we have 37 of the main deck. So just here's the rarities we have going right now So we've got this is the blue eyes. I have right now guys Should we get like dds or should we get like sdk first or what should we get for the blue eyes? Because that's like, you know, the main flex of the deck you get to have three Three blue eyes, which is awesome. Nebula dragons. I think they only come in rare. So we're doing good there I sold my ultimate rare literally right before I made this deck. So I'm very angry about that I really need first edition of this white stones are still not here. We're waiting on those I never pulled any you guys saw the live. It was insane. Um, I upgraded this to see career didn't get it Um, I didn't I'm just gonna stick with these for now probably unless it gives you guys ocd Maybe, you know, we'll get secretaries. I think I don't know. It's fine. Thank those. I mentioned earlier So maybe ultimate rare starlight. Who knows? All right, then we have uh, we're upgraded these I bought three of them just a replace that really only using two. So I only have these two right now We pulled these in the in the live. So pretty cool Then I have uh an ocg this is actually from a 1999 monster reborn I thought it was really cool because I didn't have a first dead lb or something So I don't know I might leave that in there. It's just a regular common, but it's pretty old So it's pretty awesome. I upgraded to a secret rare one of these so waiting on it trade in I think I got a third one. So we're waiting on that one. Um, I definitely got male two more melodies They're not here yet as well. I only play two of these but I bought three I guess just for the heck of it two returns. Okay, cool skill drain is the lost art Probably the best one unless you can go first dark crisis, but that's just a regular rare I bought three imperms only two for the deck and then saw them strikes You guys saw in the video even though they were a little beat up, but I just kept them in So that's what we got for our main deck rarities. Let me know if you got if I should upgrade any of those Let me know what you guys think about that for that strike. I have every card accept access code Talker because it's a hundred and twenty dollars right now. I'm gonna wait for the mega tens Hopefully they'll reprint it and then I can either buy the original for cheaper or the reprinted version We will get when we open the tens because I'm gonna be opening a ton of tens I'm sure I'll get a lot of copies of it. So we have the how we saw. Yeah, so the access code would be in here saline The hieratic link caribos only a common so we could maybe upgrade him. Is he going ultimate? No, I don't think he does just ultra rare, right spirit dragons. We pulled in the live That was cool as your eyes. This is the one that I got the Jump version. I think so pretty cool. We just you just saw all these guys I think these are all high rarity. We got the ghost rare. I mean, that's that's just cool I mean, it's just a flex for the extra deck and this is the just taking up access code spot So it's just in there for now So, uh, let me know what you guys thought about. Um, just this video in general Do you like this, you know a little bit different format? We buy some singles talk about You know a deck I'm making or something like that. I know a lot of you guys are just here for openings and stuff But, um, maybe this could, you know, change up the pace a little bit since we do post Seven videos a week. So, you know, every once in a while, maybe you do something different than an opening Let me know what you guys think. Let me know if you guys are playing in the meadow. What are you using? Do you guys have any fun decks like this like blue eyes? I'm sure a lot of you guys have some cool stuff And what do you think about maxing out your, you know, fun deck even if it's not a great deck? Do you think it's cool? Do you think it's a waste of money? Let me know in the comments That's it for this one guys. Hope you guys enjoyed this different video. I'll see you guys later But this time Shining of this