 In today's video, we're taking a look at the one of one Magic the Gathering card, and is this a good idea? What's up, guys? We're back with another video, and yes, this is a video discussing a Magic card. Let's just throw this out there. This video is not sponsored. Let's continue with that in mind, but Magic the Gathering has just, I've seen this recently. It's a Lord of the Rings collab. So there's like a ring on the card. I'm going to show you guys this from an article in a minute, but it's a Lord of the Rings collab, and supposedly what I've heard, I haven't learned a lot of research on this yet. We're going to go through this article. It's a one of one, which means there's only one of the card. Like all the boxes that are printed, there's one time you can pull it. One person's going to get it. That's it. There's no other options. Now, for Yu-Gi-Oh, we have stuff like Starlight said, like one in 25 boxes, like, wow, that is extremely rare. It takes 25 boxes to pull like the Starlight Rare, Apollosa or something like that. And then it's like $1,500 because it's that rare. Now, think about a card that there's literally one. Let's go ahead and hop in and take a look. So on this MTGrocks.com, the rarest MTG card may be too rare for its own good. And that may be true. So we're just going to go through this and see what exactly the deal with this thing is. I figured this isn't Yu-Gi-Oh, but it's a trading card news. And when they get to something like serialized cards, where there's like a number on it, or it's like a one of one, that's kind of a big deal. That's a sports card thing that's been going on for a long time. And it's like artificial rarity. And I'm going to kind of discuss if I think that's a good idea or a bad idea. On this article, it says, throughout reason sets, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have been pushing the artificial collectability of MTG, more and more artificial collectability. That's talking about like a force collectability. So it's like, when you make something a one out of 10, so there's 10, 10 of them, you can pull one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. That's all the options. It's just a regular card, but it has a number on it that they've limited artificially. So that's what they're saying there. It's not like, oh, I love Blue Eyes of my Dragon. I want to collect Blue Eyes of my Dragon. It's really cool. They're like, Hey, here's this card called the Ring of Destruction. That's a real Yu-Gi-Oh card. Maybe I should have said something else. I don't know. Let's just the Ring of D and there's 10 copies of it. That's why you want it. And they're like, but can you play it? And they're like, no, it's just one out of 10. Is it cool looking? Nope. There's just 10 of them. That's artificial collectability. Okay, creating new foil techniques, art treatments and serialized cards. So this is like kind of, it's kind of like Starlight Rear. So you could be like a Starlight Rear is kind of an artificial collectability as well, because they're like, usually there's a secret rare version of it or a super rare version of it. And then there's the Starlight Rear as well. Art Treatment Serialized Cards is what we're talking about with the numbers. Collectible Market has been more saturated than ever before. This is happening in basically every TCG. There's a bunch of ways these companies are trying to figure out ways to make you want to collect their cards, because they're new. They're printing a lot of them. So if you print millions of cards, how do you make it stay collectible for more than like a week, you know, because if, you know, there's so many different options, they become really cheap. So they're trying to figure out the perfect balance of how to make a collectible worth something and still print a bunch of it so they can make a lot of money. Despite collectibles being pushed to new extremes within every recent TCG set, it doesn't appear Wizards is slowing down. And the thing with Wizards that now I've done a lot of research on this ever since our Wizards fiasco, Wizards has been printing a lot of products. So they're, they're really shoving it down people's throats. But that's kind of a thing with trading cards in general. Like usually we release a lot of sets. That's kind of a thing. But they're apparently going super hog wild on this. So that's a thing. I think a lot of people are upset about that. If anything, Wizards is still ramping up, especially for Lord of the Rings, Tales of the Middle Earth set. I'm not going to lie, this sounds like a cool set because Lord of the Rings, awesome. Wizards, I mean, I'm going to do a lot of magic, but a magic card with Lord of the Rings on it sounds pretty fun. As announced yesterday, this upcoming universe is beyond MTG set features a serialized card more collectible than any other rather fittingly. This card is of course the one ring. If you have somehow not seen Lord of the Rings, the one ring is like the main focus of the entire series. Go watch it. If you haven't, I'm just going to just thank me later. Just go watch it while obviously poised to be incredibly expensive. There are some concerns, namely this one in three million MTG card could be too rare for its own good. I think that's literal. I think there's, there's going to be three million and there's one of them. So here's the Reddit post that it brings you to only one card has been printed of the one of one ring serialized 001 card printed with a captivating traditional foil treatment and ring inscription flavor text. This card can only be found in English language collector booster boxes and the odds of the collector booster, including the one ring serialized card is less than 0.0003%. That's very low. Collector boosters may also contain nonfoil double rainbow foilized serial elven dwarven or human soul ring cards. So I guess that like these are also serialized, but they're not one of ones that are probably one of a hundred or whatever. Elven ring art less than 0.01%. I mean, that's pretty rare. That seems like that's rare enough. And this is like by far like the most common one I guess. Oh, actually 0.25 and 0.3. So yeah, they're also really rare. Human ring non serialized ring cards mechanically identified to their serialized versions. So this means the number of collector booster box will be three million. So they did the math there based on like how many they're going to be. And they figured out there's going to be three million on estimate or whatever. So there's one total ring and there's three million boosters, you know, you get one in three million boosters. So that is absurdly rare. So if you compare that to a starlight rare in Yu-Gi-Oh, that's one in 2,880. So that's really hard to pull, right? One that spells an 880. And then you compare it to one in three million. That's literally not in the same ballpark. It's absurd. So this card is going to go for crazy money if people are interested in it. Let's just see what they say about that. The one ring, not going to lie, fire looking card. It looks amazing. I think it looks awesome. I think they did a good job with the artwork and how it looks. In case if someone missed all the hub up about it already, I have missed it. And this is what we're talking about. This incredibly outcard will be technically be the rarest in MTG's history, which should make it the exceedingly expensive considering a single MTG card sold for 800K. It's not entirely unreasonable to imagine it selling for $1 million. I don't know. Will it sell that high? I know. I know it's like the rarest one because if you go back to like Alpha and stuff like that, they have like what, 1,100 rares or something like that. I don't know. I think that's they're around the right number. So that's 1,100 more basically than the one of one. But that's also from 19, what 93 or whatever. So 30 years at this point. So 30 years old versus this, which is brand new. So will it actually get to the million? I don't know. But it's also a lot rarer than those which are already extremely rare. So maybe it could be. That's absurd to think about, but a brand new card you own for a million, I guess it's possible. In reality, however, the Persector price tag might be a little wide of the mark. Yeah, that's what I think. After all the brothers were serialized cards all sold for significantly under their theoretical value, which we calculated. So they calculated that they're saying it could be a million, but it's a brand new card. People probably aren't that interested. There's no nostalgia connected to it. Stuff like that. Ultimately, until the card is axon players hands, there's no telling how much the one ring will be worth. So I'm guessing this is unplayable because this looks like the script from the Lord of the Rings text and stuff. So I guess you can't play it. It's just a collector card, which means there's going to be no value for it being played. You know what would be crazy is if it was actually a really good MTG card and there's one guy that has it. He's just over there just waxing people with it and nobody can do anything because there's only one of them. Curiously, despite the card's rarity preeminence, guesses about the value vary a lot from one player to another. Reddit user, this guy, for instance, suggests the rather tame guess that it'll be worth 10 to 20K easily, maybe more. On the other end of spectrum, it could be worth six figures with the value only increasing beyond that. I think 10 to 20K is probably low for a one-of-one. I think it'd probably go for more than that. This is the ultimate financial flex for a wealthy idiot. True, it is. But also, if you think about 10 to 20K, Pokemon cards have like black labels that grade. I think it was the Moonbrion that sold for like $12,000 in a black label, and there are hundreds of thousands of that card. You could argue, well, it's a black label, so there's only like one of that, you know? So it's pretty rare, you know? There's only one of this black label. Yeah, but there's hundreds of thousands more that could be graded. You got a lower end version. Like this, there's only one of this card ever, assuming they don't reprint it, which I wouldn't put it past them. I think that 10 to 20K, I mean, that's in the same ballpark as black label, new Pokemon card. So I think that it could probably go for more than that. We'll have to see. As standardizing as the one-of-one card may be, the one ring simply doesn't come close to the black lotus. Yeah, as we said earlier, a lot older, a lot more iconic, playable in old formats. Thanks to its prow and prestige, black lotus has long to be seen as the ultimate MTG collectible. This has allowed pristine examples of the card to obtain ridiculous prices while the one ring may be rare. It's unclear if exclusivity alone will command a similar price. Yeah, there are so many different things. It's just exclusive. I will say it looks cool, but it doesn't have the nostalgia. It doesn't have the, uh, you know, the playability. It doesn't have like all the memories connected with the black lotus that all the people from back then have versus this, I guess you could be like, well, Lord of the Rings does, but Lord of the Rings wasn't a trading card game that you were really into for the most part. There was a trading card game, by the way, but it wasn't that popular. So this one-of-one ring coming out really begs the question of like, should we be making serialized cards in trading card games? In sports, they do this a lot because sports are not a trading card game. They're simply collectible. All you're doing is collecting the cards. You can't play a game where you're like putting Babe Ruth down. He's hitting a home run against your opponent or anything like that. You're just collecting the card because you like the players in the sport that you're watching. CCGs are a lot different because there's a playable side and there's also a collectible side. So a lot of the collectible side comes from it formerly being playable, it being in an anime that you watched, stuff like that. The anime kind of equates to watching the sport, like you're watching a sport, you're interested in it. You watched in the anime, you thought it was awesome. The anime with blue eyes, white dragon blew away like, you know, Yu-Gi's grandpa or whatever in the first episode. But then there's that whole thing of where you played that blue eyes deck as a kid and you really liked it and it was terrible. But then they made more blue eyes support in 2016 and you kept playing it then. And then that adds to the lore of the blue eyes. It's not just anime, it's also playable, but not very good. You played it in a tournament though and you once got a, you know, a big match win and it was amazing. And all this stuff comes together into one to make the most collectible possible thing. But with this one ring, it's interesting because they do have that artificial scarcity. Old stuff has scarcity because it's been around for a long time. It's been destroyed, it's been played, it's been lost, it's been thrown away by your mom. All that stuff is included in the last 20 years. But when you have just printed it like a box, so this new Lord of the Rings set, it's literally not even out yet. As soon as you get it, every single person's going to be looking for this one ring and when they pull it, there's no way they're letting their mom throw it away. Like they're immediately going to be looking to sell it probably for the most part, unless they're like literally searching for it for their collection or something like that. It just doesn't have the same scarcity because this was artificially made by the company saying, hey, we're making one of these. So if you pull it, it's great. So there's some negativity to that. There's also like something cool about it, putting a chase in a booster box. I think that this is something cool that you can do if you are also making the rest of the set good as well. I've always been a big fan of Starlight Rares and Yu-Gi-Oh! They aren't serialized, they don't have numbers or anything like that, but they are very, very difficult to pull. And if the set they are included in is awesome, like there's a lot of great playable cards, and then you have that potential to pull that really big chase card, it makes opening that box that much more worth it because you're not only going for those cards that you want to play or collect, but you also have that small chance of hitting like the lottery or hitting that big card, which as a pack opener, I think is really, really fun and I think it's cool. But when you go too far down that lottery like chase route and you end up just going for those like numbered cards or those super high rarity cards that you pull one every 2000 boxes or whatever this is going to be, it's going to be even more than 2000 boxes to this point. And you like forget about the people that play the game. You forget about the people, the low-end collectors who just want to collect like cool $2 cards and stuff like that. You can lose a lot of your audience and it can go the complete wrong way. Now, I don't know much about this Lord of the Rings set. I don't know if it's a good set. I don't know if it's going to suck. Maybe it hasn't even been announced yet, but I think that the key with this thing, it's okay to put a one-of-one card in the set, I think. But if this is the only chase of the box and they're selling garbage just so you're basically buying a lottery ticket to get a one-of-one Lord of the Rings card, I think that is bad. But if we were to see Yu-Gi-Oh do this and include it in a really awesome set like Magnificent Maven's last year, where we had those secret pharaoh rares, and we had those awesome reprints that were very affordable like $4 and $5, you're able to get your Apollosis and all that different stuff, and then you had a one-of-one chance while also buying that, I think that would be really exciting. So I figured I'd talk about this. It's just such a crazy thing that they're doing, a one-of-one card and a trading card game. It's amazing. I don't know if Yu-Gi-Oh will ever do it, but I am interested to see what happens with this. If it does get pulled, like honestly, in theory, it could never get pulled. Like there's, you know, what 3,000 or 3 million packs we said. Like what if those packs never get bought and nobody ever pulls it? It could happen. Like it's insane. So I'm interested to see if somebody actually pulls it, and then if they sell it, what does it go for? Does it go for auction? Are they going to sell it privately? It's just going to be fun to see and follow, and I think that it would be interesting to see it happen in Yu-Gi-Oh. I don't necessarily want it to happen, but if it does, I think it would be fun. It seems like magic and Pokemon always have a lot of news going on. Like Pokemon having huge sales or magic doing something super controversial, but Yu-Gi-Oh, we're just hanging out over here doing our thing. So I guess we'll just keep that up. If you guys enjoyed the video, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more content like this, and I hope you guys enjoyed this update video on some current news.